Worst Ever Customer Service in 25 years

After preparing a mass send, I found that my test messages were going to "promotions" folder and that there alignment problems. I was then upsold to a higher-tier account ($89) and the problems persist. Due to extremely poor customer service, it's been ONE MONTH that I've been waiting for assistance.

The main source of all current email spam. You really ought to do something about it. Ignores months and months of abuse reports, and they still keep coming

our business phone number suddenly after MONTHS of functioning now gets "You have reached a non working number" Other phone numbers on the same trunk work. I was told by support that it's my inbound route. Moving that trunk to a different pbx yields the same result. Basic support by email is non responsive, don't trust your business to these folks. Not a serious business platform.

They fail to help you and working with them my perception is they won't even answer tickets once they "feel tired of you". The curious thing is before I've only needed a few times and they have a record of not solving any issues. Once, I got a negative balance of $100 USD, so I asked them reasons for this and they told me "I won't happen again, please pay to continue using the platform". I for sure spent that money, but they told the platform stops sending sms messages if you don't have money left, which is the logical way. Weeks later it happend again, but now for over $1000 USD. I talked to them because they didn't fixed anything as they said and also let me go way out my budget (it was a weird character in the SMS I sent, more later). And since I was intending to spend no more $300 (I made my calculations) I had to ask for resons for me burning almost $1500 USD, most of that money not even having it as balance (again). Basically they never told me why the negative balance was so high, told me to check the reports (which at the moment were not working because a pagination issue, and the platform could not export to excel because the amout of information.) At the end they just closed the ticket without solving anything. Later I investigated myself what could have gone wrong and discover that id you send a SMS including some characters it automatically breaks down into several pieces (usually 3) so, the cost is now triple... Redacting that SMS may have been my mistake (our marketing agente, actually) but burning only our budget ($300) is not compared to expending $1500 USD because Twilio stoped validating balance (I'm sure they deactivated this on purpose so they can "steal" extra money through the contingency). Again, I had to pay. Then another case: I created another twilio account for another área of my company, they wanted to have their own invoices and spend their own money. After creating my token for the API and start testing in my application I noticed they didn't work. Switch to my first account credentials and it worked again, so, once again I opened a ticket asking for help. Well, they didn't help at all, they were always telling me it was a problem in my environment and I sould upgrade my software and hardware, ignoring every time the proves I showed to them of my environment working on first accout but not with the other. I asked them if the account were configured differently so, maybe, they could make the configuration of the second one the same as the first one, they told me all account as the same (which I later on their website found isn't true, new accounts have distinct requirements). I decided not to use their libraries and making the rest request directly from my application with my own code and everything worked, so, another prof of my environment been right and them and not knowing their own infrastructure. Last, but not least, Their platform have some misleading controls, one of them makes you believe the User Roles add up to each other (they display checkboxes). I needed "billing" permissions to get the invoices and click on the "Billing" check box to add that role, but oh surprise, That checkbox actually behaved as a Radio and remove my previous role... Now I'm locked out my accout because I have much less permissions than before... Well, had to ask, once again, help to restore my permissions but untile now, one ticket and 4 emails later, not a single answer, so yeah, they suck.

Avoid Twilio's SendGrid if you are a small-to-medium business by email volume. We've been a paying customer for over 5 years with perfect score, but today was a major disappointment. We've noticed an unexpectedly high bounce rate of 64% on a recent email campaign (with usual being 0-3%). Quick check of logs showed that SendGrid's IP that was assigned to us was put on a blocklist by SpamHaus, rendering more than half of our deliveries useless. Quick check on SpamHaus showed that since 3rd of Sept many spam & phishing attacks originated from another SendGrid client that was assigned same IP. Not sure for how long we've been sharing it and how much business we've lost as a result, but should be a quick fix I thought. I reached out to SendGrid asking to be moved to a different IP. Within a few hours I finally get a response admitting that it is indeed a common problem at SendGrid, but despite being a paying customer I cannot be moved to a different IP address. My two only options would be: 1) Wait it out until we are automatically rotated to a different IP address (days? weeks? months?). 2) Pay up for a Pro account with a dedicated IP address. So Sendgrid knows they have an IP that's causing major disruption to their paying clients as a result of poor vetting & monitoring process, but instead tells you to wait it out or pay up.

