Q: Hi KM, I want some verification on credit usage calculation.
Please check a few use case below and advice me if they're correct or no, if no, please comment the correct credit usage.
1. Send 1 email from wordpress site via SMTP/transactional = 1 credit (autovalidation) + 1 credit (smtp sending) = 2 credits.
2. Import 100 email contacts into dashboard = 100 credits (autovalidate) + 100 credits (import process) = 200 credits.
3. Send marketing email to 10 existing contacts = 10 credits (email sending) = 10 credits.
4. Auto adding 1 subscriber from embed form/ option form = 1 credit (autovalidate) + 1 credit (import process) = 2 credits?
5. Automation usage. Send email to Contact A, opened, then automatically send another follow up email to Contact A = 1 credit (send email) + 1 credit (follow up automation) + 1 credit (follow up email send) = 3 credits.
6. Based on your FAQ, credits also used in automation. Can you elaborate more on this? what automation tasks that will cost credits and how many credits per each task?
Because, apparently a 500k credits/year won't enable a user to actually send 500k emails/yr. Usually for any credit based platform, the credits will consumed very fast for other small tasks, hidden tasks, mandatory tasks, etc...
Fikry_Utas
May 14, 2024A: Hi.
1. Send 1 email from wordpress site via SMTP/transactional = 1 credit (autovalidation) + 1 credit (smtp sending) = 2 credits.
>The correct answer is 1 credit. Autovalidation works on the list, not on sending. So it’s when you get a subscriber. Wether through form, import, API, etc.
2. Import 100 email contacts into dashboard = 100 credits (autovalidate) + 100 credits (import process) = 200 credits.
>The correct answer is 100 credits. Import process and validation is the same. Counted as one credit per email address.
3. Send marketing email to 10 existing contacts = 10 credits (email sending) = 10 credits.
>Correct.
4. Auto adding 1 subscriber from embed form/ option form = 1 credit (autovalidate) + 1 credit (import process) = 2 credits?
>Same as above, the correct answer is 1 credit.
5. Automation usage. Send email to Contact A, opened, then automatically send another follow up email to Contact A = 1 credit (send email) + 1 credit (follow up automation) + 1 credit (follow up email send) = 3 credits.
>The correct anser is 2 credit. You only use credits when sending, not automation pre-processing.
6. Based on your FAQ, credits also used in automation. Can you elaborate more on this? what automation tasks that will cost credits and how many credits per each task?
>For example, you build a 7 day drip campaigns. And then one new people subscribe to that drip campaign (one email address.) Then it will take 7 credit for email drip campaign + 1 credit for validation (when he subscribes.)
“Because, apparently a 500k credits/year won't enable a user to actually send 500k emails/yr. Usually for any credit based platform, the credits will consumed very fast for other small tasks, hidden tasks, mandatory tasks, etc...”
>There are no hidden task. You only use credits for sending email (manual campaign/ broadcast, or automation), and validation (import, subscribe through form, API.) So basically it’s for sending and validating.
I hope it helps.