Question 1

What can I do with the Gmail integration?

Accepted Answer

Here's what you can do with a Gmail integration:

• Send email from your own address – build an app that sends confirmations, alerts and follow-ups from your Gmail address when someone books, orders or signs up, on your site or in your app.
• Start the day with your list in your inbox – Base44 can put together your to-do list and email it to you through Gmail every morning.
• Update stakeholders when a deal moves – your app can email the people who need to know when a deal reaches an important stage, so nobody has to send the update by hand.
• Give a Superagent read-only access – connect a Superagent to Gmail with read-only access, so it can go through your inbox without sending anything or changing a label.

Your inbox is the best source of the next idea: any email you answer the same way every time could be a flow. Describe it to Base44 – which emails, and what should happen next – and build it.

Question 2

How do I set up the Gmail integration?

Accepted Answer

An email flow comes together like this:

• Describe the email job – tell Base44 in chat what email should do for you, for example "send a confirmation when someone books" or "alert me when a refund request arrives."
• Sign in with the address you send from – approve access to Gmail with that Google account; Base44 takes care of the sign-in flow and stores the credentials for you.
• Review the mail flow – the automations that send, read or sort mail come with a backend function you can review and edit.
• Use your own address as the test case – send yourself a test email or trigger the flow with your own message, and check what goes out and what gets read before real customers are involved.
• Approve more access later – if a later flow needs extra permissions, you approve them then.

Email keeps going in and out of the Gmail address your customers already know, and the build handles the sending and sorting you'd otherwise do yourself. Look through your sent folder for the reply you type most often – that's the one to describe to Base44.

Question 3

Can Base44 read incoming Gmail and act on it?

Accepted Answer

It can – Base44 builds flows that start the moment new mail arrives, read it and pull out the parts your app needs.

Take order questions. When the email comes in, the flow picks out the customer's details and their question, then opens a support ticket in your app with those fields filled in. Once the ticket exists, the flow can file the email under a label and clear it from unread, so your inbox only shows what still needs a person.

Start with one kind of email you deal with every day, such as order questions or booking requests, and describe that flow to Base44. Once it runs the way you want, add the next.

Question 4

Can Base44 send my website's contact form messages to my Gmail?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Base44 can send each form submission to your inbox as an email through your Gmail account, so it's waiting there ready for a reply.

When you build a website, add the contact form while you're at it, and Base44 can also send the visitor a confirmation from your address, so they know their message reached a real person. Ask for what you'd need to answer in one go – a name, an email and what they're after – and the thread starts with everything in it.

Question 5

Does Base44 send from a shared Gmail inbox or from each person's own?

Accepted Answer

Whichever address the email should come from – Base44 can connect a single team inbox or each person's own Gmail.

A single team inbox works as a shared connection: one Gmail account, connected once, sending confirmations and handling requests for everyone using the app.

When each rep should follow up from their own address, each person connects their own Gmail instead. The app sends on their behalf and sees only their mail, and this per-user setup needs a Builder plan or higher.

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