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“Thank you Bidvest team for your great service throughout 2024.”
- MTN
“Working with the Bidvest team is a real pleasure. We've thoroughly enjoyed partnering with a local provider for our business' WhatsApp profile - invoicing is simple and our templates are loaded and approved speedily. Prepaid24 would highly recommend Bidvest. Such a seamless process from setup to production!”
- Prepaid24
“We're incredibly grateful to the Bidvest Data Team who go above and beyond to support us with vital customer communication. Their commitment and innovation has kept us at the forefront of electronic customer engagement.”
- Sanlam Retail Mass
“Dear Bidvest team, Just wanted to take the time to say a very special thank you to TEAM BIDVEST. Everyone at OUP thanks all the people involved over the last few weeks and trust me, everyone in our organization now knows how much we can depend on Bidvest and we're all truly grateful for your efforts. Your responsiveness to our changing needs and requests is truly appreciated”
- Oxford
Learn the essential steps to set up email sending domains for your enterprise. Enhance deliverability, ensure compliance, and secure your communications with Bidvest Data's comprehensive guide.
Setting up email sending domains is a crucial step for businesses seeking to enhance their communication efforts and ensure that their emails are delivered successfully. This comprehensive guide outlines the essential steps for enterprise-level implementations, with an emphasis on compliance, security, and operational efficiency tailored to the needs of South African businesses.
An email sending domain is the domain name associated with the email address used to send emails. Setting up a dedicated email sending domain can significantly increase deliverability rates, establish brand credibility, and enhance security through authentication protocols. For medium-sized to enterprise-level businesses, proper setup and configuration are critical for maximizing outreach and compliance with regulations such as POPIA.
Select a domain that reflects your brand identity and is easy for customers to recognize. If you don’t already have a domain, consider registering a new one through a reputable domain registrar.
Once registered, you need to verify ownership of your domain through your email service provider (ESP) by adding a unique TXT record to your domain’s DNS settings. This process varies slightly depending on the ESP you’re using.
Setting up email authentication protocols is vital for securing your sending domain:
Configure a reverse DNS record that matches your sending IP address to your sending domain. This setup further enhances your email deliverability and is especially critical for transactional emails.
Use tools such as mail-tester.com to assess your email setup for errors. Regularly monitor your domain’s performance, deliverability rates, and bounce-back messages to ensure smooth operation and compliance adherence.
Setting up email sending domains is an essential component of a successful email strategy for South African enterprises. By following these deliberate steps, organizations can improve their email deliverability, ensure compliance with regulations, and reinforce their brand's credibility. For expert support, consider partnering with a communication specialist like Bidvest Data to optimize your email solutions further.
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We implement your designs, images and artwork for optimal delivery. We measure and manage spam ratings, and we monitor and manage blacklisting and reputation of sending domains.
PDF documents, HTML content, videos and animations can be hosted on our Zero Rated Data domains. Reverse billing of data on these domains ensure access for end users to content at no cost. Bidvest Data offers this service on all South African and Namibian mobile networks.
Bidvest Data offers custom-built, screen adaptive, HTML environments, enabling features like animation, rotating GIFs, and interactive buttons in the email body and built into the unique microsite.
Our service includes automated large file batch sending through sFTP data transfer. The data can selectively drive template messaging. Near real-time email sending is facilitated through our API, using templates or dynamic text.
Where another channel in our omnichannel platform is unsuccessful in delivering a message, we can automatically fail over to email. Priority and fail over channels are configurable.
Bidvest Data provides near-real-time and periodic aggregate batched reporting on consumer engagement, including link tracking, email delivery status, and customized reports on microsite access.
“Thank you Bidvest team for your great service throughout 2024.”
- MTN
“Working with the Bidvest team is a real pleasure. We've thoroughly enjoyed partnering with a local provider for our business' WhatsApp profile - invoicing is simple and our templates are loaded and approved speedily. Prepaid24 would highly recommend Bidvest. Such a seamless process from setup to production!”
- Prepaid24
“We're incredibly grateful to the Bidvest Data Team who go above and beyond to support us with vital customer communication. Their commitment and innovation has kept us at the forefront of electronic customer engagement.”
- Sanlam Retail Mass
“Dear Bidvest team, Just wanted to take the time to say a very special thank you to TEAM BIDVEST. Everyone at OUP thanks all the people involved over the last few weeks and trust me, everyone in our organization now knows how much we can depend on Bidvest and we're all truly grateful for your efforts. Your responsiveness to our changing needs and requests is truly appreciated”
- Oxford
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