Connecting your email to Agency Elephant is a fairly simple process if you follow these steps.

First thing you need to do is create a FREE sendgrid account at www.sendgrid.com

Next, once you are logged in, you will click the button on your home page titled create a "Single Sender API Key". If you don't see the button, in Sendgrid under settings, API settings, you will click ADD NEW API KEY. 

Once this is done COPY THAT API KEY and paste it to a note on your dashboard, you will need that later.

NOTE: if Sendgrid has an alert on the top of your account that says something to the effect of “we need to verify your account, please click here to verify”. This will take you to a form about your use case for SendGrid. Essentially they need to verify that you do not spam people. They will ask things like “what types of emails are you sending”, keep your verbiage around “keeping customers up to date on their accounts, etc.” Do not use terms like “marketing” as they may want more information from you .

Once this is done, you will need to verify your sender authentication. Your single sender will have a red "x", you click the buttons on the right side of the page and click verify. This will send you an email to click and verify. Once you click, that button should turn green.

Now you will follow the steps on your "settings icon" in your AE account, Located in settings, under the "email tab".

Click the Sendgrid option, then click the links on the right side of the email set up in a row. They will take you to the right pages in sendgrid to add info.

You need to paste the API key you got from Sendgrid to the API key area in Agency Elephant.

You will need to copy the webhook from AE, and paste it into the area in Sendgrid that there is a link for.

- AE Team