Send emails from your own domain

Until you add your own domain, your email blasts go from AveryIQ's shared address, like [email protected]. With your own domain they go from an address like [email protected].

• It looks like you. Clients see your name and your domain.
• You can send more. Up to 15,000 emails a month instead of 2,500 (How many emails you can send).
• More of them land in the inbox. Your domain builds its own reputation instead of sharing one with every team on the shared address.
• No daily limit on people with no contact yet. The shared address takes 250 of them a day (Who can get your emails).

Nothing about your website or your current email changes. Replies still come to AveryIQ at your shared address, and Avery files them on the person like any other reply.

Add your domain

Open Settings → Email blasts → Your domain and type your domain. You can paste your website's address or your email address; AveryIQ keeps just the domain. Only a team owner can add it.

Don't have a domain? Tap Get a domain and we'll buy one for you and set it all up, for $20 a year (Get a domain from AveryIQ).

• Gmail, Yahoo, iCloud and Outlook addresses can't be used. Those domains belong to the mailbox company. Use a domain you own, or get one.
• A brokerage's domain (kw.com, compass.com, exprealty.com and others) needs your brokerage's IT team to add the records. Most real estate agents use their own domain instead: tap Get a domain, or Use kw.com anyway (with your domain) if your brokerage has agreed.
• "This domain is already set up for sending" means another team set it up first. If it's yours, contact us and we'll sort it out.

AveryIQ shows who runs your domain's DNS (for example "Your domain's DNS is at GoDaddy") and whether mail to your domain goes to a mailbox today. If it does, it keeps going there.

Add the records

Six records are required and one is optional. Add them where your domain's DNS is managed. It takes about 10 minutes.

Record	Type	What it does
3 records ending in _domainkey	CNAME	Proves the email is from you
bounce	MX	Handles bounces
bounce	TXT	Handles bounces
_averyiq-verify	TXT	Shows this domain is yours
_dmarc (optional)	TXT	Tells inboxes what to do with fakes

The _dmarc record is offered only when your domain doesn't have one. If you already have one, it stays as it is. AveryIQ never changes your domain's own SPF record or your website's records.

Each record on the screen has Copy buttons for its name and value, and a tick that turns green once we find it: ○ Not found yet, ✓ Found, or ⚠ Found, but different with what to fix.

There are three ways to get them added:

• I'll do it. Follow the steps for your DNS host below.
• Send the steps to someone. Shares a link to a page with the records and live ticks, for whoever manages your website or DNS. It shows only your domain's records.
• Have AveryIQ do it. We email you to set up a quick screen share, or you can give us access to your DNS. The screen shows where it stands.

Checking

We check every few minutes at first, then less often, for 3 days. You can close the app. Tap Check now any time. When everything's found, it says "All records found. Confirming with our email provider, usually under an hour." Then you get a notification that your domain is ready.

Leave all these records in place after it's ready, including _averyiq-verify. Removing any of them later pauses emails from your domain.

Once it's ready, each person on your team chooses their address on it once ("Send as [email protected]?"). Until they do, their emails go from the shared address.

If we can't find the records after 3 days, the screen says so, with Check again and Have AveryIQ do it. We stop checking then, so once the records are added, tap Check again. A domain that's never set up is let go after 7 more days.

New domains

A new domain warms up on its own for 14 days: emails from it go out a little more slowly, and the Review sheet says how long one will take. That's the only difference. You can send to the same people from day one.

If your domain needs attention

If records are removed later (often when a website moves to a new host), you get a notification and the screen names what's missing. Emails can't go from your domain until the records are back; nothing switches on its own.

• On the Review sheet, tap Send from [email protected] instead (it names your shared address), or Fix it to open the records.
• An email that was scheduled pauses at its time. Tap Fix it, or Send from [email protected] instead. The shared address takes 250 people with no contact yet a day, so any past that are left out of that email, and the rest has to fit the shared address's monthly limit. If it doesn't fit, it waits until the domain works again.

Once the records are back, paused emails carry on.

Removing your domain

An owner can remove it from Your domain. It can't be removed while an email from it is scheduled, sending or paused. Drafts switch to the shared address and say so. You can add the domain again later.

GoDaddy

1. Sign in to GoDaddy and open My Products, then DNS next to your domain.
2. Tap Add New Record for each record. Choose its Type, paste the Name and Value from AveryIQ, and for the MX record set Priority to 10.
3. GoDaddy adds your domain to the name for you: paste only the part AveryIQ shows (for example bounce), never the whole name.

Cloudflare

1. Open your domain in Cloudflare, then DNS → Records → Add record.
2. Add each record with its Type, Name and Value.
3. Turn the proxy off for the CNAME records: the cloud must be grey (DNS only), not orange. A proxied record shows in AveryIQ as "Found, but different".

Squarespace

1. Open Domains, choose your domain, then DNS → DNS Settings.
2. Under Custom records, add each record with its Type, Host (the Name in AveryIQ) and Data (the Value).

Namecheap

1. Open Domain List → Manage → Advanced DNS.
2. Tap Add New Record for each one. Use CNAME Record and TXT Record; add the MX record under Mail Settings → Custom MX.

Wix

1. Open Domains, choose ⋯ → Manage DNS Records.
2. Add each record in its section (CNAME, TXT, MX) and save.

IONOS

1. Open Domains & SSL, choose your domain, then DNS.
2. Tap Add record for each one. Turn off any setting that would replace your current mail records.

Network Solutions

1. Open My Domain Names → Manage → Advanced Tools → Advanced DNS Records.
2. Add each record with its Type, Host and Value.

Bluehost

1. Open Domains, choose your domain, then DNS.
2. Add each record in its section with the Host Record and Points To values.

Hostinger

1. Open Domains → DNS / Nameservers.
2. Add each record with its Type, Name and value.

Route 53

1. Open your hosted zone and tap Create record for each one.
2. Paste the Name, choose the Type, and paste the Value (MX: 10 and the address).

If your website company manages it

Website companies for real estate agents (Placester, Lofty, BoldTrail, Sierra, Real Geeks, AgentFire, Luxury Presence) often manage your domain's DNS. Choose Send the steps to someone and send them the link, or ask us to do it.