Integration · Delivery

Reliable alert delivery with Twilio SendGrid

Point TempClock’s email at Twilio SendGrid’s SMTP relay and your late, no-show and low-match alerts go out on infrastructure built for transactional delivery. SMS is planned — and we are clear about what is live today.

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app.tempclock.com/settings/email
Settings · Email provider · SMTP SMTP active
SMTP host
smtp.sendgrid.net
Port
587
Username
apikey
Password
SG.•••••••••••••••••••••
Send from
alerts@yourcompany.co.uk
Test sent · delivered Send test
Twilio SendGrid is a standard SMTP relay — point TempClock at it and send a test.
01What connects

SendGrid as the delivery relay for your alerts

TempClock’s email provider accepts any SMTP host. Pointed at Twilio SendGrid, every alert it raises is handed to a service built for high-volume transactional delivery — with the reporting that comes with it.

Standard SMTP relay

SendGrid exposes an ordinary SMTP endpoint. Set the host, port and an API key as the password — no custom connector, no code.

The alerts that matter

Late starts, no-shows, low face-match confidence and geofence breaches are raised in TempClock and delivered through the relay to the right manager.

Deliverability you can see

SendGrid’s own dashboard shows opens, bounces and spam reports — so when an alert does not land, you can find out why.

A declared sub-processor

Twilio (Twilio / SendGrid) is named in our data-processing terms as a transactional delivery sub-processor, processed in-region — so your compliance review has a paper trail.

The delivery path (email, today)
In TempClock An alert is raised
Twilio SendGrid smtp.sendgrid.net
Your manager Email lands in the inbox

Email delivery is live today. SMS via Twilio is planned — see below.

02The setup

Point your SMTP at SendGrid

These are the settings you enter under Email provider — nothing more.

# TempClock · Settings · Email provider · SMTP
host     = smtp.sendgrid.net
port     = 587          # STARTTLS
username = apikey       # the literal word "apikey"
password = SG.xxxxxxxx… # your SendGrid API key
from     = alerts@yourcompany.co.uk

# Send a test from the same screen → "delivered"

Standard SMTP — the same fields work for any provider

02The benefit

Get the alert to the right person, reliably

An alert nobody receives is no alert at all. Routing delivery through SendGrid gives lateness and no-show warnings the best chance of being seen in time.

Built for transactional volume

A busy multi-site operation can raise a lot of alerts on a Monday morning. A dedicated relay is built to deliver them without throttling your mailbox.

Know it was delivered

Bounce and delivery reporting means a missed alert is visible, not silent — so a no-show does not slip through because an email quietly failed.

Clean for compliance

Twilio is a named sub-processor in our DPA, processed in-region, so adding it does not open a new question in your GDPR review.

03Honest scope

Email today, SMS planned — straight answers

We would rather tell you exactly where this stands than imply a text-message feature that is not built yet.

Included today

Email delivery through Twilio SendGrid via the standard SMTP relay
All current alerts — late, no-show, low match, geofence — sent by email
Twilio named as a declared transactional-delivery sub-processor in our DPA
A connection test before you rely on it
Works alongside Microsoft 365 or the built-in mailer

Planned — not live yet

Outbound SMS alerts to workers and managers
A worker replying to a shift offer by text
Two-way SMS conversations or delivery receipts for texts
Twilio Verify for phone-number checks

To be completely plain: there is no SMS-sending in TempClock today. What works now is email delivery through SendGrid. SMS via Twilio is on the roadmap; if it would change your decision, tell us about your use case and we will share where it sits.

Other integrations

Building something custom? The REST API and HMAC webhooks let you connect any system.

Deliver every alert reliably

Route TempClock’s alerts through SendGrid and see the delivery reporting for yourself. Tell us how your alerts need to reach people and we will help you set it up.

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