AdvocateHub Email Setup Guide

As a Program Manager, you may want emails from AdvocateHub to come from your email address or the address of another member of your organization. Before you can do this, you will need to have your company will need to grant permission to Influitive to use its email domain. This permission is granted by adding two types of records to the domain's DNS records - SPF and DKIM. Follow the steps below to ensure your AdvocateHub emails have the best deliverability and open rates:

1

Ask your company's IT Team to add SPF and DKIM records to your email domain

Please follow the instructions in the following article to add the SPF and DKIM records to the email domain: Improving Email Deliverability - SPF and DKIM Setup Guide. You can provide the article to them directly or send them the example email provided.

What is my email domain?
Your email domain is the part of your email address that follows the @ symbol. For example, the email domain for support@influitive.com is influitive.com. Your company may use a different format such as support@mail.company.com in which case the email domain is mail.company.com.

2

Add the email sender as an Administrator in AdvocateHub

To use a particular email address as the email sender, it must be an Administrator. If all emails in AdvocateHub will be coming from a Program Manager who is 

already an Administrator, then there is nothing else to be done in this section.

However, some customers opt to use a group email address/mailing list/alias as the Email Sender in AdvocateHub. In those cases, you will need to add the group email/mailing list as an Administrator. Find out how here: Adding Administrators to AdvocateHub.

3

Choose the Default Sender

While any administrator can choose to have emails that they trigger to be sent from their name/email address (e.g. Invitations, Challenge Notifications), you must choose an Email Sender. This Email Sender's name and email address will be used for all system emails, such as activity notifications, password resets, digests, etc.  For Influitive' email servers to know where emails are sent from, you must complete this step.

While on the General Email Settings page, choose the administrator that will be used as the Email Sender and click Update email sender. Optionally, the name of the email sender can be displayed as the name of your AdvocateHub Program by checking the box beside, "Show sender name as 'Program Name'." You can decide at this point, whether emails should feel personal (i.e. come from the Program Manager directly) or come from the program as an individual entity.

In the example above, we have chosen the emails to come from institute@influitive.com with the Program Name ("The Influitive Institute") as the sender

What if I can't get SPF and DKIM added to my email domain?
Your program's launch does not need to be blocked by the inability to configure your company's email domain. If you are unable to send emails from your company's domain at this time, you must choose to send emails from your AdvocateHub's email.influitive.com address by checking the box beside "Encountering deliverability problems?"

Now that you have completed the required configurations, we recommend sending some test invitations to various email addresses. To ensure everything is setup correctly, send emails to both company email addresses and personal emails addresses (e.g. @gmail.com, @outlook.com)

Part 2: Configuring your company's address (for CASL compliance)