Integrating With Amazon SES To Send Transactional Email Notifications

Written By Angela L

Last updated About 21 hours ago

Amazon SES (Simple Email Service) is a reliable way to make sure your customers get important emails, like receipts. By connecting SES with PayKickstart, you can improve email deliverability and ensure that your notifications reach the inbox instead of the spam folder.

In this guide, we’ll show you step-by-step how to set up Amazon SES inside your PayKickstart account so you can start sending transactional emails right away.

Important Note:

Your Amazon SES account cannot be in sandbox mode for the integration to work. Learn more about moving SES out of sandbox mode here.

Once enabled and saved on the campaign level, you are now integrated to send transaction emails via Amazon SES for the selected campaign.

You can connect SMTP integrations with all Campaigns you want to use SMTP services for delivering your transactional emails.

You can also select the SMTP service to be used for sending out emails related to your Embeddable Customer Billing Portal.

That’s it! Your Amazon SES account is now fully integrated and set up within your PayKickstart platform.

You can now fully handle notifying customers for any transactional email events via your own SMTP integration, allowing you full control over the deliverability of customer emails.

Maximizing the deliverability of your emails (Optional):

To maximize the delivery rate of your email notifications, we strongly recommend you set up Domain, SPF & DKIM verification. Below are some useful resources to help you with this:

What is SPF?
How to set up SPF on your server.
What is DKIM?
How to set DKIM on your server.

Helpful Tip:

MXToolBox is a great resource for monitoring the health of your domain.

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