• In this video, I will show you how you can use custom SMTPs with your VBout account .
• Once you've installed the add-on, you can see on the top right under settings a new menu appear called custom SMTP .
• Navigate your way there and you will notice an add custom SMTP option .
• I already configured one so I can show you how it works .
• It is with SparkPost .
• It has the details here .
• I'm not using SMTP credentials but instead I'm using an API key which is a little bit more powerful .
• It offers more options and faster sending .
• I have two sub accounts under me because I am an agency that are using this SMTP pool and it is active .
• Now VBout allows you to configure multiple SMTPs .
• So I'm going to go ahead and click on add custom SMTP .
• I'm going to give it a name and this name is for your own reference so I can say this is send grid .
• And from the drop-down you'll notice I have some pre-configured options .
• SparkPost send grid and soon I'll have Amazon SES and then custom .
• So you don't have to only use those providers .
• It can be literally anything .
• The only difference if you use these providers is we will provide a faster sending through API queuing .
• We will also provide a little more detailed tracking in terms of bounce backs, return bounce codes and other tracking options .
• We will still track open rates and click throughs whichever option that you choose but with those SparkPost send grid and Amazon will have more analytics for you .
• I will choose send grid and I'll have two ways to authenticate .
• One of them is to use SMTP credentials or the other option which is a little bit more as I said powerful is the API key option .
• And if you use send grid you'll know how to generate an API key .
• I've already generated one for speed of this demo .
• I'm going to paste it here and this email is just for testing .
• You can change this to anything that you want .
• And submit .
• Here we go .
• Now I have send grid added .
• I have SparkPost .
• I have two different pools and you can keep on adding as many as you want .
• The default one is SparkPost and I have two accounts under me using it whereas send grid I don't have any sub accounts .
• So you can see here I am actually defaulting my account to one SMTP while maybe I'm provisioning another and perhaps I want to create different sending services for different accounts .
• But if you're an agency this is a function for you .
• On the right side you'll see which are the assigned accounts .
• In this case I'll have all my sub accounts as an agency .
• So let's say I want to have this account using this pool and now I have one under me .
• Very easy .
• If I want to change and make send grid as a default all I got to do is just click on set as default on the account and that should be good to go .
• You see those two options .
• Set it on my own account and set it for my agency sub accounts in general .
• So if you want any of them to be the default you can go ahead and click that .
• In the future if you add other accounts they will automatically be using that pool .
• So this is it .
• I will summarize real quick .
• One you can add multiple SMTP pools and SMTP accounts to VBOT .
• You can choose which one is the default for you or what is the default for you and your sub accounts if and only if you're an agency .
• You have the ability to set which sub account is using which pool .
• If you use any of the predefined services you'll have more in depth tracking whereas if you use custom you might lose some of those bounce back tracking that we offer .
• So this is it guys .
• Very powerful feature .
• Well requested .
• I hope you enjoy it and thank you .