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What is SendGrid?
SendGrid is an email delivery platform that provides businesses and developers with the tools they need to manage and send large volumes of emails in a reliable and efficient manner.
What is SendGrid authentication to Aloware?
SendGrid authentication in Aloware enables Aloware to use SendGrid to send emails, allowing you to take advantage of SendGrid's reliable and scalable email delivery capabilities while managing your email campaigns through Aloware's user-friendly interface.
How does it work?
You need to provide Aloware with your SendGrid API Key.
Aloware will use it to authenticate with SendGrid and start sending emails through SendGrid.
You can now use Aloware to manage your email campaigns, statistics, etc.
Integration Prerequisites
A SendGrid account. If you haven't already, sign up for a SendGrid account.
A sender authentication setup in SendGrid.
Only admins can integrate SendGrid with Aloware.
How to Authenticate SendGrid to Aloware
In your Aloware account, navigate to the Integrations tab
Select the SendGrid card, and click Settings
In the SendGrid Integration Settings page, you need to configure your email settings to use SendGrid as your email provider:
General
API Key - you need to add the SendGrid API key to Aloware
To get your SendGrid API Key, login to your SendGrid account
Click Settings > select API Keys
Click the Create API Key button on the upper-right side
Select from the API Key Permission, and click the Create and View button
Copy the generated SendGrid API Key
Now, paste the Sendgrid API Key in the Aloware's SendGrid Integration Settings API Key field
Sender Address - your business email address that reflects the "From" in recipient's email (e.g. support-dev@aloware.com)
Sender Name - the business name displayed in the inboxes of your recipients (e.g. Aloware Dev)
Click the Test & Save button
Once the integration is tested, the page displays its status
Confirmation
You can send a test email from Aloware to check the details you set in the integration settings.
Send an email to a contact
Select a contact to send an email to from the Contacts menu.
You can add your personal email and other details for testing purposes.
Check that the contact has an email address in the field.
In the message box, click the Email tab and click Send Email once you have created your Subject and Message Body
