Set up WordPress email, SMTP or Resend

What to do

1. Open WakeMyCart → Settings (the Setup & settings page). Enter the sender name, sender email and business mailing address.
2. Choose Use WordPress email to use whatever delivery method WordPress already has, such as your host or an SMTP plugin. If email delivery has not been configured, ask your host or follow your SMTP plugin’s setup instructions.
3. Choose Connect an SMTP server to enter the server, username and password supplied by your mail provider. Use STARTTLS with port 587 or TLS with port 465 unless your provider specifies another port. You do not need a separate SMTP plugin for this connection. It applies to WakeMyCart recovery emails; other WordPress mail keeps its own setup.
4. For Resend, add and verify the exact sending domain in your own account. Publish the DNS records Resend supplies. Save an API key with domain-read and sending access.
5. For optional Resend delivery feedback, copy the versioned webhook URL into Resend. Subscribe to delivered, bounced, complained, delivery-delayed and failed events and save its signing secret.
6. Send a test, check the actual inbox and spam folder, then enable recovery after the remaining setup checks.

What to expect

Credentials are encrypted on the merchant store and are not sent to WakeMyCart’s account service. Saving sender settings creates a provider revision and pauses recovery. Already prepared retries remain bound to their original provider revision.

WordPress email and SMTP acceptance confirm handoff only. Check the actual inbox and your provider’s logs. Resend feedback enables delivery reporting; a delivered event still does not prove inbox placement. Domain checks run at setup and periodically. Review provider open/click tracking settings yourself.