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Managed Transactional Email Services for Receipts Resets Notifications

Our managed transactional email service takes over the mail your site sends on its own: order confirmations, password resets, shipping notices, and account alerts. First we give it a sending domain of its own and publish the authentication records that prove the mail is yours. Then we warm the reputation, and after that we watch delivery every day. Your receipts stop landing in spam folders, and you stop being the person who has to work out why.

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Why hand your application mail to us

Transactional mail breaks quietly. A DNS record gets edited during a redesign and signing stops. A plugin update changes the from address. A run of stale addresses pushes the bounce rate past what providers tolerate. Nobody notices until a customer mentions they never got their receipt, and by then it has been weeks. Somebody has to own those unglamorous parts continuously, so we do, and you hear it from us rather than from a complaint.

Why teams hand this over

Managed transactional email versus an SMTP plugin

Installing an SMTP plugin takes five minutes and gets your mail signed, which does beat sending unsigned. What it will not do is watch your bounce rate, notice a blocklist entry, keep records aligned through your next migration, or tell you whether one customer got their invoice. That is where the two approaches part company.

Records stay correct over time

A plugin authenticates your domain once and then stops paying attention. It will not notice when a DNS edit during a redesign breaks alignment months later, and nothing warns you that signing has quietly stopped until delivery drops.

Reputation trouble stays contained

Send everything from one shared setup and a single bad batch of addresses drags the whole account down with no warning. Isolated sending bounds the damage, and pausing happens automatically before it reaches anything else you run.

Somebody reads the reports

DMARC data arrives as daily XML that almost nobody opens. Unread, it is worthless. Parsed, it tells you when something is sending as your domain without permission, which is the entire reason the record exists.

A single message can be traced

With no retained logs, whether one customer received one receipt is guesswork. With them it is a lookup that returns what the receiving server did with the message, and the reason it gave for doing it.

Warming happens before it matters

Sending at full volume from a cold domain is the most common reason a new setup gets filtered in its first week. Raising volume in stages is slower and duller, and it decides whether your mail arrives at all.

It survives your staff changing

When the developer who wired up your sending moves on, an in house setup usually leaves with them and undocumented. Everything here is written down on our side and keeps running straight through your turnover.

Who this actually fits

The businesses that get the most from this

This fits when your software already sends mail your customers depend on and nobody internally owns whether it arrives. If your receipts have started showing up in spam, your password resets are generating support tickets, or you simply could not say what your delivery rate is, that is the point where handing it over pays for itself.

How we work with you

What happens after you sign up

The first two to three weeks are mostly us working behind your site. Records go up first, then the sending path switches over. Templates get built and tested, and volume climbs in stages until your domain is trusted. After that it settles into something you barely notice, and you hear from us monthly or when a decision needs you.

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We authenticate a sending domain of your own

Your application mail gets a dedicated subdomain, kept separate from the address your staff email from, so a sending problem can never reach your business inbox. SPF, DKIM, and DMARC go up, and we check them for alignment rather than mere presence, which is where most setups quietly fail. Then we confirm signing actually works before anything else is switched over.

2

We route your site mail and build the templates

Your application carries on sending the way it already does. We change the path underneath so every message leaves signed, then rebuild your receipt, reset, and notification templates against your site and test them across the major mail clients. Anything arriving as unstyled text or broken markup gets fixed here rather than noticed later by a customer.

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We warm the domain, then keep watching it

Volume rises in stages so mailbox providers build trust before your real traffic depends on them. Once you are at normal levels, delivery, bounce, and complaint rates are monitored continuously, suppression runs on its own, and blocklists get checked on a schedule. Each month a short written note gives you the numbers and anything we changed.

What it costs and what is included

Pricing

Managed Transactional
Email

Monthly Subscription

$39.00
/per month
25,000 emails included

DETAILS

Everything your application sends, handled: an authenticated sending domain of its own, records published and kept aligned, reputation warmed before launch, and 25,000 delivered emails a month included. Bounces and complaints are suppressed automatically, delivery is watched daily, and a short written report arrives monthly. Extra volume is one dollar per thousand delivered. No setup fee and no contract.

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Everything we handle

What the plan covers, in full

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A sending domain of its own

Your receipts and notifications leave from a dedicated subdomain, kept apart from the mailbox your staff use. A problem with app mail can never reach your business inbox.
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SPF, DKIM and DMARC published

We publish and align every authentication record your domain needs, then keep them correct when your DNS or your other tools change underneath them.
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Reputation warmed before launch

Volume rises gradually so mailbox providers learn to trust your domain before real customer mail depends on it. Rushing this stage is what causes early filtering.
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Migration from your current sender

Coming off an SMTP plugin, a shared host, or another provider, we move the sending path across without a gap in delivery and without changing how your app sends.
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Your reputation stays yours alone

Your sending is isolated from every other account we run. Another business having a bad month cannot pull your delivery rates down with it.
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Trouble is contained automatically

If bounce or complaint rates cross a safe threshold, sending pauses on your stream alone and we are alerted the moment it happens, before the damage compounds.
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Bounces and complaints suppressed

Addresses that hard bounce or report you are held back automatically, so your application cannot keep mailing them and cannot keep damaging your standing.
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Blocklist monitoring

Your sending domain is checked against the major blocklists on a schedule. If it appears on one, delisting starts that day rather than after a customer complains.
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WordPress and WooCommerce mail

Order confirmations, shipping notices, password resets, and form notifications all route through the authenticated path instead of leaving your web server unsigned.
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Templates built and tested

We build your receipt, reset, and notification templates to match your site, then test them across the major clients so a mobile order confirmation is readable.
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Delivery events sent to your app

Deliveries, bounces, and complaints can be posted straight back into your application or CRM, so your own records know which messages actually arrived.
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Plain text on every message

