Virfice – Self-hosted vs Sendmachine for WordPress

Virfice is a self-hosted email marketing solution built exclusively for WordPress. There is no lock-in, no per-subscriber pricing, and no artificial sending limits. Your data stays on your server. Your audience remains fully yours. You get complete ownership, control, and flexibility to grow without restrictions. 🚀 Get Virfice Pro 📄 Documentation Feature Highlights 🎨 Advanced email builder with reusable sections 🗂️ Audience segmentation using lists and tags 🎯 Targeted campaigns with include/exclude filtering ⏰ Send instantly or schedule campaigns for later 🔁 Resend campaigns to non-openers 📊 Track opens, clicks, bounces, and delivery status 🧲 Built-in lead capture forms (no extra plugins required) 📦 Ready-made templates and reusable blocks 🤖 Event-based automation workflows 🛍️ WooCommerce-triggered emails (purchase, cart, customer actions) 🧾 Fully branded transactional and system emails ✉️ Built-in SMTP configuration (no additional SMTP plugin needed) 🔒 No lock-in and no per-subscriber pricing 🚀 Unlimited sending (based on your SMTP provider limits) 📧 Customize WooCommerce transaction emails 🗂️ Manage all default WooCommerce emails and WordPress system emails ✉️ Email Builder Create high-converting emails with a powerful visual builder built directly into WordPress. Personalize content dynamically, control global brand styles, and reuse sections to design faster while keeping every email consistent and professional. 🎯 Campaigns Segment your audience using lists and tags. Include or exclude subscribers, schedule emails or send instantly, and resend to non-openers to maximize engagement. 📊 Analytics & Tracking Track delivery, opens, clicks, bounces, and failures in one centralized dashboard. Compare campaign results and continuously optimize your email strategy. 🧲 Built-In Forms Grow your list with customizable, mobile-optimized forms — no extra plugins required. Capture leads directly inside WordPress and build an audience you fully own. 📦 Premade Templates Launch faster with professionally designed templates and reusable content blocks. Fully customize everything to match your brand. 🤖 Automation == coming soon Create event-based workflows triggered by subscriptions, purchases, tags, or abandoned carts. Deliver perfectly timed sequences that nurture, convert, and retain customers automatically. 🧾 Transactional & System Emails Get WordPress system emails and WooCommerce transaction emails all in one place ✉️ Built-In SMTP Configuration Connect your preferred SMTP service directly inside Virfice. Authenticate, test, and send emails without installing additional SMTP plugins. Customize the WordPress system and WooCommerce transaction emails 🆕 New Account Email – Customize new account email sent to customers when they create a new account on the website. 🔒 Reset Password Email – Customize reset password email sent to customers when they request a password reset. 📦 New Order Email – Customize new order email sent to the store admin when a new order is placed. ❌ Cancelled Order Email – Customize canceled order email sent to the store admin if an order is canceled. ⚠️ Failed Order Email – Customize failed order email sent to the store admin when an order fails. 🕒 Order On-Hold Email – Customize order on-hold email sent to customers when their order is on hold. 🔄 Order Processing Email – Customize order processing email sent to customers after their order is paid and processed. ✅ Order Completed Email – Customize order complete email sent to customers when their order is marked complete. 💸 Order Refunded Email – Customize order refunded email sent to customers if their order is refunded. 📄 Customer Invoice Email – Customize customer invoice email sent to customers, containing order information and payment links when applicable. 📝 Customer Note Email – Customize customer note email sent to customers when a note is added to their order by the admin. How to use Virfice Using Virfice is straightforward. No coding or extra technical skill is required. Install the plugin and activate it. Head to your WordPress dashboard → Virfice and start designing emails, launching campaigns, and customizing WordPress system and WooCommerce emails — all from one powerful dashboard.

Sendmachine’s official plugin will enable you to: Set up signup forms You can set up a signup form in a few easy steps: connect using the provided API credentials, select a contact list where your visitors will subscribe and you’re basically good to go. The signup form is available as a widget (in your widget area) or as a shortlink by pasting [sm_subscribe_form] in a post or page. Add subscribe checkboxes Allow users to subscribe to your contact list only by checking a checkbox in certain website areas like comment form or register form. Sync your wordpress users with a specific contact list You want to send emails to all your users but don’t know how? Well, don’t worry, we can help you with that. After you’ve successfully selected a contact list, you can use the “Sync users” button, to subscribe all your users to that contact list. Send emails through our services No need for nasty, geeky configurations. Just set a from email, an optional from name and you are good to go. Also, make sure that “enable email sending” is set to on. If you set a from email that doesn’t already exist in your sendmachine account as a sender address, a confirmation email will be generated and sent to that address. Not quite sure if you’ve done everything right? You can test if everything is ok by sending a test email. If you got the mail, you can sit back and relax: you’ve done it, otherwise something went wrong. Send transactional emails No more “dog ate my email” excuses. Using our services you can now monitor an email’s activity (opens, clicks, geolocations, user agents). In order to enable this option, after you install our plugin, go to “email settings” tab and check that “Register” and/or “Comment” checkboxes. Basically, if you tick that checkboxes on each email sent, that coresponds with that action, we add a custom tracking header: X-Sendmachine-Campaign: campaign_name, where campaign_name is the name of the transactional campaign that will be created, or updated if already exists. Campaign’s name can be found/modified next to every action’s checkbox. Send news feed You can send a newsletter directly from the admin panel with the latest posts. You can choose to build your newsletter with the latest 5, 10, 15 or 20 posts, set newsletter’s width, color and content. External Services This plugin connects to the following Sendmachine services: 1. Sendmachine REST API Used for list, campaign management and statistics. Specifically: Authenticates your account using your API credentials (username and password). Retrieves your contact lists, sender addresses, and SMTP connection settings. Subscribes visitors to your chosen contact list, including their email address and any additional form fields they complete. Creates, and sends email campaigns containing your latest blog posts. Retrieves your account’s email credit usage for the dashboard. This service is contacted whenever you perform any of the above actions from the WordPress admin or from a front-end subscribe form. 2. Sendmachine SMTP When the email sending service is enabled and configured, all outgoing emails from your WordPress site are routed through Sendmachine’s SMTP servers. This includes core WordPress emails such as password resets, new user registrations, and comment notifications, as well as any emails sent by other plugins or themes. Service: https://www.sendmachine.com Privacy Policy: https://www.sendmachine.com/confidentialitate.html Terms of Service: https://www.sendmachine.com/termeni-si-conditii.html