Just last week we were presenting at YC W14 Demo Day, and amongst all the craziness we’re happy to announce another major update to Sendwithus! Let’s dive right in.
New features in this update:
- Multiple ESP Accounts
- Email Webview (“view in browser links”)
- Bounced Email Address Report
Multiple ESP Accounts
It’s not uncommon for Sendwithus users to configure and manage multiple ESP Accounts (sometimes even across multiple providers). To help those users out, we’ve added two new ways to control which emails are sent through which accounts.
Template ESP Accounts
Every template now allows you to specify an ESP Account to use every time you send an email using that template.
This is great for sending different email types through different domains, and managing unsubscribe lists across different templates. For more information on how to use multiple ESP Accounts to do this, send me an email and I’d be happy to help!
ESP Accounts in API calls
You can also specify an ESP Account in every single Send API call, giving you complete control over how every email is delivered. This is great if you’re using different ESPs or domains to deliver to different customers!
Note that providing an ESP Account in a Send API call will take priority over all other ESP Account settings, including any Template-specific settings. See our Send API Documentation for all of the technical details on how to do this.
“View in Browser” Links
We’ve got a new feature called “email web view” that lets your customers view your emails in their browser. It’s great if your customers are using mobile devices or uncommon email clients and need a better way to view your gorgeous transactional emails.
Simply enable “web view” URLs in your templates and use the {{ swu.webview_url }} variable where you want the link URL to show up in your template. Super easy.
Here’s a quick video showing how it works:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rQi-WLz3ac
Bounce Reports
We’ve added a new “Bounce Report” to the Sendwithus dashboard, showing which customers have had problems receiving your emails.
Email addresses that “bounce” cannot be delivered to – usually because the email address does not exist, is invalid or contains a typo. Bounced email addresses cannot be delivered to, and should be corrected as soon as possible.
We’re working on a new tool to detect bounces and correct common typos – but for now, you can easily view which email addresses are bouncing and download the list for processing inside your app.
