Setting Up Your Gmail Account To Work With Your ClickFunnels Domain

Do you want to connect a domain purchased / registered through ClickFunnels with your Gmail account? This article will show you the process of setting up your ClickFunnels domain with Google Workspace, formerly known as G Suite.

This will be helpful if you want to have a Gmail email address at that domain. For example, instead of having your email address as johnsmith@gmail.com, you could change it to johnsmith@yoursite.com.

Prior to getting started, you will need to have the following:

• A Google Workspace account
  

• A domain purchased/registered through ClickFunnels

Setting Up Your Gmail Account To Work With Your ClickFunnels Domain:

Google Workspace is a collection of cloud computing, productivity, and collaboration tools, software, and products. Google Workspace consists of Gmail, Contacts, Calendar, Meet, and Chat for communication. In this article, we will focus on Gmail.

Creating your Google Workspace account

For the first part of this process, you will need to set up a Google Workspace account. If you haven’t done that already, please visit https://workspace.google.com/ to do so. For instructions on how to set your Google Workspace account, visit this link here or contact Google Support here. It’s important that you choose the I have a domain option and add your ClickFunnels domain when creating your account.

After creating your Google Workspace account, you’ll be taken to the Admin Console, where you will need to verify the ownership of your ClickFunnels domain. The recommended method by Google is to add a TXT record in your Edit Zone Records. Find more information about verifying your domain for Google Workspace here.

Adding the verification code in ClickFunnels to verify your domain

Once you have copied the verification code from Google Workspace, you will create a TXT record in ClickFunnels. Follow the steps below to add the TXT record to your Zone Records in ClickFunnels.

1. Log in to your ClickFunnels account.
2. Hover over the main menu and click on Account Settings.
3. Click on Domains in the left menu.
4. Access your domain settings by clicking your domain.
5. You can also access the domain settings by clicking on the 3 dots next to your domain name and then on Edit. (optional)
6. Locate Edit Zone Records and click Expand.
   
7. Select TXT from the Type drop-down menu.
   
8. Under Name, put the @ symbol or leave the field blank.
9. Under Value, paste the verification code that you copied from your Google Workspace account.
   
10. Click Save.
    
    

Verifying your domain in Google Workspace

After adding the TXT record with the verification code in ClickFunnels, you will go back to Google Workspace and complete the domain verification process. Again, you can find full instructions on how to do this here.

Linking Gmail to your ClickFunnels domain

With your domain verified, you can continue the process of setting up Gmail with your ClickFunnels domain. This process will cover creating user accounts for each user in your organization and adding MX records to your domain host, among other things. You can find full instructions in Google’s official documentation here. In the steps below, we will go over how to add these records in ClickFunnels’ Zone Records.

1. Log in to your ClickFunnels account.
2. Hover over the main menu and click on Account Settings.
3. Click on Domains in the left menu.
   
4. Access your domain settings by clicking your domain.
5. You can also access the domain settings by clicking on the 3 dots next to your domain name and then on Edit. (optional)
6. Locate Edit Zone Records and click Expand.
7. Delete any existing MX records. (optional)
   A. Click Edit next to the record’s Value field.
   
   B. Click Delete.
   
8. Find and Select MX from the Type drop-down menu.
   
   
   
9. Under Name, put the @ symbol or leave the field blank.
10. Under Value, paste the value provided by Google.
11. Under Priority, put in the priority that Google gives you.
    
12. Click Save.
    

You will need to add 5 MX records with different values. The values provided by Google are as follows:

• ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM

• ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM

• ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM

• ALT3.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM

• ALT4.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM
  

Verifying your MX records in Google Workspace and activating Gmail

Go back to your Admin Console for the last part of the process. You can check your MX records by searching MX records in the search bar.

Now, for guidance on how to activate your Gmail business email address, you can check this tutorial here. After activating your Gmail business email address, you can test to ensure it works by sending or receiving emails.

Important Note: It can take 48-72 for the MX records to propagate and for you to be able to use your email address.

If you have any questions about this, please contact our support team by clicking the support icon in the bottom right-hand corner of this page.