Knowing who opened your emails with a gmail read receipt is valuable information. whether you work in sales and want to see if your prospects are attractive, or you’re looking for a job and want to know if your application has been seen, or for one of many other reasons.
In this article, we will see how you can get read receipts in gmail with or without having a google workspace (formerly g suite) account.
you can now start using our gmail extension
- get your email tracking extension.
- upgrade your plan to start using “campaigns” (send individual trackable emails up to 200 recipients) and also you can get ” gmail receipts” for your important emails.
- more about gmail mailtrack pdf tracking certificates.
what is a gmail read receipt?
A gmail read receipt is a type of notification provided to someone who has sent an email. it lets the sender know if their email has been opened and can also tell you when it was opened and how many times.
Read receipts are very common in text messages and other online chat tools. they usually tell the sender when the message was successfully delivered and then when it was opened.
however,
gmail’s read receipts don’t offer the natural, smooth usability of conversational apps like whatsapp and facebook. For an alternative that improves the read receipt technology in gmail, you should turn to mailtrack. we’ll talk more about that later.
how to get gmail stale read receipt with google workspace
As mentioned above, the first problem with gmail’s read receipt is how it interrupts the natural flow of conversations. but there is also another limitation: not only its usability is not optimal. Also, it’s only available to Google Workspace customers. without access to google workspace, gmail read receipts are not available. Additionally, these read receipts will be automatically received only from email addresses within the google workspace organization. this usually means a business or an educational institute. To receive automatic read receipts from anyone you email, you’ll need an email tracker like mailtrack.
That said, if you are using a google workspace admin account, here is the step by step guide to setting up read receipts in gmail.
- log in to admin.google.com.
- click the main menu ☰ at the top left of the page.
- in that menu, navigate by apps > gsuite > gmail.
- on the next page, go to “user settings”.
- here, you will be presented with the options for read receipts. this includes:
- enable/disable read receipts,
- choose who receives them,
- your email address whitelist, and
- whether you want read receipts to be sent automatically or on prompt.
now just save and the changes will take effect, usually within the next hour or so. after that, the gmail read receipt can be activated within each compose window.
How to get an improved read receipt with Gmail and Google Workspace accounts
Read receipts in gmail can only be accessed with a google workspace (formerly g suite) administrator account. If you’re using a regular gmail account, ending with @gmail.com, and not a professional email address, then your next step should be to install mailtrack. Without an extension added, email tracking through google is not possible.
mailtrack for gmail is completely free to use and lets you know if your emails have been read, when they were opened and how many times they were opened.
plus, no one needs to take any additional action when reading your emails: the read receipt is automatically given to you, without imposing any imposition on your readers.
Why use read receipts?
for many people, it is very useful to know if and when the emails they send have been opened.
For salespeople and marketers, read receipts let you know if your emails are actually being read. this information can help you make informed decisions about your strategy. Maybe your follow-up email isn’t working and instead of deciding to keep feeding a lead with content, maybe it’s better to contact them through a different medium.
read receipts can inform an email strategy in another way: optimizing when to send them. once enough emails have been sent, you can start to see patterns forming about when they are opened most often by using email tracking reports. that knowledge can be applied to improve your conversion rates.
plus, if you have access to real-time desktop notifications, you can keep up with sent emails, knowing as soon as they’ve been opened and avoiding having to update the “sent emails” folder.
an additional feature within email tracking is the ability to track links within an email. this allows you to go one step further when analyzing the emails you have sent, by seeing if your recipients are following the links in your emails. With enough of this data, you can really start to see what kind of content and offers your readers are interested in.
Finally, read receipts can also be useful to find out if your messages are being marked as spam. Having a big drop in responses and website visits can mean a lot of things, like using the wrong subject lines in your emails. but if all of a sudden, none of your messages are opened, this could indicate something worse: that you have been marked as a spam sender.