This is necessary so the site can send e-mails from an address corresponding to your site (e.g.: contact@your-website.com)
Setting up the Sengrid account
If you’re using a subdomain (e.g.: subdomain.your-website.com), you can safely use @your-website.com addresses
You will need a SendGrid account
Click on Start for free (in the top-right corner)
Fill in the account details – when choosing the login e-mail, take into account that it should be an account corresponding to the organization
After you logged into your SendGrid account, go to Settings > Sender Authentication where our recommendation is to authenticate the domain.
SendGrid’s documentation can be helpful here: https://docs.sendgrid.com/ui/account-and-settings/how-to-set-up-domain-authentication
(we don’t nee the link branding since we’re not tracking links)
(if you want more information about Sender Identities and why we prefer domain authentication you can take a look at this page)Once the domain is verified and the checkmarks are green, you will have to go to Settings > API Keys and create a new key with Restricted Access and that should have Full Access for Mail Send.
Here are the docs with more information: https://docs.sendgrid.com/ui/account-and-settings/api-keys#creating-an-api-key
Sharing the SendGrid information with us
Fill in this e-mail template:
TO: support [at] commitglobal.org
SUBJECT: “SendGrid set-up finished“
BODY:
KEY: <link to the one-time-secret link>
DOMAIN: your-website.com
Once you have that key, you can send us an e-mail with a link to it to support [at] commitglobal.org
(if you don’t have a password manager in your organization, you can use One Time Secret to share the key with us”Send us the domain that you want set up.