If you are an insurance agent or employee who wants TruckerCert to send COIs on your behalf (appearing to come directly from you), SendGrid
is now the preferred way to do that. Using your free SendGrid account, TruckerCert can send up to 100 emails per day on your behalf, which
is more than enough for most agents. If you need to send more than that you can upgrade your SendGrid account to a paid version and then
you'll have no limitations. Please note that the 100 email per day limitation is per agent, not per agency. So if you have 5 agents all with
their own SendGrid account, that is effectively 500 emails per day that TruckerCert can send on their behalf by being linked to their
individual SendGrid accounts, all at no charge from SendGrid. You will still be charged the usual per-certificate fee by TruckerCert.
To get started, follow the instructions below. Go to SendGrid. Create a new account for yourself. ![]() Fill out the form, continue. ![]() Click Create a Single Sender. ![]() Fill out form, use your own email address, mailing address, and desired From Name. Continue. ![]() Verify email. ![]() Wait a minute or two, then find a second SendGrid email in your Inbox, as below: ![]() ![]() Confirm that your sender is verified. Then click Dashboard. ![]() Let's integrate. Click Start. ![]() Choose the Web API. ![]() Choose PHP. Don't worry, this is mostly a formality. ![]() Type anything for the API Key Name, then click Create Key. Ignore everything below step #2. ![]() Highlight and copy the long key, beginning with "SG". Make sure you have successfully copied the key. Ignore everything below step #2. ![]() Scroll to the bottom, check I've integrated the code above, and click Next: Verify Integration. Ignore the source code samples. ![]() Leave this page as-is for a moment, you'll be coming back to it. ![]() Check your Inbox to ensure success. If the test email arrived, go back to the most recent (final) SendGrid page and click Verify Integration. ![]() You should now see a success page and you're ready to hop over to TruckerCert. ![]() Log into TruckerCert, then click Profile. About halfway down the Profile page you'll see a Manage SMTP link. Click on that. You should now be on the Link Email page. Select SendGrid as your email provider. ![]() Enter the email address you used to link to SendGrid, along with the API Key received. Click Save. ![]() You will notice under the box a red warning that says This SMTP account has not had a successful test.. This is expected, because you haven't yet tested your new SendGrid account within TruckerCert. Click the Test button. ![]() If the test is successful you will see a success message under the box. Go check your email and verify that the email did in fact arrive. If it did, you can now send COIs through TruckerCert and be confident that the emails will be sent. ![]() |