Effortless Email Integration: Leveraging SendGrid with Claris FileMaker

August 15, 2024
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For businesses looking to streamline their email communication, integrating SendGrid with Claris FileMaker offers a powerful and user-friendly solution. By harnessing the capabilities of the SendGrid API, FileMaker users can send professional emails directly from their databases with minimal setup and maximum efficiency.

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One of the key advantages of this integration is the ability to use SendGrid’s dynamic templates. These templates allow users to craft customized, responsive emails that can be easily personalized for each recipient. Whether sending out newsletters, promotional offers, or customer confirmations, the process is seamless. Users simply need to input their dynamic content within FileMaker, and SendGrid handles the rest—ensuring that emails are not only well-designed but also deliverable and trackable.

For ages we have been trying to consequently push out professional mail from our FileMaker Database. But only since Loggix has build the Sendgrid API we send scheduled mail and can measure the results of our efforts.

Setting up this integration is straightforward, requiring just a few configuration steps within FileMaker to connect to the SendGrid API. Once connected, users can manage email campaigns directly from FileMaker, automating tasks that would otherwise be time-consuming.

What is needed?

Just a simple free sign up with Sendgrid  and some script steps in FileMaker is basically enough to start with a couple of mails per day. When ready for a full blown mailer application not much more is needed. Templates can be easily managed from Sendgrid. A template builder makes knowledge of HTML obsolete.

Below an example using html or template

To send a mail message do a POST call to the following endpoint:

https://api.sendgrid.com/v3/mail/send


In the header add:

Authorisation :  bearer ##Your API key##
Content-type: application/json


And add the below JSON in the body:

{
  “personalizations”: [
    {
      “to”: [
        {
          “email”: “somebody@mail.com”
        }
      ],
         “dynamic_template_data”:{
           “name”:”Someone”
          }
    }
  ],
  “from”: {
    “email”: “test@loggix.com”
  },
  “subject”: “This is a test mail from Loggix | Use dynamic Template”,
  “content”: [
    {
      “type”: “text/plain”,
      “value”: “This plain text is overruled by the template when id is given“
    },
        {
      “type”: “text/html”,
      “value”: “<html><body>This html text is overruled by the template when id is given</html></body>”
    }
  ],
  “template_id”: “d-2f0ce2e4e8e842b4982911eef5b604da”
}



Interested? Contact us.

In short, the combination of SendGrid and Claris FileMaker empowers businesses to manage their email communications more effectively, providing a professional touch with every message sent—all while keeping the process simple and intuitive. We are happy to help you out integrating Sendgrid in your solution, do not hesitate to contact us!

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