I contacted technical support over two weeks ago and my problem has not been resolved or even addressed. They said the would set up a call but didn't and would not give me a phone number to call them. I was working with my software company and asked the Tech support rep to get on a conference call and he said yes but never set it up or gave us his number. This is unacceptable service especially since this is the first time we are using the service and it doesn't work. You really need to train people to support your product.

I have been trying to figure out the pricing of their service for over a month now. After a productive call with one of their sales manager, I never heard back from them. Neither did I receive the promised price sheet. My follow-up emails and calls have not been answered anymore. Whenever the general service line is picking up, each service agent gives you different information that you cannot rely on.

Twillio customer service is crap and they are racists! They are rejecting my application giving me some crazy request like my Government ID must show my physical address... what the nonsense. They even rejected my business registration. What the hell. I even called them and the lady who was supposed to assist me was so rude and hanged up my call. Rubbish customer service!

I have been trying for 3 weeks to get a number ported over.. They didnt tell me it needed to be ported over for almost 2 weeks.. There is no help from a manager (they have said they will call me then dont and send me a review of our conversation saying they are helping) The lack of customer service is insane

Twilio is a rip off, and the worst company to deal with in SMS marketing solutions.

Good service, i like a lot.

Twilio removed my account without any warning. Support is very bad. Never start a project with Twilio. They are expensive and not very reliable.

our mails over the ip of Sendgrid is blocked by all microsoft servers (like hotmail, outlook, live, ...) we post a request to sendgrid support but don't even get a response .... support really sucks

These people give you the illusion that your expenses are capped by forcing you to pay them ahead of time ("recharge your balance"), but then keep billing you long after your balance reaches zero, without notifying you. You can come in 2 years later and find that you have a >$300 "debt" to them, which is exactly what happened to me.

We used Twilio to distribute SMSs in Nigeria. They did a hack of a job, we lost thousands of dollars in error messages, they felt no responsability whatsoever and gave no refunds. We switched to another provider and, in a week, it cost us only a fraction of what Twilio cost us in half a day.

My account got suspended after paying 20$ to get credit on the account. I got it unsuspended by talking to staff over support tickets, but they suspended it again, and have not responded to my tickets whatsoever to date. If i can't have my account back, can i have my money back.

Easy use on their APIs

Great service, you need to be developer to comfortable using their service. Lots services and products to cover all your communication needs.

I have been with Twilio for 10 years. Never have I been so disappointed with their service. The following issues I have experienced over that last 10 years are as follows: 1. Fax Service has been BETA all this time. Constant fax dropped calls or no fax at all. 2. There auto-pay system is flawed. It will take and take and take to the point of your bank account being exhausted. No daily limits. 3. Their Wireless IOT is very unstable for High Use devices. 4. SMS were always hit and miss. The customer may or may not get them. 5. There Voice TIWML scripts always had a high failure rate. If you build a script the speak command did not always talk or it sounded under water. 5. There is no such thing as Anti-Fraud protection. In one day our SIP Trunk inbound had numbers calling in and showed 50 calls each at 3 hours, which accumulated over $3,000 in fees. Even though the account balance had no money available they just kept accumulating and Twilio's response was it was our system. However the calls never made it to or from our system. Even our fail-over provider did not have any issues from the unknown numbers. After this last instance, I am finally fed up with their crap, horrible support and unreliable network. We are up and moving to a new service. Always have redundancy as this will prove your company cares about its customer base. This is what our company has and getting rid of Twilio will be cost-effective and the sensible thing to do.