Every template ships with a plain text alternative. Filters treat HTML only mail with suspicion, and some recipients genuinely prefer the simpler version.
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Searchable delivery logs

When a customer says the receipt never arrived, we look up that single message and tell you what happened to it, rather than guessing at the cause.
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Delivery rates watched daily

Delivery, bounce, and complaint rates are monitored continuously. A slow drift gets investigated while it is still small enough to be a quiet fix.
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DMARC reports read for you

Those daily XML reports nobody opens get parsed on our side. If something is sending as your domain without permission, you hear about it in plain language.
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One short report each month

A written summary of volume, delivery rate, anything that went wrong, and what we changed. No dashboard to interpret and no charts you have to assemble.
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No platform account in your name

One invoice from us covers the sending, the infrastructure, and the work. There is no second subscription to manage and no vendor billing you separately.
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Nothing new to log into

Requests and answers happen over email. Nobody on your team has to be trained on an interface, which is most of the reason to buy a managed service.
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Full handover whenever you ask

Ask and you get your DNS records, templates, suppression list, and sending history in a standard format the same week, at no cost, whether or not you are leaving.
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Monthly billing, no contract

No setup fee and no annual term. Billing is monthly and thirty days notice ends it. We would rather earn the account each month than hold you to a signature.

Questions we get asked most

Frequently asked questions
What is transactional email?
Transactional email is the mail your application sends to one person because of something they did. Order confirmations, password resets, shipping notices, account verifications, and receipts all count. It is triggered by an action rather than scheduled by a marketer, and the recipient is usually waiting for it, which is why a delay or a spam folder placement turns into a support ticket.
How is transactional email different from marketing email?
Marketing email goes to a list on a schedule and people can opt out of it. Transactional email goes to one person because they did something, and they cannot reasonably opt out of a receipt they are owed. The practical difference is tolerance. A newsletter landing in promotions is a missed opportunity, while a password reset landing there is a customer locked out of their account.
Why do my WordPress emails go to spam?
Usually because they leave your web server unsigned. WordPress sends through the host by default, from an address on your domain, with nothing proving that server is allowed to send as you. Mailbox providers treat that as possible forgery and filter it. Routing the same mail through an authenticated path with published records fixes most of the problem, and reputation work fixes the rest.
What is email deliverability and how is it measured?
Deliverability is the share of your mail that reaches an inbox rather than a spam folder or a rejection. We track delivery rate, bounce rate, and complaint rate as the core numbers, then watch for placement problems those rates can hide. A message can be accepted by the receiving server and still land in spam, so acceptance on its own is not the measure that matters.
What counts as a good delivery rate?
For transactional mail, above 99 percent delivered is normal, and anything under 98 percent deserves investigation. Bounce rate should sit below 2 percent and complaints below 0.1 percent, because both feed directly into how providers treat you. Marketing benchmarks are looser and do not apply here. Receipts go to people who just handed you their address, so those addresses should be good.
Do I need a separate sending domain?
We recommend a subdomain and it is included. Keeping application mail on its own subdomain means its reputation is tracked separately from the address your staff email from. If a run of bad addresses causes trouble, it lands on the subdomain rather than your primary domain, so your team can carry on emailing customers normally while we sort it out.
What are SPF, DKIM and DMARC?
They are three DNS records that prove your mail is really yours. SPF lists which servers may send for your domain, DKIM signs each message so tampering shows, and DMARC tells providers what to do when a message fails the other two. Publishing them is table stakes now. Getting all three aligned with each other is the part that trips people up.
How many emails does the plan include?
Twenty five thousand delivered emails a month are included. For context, a store handling a few hundred orders a month usually sits well under that once order confirmations, shipping notices, and account mail are counted together. We tell you where your volume actually lands after the first full month rather than asking you to guess at it up front.
What happens if I go over 25,000 emails?
Additional volume is one dollar per thousand delivered, added to the same monthly invoice. There is no cliff, no throttling, and no upgrade conversation to sit through. If your volume climbs far enough that a different arrangement would cost you less, we will tell you rather than quietly billing the overage every month.
Does this work with WooCommerce order emails?
Yes, and those are usually the emails that prompt the call in the first place. WooCommerce relies on the same WordPress mail function everything else uses, so once that is routed through the authenticated path, order confirmations, shipping notices, and customer account mail all travel it. We test each of those templates during setup rather than assuming they render.
Can you fix deliverability that has already gone wrong?
Often, though it takes longer than starting clean. We audit what is actually published, correct the records, request delisting anywhere your domain has been flagged, and clear out the addresses causing bounces. Then volume goes back up slowly. If the domain has been mailing bad addresses for years, expect a few weeks before the numbers settle rather than a few days.
Do you need access to my website?
We need DNS access to publish the sending records, and administrator access to your site to route its mail through the authenticated path. If we already manage your WordPress, we have both. Otherwise we will tell you exactly which records to add and what to install, or you can grant temporary access and we will handle it ourselves.
How long does setup take?
Records go up within a day or two of getting DNS access, and templates are usually built the same week. The part that takes real time is warming, where volume rises gradually so providers learn your domain before live traffic depends on it. Plan on two to three weeks before everything is running at full volume.
Can you tell me whether one customer received their email?
Yes. Give us the address and roughly when the message should have gone out, and we will tell you whether it was accepted, bounced, or rejected, and what the receiving server said about it. This is the question that makes delivery logs worth keeping. Without them, the honest answer to it is a shrug.
What happens to my setup if I cancel?
Everything comes with you. Your DNS records stay on your domain because they were always yours, and we hand over your templates, suppression list, and sending history in a standard format. Thirty days notice ends the service. We will also tell you what to point your site at next so your mail does not simply stop.
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