Choosing a LocalSMTP mailbox tier for your property team

Take the cheapest tier first and hold it against the one above. Starter gives you five mailboxes, Studio gives you fifteen. For a property team writing to owners and developers across one city, the question is how many people need their own sign-in rather than how many messages you hope to send. Count the senders, not the prospects.

Each tier is a count of standard SMTP and IMAP mailboxes, and browser webmail comes with them for anyone who prefers working in a tab. Warm-up and authentication checks sit alongside setup so your domain is configured before volume grows. What the list does not sell is a way to find the people you write to, so keep your local research separate from the purchase.

Set your own list beside the published table. You already know the streets, the developers and the owners you want to reach, and no tier replaces that knowledge. Reading the price list as a property team means treating each tier as a number of sending identities for your staff, then checking whether the count matches the people who actually make contact.

Start with the number of people on your team who contact owners and developers. If two or three of you write from your own addresses, Starter covers you with room for a shared or monitoring mailbox. If the team grows and each negotiator wants a separate identity, Studio becomes the calmer choice and saves you reconfiguring later.

Consider Floor when several staff, an administrator and perhaps a viewing coordinator all need their own mailbox. Fifty identities is more than most single-city teams need at once, so only move up when the count genuinely reflects the people signed in. Buying above your real headcount adds administration rather than reach.

Separate what you send from what you know. The tier supplies mailboxes, and your team supplies the owner and developer contacts from site visits, planning notices and local knowledge. Choosing the tier is therefore a staffing decision first: match the mailbox count to the people who will log in, and let your local research carry the outreach.

One thing to accept before paying is that passing the warm-up and authentication checks does not promise a landing place in the inbox. Checks reduce obvious faults; they do not control how a recipient's provider treats your message. Plan a second route, such as a phone call or a letter, for the owners you most want to reach.

Another point is the boundary between a mailbox and a list. Your tier gives your team somewhere to send from, and it gives you no names, addresses or company records. If the concern that brought you here was thin national data with no local detail, this product stays silent on data altogether, and your city knowledge remains the asset.

Work outside the mailbox count is sold on its own terms, so read the published table before you commit. Treat any assumption about what a tier includes as unconfirmed until you have checked it. None of this makes the product unsuitable; it simply tells you where your own preparation has to carry the work.

Put Starter next to Studio and the difference is arithmetic: five mailboxes against fifteen. A two-person team writing to owners on one street needs the first. A team where each negotiator keeps a separate identity, with an office manager on a shared address, leans towards the second because the spare identities absorb growth without another purchase.

Put Studio next to Floor and the jump is larger, from fifteen to fifty. That step suits a firm with several staff, an administrator and a coordinator all signed in daily. Only take it when you can name the people who will use each mailbox; unused identities are bookkeeping, not capacity, and they do not improve your outreach.

In every comparison, hold the mailbox count against your own contact work. No tier includes a list of local owners or developers, so the worth of each step up depends on how many people you have doing the writing and how well your city research is maintained.