Setting up Your Domain

Once you’ve purchased your domain, there are a few setup chores that will make life easier down the road.

Setup Google Workspaces

You’ll need a Google Workspace. There are probably other options, but Google makes life relatively simple so that’s what we recommend.

Sign Up for a Basic Workspace

We always start at this page and choose basic: https://workspace.google.com/pricing.html

There are situations where they will try and railroad you in to a higher priced plan, but we don’t need that. We want the cheapest possible plan.

Caution

This process requires a phone number for verification. It’s possible to reach a limit on how many accounts a single phone number can verify 😭

They will require you to confirm your domain during this process which requires adding a txt DNS entry.

Setup a catch-all Email Address

We use a team@example.com email address as a catch-all email address.

The catch-all email address allows us to use a single (shared) login for the product, which is useful for support and maintenance. We could add per-user emails, but instead we use a shared inbox via Front. With this setup we can send from any email address as the reply-to, and it will land in the support inbox.

Tip

This is excellent in practice because being able to have multi-user in practice is a lifesaver down the road.

Configure Your Domain for Mail

Hopefully your host has a nice one-click Google Workspaces setup button, but if not you’ll want to follow these instructions to setup your DNS for Google Workspaces.

Once that is complete, you’ll be able to send/recieve email to your new email address!