Learn to connect your Gsuite account with ClickFunnels. In doing so, you can send and receive emails from a custom email address using Gsuite and your new ClickFunnels domain.
What you will need
Step 1. Setup Your New Gsuite Account
- Visit https://gsuite.google.com/.
- Once there, click the "Get Started" button.
- Enter your Business Name.
- Enter the Number of Employees.
- Choice your Country from the dropdown.
- Click "Next."
- Enter your First Name.
- Enter your Last Name.
- Enter your Email Address.
- Click "Next."
- On the next page, click "Yes, I Have One I Can Use."
- Enter Your Business's Domain Name.
- Click "Next."
- Enter a Username and Password.
- Confirm the Recaptcha checkbox.
- Click "Agree and Continue."
- Review your details and click "Next."
- Enter your Address information.
- Enter your contact name and Phone Number.
- Enter your Payment Information.
- Click "Next."
Step 2. Begin Your Manual Gsuite Setup
Note: Please use these instructions along with the linked document above for reference. Due to ever-changing interface in Google, this may look slightly different. However, the under-arching process is the same.
- Continuing from Step One, click "Continue to Setup."
- Under Set up on your own, click "Next."
- Scroll down to where it says "Manual Setup" and click.
- Click "Go To Admin Console."
- Once the next page loads, click "Start Setup."
- Click "Verify Domain."
- Click "Get Started" on the next page.
- Go to Choose a different method from the dropdown menu.
- Select "Add a domain host record (TXT or CNAME)."
- Check off the box for "I have successfully logged in."
- Check off the box for "I have opened the control panel for my domain."
- Under this next section, open a new tab and go to ClickFunnels.
- From your Account Settings dropdown menu, select "Domains."
- Click the gear icon next to the domain you chose in Step One.
- Under Edit Zone Records, click "Expand."
- Scroll down to create a new record.
- Click the dropdown menu and select "TXT."
- Under Name, put the @ symbol or leave the field blank.
- Under Value, paste the Value from your Gsuite account.
- Click "Save."
- Back in Gsuite, check "I have created the TXT record."
- Check "I have saved the TXT record."
- Click "Verify."
Note: as it can take an hour or so to verify, we recommend closing out this window and returning after an hour to continue with setup in Step 2.
- Log back into your Gsuite account.
- Click "Setup Gmail."
- On the next step, click "Setup Email."
- Check off the box for "I have successfully logged in."
- Check off the box for "I have opened the control panel for my domain."
- Return to your Zone Editor in ClickFunnels.
- Next to Edit Zone Records, click "Expand."
- Scroll down and select "MX" from the Type dropdown.
- Leave the Name blank.
- Copy the first Value record from Gsuite and paste in ClickFunnels under Value.
- Click "Save."
- Continue to copy and paste the proceeding records from Gsuite in this fashion (see image below for visual).
- Back in Gsuite, check "I have created MX records with these values."
- Check "I have saved the MX records."
- Click "Verify."
Note: your setup is now complete and you can test by sending or receiving emails. Since you are unable to set priorities in ClickFunnels, it may take longer than usual for Gsuite to confirm. The best way to test is to send and receive an email in your newly set up email account. If in doubt, you can check your MX records in Step 3.
Step 3. Verify Your MX Records in Gsuite
- From within your Gsuite Admin Console, search "MX Records" in the top search.
- Select "Your current MX records" from the dropdown autocomplete options.
- You can view your MX records from this page.
What you can do now
If you have any questions about this, please contact our support team by clicking the support icon in the bottom right-hand corner of this page
Comments
6 comments
How to create new MX records for Google to connect my email?
Thanks
I'd love to know how to use my gsuite account to send emails. There's no information anywhere on this.
The steps here are outdated, and no longer reflect the steps shown on gsuite. In addition to that, there are no instructions for configuring the smtp integration in clickfunnels after the gsuite integration he been completed.
As of 3/39/19, these instructions are totally correct!
Thank you so much! Very helpful!
I was stuck trying to confirm the domain purchased in clickfunnels on Gsuite and this helped me:
In Gsuite, as of 1/14/2020, on the confirmation page - it asks whether you want to confirm the recommended way (domain registrar) or alternate ways (html tag, html upload, google analytics).
Choose the recommended way (domain registrar) and scroll all the way to the bottom and choose "other".
This brings up a TXT file to input into the clickfunnels zone records for the domain.
Hope this helps someone.
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