SparkPost Integration Guide

Follow these steps for SparkPost Integration with EasySendy Pro account:

• Register / sign-up with SparkPost account
• Add email sending domain name into SparkPost account
• Verify domain name with DKIM and SPF records
• Add abuse and postmaster emails to email sending domain ( optional )
• Add SparkPost account in EasySendy Pro Delivery Server
• Validate Delivery Server in EasySendy Pro account
• Confirm bounce and complaint files are setup properly
• Disable Duplicate open and click Tracking
• Send a test email campaign with SparkPost
• Add Tracking Domain to Your Dashboard

Register / sign-up with SparkPost account

Register you new SparkPost account from here: https://app.sparkpost.com/sign-up

SparkPost gives 100,000 emails free each month, more pricing can be found here- https://www.sparkpost.com/pricing

Add email sending domain name into SparkPost account

1.After SparkPost account confirmation, login to your SparkPost account.

2. In the dashboard, “Settings” >> “Sending Domains”.

3. Add the domain name from which you want to send emails.

4. Click Add a Domain button.

Verify domain name with DKIM and SPF records

5. Add SPF record at DNS of the added sending domain name. Follow this host specific DNS update guide.

6. Add DKIM record at DNS of the added sending domain name. Follow this host specific DNS update guide.

Note: Only 1 of the 4 verification methods is required per domain. SPF Text Record or DKIM Record is recommended for better deliverability.

Add abuse and postmaster emails to email sending domain ( optional )

7. Its a good practice to add abuse@ and postmaster@ emails on your sending email domains. Add these emails and verify the same.

Note: If you are using Google Apps, you might not be able to create these emails, follow this tutorial.

After this step, observer “Ready to Send” icon at right of added domain name and then, follow the next step of integration.

Add SparkPost account in EasySendy Pro Delivery Server

8. Create API at your SparkPost account. Go to SparkPost Dashboard >> Settings>> API Keys >> Click “Create API Key” button.

9. Now on next screen, give “API Key Name” and under API Permissions, click “Select All“. You can leave “Allowed IPs”  field blank.

Finally, click “Add API Key” Button.

10. From next screen, copy the API key.

11. Now you are ready to use the domain name. From EasySendy Pro Dashboard, go to Delivery Servers >Delivery Servers > Add SparkPost Web Api.

On new screen add Name of the delivery server according to your convenience.

12. Add SparkPost API key from previous screen to EasySendy delivery server screen. Then, add “From Email“, “From Name” and finally, save the settings.

Validate Delivery Server in EasySendy Pro account

13. Now you need to validate your server, add an email address, where you can receive validation email. Followed by this, receive the validation email, and click on validation link from the email.

14. Confirm you have validated and activated the server in EasySendy Pro delivery server dashboard.

Confirm bounce and complaint files are setup properly

15. After validation of SparkPost delivery server successfully completes, you can check SparkPost webhooks and confirm, if EasySendy Pro bounce and complaint files are successfully added to your account.

For this inside your SparkPost account, In the dashboard, select Webhooks and check the webhooks of format app.easysendy.com/

To check the given webhooks inside EasySendy Pro, go to Delivery servers > edit the server > click on “Info” tab from the right corner of the screen.

In the new pop-up box, you will get the details about the webhooks and the EasySendy Pro links.

Disable Duplicate open and click Tracking

16. You need to disable tracking in your SparkPost account, otherwise your open and click rate will have duplicate value inside email campaign report.

In your Sparkpost account, select “Settings” >> SMTP Settings >> Engagement Tracking >> Disable Tracking >> Update Settings.

Add Tracking Domain to Your Dashboard

Note: You need to add and activate your own tracking domain to your EasySendy Dashboard account for good email delivery. Follow this link, to configure your own tracking domain to your EasySendy Dashboard.