Adding an Email Alias in Gsuite

A question that comes up often from clients is “How do I get secondary email addresses for my business without paying for an extra license?”

First of all, what is an alias?

An alias is a nickname or an alternative name. In the context of email, it’s using another email address name to send messages to your primary inbox.

For example, if I have a personal email address sara@centricsquared.com that I use, and would also like to put these email addresses on my website: info@centricsquared.com or support@centricsquared.com, I can simply add these as aliases to my Gsuite account.

You can add up to 5 email aliases in your Gsuite account. For free!

Here’s how:

Step 1: Go to Admin.google.com to open the admin panel.

Step 2: Login to your Gsuite account.

Step 3: Go to users and click your name or photo.

Step 4: Go to the User information tab and hover over to the user details.

Step 5: Go to the Email aliases section. Click the edit button and add an alias. Click save.

NOTE: This tells Gsuite that if someone sends an email to this name, it should be routed to your primary inbox.

Step 6: Visit your Gmail primary account. Go to your settings.

Step 7: Hover your mouse over to Account and Imports tab above the page.

Step 8: Go to the Send mail as section and click Add another email address to enter the alias you just added in Gsuite. Then click next step.

NOTES:

• Make sure that you tick the little box below the email address to “treat as an alias”.
• Once you’re done adding the email addresses, you have 2 options to “Reply from the same address the message was sent to” or “Álways reply from default address (currently your email address in your Gsuite account)”

I find this tool very helpful for small businesses and I hope you find it useful too.