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Are You Taking Good Care of Your Children?
No, I’m not getting personal. I’m talking about child accounts. If you send email on behalf of your customers, you can use SendGrid and our Subuser API to manage child accounts, and give your customers the same benefits you enjoy with SendGrid. Here are the highlights: Subusers share the same overall credit pool but have their own unique SMTP credentials, settings, statistics, and site login. Simply send mail through a Subuser account using that account’s SMTP credentials to send mail rather than the parent account credentials. Grant customers access to our APIs so they can further customer their experience. Actively…
READ MORE »Learning to Scale an Email-based App: Building for Today with an Eye on Tomorrow
The following post is a guest post by Mike Sun, the Senior Engineer at the team management tool iDoneThis. Learn more about Mike at the bottom of the post. iDoneThis is a simple management application that emails your team at the end of every day to ask, “What’d you get done today?” Just reply with a few lines of what you got done. The following morning everyone on your team gets a digest with what the team accomplished the previous day to keep everyone in the loop and kickstart another awesome day. From our launch in January of 2011, we’ve…
READ MORE »Customize Each Email with the SMTP API
SendGrid has a host of flexible APIs to help you extend and customize the platform to your needs. Included in your API toolbox is the SMTP API. The SMTP API is a header included in messages sent to SendGrid that allows you to use templated messages, deliver custom handling instructions and include increased tracking and analytics information. This is accomplished through an X-SMTPAPI header that is inserted into the message. The header is a JSON encoded list of instructions and options for that email. With the SMTP API, you can do the following: • Tag your emails so you can…
READ MORE »Integrating SendGrid with the StackMob Platform
The following is a guest blog post from Sidney Maestre, a Platform Evangelist for StackMob, a leading provider of backend services for mobile developers. He spent the last few years building mobile apps and sharing his knowledge with others. These efforts included speaking at Adobe MAX, 360iDev, SenchaCon, HTML5DevConf, Silicon Valley Code Camp, creating two courses, jQuery Mobile for Beginners and Learn Backbone.js + StackMob, for the uDemy.com platform and organizing the Bay Area Mobile meetup. Follow him on Twitter and Github at @SidneyAllen. Building backend services for a mobile app is time consuming and difficult. Adding a datastore API,…
READ MORE »The Big Brother of Email is SendGrid’s Event API
George Orwell’s 1984 has nothing on the SendGrid Event API. With this tool, you can curate information on every email you’ve ever sent and generate customized real time reports based on a variety of email events including processed, delivered, opens, clicks, unsubscribes, spam reports, deferred, bounces, and drops with all relevant category and unique argument information. The Event API is highly customizable using webhooks to integrate with your application without any restrictions on your own internal storage limitations. Essentially, you can: Automatically remove unsubscribes from your master mailing list. Associate a spam report with a specific campaign and user…
READ MORE »Guest Post: Building Your Own Gmail in a Day with Temboo & SendGrid
This guest post comes from Marianne Bellotti, Hacker-in-Residence and Developer Evangelist at Temboo. She is a veteran of the hackathon scene, data junkie and completely self-taught programmer, she loves nothing more than mashing up some good APIs. You can find her on twitter at @bellmar.
READ MORE »Parse API: Oh, What You Can Do!
SendGrid has a number of APIs that can easily integrate with your system and help you do amazingly simple things with your email streams. The Parse API is one of the most flexible tools you can use to simplify processes and create great email experiences for your customers. Related PostsSendGrid Delivered hits NYC September 12 Become an Inbox Insider with SendGrid Delivered eCommerce Hack Day Brings New Challenge To Developers The Seven SendGrid APIs – A Quick List London Hackers Bring Home the Gold at API Hackday
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