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Why won't heroku let users use their own sendgrid accounts?

I installed sendgrid addon to heroku with following command: 

heroku addons:create sendgrid:starter

and when i log into my dashboard heroku creates me a starter account. How do i use my own sendgrid account that I already have and tested on my app?

Joseph Borne
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Heroku won't prevent you from using your own sendgrid account. You can set your own config vars to setup the credentials of any account you wish.

For example:

heroku config:set SENDGRID_ID=abcd SENDGRID_TOKEN=efgh

Those two config vars will then be available to your app as environment variables.
Provisioning the add-on will only attach a new sendgrid account to your heroku account, and automatically set the config vars. But nothing prevents you from doing that yourself.

Damien MATHIEU
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  • Thanks a lot! This worked perfectly. However, should I keep the sendgrid addon on my heroku account, or....delete it? Because I notice every time i try to log into sendgrid it sends me to a default starter account heroku sets up for users. – Joseph Borne Feb 26 '17 at 22:33
  • Unless you're using it, you can delete it. – Damien MATHIEU Feb 27 '17 at 14:04