Your application can send emails such as signup confirmations and status notifications without a separate email service. You can manage templates and review sent messages in Configuration.
Emailing is included in the Aha! Builder Scale plan.
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Enable emails
Aha! Builder includes email sending. You do not need to configure SMTP or add an API key. To turn on emails for your application, use Elle, the AI assistant.
Navigate to your application in Aha! Builder.
Open the Elle chat panel.
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Describe the email you want your application to send, including the recipient, trigger, and message.
For example, you can ask it to: “Send a confirmation email to anyone who completes the new vendor request form. Thank them for the submission and let them know that our team will respond within two business days.”
Review the changes in Preview, then accept them.
After you deploy your application, end users will receive these emails from your Production environment.
Test email flows in Preview before you deploy. Preview and Production have separate email logs. Templates you set up in Preview are deployed to Production and work there after you deploy.
View sent emails
Aha! Builder logs each email your application sends so you can review details such as the recipient, subject, and sent time.
Navigate to your application in Aha! Builder.
Select Operate -> Configuration.
Select Email, then select the Sent tab.
The table lists each sent email. Select a row to view the recipient, subject, and sent time.
In Preview, emails are not sent to recipients. They still appear in the Sent tab so you can confirm what your application would have sent. Switch between Preview and Production to view each environment's email log.
Manage email templates
Email templates control the subject line, body, and formatting of the messages your application sends.
Navigate to your application in Aha! Builder.
Select Operate -> Configuration.
Select Email, then select the Templates tab.
Each template appears in a list. Select a template to preview the email.
Templates you create in Preview are deployed to Production when you deploy your application. They might not appear in the Production template list yet, but they still work in Production.
To add, update, or remove a template, use Elle. For example, you can ask it to:
“Add a template for a weekly digest of new requests, grouped by team.”
“Update the welcome email template to include a link to our user guide.”
“Remove the password-reset template because we no longer use it.”
Elle generates the code change, and you can review it in Preview before you deploy.