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email customers via api

hi we are working on a new app that will sen shop customers email reminder to do something in the shop .

is there anyway to send the shop customers email via weebly api ? 

regards 

Gabi

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Great question @GabiKhrmon!

We do not expose any type of email APIs for use in sending customers: bulk, marketing, or transactional email messages through Weebly at this time.

Today, Weebly customers are able to use Weebly Promote product to send campaign-based emails, such as marketing, newsletters, sales promos, etc..., but Promote does not currently expose any APIs to allow developers to send emails through Weebly on behalf of Weebly Site Admins.

Weebly App Developers who need to include email sending functionality from within their Weebly Apps will need to integrate with a 3rd party email service provider who offers these types of APIs. There are many ESP (email service providers) from which to choose, and each should be evaluated individually based upon your sending requirements, sending volume, historical sending data, deliverability requirements, and other business needs which fall outside the scope of this response.

Here are a few ESPs you might be able to consider, depending upon your specific integration and technical requirement needs (this list does not constitute any type of endorsement or recommendation, but rather is just a list of known and reputable ESPs available for app developers😞

The biggest challenge, from a development perspective, in this case, is going to be DNS and Email Deliverability. Here's why I say this will be a challenge...

Weebly allows customers to associate their sites to domains in one of three ways:

1. Weebly to manage your domain (either purchase via Weebly, or transfer the domain to us for management)

2. Using a Weebly subdomain (used in Developer Test Sites by default)

3. Using a custom external domain registrar, then using DNS to point your domain's **A record** to Weebly

To be able to send email reliably with today's major ISPs (such as GMail, Outlook, etc...), any developer using an ESP to send their email requires them to update DKIM and SPF (which requires modifications to DNS TXT records) and perhaps even other levels of technical integration for things such as email encryption support,etc..

Your app would either need to be able to "coach" customers through setting these records up, or do it for them programmatically. Weebly does not expose DNS management APIs currently for App Developers, which could quickly make this into a customer experience nightmare for Weebly Site Admins who install your app.

Of course, that doesn't mean it is impossible, just very very challenging (and perhaps use-case prohibitive).

Does this answer your question?

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You might also want to try pepipost.com - they provide a cashback on emails opened. We switched from Sendgrid to pepipost for our ecommerce website and are saving roughly $95/mo on sending emails.

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