The dashboard
Amazon SES is missing.
SES delivers email. Plunk adds the rest: a log of every message, bounce handling, contacts, templates, campaigns and workflows. Use it hosted, or on your own SES account.
Amazon SES
eu-west-1
Reset your password
To ana@acme.com
Your receipt
To tom@northwind.io
September product update
To old@contoso.com
What Plunk adds to SES
Hard bounce from SES
old@contoso.com
Bounces handled, not just logged
Plunk listens to the bounce and complaint notifications SES sends and unsubscribes the contact, so you never mail a dead address twice.
Domain
acme.com
- DKIMVerified
- Custom MAIL FROMVerified
Domains verified for you
Add a domain and Plunk sets up DKIM and a custom MAIL FROM in SES, then shows you the DNS records to add.
- Bounce rate
- 0.4%
- Complaint rate
- 0.01%
Reputation you can see
Bounce and complaint rates per project, with a warning before they reach the levels SES reviews accounts for.
Also included
Every email, searchable
Delivery, opens and clicks per message.
Contacts and segments
Not just addresses, a full history per person.
Templates with an editor
Visual and HTML, no JSON template uploads.
Unsubscribe pages
Hosted, with one-click unsubscribe headers.
Campaigns and workflows
Broadcasts and automation on the same account.
Inbound email
Receive at your domain through SES.
The SES console or Plunk
The console is built to configure SES, not to run email on it. These are the gaps.
| Feature | Plunk | SES console |
|---|---|---|
| Log of every email sent | ||
| Bounce and complaint handling | Automatic | Via SNS, you build it |
| Open and click tracking | Per email | Aggregate metrics |
| Contacts and unsubscribes | Full history | Basic contact lists |
| Template editor | API only | |
| Campaigns and workflows |
On your own SES account
Self-hosted Plunk sends through your AWS account. Setup takes three steps.
Create an IAM user
Give Plunk a user with permission to send and verify domains in SES, and nothing else.
Connect SES events
Point SES at Plunk through an SNS topic and two configuration sets, so deliveries, bounces and complaints flow back.
Add your domain
Plunk verifies it in SES and gives you the DNS records. From then on everything happens in the dashboard.
Rather not run it? Plunk Cloud uses Plunk’s own SES account, so there is nothing to set up in AWS. See pricing or how Plunk compares to using SES directly.
Frequently asked questions
Put a dashboard on SES today.
Start on the free plan with 1,000 emails a month, no credit card needed. When you need more, every email is $0.001, with unlimited contacts and every feature included.