Quick summary
Setting up SendGrid requires creating a free account, completing multi-factor authentication, and adding DNS records to verify your sending domain. This step-by-step process ensures your emails are authenticated and ready to send through SendGrid's email delivery platform.
Steps
- Click the Start building free button on the top right of the SendGrid homepage.
- Add basic info including your name, email address, and set a password.
- Click Continue after agreeing to the Terms and Conditions.
- Enter the verification code sent to your email and click Verify.
- Click Send code via SMS to set up SMS-based multi-factor authentication.
- Enter the SMS code and click Verify to confirm your phone number.
- Download the recovery code and click Continue to proceed.
- Add your personal and company info and click Next.
- Enter your sending domain and click Next.
- Click Setup now if you have access to your domain registrar, or use Send to coworker to delegate DNS setup.
- Copy the DNS records provided by SendGrid using the copy icon.
- In your domain registrar (e.g., GoDaddy, Namecheap), navigate to DNS Management and create a new CNAME record for each of the first three lines, and a new TXT record for the last line, pasting the values exactly as shown.
- Your SendGrid account is now fully set up and ready to send emails.
