Outgoing Email

Outgoing Email

Sending Account: Choose whether to use the Beds24 email server or your own email address to send email. If you choose your own email address the guest will receive an email confirmation from your email address. If you choose Beds24 the guest will receive a booking notification from [email protected]

Email Address: This is the email address which will send email notifications. This setting only applies if you are using your own email address to send notifications.

Email Server: This is the email server which will send your email. For example the gmail server is smtp.gmail.comThis setting only applies if you are using your own email address to send notifications.

User Name: This is the user name for your email server. This is often some or all of your email address. This setting only applies if you are using your own email address to send notifications.

Password: This is the password for your email server. This setting only applies if you are using your own email address to send notifications.

Use Encryption: This is the email server encryption setting. For example the gmail server requires SSL.This setting only applies if you are using your own email address to send notifications.

Port Number: This is the email server SMTP port. This is normally 25 but can be different. For example the gmail server uses 465. This setting only applies if you are using your own email address to send notifications.

Trouble Shooting

If you have 2-step verification on your Gmail account, the following video explains how to create an application specific password which can be used with Beds24 (last part of video) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMabEyrtPRg&t=2m13s