How To Set Up Free Email Accounts With Accept's Managed WordPress Hosting

You have probably seen businesses advertising their website on their shopfront, vehicle, promos, etc. using their Gmail, Hotmail, or ISP provider’s email address.

Legacy email address

Or, what if you created your email address a long time ago when you thought that having an email address like crazygangsta99@hotmail.com was cool? Would you advertise this on your business card?

This not only looks unprofessional, but what happens if your free email account gets shut down or the business uses an ISP supplied email address and needs to switch service providers?

Using custom domain email addresses not only makes your business look professional, it also allows you to keep your business communications running without disruptions or additional costs if you decide to switch webhosting providers, ISPs, email services, etc.

Getting started with Accept's email hosting service

In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to set up email for your (or your client’s) business on Accept’s email hosting service and take you through practical examples of using email accounts, email aliases, and email forwarding to effectively manage emails in your business.

We’ll cover the following:

Managing Email in Your Business

Using domain email addresses can benefit your business. For example:

It makes your business look professional.
It strengthens your business brand.
It helps to eliminate disruptions in your business communications (e.g. changing ISP or email service providers).

Let’s create a simple setup that will let you manage your emails effectively.

For this example, suppose we manage a small business, where:

Sally runs sales.
Bob looks after support.
Jim manages the accounts.

Our website domain is “MyDomain.com.”

A simple diagram of our business, then, looks like this:

Now, let’s suppose we want to:

Set up email addresses using our domain for each of the above areas of our business (e.g. sales@mydomain.com, support@mydomain.com, and accounts@mydomain.com), and
Make sure that emails sent to those addresses arrive in our team members’ inboxes.

So, this is how we want to set up our domain emails:

Now that we have worked out a very simple plan for our business emails, let’s set it up using Accept’s email hosting.

Overview of Accept's Email Hosting

Accessing Elementor

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The user interface is intuitive and beginner-friendly, so you can be up and running in minutes. You can insert one of the hundreds of professionally designed templates to save time and then easily customize it using simple controls.

To begin, click Pagesfrom the admin panel on the left hand menu in your dashboard. Your website has been pre-populated with our default ecommerce theme. Select the Home page from the dashboard and click the Edit with Elementor button to launch the Elementor editor.

You should now see a live preview of your design on the right along with the Elementor sidebar on the left.

Now, you’re ready to start editing. First, you’ll want to understand the basic structure of Elementor. An Elementor design is made up of three main parts:

Sections – these divide the page into horizontal rows.
Columns – these go inside sections and let you divide the section into vertical columns.
Widgets – these are what you use to actually add content. You can place your widgets inside a column (and then the column is inside the section). To add a new widget to your template, just drag it over from the sidebar. If you want to delete an existing widget, just right-click on it and select Delete.

To change the settings and design of a widget, column, or section, all you need to do is select it to open its settings in the sidebar.

For a more detailed look at what we’ve covered here, you can check out the complete guide on how to create a WordPress site with Elementor or watch the video below.

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