SendGrid integration: send emails from schemes without code

The SendGrid integration in nana800 sends an email through your SendGrid account when a website form, a Telegram message or a schedule starts the scheme. You need an API key with the Mail Send permission and a verified sender address, and every recipient gets a separate email. A block run costs $0.002 for any number of recipients, and your balance is topped up to $3.50 for free every month.

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  • Block run: $0.002
  • Free every month: $3.50
  • No card needed

What you can do

  • Send order confirmations, replies to leads and alerts to customers from any scheme
  • Write plain text or HTML with links, bold text and images
  • Send up to 1000 emails in one run: every recipient gets their own email and does not see the others
  • Add a copy, a blind copy, a sender name and a reply-to address
  • Set categories, your own tags and a send time up to 72 hours ahead
  • Pass a ready SendGrid request JSON as is when you need rare settings

Blocks in the builder

  • Send email via SendGrid

    Action · $0.002 per run

    Sends an email through the SendGrid API: from, to (up to 1000 addresses separated by commas), subject, text or HTML, copy, blind copy and reply-to. Returns success and the send number message_id.

How to set it up

  1. 1

    Create an API key in SendGrid

    In SendGrid open Settings, then API Keys and click Create API Key. The API key is the password nana800 uses to send emails from your account. Choose Restricted Access, turn on the Mail Send permission and copy the key: it starts with SG and is shown only once.

  2. 2

    Verify the sender address

    In Settings, Sender Authentication verify the address or the whole domain you will send from. SendGrid rejects emails from an unverified address and returns an error.

  3. 3

    Add the block to a scheme

    Create a scheme with a trigger that brings the data for the email, for example webhook for website leads. Add the SendGrid Request block, paste the key and fill in from, to, the subject and the text. You can put the customer name and order number from the trigger into the subject and text.

  4. 4

    Turn the scheme on and test it with the button

    Temporarily add the button trigger, put your own address into the to field, turn the scheme on and press the button. success is true when SendGrid accepted the email for sending. Whether it reached the inbox is shown in SendGrid itself, in the Activity section.

  5. 5

    Keep the scheme on

    Put the real trigger back and keep the scheme on. Every new lead now sends an email by itself. While the scheme is on, it costs $0.0042 per hour.

Frequently asked questions

A block run costs $0.002, however many addresses are in the to field. If SendGrid does not accept the email, the run is not charged. SendGrid counts the emails themselves under your SendGrid plan. An enabled scheme costs $0.0042 per hour. Your balance is topped up to $3.50 for free every month, no card needed. A scheme kept on around the clock for a month spends most of that on scheme hours.

Mail Send is enough: when you create the key, choose Restricted Access and turn on only that permission. The key starts with SG and is shown once, so save it right away.

The address in the from field must be verified in SendGrid: Settings, Sender Authentication, as a single address or a whole domain. The error text from SendGrid goes to the block result, in the error_message field.

Up to 1000 addresses in the to field, each gets a separate email and recipients do not see each other. The copy and blind copy are sent once per run, together with the email to the first recipient.

Yes. Add send_at to the additional parameters: the send time in Unix seconds, no more than 72 hours ahead. The same field takes categories for SendGrid statistics and custom_args, for example {"campaign": "spring"}.

No, the email is set up with fields in the browser. For rare settings there is a ready request JSON field: when it is filled, the block sends it to SendGrid as is and ignores the other email fields.

Build your first scheme for free

Sign-up is free and needs no card. Every month the balance is topped up to $3.50 for free, enough for about 3,500 runs of basic blocks.

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