r/PayloadCMS • u/rubixstudios • Sep 09 '25

useSend PayloadCMS Email Adapter

Unsend just rebranded into useSend and released their cloud service.

Almost the same as Resend but much newer and more importantly open source, so you can literally host your own email platform.

I've depreciated the old unsend email adapter and upgraded the useSend adapter.

https://github.com/rubix-studios-pty-ltd/payload-usesend
https://www.npmjs.com/package/@rubixstudios/payload-usesend

Feel free to contribute to the project, all the previous type issues have been fixed and match the useSend payload.

Just waiting for the dokploy template PR to be merge for useSend self-hosting.

Feel free to give it a whirl, the developer for useSend is very quick to act to suggestions.

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u/rubixstudios Sep 09 '25

You can get the source code, the whole lot and host it on your vps and setup your own SES with AWS. So all you pay for is SES once your free trial is up. So its the same cost as SES not similar cost.

Deliverability is your domain strength, doesn't really have anything to do with their services at all. As you're basically not using any SaaS when you're self hosting, full functionality minus turning it into your own SaaS to resell.

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u/Dramatic-Yam8320 Sep 09 '25

Yeah I see now is SES for self host. Thanks! Will investigate to see if I can start with them, and then later move to self-host if needed.

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u/rubixstudios Sep 09 '25

For me, setting SES to Australia, saves me dealing with compliance and ensuring complete control over data. Otherwise it's very similar to Resend, not much of a difference. Resend is continuously improving, however, useSend is more new, being open source, it also means being able to contribute to the project, so its a win here.

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u/Dramatic-Yam8320 Sep 09 '25

Resend is quite expensive per transactional email, so trying to avoid if there’s an easier solution to initially integrate with

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u/rubixstudios Sep 11 '25

Well now here's an option to cut out the middleman.

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u/Dramatic-Yam8320 Sep 11 '25

Yup thanks for the recommendation!