[Theodores]

This needs to have simple plugin modules for ecommerce software and content management systems. Otherwise, why bother? Truth be told, getting the newsletter signup to work is a low priority for developers that have to do such things, so rolling one's own integration just is not going to happen.

There also need to be 'free' accounts for developer use. You don't want to be paying $$$ a month when you are merely testing if a newsletter sign up box works and on-boards the customer nicely.

Free accounts can be limited to a mailing list of 5. That is ample for test porpoises.

One thing that irks me about many email newsletter service things is that they think that their software is the centre of the universe. When integrated into something else, e.g. an ecommerce store or a blog, it is the ecommerce software or the blog software which is the 'centre of the universe'. There is really no need to strip as much as possible information about the site visitors and their spending habits, to then bring this into some glorified email contrivance.

I am quite surprised that this market exists for 'we can send email for you' services. Any computer is capable of sending an email, that is how it should be.