Two features that put merchants in control of their deliverability and brand identity: configure your own email provider and attach a custom domain with automatic SSL — all from the admin panel.
Bring Your Own Email
- Provider support — Connect any SMTP server, SendGrid, Resend, Mailgun, or Amazon SES from Settings → Email
- Test Connection — A verification email is sent to your address before credentials are saved, so misconfigured providers are caught immediately
- Encryption at rest — All credentials are encrypted with AES-256-GCM using a platform-managed key; no plain-text secrets in the database
- Onboarding step — Email configuration is now step 4 of the 6-step new-merchant wizard
- Payment guard — Stripe and PayPal activation is blocked until
email_configured = true, ensuring transactional emails work before your first sale
- Graceful failure — Order confirmation emails sent through your provider are non-blocking; delivery errors are logged but never fail the order
Custom Domains
- DNS wizard — The domain setup page shows exact DNS records: an A record pointing to Gcore Anycast
81.28.12.12, or a CNAME to shops.cartly.pro
- Auto-verify — The DNS verification button checks propagation in real time; on success, the domain is immediately registered as a Gcore CDN secondary hostname
- Edge SSL — Let's Encrypt certificates are provisioned automatically at the Gcore edge within seconds of domain verification — no certbot, no manual renewal
- Subdomain auto-registration — Every new shop gets a
yourstore.cartly.pro subdomain registered at signup via an exponential-backoff retry loop (5 attempts, ~30 s window)
- Origin hidden — All storefront traffic flows through Gcore Anycast; the origin IP is never exposed to DNS or end users
Infrastructure
- The entire Cartly platform now runs behind Gcore CDN (resource 965866). Wildcard DNS
*.cartly.pro points to Gcore Anycast 81.28.12.12, giving every merchant shop automatic edge caching and DDoS protection with zero configuration
- Platform transactional email migrated to Zoho Mail (smtp.zoho.com:465)