Integrating With Amazon SES To Send Transactional Email Notifications

A pop-up will appear, in the first dropdown select “Amazon SES”

This will show the following fields to enter for the Amazon Ses integration:

NOTE: for the integration fields below, please refer to Amazon SES.

• Account Name: For your display purposes
• From Name: The name the emails will be sent from
• Region: Select the region you are working with in Amazon SES.
• From Email: The email address the emails will be sent from.
  • In the AWS seach field, seach for “Ses” and open this Simple Email Service section.
    

    

    
    
  • Inside SES, locate the “Email address” section.
    

    

    
    
  • Locate and use a verified email address in the PayKickstart integration pop-up field for “from email“.
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    PayKickstart:
    

    

    
    
  • Go to the notification settings for the email address in SES to “edit the configuration“.
    

    

    
    
  • Create a new SNS topic.
    

    

    
    
  • Add a topic and Display name and select create.
    

    

    
    
  • You will be taken back to the notification configuration. Set all SNS topic configurations to the newly created topic.  Then Save.
    

    

    
    
• Webhook URL:
  • After creating the subscription topic for the email address, go back to Amazon AWS , search and select “SNS(Simple Notification Service)”

• Inside SNS, select Topics
  

  

  
  
  • Locate and select the recently created topic for this integration.
    

    

    
    
  • Inside the topic, select “Create Subscription”
    

    

    
    
  • For “Protocol“, select “HTTPS”
    

    

    
    
  • Go back to PayKickstart to copy the Webhook URL and Paste it into the “Enpoint” for the SNS subscription.
    
    Then select “Create Subscription“.
    

    

    
    
    

    

    
    
• Username & Password:
  • In AWS, seach and select “Iam”
    

    

    
    
  • Inside Iam, select “Users”
    

    

    
    
  • Select “Add User”
    

    

    
    
  • Add a “user name“, Select access type “Progamattic Access“, then select “Next Permission“.
    

    

    
    
  • On the next page, select “Create Group”
    

    

    
    
  • On the next page, search for “SES“, then select the policy name “AmazonSESFullAccess” and select “Create Group”.
    

    

    
    
  • On the next page select “Next:Tags”
    

    

    
    
  • Tags are optional. On this page you can select” Next: Review”
    

    

    
    
  • On the review page, click”Create User”
    

    

After creating the user, you will be taken to a page to obtain the User name and Password.

• Finally, click “Connect” to connect and saves the Amazon SES integration at the platform level.