About MailerLite
The email tool a one-person shop can run on its own.
MailerLite started in Vilnius in 2010 as a side project of a small Lithuanian web agency, pivoted into email and stayed focused on the part of the market Mailchimp slowly grew away from: creators, bloggers, one-product e-commerce stores and solo operators who want a list, a form and a few automations without a platform fee. The company was acquired by Vercom in 2022 and still operates under its own brand, with a fully remote team serving around a million customers worldwide.
The feature set is deliberately small: email campaigns, signup forms and popups, basic automations, a drag-and-drop landing page and website builder, and a transactional email product. That smaller surface is the reason MailerLite customers often run the business on it, but it also means the reporting inside the tool is plain. Revenue attribution, cohort retention and list-health trends are stories that need the order data, the payment data and the web data next to the subscriber data. That is a warehouse job.