If your domain is hosted by GoDaddy and you'd like to use your own domain to send emails via Keela, you're in the right place! This article will take you through the SendGrid Integration for GoDaddy Domain users!
Watch this video to take you through the full SendGrid Integration with your GoDaddy Domain:
OR follow the step by step written instructions below:
(1) Confirm your Domain and Create SendGrid Settings in Keela
Navigate to Organization Settings > Select the Integrations tab
Scroll down the list of Integrations to SendGrid > Click Connect
Enter your domain > Click Save
Tip: Your domain is the text that comes after the @ in your email address - do not enter anything before this symbol. For example yourorganization.org (instead of me@yourorganization.org)
Once you've entered your domain, the SendGrid integration status will update to Pending. Click on the Actions button > Click Verify Domain
A new window will open that shows you the Domain Authentication (CNAME) and Reply Tracking (MX) settings that you will need to update to your domain in order to connect it with Keela:
Note: Your records are unique to your domain and will be different to these example records.
Next, you will need to create new CNAME and MX records in your GoDaddy Domain account, that match the above settings.
(2) Create DNS Records in your GoDaddy Account
Note that this step will take place in your GoDaddy Domains account.
- Log into your GoDaddy Account. https://sso.godaddy.com/
- Navigate to Domains, select the domain that you wish to integrate with Keela.
- Scroll down to Additional Settings and click Manage DNS
- ADD the DNS records as specified in your Keela account from Step 1.
(3) Verify your Domain in Keela
Once you've updated your DNS records in GoDaddy wait up to 48 hours to give the records time to populate, then head on over back to Keela and click the Verify button. This will verify your DNS records and connect your domain to Keela.
Note: It can take up to 48 hours for your DNS records to be fully verified. If the Status for each record does not appear as "Verified" after 48 hours, please review our How to Troubleshoot your SendGrid Connection article.
The Status column will update to Verified when the SendGrid Connection is successful.
(4) Change your email addresses to your domain emails
Organization Email
Navigate to the Profile tab in your Organization Settings > Click on the Edit icon
Insert the beginning of your organization-wide email address > Click Save
Note: The email address must be a valid email.
Personal Email
Each user on the account will also need to change their Personal Emails to their Domain address as well.
Navigate to the Profile tab of your Personal Settings > Click on the Edit Icon
Insert the beginning of your personal email address > Click Save
Note: The email address must be a valid email.
And that's it! You have successfully connected your account to SendGrid!