So now that you've set up your domain, it's now time to revisit email and complete the setup process.
And the first thing I'm going to show you is how you can access webmail so that you can send and receive
messages using your new email address.
And so to do that we'll click on login to Control Panel.
Once again click on email accounts where of course you're going to see the email that you created.
And then over on the right hand side you see this button check email.
When I click on this, it brings me to this page where I'd like you to click on the open button, where
it brings me directly to my email account, meaning I can now send and receive emails as info at BestBuy
bargains.com.
But there are still a couple of things that we need to do, and in order to finish those off, we'll
need to head back to Shopify Admin and come down to the settings.
And then here on the store details, click on this edit next to your profile because it's here that
we now want to update a couple of things.
First of all, the store name by default it was called my store, but now we can call it Bestmark bargains.
So let's remove that and put in Bestmark bargains.
And then we want to update the store email, which as you can see, is the email that we use to receive
messages about our store.
And up to now, of course, we've been using the email that I use when I first signed up for Shopify,
but now we can change that for our new email info at bestmark.
bargains.com.
And with those two changes made, all we need to do is to click on save.
And then there's one more place where we need to update our email.
And that's down here under notifications.
So click on notifications.
And this time we want to update the sender email.
So you can see that the sender email is the email that your store uses to send emails to your customers.
And we'll be looking at how we actually do that later on in the course.
But right now, of course, we want to change this email for info at best Smart bargains.com.
Then click on save and you can see here underneath the email address confirm you have access to this
email.
In other words, Shopify wants to make sure that you really are the owner of this email.
And in order to do that, it's going to send a verification email and we can check to see if it's done
that by simply heading back to our email account.
And here it is.
Verify your email address.
Now if you don't get this immediately just be a bit patient.
Sometimes it can take a few minutes.
So let's click on this email.
And now to verify the email address I just click on the verify email button ether.
And that's it.
My new email address has now been verified.
So that's email setup.
But there still are a couple of things to do.
The first one being that we need to authenticate the domain.
And the other one is we need to add a dMarc record.
Now I am going to show you how to do this just for completeness, but if you're with Tmdb hosting,
you can definitely ask them to do this for you.
Okay.
So if you feel like it's a bit too much, a bit too overwhelming, ask Htmd.
Otherwise, just follow along with me and we'll start by authenticating the domain.
So I'll click over here on authenticate your domain and it brings up a bunch of instructions.
And basically these instructions involve creating for new CNAME records.
And to make that happen I go back to my cPanel and then scroll down and once again visit the zone editor
and then click here where it says add CNAME record.
So clicking on this button, I need to put in a name and a key name, and I can get that information
back over on the instructions.
So starting with record number one and focusing on the hostname I want to click on copy then head back
to the zone editor and in the name here, paste in that value.
Put a dot and then your domain.
Then for the value you want to come down to the value.
Click copy next to it.
Go back to the zone editor and in here paste in that value.
And with all that done click on add a CNAME record and then we'll repeat the process for the second
one.
So click on add CNAME record.
Head back to the instructions.
Scroll down now to record number two.
Copy the host name back to the zone editor.
Paste in the name followed by a dot and then your domain name.
And then for the value I copy the value, head back and paste it in and click once again on add a key
name.
So I hope now you get the idea.
There are still of course two records left, but I don't think you need to watch me do that, so I'll
see you in a moment once I'm done.
Okay.
I'm back.
I've added in those other two values and if I click on manage you'll be able to see them.
So if I click on See Name up here and scroll down, these are the four records that I've now added,
which means I can now go back to Shopify and do the final step, which as you can see down here, is
to click Authenticate domain on this page to complete setup.
So I click on the authenticate domain button.
And you can now see that it says domain authentication for this email is pending.
This can take up to 24 hours.
Now typically it's much faster than that.
But I will come back to this page once this is complete so that you can see the whole process.
Okay, I'm back.
And you can now see that the domain has been successfully authenticated.
And so now just to complete the process, let me show you how to add a dMarc record.
And just to remind you, if you are overwhelmed or confused in any way, just ask TMD hosting to do
this for you.
But if you do want to do it yourself, let me show you how it's done.
So of course, the first thing we need to do is to click on this link to get some instructions.
And you can see here it says login to the management console of your domain host and then locate the
page where you update DNS records.
And that means we need to go back to our cPanel, scroll down and go back to the zone editor and then
on manage.
Come over then to this Add Record button and click on the little down arrow on the right hand side and
select add txt record.
Now what we need is the name and the record itself, and we can find that back in the instructions.
So heading back to the instructions it says here add a txt record.
Well that's exactly what we're doing.
And then it gives us some values.
So in the record name DNS hostname field we need to add in this.
So I'm going to actually copy this.
Then go back to the zone editor and in this name field, paste it in and then for the record value going
back to the instructions once again you can see here the text record value is this.
So I will take this copy it, head back to the zone editor and paste that in as well.
And then click on Save Record.
And that's that.
You've now added a dMarc record.
And then just to finish off let's go back to Shopify Admin.
And this message that we saw before is going to stay okay.
So don't worry.
Just know that you have added a dMarc record and you've now completed everything that you need to do.
So if you went through all that with me, then super congratulations, because you've now set up your
email and your domain in a very professional manner, and you will never need to do that again.
Okay, that's enough technical stuff.
Let's get back to building this business.
Let's get back to building a fantastic store.