Supabase

Configure your Supabase account to send authentication emails with Loops.

If you are looking to sync Supabase user data to Loops, you can use our Supabase integration.

Set up an SMTP connection to send all of your Supabase emails with Loops.

There are two big benefits to using Loops for sending your Supabase emails:

1. More control over design

   You can use Loops’ design editor to create (and then easily edit) beautiful transactional emails instead of having to code them with HTML.

2. Better visibility of sent emails

   You get full visibility on which emails are being sent, when, and to whom in your Loops account. Supabase doesn’t offer this view.

Set up Loops SMTP in Supabase

You can set up Loops SMTP in Supabase with just a few clicks.

Go to Settings -> Supabase and click Connect Supabase in the SMTP section.

When prompted by Supabase, select your organization and authorize access.

Back in Loops, select your Supabase project and an API key (which is used as the SMTP password), then click Set up SMTP.

This will add Loops SMTP credentials to your Supabase project, so you can start sending emails. You can find these credentials in Supabase at Authentication -> Emails -> SMTP Settings.

For reference, the SMTP credentials are:

Field	Value
Host	smtp.loops.so
Port number	587
Username	loops
Password	An API key from your API settings in Loops

Create Transactional emails in Loops

Next, create new transactional emails for the emails listed in Supabase (Authentication -> Emails). You need to create both Confirm signup and Magic Link emails to be able to properly set up the integration.

• Confirm signup (required)
• Invite user
• Magic Link (required)
• Change Email Address
• Reset Password

Note that if a Supabase user has not previously confirmed their email, they will be sent a Confirm signup email when you request a Magic Link email.

To create new transactional emails, go to the Transactional page in Loops and click New. Alternatively, you can select one of our many ready-made templates from the Templates page.

You can then use the Loops editor to create nicely-designed templates or make them as simple as you like.

You can even create themes to apply consistent design and branding to all of your emails.

For each Loops template you create, you need to add data variables, which allow data from Supabase to be inserted into each email.

For example, you could add a confirmationUrl data variable that you can map to the {{ .ConfirmationURL }} value from Supabase.

You can also build URLs by including values like {{ .SiteUrl }} or add in a confirmation code using {{ .Token }}.

Once you’re done creating the email and adding data variables, click Review in the left panel. Here you can see the API payload for your template. You will need this for the next step.

Make sure to also publish your email! It won’t send unless it’s published.

Transactional email guide

Read our detailed guide for sending transactional emails.

Configure email templates in Supabase

The final step is to make sure your emails in Supabase are configured to send the correct data to Loops.

Loops SMTP integrations work a bit differently than most. Instead of sending a text or HTML email body, you set them up to send API-like data.

In Supabase, go to Authentication -> Emails, then edit each template to contain the payload as shown in the previous step (you can click the clipboard icon in Loops to copy the full payload).

Once pasted into the Message body, you need to add the Supabase message variables into the payload.

Make sure you set up at least the Confirm signup and Magic Link templates in Supabase, otherwise emails will not be sent.
Also, any variables added in the Confirm signup template need to also be available in Magic link email, because Supabase will send a Confirm signup email instead of a Magic Link email if a user hasn’t confirmed their email address.

Here is an example Confirm signup email template. This payload was copied from the template’s Publish page in Loops, then the {{ .Email }} and {{ .ConfirmationURL }} Supabase variables were added.

{
  "transactionalId": "clvmzp39u035tl50pw7wrl0ri",
  "email": "{{ .Email }}",
  "dataVariables": {
    "confirmationUrl": "{{ .ConfirmationURL }}"
  }
}

If you want to add each Supabase user to your Loops audience so you can send marketing email to them, add the addToAudience flag to your template as below. This will create a contact in Loops using the {{ .Email }} value.

{
  "transactionalId": "clvmzp39u035tl50pw7wrl0ri",
  "email": "{{ .Email }}",
  "addToAudience": true,
  "dataVariables": {
    "confirmationUrl": "{{ .ConfirmationURL }}"
  }
}

Here’s how the template looks in the Supabase editor:

With the integration now all set up, your Supabase authentication emails will be sent via Loops, giving you more visibility on your email sends and the great addition of being able to build beautiful and easy-to-update emails in the Loops editor.

To view all sends of your transactional emails, click through to the email from the Transactional page in Loops, where you’ll find the Metrics page containing a table showing all sends and some statistics.

Testing the integration

You can test your Loops integration by creating new users from Authentication -> Users page in Supabase.

Click Add user and select Create new user. Use an email address you have access to.

Then click on the new user in the list and click the Send magic link button. This will send the magic link email you set up in Supabase via Loops SMTP.

Debugging

Supabase offers a detailed view of authentication logs where you can look for issues with your Loops integration.

Go to Logs -> Auth. To narrow down your search you can look for logs like “magiclink” or “invite”.

Important notes

• You need to add a template in Loops and set up the email in Supabase for at least the Confirm signup and Magic Link templates.
• The subject in Supabase templates is always overwritten by the subject added to the corresponding template in Loops.
• The sender name and sender email configured in your Supabase SMTP settings are always overwritten by the sender details added to your templates in Loops.
• Any Supabase email not set up with the correct API-like payload will fail to send.