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Proven sovereignty

0–5 in half steps. 5 means the rubric's top anchor is met on the evidence.

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Method and versions

The CRM Manager v1.0 · The Deliverability Engineer v1.0 · The Data Protection Officer v1.0 · The Shop Owner v1.0 · The Integrator v1.0 · The Skeptic v1.0 · rubric v1 · evaluated 30 Sep 2026

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The Skeptic

Weighted verdict

Has seen every vendor claim 99% deliverability and GDPR compliance on the same page. Reads for the contact-tier staircase, the overage rate, the feature that begins two tiers up, and whether "EU hosting" covers the sending infrastructure or only the database.

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Campaigns & automation

How this is scored

Building the mail and the journey around it: editor, templates, segmentation, triggered sequences, A/B testing.

0 — One-off broadcasts from a fixed template; no segmentation and no automation of any kind.

3 — A drag-and-drop editor and simple list segmentation, but automation is a single welcome mail and there is no testing.

5 — Reusable templates, attribute and behaviour segmentation, multi-step automations on common triggers, and subject-line A/B testing.

8 — A visual journey builder with branching on behaviour and data, dynamic content per segment, send-time optimisation, and testing that reports significance rather than raw counts.

10 — Journeys treat the whole lifecycle: event-driven entry from other systems, branching on any attribute or event, holdout groups for measurement, and automations a marketer can read months later without a diagram.

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The Skeptic

A visual workflow builder with branching logic, conditions, actions and multiple triggers is documented, alongside segmentation, dynamic content insertion, behaviour-triggered sends and A/B testing over 130+ templates. What holds it below the top band: we found no public information on send-time optimisation, or on A/B results reported with significance rather than raw counts. 1 4 5

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Deliverability infrastructure

How this is scored

Whether the mail arrives — authentication, sending reputation, bounce and complaint handling — judged on what the vendor documents rather than the inbox rate it advertises.

0 — No documentation of authentication or bounce handling; deliverability appears only as a marketing number.

3 — SPF and DKIM setup documented, but no DMARC guidance, no stated bounce policy and shared sending only.

5 — SPF, DKIM and DMARC documented with a custom sending domain, automatic hard-bounce suppression, and complaint-loop handling stated.

8 — The above plus dedicated-IP options with a documented warm-up, seed or inbox-placement testing, engagement-based sunsetting, and published guidance on list hygiene.

10 — Deliverability is operated as a service: reputation monitoring surfaced to the customer, per-domain and per-ISP diagnostics, enforced authentication before first send, and postmaster or blocklist handling the vendor documents doing on the customer's behalf.

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The Skeptic

SPF, DKIM, DMARC and BIMI are documented, a custom sending domain is offered, and the free DMARC checker with policy analysis is real tooling rather than a badge. But we found no public information on bounce suppression, complaint-loop handling, dedicated IPs or warm-up, and the 98% delivery "guarantee" is a marketing number while the Postmaster reference sends the customer to Google's own tool rather than documenting monitoring performed on the customer's behalf. 3 6 7

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Consent, proof & tracking limits

How this is scored

How subscribers arrive and what the sender can prove afterwards: double opt-in, logged consent, unsubscribe handling, and whether open and click tracking can be limited or switched off.

0 — Single opt-in with no consent record; tracking is always on and cannot be disabled.

3 — Double opt-in available but not the default, and the consent record is a timestamp without the source, IP or the wording consented to.

5 — Double opt-in as the documented default with a stored consent record including source and timestamp, one-click unsubscribe, and tracking that can be turned off per campaign.

8 — Consent is reproducible as evidence: the confirmation mail and form wording versioned and retrievable per subscriber, unsubscribe honoured across lists, tracking off-by-default available, and retention rules for inactive subscribers.

10 — Built for the burden of proof: a per-subscriber consent history an authority would accept, documented handling of Art. 15 access and Art. 17 erasure requests, pixel-free and link-tracking-free sending as a supported mode, and preference-centre granularity rather than all-or-nothing.

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The Skeptic

Double opt-in appears in deliverability copy as an available function said to help with GDPR, and we found no public information stating it as the default, describing the consent record, or on unsubscribe handling. Cookie-based open, click and website tracking of individual users is documented as a feature, and we found no public information on limiting or switching it off; the only access and objection rights we found sit in the affiliate terms, which govern affiliates rather than subscribers. 2 6 9 10

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List ownership, import & exit

How this is scored

Whether the list and its history remain the sender's: import with attributes intact, full export including engagement history, deletion that executes, and no metering that prices leaving out of reach.

0 — Export is addresses only; engagement history, segments and automations cannot leave.

3 — CSV import and export of subscriber fields, but engagement history and unsubscribe state are not exportable.

5 — Full subscriber export including custom attributes, subscription status and unsubscribe state, plus API access sufficient to sync elsewhere.

8 — Everything exportable in open formats — subscribers, engagement history, campaigns and templates — with documented deletion of a subscriber across all records, and no export throttling.

10 — Exit is a documented feature: full-fidelity export of the whole account, contractual data return, deletion that is evidenced rather than asserted, and migration tooling in both directions.

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The Skeptic

Import paths are plentiful — a MailChimp importer, Segment, and 42 native integrations with two-way contact sync — and the API manages campaigns and mailing lists programmatically. But we found no public information on what a subscriber export contains, whether engagement history or unsubscribe state can leave, how deletion executes, or exit as a supported and priced feature. 2 11 12

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Integrations & API

How this is scored

The connection surface a newsletter lives on: shop and CRM systems, events in and out, webhooks, and an API somebody can build against without a partner agreement.

0 — No API and no named integrations; the list is maintained by CSV upload.

