Pastel vs Direct Mail

Side-by-side comparison of features, reviews, pricing and more

Pastel

Category: Communication Tool
Industries: Communication, Marketing, Education

Pricing

Free Forever

Solo - $24 per month

Studio - $83 per month

Enterprise - $350 per month

Direct Mail

Category: Communication Tool
Industries: Communication, Marketing, Education

Pricing

Unlimited Plan

Starting at $15.00

Per Month

20M+ Downloads
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Pastel reviews

Our workflow is more cohesive, streamlined and user-friendly with Pastel, and setting it up requires almost no effort.

- Jon Leckie Big Tuna Web

Pastel is the best tool I've found to bring Designers, Product Managers, and Engineers together in real time in a live environment.

- Antoine Grant

"Pastel is improving faster and faster" Overall: I'm satisfied, Not ecstatic! but satisfied and happy. Pros: The time it takes you to load and then touch up and image file Cons: The amount of options available when finely editing the color

- Roan D.

Direct Mail reviews

This is a core part of my communication toolkit. While I still use other mailing list platforms for specific purposes, this solves very specific bulk mailing needs.

- Ian G. Producer

It's absolutely helped us to expand our reach. Recipients often comment on how beautiful our emails are. Very satisfying to use and to receive such feedback.

- Magda B. Executive Director

I was looking for a low-cost mail program that was very easy to learn and get up and running. The major issue was getting a zap to work, but once that was working, I was very happy with the result. Likewise, zaps for onsite forms. But the learning curve for actually USING it, and sending emails. Cost per email is very very low - I buy 10K at a time for $99 so one cent each. Pretty good pricing! Delivery is almost instantaneous, and it is fun to watch the responses roll in.

- Eric A. President

Pros & cons

Pastel

Pros
Its really great the way UsePastel works
Everything is so clear, simples and efficient
Overall, I have been very pleased and impressed with Pastel
I use it every day and it has saved me hours on our website revision process
Overall it is a good accounting and stock package and very easy and straight forward to use.

Cons
The limited function can sometimes become an issue
Sometimes we get a delay before the clients browser updates but this is just a "in general" problem with developing websites/apps not something entirely specific to pastel
I was just freestyling my way through the software and that wasn't very conducive because I was dealing with other people's wages as well as my own, there's no room for error when it comes to that.

Direct Mail

Pros
Excellent, this is so much easier to use than Mail Chimp
I love the fact I can work on campaigns locally on my computer without being online and not in a browser
The lists and address management is simple yet agile
Great program for managing email lists for mac users
It's the perfect scale and I love the ease of understanding the reporting, which becomes of direct benefit for following up and moving between lists."

Cons
You get what you pay for
With their one time payment option you don't get much customer service and you'll need to maintain your own servers
Then thats where you find out the support is AWFUL, as it seems to me theres only 2 people that work there, they refuse to talk on phone, and despite promises when chased up, they don't answer emails
Reporting is limited, there aren't enough ways to compare and contrast
Very hard to export reports and data in bulk
Editing of template could be a bit more flexible
Difficult to understand layout schema."

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