How to send awesome emails with Power Automate and SendGrid

There are many ways to send emails from Power Automate. This post will demonstrate how to build a flow to Send email from Power Automate with Sendgrid using dynamic templates.

There are many advantages to using SendGrid:

• Ability to send from any alias in your domain.
• Dynamic Templates are easy to maintain and build with SendGrid editor.
• Simple to track email delivery.
• Great solution if you are sending a high volume of emails.
• SendGrid has comprehensive testing tools to ensure emails are deliverable.

The first part of the process is to create a dynamic template in SendGrid. I implemented a flow to send customer balance statements and the resulting email looked like this:

SendGrid will replace the values between the double curly braces with values supplied from Power Automate.

Once you have created your template SendGrid will assign a template ID. Copy the Template ID for the next step in Power Automate:

Next, generate a SendGrid API Key for access from Power Automate and then you can build your flow. Here is my sample flow (click to zoom):

Here is my JSON code:

{
  "from": {
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "name": "Tachytelic Accounts"
  },
  "personalizations": [
    {
      "to": [
        {
          "email": "[email protected]"
        }
      ],
      "bcc": [
        {
          "email": "[email protected]"
        }
      ],
      "subject": "Statement from Tachytelic.net",
      "dynamic_template_data": {
        "Current": "5,890.08",
        "Days0_30": "5,118.00",
        "Days30_60": "0.00",
        "Days60_90": "0.00",
        "Days90plus": "12,384.00",
        "CustomerName": "Sample Customer",
        "Total": "23,392.09"
      }
    }
  ],
  "template_id": "d-420f62e9c0074c899610f056b0141d11"
}

In Production flows like this one are used to:

• Send large batches of customer statements.
• Send PDF Invoices which are generated from a word template
• Notify customers of delivery of goods.

The SendGrid template tools make it easy to create consistent branded emails from Power Automate. You can get a free account on their website to try it out.