3000 mails free per month for woocommerce with resend.com

Overview the purpose, the problem it is solving

For SME woocommerce, we need to send email to customer/shop admin, when woocommerce order/invoice/account are changed.

Proposal

• On resend.com, Register resend.com account, verify domain, create API key
• On wordpress website, install and configure Mail SMTP Plugin, manage Woocommerce email settings

Weighting / Pros and cons

• Free 3000 mails per month
• Not spam mail

• Resend free account allows creating only 1 domains, it should be your domain or company's domain

Implementation steps

Register a Resend service account

go to: https://resend.com

Create Resend API key

go to: https://resend.com/api-keys

Register domain

go to: https://resend.com/domains

Download WordPress Mail SMTP Plugin

https://vi.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-mail-smtp/

Install Mail SMTP Plugin

• On the left menu: Plugins -> Add New Plugin -> Upload plugin
• Select plugin downloaded from step 1 -> Install now

1. When install plugin successfully, on the left menu will display item WP Mail SMTP

2. Update to these configs

• License Key: Free version, empty value
• From Email: Must have domain is registerd on resend.com/domains, exp: admin@quochuy.dev
• From Name: (can be your branding or your website)
• Force From Name: default false
• Return Path: default false
• Mailer: Other SMTP
• SMTP Host: smtp.resend.com
• Encryption: TLS
• SMTP Port: 587
• Authentication: On
• SMTP Username: resend
• SMTP Password: (value is from API key created on Resend)

3. Click Save settings

Define email notifications

• On the left menu: WooCommerce -> Settings -> Emails
• Manage Email notifications
• Click Save changes

Testing

• On woocommerce website, add to cart products then checkout order
• Check admin gmail