3 — A handful of native integrations and a read-mostly API, with no webhooks and no documented rate limits.

5 — Named integrations for common shop and CRM systems, a documented REST API with keys, and webhooks for the core subscriber events.

8 — Maintained bidirectional integrations with named systems including at least one major shop platform, event webhooks with retries, documented rate limits, and a sandbox.

10 — The tool is a component rather than a destination: transactional and marketing sending on one API, events flowing both directions, versioned API with a deprecation policy, and integrations the vendor maintains rather than lists.

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The Skeptic

Forty-two native integrations including WooCommerce, Magento and OpenCart on the shop side and Salesforce, HubSpot and Dynamics on the CRM side, plus Zapier to 1,000+ apps, and a developer surface combining API references, an SMTP service and a transactional API on one product. We found no public information on webhooks, documented rate limits, a sandbox, or an API versioning and deprecation policy. 5 11 12

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European sovereignty

How this is scored

Where subscriber data and behavioural tracking live, who the contracting entity is, and which subprocessors touch the send. Independently sourced by the sovereignty pipeline; scored here as this buyer weighs it — which in this category is heavily.

0 — US vendor and contracting entity, US hosting, subprocessors unnamed; subscriber behaviour leaves the EU with no stated basis.

3 — EU hosting offered as an option or for storage only, while sending, tracking or support access remains non-EU, or the subprocessor list is absent.

5 — EU hosting as standard and an EU contracting entity, but parts of the chain — sending infrastructure, analytics, support tooling — are non-EU without an explained safeguard.

8 — EU or DACH hosting with a named data-centre provider, EU contracting entity, complete subprocessor list published, and any non-EU processing named with its legal basis.

10 — Sovereign end to end and evidenced: vendor, entity, hosting, sending and every subprocessor in the EU, certification published, and no transfer that needs a Schrems II argument to survive.

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The Skeptic

The trust centre's EU-hosting claim covers only "customer's contact data" and rests on AWS, a US-headquartered host that keeps the US CLOUD Act in the chain, with sending infrastructure, tracking and support tooling left uncovered by any statement we found. The contracting entity is a UK company under UK law and exclusive London jurisdiction, the captured pages name the parent as Constant Contact without a jurisdiction, and we found no published subprocessor list. 2 3 5

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Pricing transparency

How this is scored

Whether a sender can compute the real invoice for their list size and send volume — including overage, extra domains and automation limits — from public pages alone.

0 — No public prices at all; every tier is a sales conversation.

3 — A headline price per contact tier exists, but send limits, overage rates or the tier where automation begins are not stated.

5 — Contact-tier prices public with the billing period stated and send limits given, but at least one commonly needed capability sits in an unpriced tier or add-on.

8 — Every tier priced publicly with contact and volume limits, overage rates, feature boundaries and VAT treatment stated; only genuinely custom volume lacks a number.

10 — Complete price computability: a calculator producing the annual invoice for a given list size and send frequency, including overage, additional domains and dedicated IPs.

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The Skeptic

The pricing page shows "$7 $9 Per month" with monthly, biannual and annual periods (15% and 20% off) and unlimited email campaigns/sents, so there is no overage staircase to decode. But we found no public information on what separates the two figures, how price scales with list size, or contact-tier boundaries and VAT treatment; the most precisely documented numbers on the site are the affiliate commission terms, not the buyer's invoice. 1 2 7

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European sovereignty — proven facts

Built only from facts shown on the vendor's own pages. A dimension we could not prove is left open, not scored as zero.

Legal entity	Incorporated in GB ⚠ unverified	1/3 pts	2 Report an error
Ownership	Foreign-controlled ⚠ unverified	0/2 pts	3 Report an error
Data residency	EU only ⚠ unverified	3/3 pts	3 Report an error
Subprocessors	US CLOUD Act reach ⚠ unverified	0/2 pts	3 Report an error

Where this could be wrong

Evidence ages. The oldest capture behind this page is from 29 Sep 2026. Vendors change pricing and policies without notice; every fact reflects its source as of the capture date shown in the registry.
Weak sourcing — Ownership. The page never states Constant Contact's own jurisdiction or the deal structure; classifying it as foreign-controlled rests on outside knowledge that Constant Contact is a US company.
Weak sourcing — Legal entity. The imprint gives only a London address rather than a company register, and the site also states "Moosend is now a Constant Contact company", so the UK entity may no longer be the operative contracting party.
Weak sourcing — Data residency. The claim sits in trust-center marketing copy and covers only "customer's contact data"; no contractual statement in the excerpts confirms the region of all product data or that no non-EU default exists.
Weak sourcing — Subprocessors. AWS is a US-headquartered provider, so the US CLOUD Act reaches the customer data even though the same page states the hosting is EU-based.
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What we left out

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3 product facts could not be confirmed on the vendor’s page as captured and were left out of this page and of the panel’s material. Know more? Tell us
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Sources (12)

The pages every claim on this page was read from — each one checked, dated, and kept verifiable.

1 Vendor page www.moosend.com Checked 29 Sep 2026 Details →
2 Terms of service — found from the homepage moosend.com Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
3 Security / trust page — found from the homepage moosend.com Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
4 Campaigns & automation — found from sitemap moosend.com Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
5 Campaigns & automation — found from sitemap moosend.com Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
6 Deliverability infrastructure — found from sitemap moosend.com Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
7 Deliverability infrastructure — found from sitemap moosend.com Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
8 Consent, proof & tracking limits — found from sitemap moosend.com Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
9 Consent, proof & tracking limits — found from sitemap moosend.com Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
10 List ownership, import & exit — found from sitemap moosend.com Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
11 Integrations & API — found from sitemap moosend.com Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
12 Integrations & API — found from sitemap moosend.com Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →