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Transactional email

Transactional email is mail your software sends to one person because of something that happened, using an account built for software rather than a person.

Also called: sending service, email sending service

An order confirmed, a sold-out item back in stock. It's not marketing, and it's not you typing.

Sending it needs its own account with a service built for the job. Your ordinary mailbox isn't that, software trying to send through one gets refused, or quietly filed as junk by everybody who receives it.

You only meet this if you build something that emails on its own. Almost nothing here does: the app the kit gives you doesn't send mail, deliberately, until you decide it should.

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Paste this first

Something broke

I just did this: <what you clicked or typed, in a few words>
This is what I got: <paste the error here, or drag in a screenshot>

I don't know what it means. Work out what went wrong and fix it. Then tell me in one plain sentence what was wrong and what you changed, and stop.

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1 of 7 Where do you sell online?
2 of 7 Would you like software built around exactly how your business works?
3 of 7 When something in your software needs changing, how do you want that to happen?
4 of 7 Have you ever written code?
5 of 7 If something breaks, what kind of help do you need?
6 of 7 Do you pay monthly for an app where you only really use one or two of its features?
7 of 7 Building your app means using an AI assistant like Claude or ChatGPT on a paid monthly plan. Are you OK with that?