Transactional emails are automated emails triggered by a user (or group of users) taking action on your web or mobile application. Some examples include password reset emails, confirmation emails for purchases or reservations, welcome and onboarding emails, and shipping notifications.

When you’re building a web application, there’s an immediate decision to make about how to handle Users and Authentication. There are lots of services (Auth0, Clerk) and libraries (Passport.js) to choose from, and the right choice will depend on the requirements of the application that you’re building.

Send limits are a new addition to the Courier app that allow you to manage notification rate limits. This means you can set a maximum limit on the number of notifications you can send over a certain time period. The advantages of using send limits are twofold: you can save money by imposing spending caps on notifications, and you can improve the customer experience of your app by avoiding bombarding users with too many notifications at once.

We are excited to announce the official launch of One-Time Send, a powerful feature designed to simplify and expedite the process of sending one-time notifications through Courier. It's one piece of a web app redesign that we started recently (dark mode shown coming soon). Based on invaluable feedback from our customers during the closed beta, we have refined and improved One-Time Send to make it even more efficient and user friendly.

Today, we are embarking on a significant redesign of Courier's interface consisting of some new things, some old things in new places, and an overall reorganization of the information architecture. This redesign aims to address the challenges that come with the growth of our platform, where increased size and number of features leads to increased complexity, resulting in a product that may not be as intuitive for new users.