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Guides, templates and email setup help

Practical guides for your first send, your next integration, and the details in between. Go straight to the documentation that moves your work forward.

Put it into practice

Choose your next setup step

Use practical guides, examples and local checks to prepare the work before a live send.

Plan email campaigns by market

Use regional and country guides, practical planning worksheets and official sources to prepare your next market launch.

Explore country guides

Switch with a clear checklist

Map the active audience, keep exclusions out of the import, and run a CSV preflight before a controlled pilot.

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Start with an editable brief

Explore example email layouts, copy a Template Studio brief, or follow a starter workflow recipe.

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Choose a connection method

Separate generic SMTP setup, API recipes and Template Studio MCP from product-specific native plugins.

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Review the next send

Keep a browser-only checklist for audience, content, route, allowance and result checks.

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Prepare your sending server

Check provider SMTP restrictions, agent pairing, domain routing and the costs around your VPS.

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Understand the data flow

See the boundary between the managed workspace, hosted delivery, your own server and replies.

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Start here

Set up your domain and send a test email

The quickstart walks through creating an API key, verifying your sending domain, making your first request, and following the delivery result.

Use it as your first working connection, then build out the rest of your integration at your own pace.

Follow the email quickstart
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Integration guides

The setup guides, without the search through old release notes.

SMTP setup

Connection details, TLS ports, sending passwords, verified domains, and a practical WordPress setup.

Read the SMTP guide

Webhook setup

Create an endpoint, verify its challenge, check webhook signatures, and handle retries.

Read the webhook guide

MCP integration

Template Studio MCP guide

Connect a compatible assistant to Template Studio MCP using the remote server URL and OAuth. Choose your organizations, describe the email, and save an editable template.

The guide explains the connection, supported template operations, and how to keep control of organization access.

Set up Template Studio MCP
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API integration basics

Keep these guides close as your first request becomes a production integration.

API authentication and permissions

Understand live keys, simulated test sends, OAuth grants, and the permissions attached to each request.

Read authentication

Avoid duplicate sends

Use idempotency keys to retry the same email request without intentionally creating another send.

Read idempotency

Understand API responses

Read request IDs, structured errors, and retryable responses so your application can take the right next step.

Read responses and errors

Help choosing

Find the right email platform

Compare plans and tools around the emails your business needs to send.

Compare email platforms

Compare hosted platforms and self-hosted alternatives using the same audience, delivery and cost assumptions.

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Compare free email plans

Check contact caps, sending limits, and the features your team needs.

Read the guide

Email for small businesses

Plan campaigns, welcome new subscribers, and manage customer replies.

Read the guide

The full reference

Open the documentation

Explore the API reference for email sends, domains, subscribers, broadcasts, workflows, and webhooks.

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