Using Gumroad to send your monthly newsletter?

I started my paid newsletter on gumroad for payments and used the posts feature to send updates, but the functionality was too limiting in terms of design or even embedding links so used a separate email provider. This was before I moved to substack.

Thought about this before. I've been sending more and more emails from Gumroad to customers, so may step it up into a full blown newsletter soon.

I might be biased 😃 But I just ran the 14 Day Product challenge emails through gumroad and I loved the workflow/automations. The scheduling is super easy as well.

I use Gumroad to sell my paid newsletter membership, but I host the free versions on my own website (it's a compliment to my consulting business) and use MailChimp to send the campaigns.

If the newsletter wasn't a compliment to my consulting business, I would probably host it all on Gumroad until I outgrew it.

Yes, if you don't have enough to fork over $15-$20 (USD) a month for a dedicated service, Gumroad's email marketing is more than adequate. It has a few flaws, but the GR engineers are hard at correcting those. It's rather robust for the price point.

I've used them all - MailChimp, ConvertKit, MadMimi, etc. - and I like GR's simple approach with lots of options. I also used to sell those same services for companies like GoDaddy and A2 Hosting, among others.

If you want to save a bit of cash that you can use elsewhere to improve your offerings, the GR email marketing suite is fully capable of doing what you need it to do.

I am using it for non-regular posts.

There is quite big limitation regarding links, pictures and design overall.

This is why it is not the best tool for that, I would choose different one.