# Email and Brevo Delivery

TradeSchool Manager sends transactional email for sponsor invites, password resets, receipts, certificate notices, application updates, and announcements. You can send those messages through your existing WordPress mail setup or through the built-in Brevo integration.

## Option A: Use your existing SMTP plugin

No additional setup is required. TradeSchool Manager sends through `wp_mail()`, so any reputable SMTP plugin can route those messages through your provider.

Common choices include WP Mail SMTP, Fluent SMTP, and Post SMTP.

## Option B: Use built-in Brevo

Brevo, formerly Sendinblue, offers a free transactional email plan with 300 emails per day. To enable Brevo:

1. Create a Brevo account at [brevo.com](https://www.brevo.com/).
2. Generate an SMTP/API v3 key in your Brevo dashboard.
3. Open **TradeSchool > Settings**.
4. Paste the key into the Email section.
5. Save settings.

The plugin tracks your daily send count and falls back to `wp_mail()` if the Brevo daily cap is reached. This prevents email from being silently dropped.

## Messages the plugin sends

- Sponsor or authorized contact invite links
- Student and teacher password reset messages
- Payment receipts and reminders from the Invoicing add-on
- Certificate issued notifications from the Certificates add-on
- Application status updates from the Applications add-on
- Announcement digests, when configured

## Privacy

Only the email message payload is sent to Brevo. This includes the recipient, sender, subject, and message body. Student records, grades, and other personal data are not sent unless that information is included in the email body.

Review Brevo's privacy terms at [brevo.com/legal/privacypolicy](https://www.brevo.com/legal/privacypolicy/).
