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Welcome to the FulfillKit User Guide!

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Amazon SES (Simple Email Service)

We will go through how to get SMTP credentials from Amazon SES (Simple Email Service).

To send email messages across the internet, you need a server with email mailing capabilities to do that. Luckily, Amazon SES provides an easy way to set up this type of server.

In order to connect to these email servers, we use a special protocol called SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol).

Step 1: Log into AWS

Log into your AWS account: AWS Management Console

Step 2: Go to SES

Go to Amazon Simple Email Service, often known as SES

Step 3: Verify an email address

You will be verifying an email address of your choosing. You will be using this email address to send out emails afterwards.

  1. Select “Email Addresses” on the sidebar
  2. Click on “”Verify a New Email Address”
  3. Input the email address that you want to use to send out emails. You should be an owner to this email address and have the access to its inbox

Step 4: Confirmation request in your inbox

You should be receiving an email to the inbox of the email address you have just picked. Click on the URL to confirm.

Step 5: Get SMTP credentials

  1. Select “SMTP Settings” on the sidebar
  2. Write down the values of Server Name and Port
  3. Click on “Create My SMTP Credentials”
    1. The “IAM User Name” should be automatically generated already
    2. Click on “Create”
    3. Click on “Show User SMTP Security Credentials”
    4. Write down the values of SMTP Username and SMTP Password

Inputting SMTP credentials into FulfillKit

Adding the SMTP credentials into your FulfillKit account:

  1. Go to https://app.fulfillkit.com
  2. Select the “SMTP Accounts” in the sidebar
  3. Click on “New SMTP Account”
  4. Field details
    1. Email display name: your choice; this will typically appear in the FROM field in emails
    2. Email address: the email address you have picked earlier
    3. SMTP Username: you have written this down previously
    4. SMTP Password: you have written this down previously
    5. SMTP Port: 587
    6. SMTP Server: you have written this down previously
    7. SMTP Authentication: plain
    8. Description: your choice
  5. Click on “Add SMTP account”

Finally, verify your credentials to confirm that your SMTP server is working Click on the button besides the “Unverified” status You should be receiving an email to the inbox of the email address. Click on the URL to confirm.