Which LocalSMTP plan suits a two-person SaaS sales team

The cheapest tier carries five mailboxes, and the one above it carries fifteen. That gap matters more than the label on either row, because your two sellers will not stop at one identity each once you split sending by country, by campaign or by persona. Read the table with a rough count of the separate senders you expect to run within a year.

Each tier is a lifetime purchase by mailbox count, so the number on the row tells you how many standard SMTP and IMAP mailboxes you hold, plus browser webmail for whoever needs it. Nothing on the table is a volume of prospects, a number of sends or a guarantee of replies. The count is hardware, not audience, and treating it as audience is how teams misread the page.

The table sits on softwareprogrammer.app, and the tiers are named Starter, Studio and Floor. Prices are shown there rather than here. Take the published rows as your only source, note which extras sit outside the mailbox count, and compare that shape against the two or three sending identities your team can genuinely maintain each week.

Studio, at fifteen mailboxes, is the row a two-person team should examine first. It leaves room for a second identity per seller, a shared inbox for replies and a spare for testing copy before it reaches an operations manager. Starter's five mailboxes can work, but only if you accept that each seller runs a single identity and no shared inbox exists.

Picture the working week: one seller writes to operations managers in one country, the other to a second country, and both want a separate address for follow-ups so replies stay tidy. Warm-up and authentication checks apply to the mailboxes you set up. Fifteen accounts let you split that work without sharing a login and without mixing reply threads between campaigns.

Choose Starter only if you can name five mailboxes and no more. Step to Floor, at fifty, only when you can describe who owns each of those accounts and why it exists. A larger tier does not improve your targeting, and it will not add a single decision maker to the lists you write to from those mailboxes.

Your biggest worry is lists that look big and contain no decision makers, and this product does nothing to solve it. A mailbox is not a contact list. LocalSMTP supplies the sending accounts and the checks that sit around them. The names, roles and countries you write to come from your own research, so budget time for that separately from the purchase.

The second risk is delivery. Warm-up and authentication checks reduce obvious problems, but inbox placement is not guaranteed. A message can pass every check and still land somewhere other than the main folder. For a team chasing demo bookings with operations managers, that means counting replies rather than sends, and testing small batches before you write to a whole country.

The third is scope. Services beyond the mailbox count are priced on their own, so the tier row is not the whole bill if you add anything else. Read the published table in full, list what your chosen tier includes, and confirm what sits outside it before you commit. Guessing here turns a simple purchase into a negotiation.

Set Starter beside Studio and the difference is headroom, not audience. Five mailboxes suits a pair who send from one identity each and answer replies in the same thread. Fifteen suits a pair who want separate addresses per country, a shared reply inbox and a spare for testing. Neither row changes who receives your messages or how many operations managers you reach.

Set Studio beside Floor and the question becomes ownership. Fifty mailboxes only make sense if you can name the person responsible for each account and the reason it exists. If your answer is that you will grow into them, the larger row is buying storage rather than capacity, and the extra accounts will sit idle while your research list stays as short as before.

A simple test helps. Count the separate senders your team would run next month, add one for testing, and match that figure to the nearest row. Then revisit the same count after two campaigns. If it has not moved, your current tier is right. If it has, the table will still be there, and you can step up with a reason rather than a hope.