Prayvine takes email deliverability very seriously. After all, every prayer request message that ends up in a spam folder is a lost opportunity for prayer and building deeper relationships with your ministry partners.


As a result, we've implemented many engineering best practices to maintain an excellent reputation with email service providers (e.g. Gmail, Outlook). While most of these are "under the hood", there are a few email deliverability best practices we follow that may affect your use of Prayvine:


  • In order to keep our keep our deliverability high, Prayvine uses a secure third-part email validation provider (ZeroBounce) to identify and remove invalid or problematic email addresses in your prayer team. We perform this validation whenever you add a new email address to your list of prayer partners. If an email address is flagged as invalid, we will send you an email to let you know. This way, you can follow-up with your partners to see if they have a more current email address.

  • Prayvine automatically disables sending prayer requests to any email addresses that result in a permanent (or "hard") bounce. If this happens, you will receive an email notification letting you know that the email address bounced and is no longer valid. Please note that this does not affect temporary (or "soft") bounces that may result from full inboxes, vacation auto-reply messages, and transient delivery issues on the part of email providers.

  • While Prayvine don't place any limits on how many prayer partners you can add to your prayer team, we may require very large prayer teams to undergo a short deliverability review process. During this review process, Prayvine will communicate with you to understand when/how you collected the email addresses and what type of opt-in process was used. This review process typically takes less than 1-2 business days.

    This review process affects only the largest 2% of all prayer teams on Prayvine. If this applies to you, please know that we are extremely grateful for your patience and help. Together, we can ensure that only valid, opted-in email addresses receive your prayer requests. This results in better email deliverability for every mission worker using Prayvine.