Setting Up Different Email Domain Configurations

• This is the optimal solution
• This requires that you own your email domain (the part after the @sign), it is used by your Google or Microsoft email account, and you have access to edit the DNS settings where it is hosted (e.g. Godaddy).
• No matter the structure of your brokerage—whether it is part of a franchise, independent, company-owned, virtual, or hybrid—if you have a personalized domain for your brokerage, you can follow the steps provided here.
• If you have been using a free email (e.g. gmail.com) or a franchise email (e.g. kw.com) the easiest way to to do this is create a Google Workspace account here with your new domain (e.g kwcolorado.com vs. kw.com).

Pros:

• The best situation for email deliverability 
• You can SSO (single sign on to your Google/Microsoft account)

Cons:

• More complex to set up than other options.

• Applicable for:
  • You have a Google or Microsoft free email account
  • You are using a Google/Microsoft email account for a franchise (e.g. kw.com) and you don't have a separate domain
• While sending a bulk or campaign email. In the From dropdown, select your email "firstname@kw.com" as the sender for your bulk or campaign email.

Pros:

• You can still use your email even without your domain verified
• You can use a franchise or free email account

Cons:

• Emailing limits are lowered
• The deliverability is potentially lower than a branded domain
• The receipt will see you sent on behalf of brokerkit instead of your domain

• You use an email address not tied to a Google or Microsoft account. This could be because:
  • You don't have a Google/Microsoft account
  • You want to use a different email in Brokerkit for recruiting campaigns.
• In the login page towards the bottom, under the Google and Microsoft buttons, enter the email into the field, click next
• Set a password or choose the magic link to sign in
• After you have been successfully logged in via password or magic link into your Brokerkit. When sending a bulk or campaign email. In the From the dropdown, select, e.g., marketing@kwdistance.com as the sender for your bulk or campaign email.
• Take note you will have to get the domain kwdistance.com verified first, follow the steps here
• You can then add an alias on your main kw.com for marketing@kwcolorado.com to get replies in your main Google/Microsoft email

Pros:

• Can use several emails to prospect new leads or reach out to your own team with specific emails

Cons:

• you will not be able to send emails or appointments via the contact profile since those require Google or Microsoft SSO

• This is similar to the variation above, but here you have a separate Brokerkit user who has a totally different email domain which you set up just to send bulk/campaign emails to preserve your email sending domains
• In this scenario, you:
  • use your main Google/Microsoft email address to login and do 1 on 1 communications (e.g. bob@kw.com)
  • add another user with a different domain (e.g. recruiting@kwcolorado.com) and use this for bulk/campaign emails.
• You will login via username/password or magic link vs. SSO since the second user is not a Google Microsoft account
• You will need an alias or forwarding rule in Google/Microsoft to get your email replies.

Pros

• You can use your main Google/Microsoft email for SSO and 1 on 1 communications
• Reduced risk of having email sender reputation issues on your main domain

Cons:

• Need to buy an additional seat for bulk/campaign mails sending
• Can't SSO with secondary user
• Can't send emails/appointments via contact profile as requires SSO.