Mandrill is the name of a type of monkey, but, here at Silicon Dales, if we’re talking about Mandrill, generally, we’re talking about the transactional email service offered by MailChimp.
When Mandrill first launched, it was completely free to use for transactional mail, up to certain limits per month, but this soon was stopped, and the business model, which was Freemium, was changed to be: you can only use Mandrill if you have a funded MailChimp account.
Mandrill carries a fee, but using a transactional mail service can substantially increase the likelihood of your system generated email beating spam filters and making it to all intended recipients.
For eCommerce, we consider a transactional mail service to be almost vital.
Also see: Mailgun.
If you would like to re-send any order related emails (AKA transactional mail) in WooCommerce, either to a customer, or to an admin, in order to re-notify after failure to receive, or just to issue a polite reminder about an invoice (or order), then the tutorial below will allow you to do that. How to …
Troubleshoot this Mandrill-related clash on your WordPress website. The following error message may be produced if the WordPress plugin Mandrill is installed and activated while there exists another plugin on your WP setup which tinkers with the email settings on your WordPress: wp_mail has been declared by another process or plugin, so you won’t be …
