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Send from your Gmail and quote without leaving the inbox where you already talk to clients.

Two ways to connect it

Send from your Gmail Cord add-on for Gmail
What it does Quotes, invoices and payment reminders go out from your address. A panel inside Gmail with your clients and quotes.
Where you connect it Settings › Integrations › Gmail Inside Gmail, with Connect with Cord
Google permission Send only (gmail.send); it does not read your email. Only the email you have open.
Available Yes, as a new feature Pending publication on Google Workspace Marketplace

Requirements

Where What you need
Cord For sending, the Settings permission. For the add-on, the Settings permission in the workspace you authorize. Any plan.
Google A Gmail or Google Workspace account. If your Google Workspace organization blocks unverified apps, an administrator will need to allow the Cord app while Google finishes verifying it.
Quote with AI AI quotes available on your plan: 3 a month on Free, 20 on Starter, 50 on Pro, 500 on Scale and no numeric quota on Developer.

Send from your Gmail

This feature is new and may not be enabled on your account yet. If you do not see it, write to us.

  1. Go to Settings › Integrations › Gmail. You need the Settings permission.
  2. Click Connect Gmail and authorize with your Google account. If Google shows checkboxes, keep send email checked: without it the connection is not completed.
  3. When you come back, the card shows which address emails go out from. Send a quote as usual: it appears in your Sent folder.

While Google finishes verifying the Cord app, you may see the notice “Google hasn’t verified this app” when you authorize. If your Google Workspace organization blocks unverified apps, an administrator will need to allow it.

These emails Cord sends to your clients go out from your Gmail:

Email When
Quote sent When you send or resend a quote.
Invoice When you issue or send an invoice, with its PDF attached.
Payment reminder Automatic reminders for invoices about to fall due or overdue.
Workflow email to the client The workflow action that writes to the client.

Internal notifications (to you and your team) still go out from Cord.

If Gmail rejects a send —you changed your password, removed access or hit Gmail’s daily limit— the email goes out from Cord so your client still gets it, and the card asks you to reconnect. A collection email is never lost to a broken connection.

The add-on inside Gmail

Open an email and click the Cord icon in the right panel. The first time, click Connect with Cord and authorize on the Cord screen: no key to copy. The add-on speaks English or Spanish according to your Gmail language.

The Cord add-on in Gmail next to Raúl Mendoza's email: it recognizes COT-0148 in the thread (viewed, $196,469.20 MXN, opened by the client 2 hours ago) with buttons to reply with it, resend it or open it; below, Distribuidora El Zarco as a client in Cord with their quotes and the "Quote with AI" and "Blank quote" buttons.

On an open email

  • Who is writing. If the sender is already your client, you see their company and latest quotes.
  • The thread’s quote, live. If the subject or the start of the email carries a quote number (for example, your client’s reply to “Quote COT-0006”), the panel shows it at the top with its status, amount and the last thing that happened to it. From there:
    • Reply with it opens a reply in the same thread, from your Gmail, with the quote card.
    • Resend via Cord sends the quote email again.
    • Open takes you to the quote in Cord.
  • Quote with AI. Cord reads the order in the email, matches it to your products and shows the proposed lines with quantity and price. You review them and Create quote creates it as a draft. If the sender is not your client yet, Cord adds them with their name and email.
  • Blank quote. Creates the quote with the subject as its first line, for you to finish in Cord.

While composing

In the compose toolbar, the Cord icon (or the three-dot menu, when Gmail hides it for space) opens Insert quote: it lists the recipient’s sent quotes and inserts one as a card with number, amount, validity and a View quote button.

Quote with AI: good to know

  • It uses one AI quote from your plan, same as in the Cord editor.
  • It ignores quoted earlier emails: it quotes what the latest message asks for.
  • A line not in your catalog arrives as a free-form item and says so.
  • Prices come from your catalog; if the client states a unit price, it is taken as the negotiated price.
  • It doesn’t use your connected systems: the email comes from someone else and could carry hidden instructions, so Cord AI reads it without access to them.

What Cord reads from your Google account

  • Sending: only the permission to send and your address. It cannot read your inbox.
  • The add-on: only the email you have open, and from it the sender, the subject and a quote number. The email text reaches Cord only when you click Quote with AI. It never reads your full inbox. While composing, it only reads the draft’s recipients.

Cord does not sell this data or use it for advertising, and its use of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

What flows and in which direction

Direction What flows When
From Cord to Gmail (sending) Emails to your clients (quote, invoice with its PDF, payment reminder and a workflow’s email to the client) go out through your account and stay in your Sent folder. Every time Cord writes to a client.
From Gmail to Cord (add-on) From the open email: the sender, the subject and a quote number. The email’s text, only when you click Quote with AI. When you open the Cord panel on an email.
From Cord to Gmail (add-on) The thread’s quote with its status, your quotes for that client and the card you insert while composing. When you open the panel or insert.
What it creates in Cord (add-on) A new client if the sender did not exist, and the quote as a draft. When you click Create quote or Blank quote.

Cord never reads your whole inbox or stores your emails.

Limits

Limit Value
Gmail accounts for sending One per organization
Emails that go out through Gmail Cord’s emails to your clients, within your Google account’s daily sending limit. If Gmail rejects a send, it goes out from Cord.
Internal alerts Still go out from Cord, not from your Gmail
Quote with AI Uses one AI quote from your plan per read
API quota The add-on does not use your plan’s monthly API quota

Disconnect

  • Sending: Stop sending from Gmail on the card. Emails go back to being sent from Cord.
  • The add-on: Disconnect on the add-on’s home card, which revokes access in Cord. You can also revoke it under Settings › Developer mode (authorized connections).
  • Either way, you can remove access from your Google account’s security settings.

Common issues

Message or symptom What to do
“The permission to send email is missing” You unchecked the send box when authorizing. Reconnect and keep it checked.
“Google hasn’t verified this app” While Google’s verification finishes, click Advanced › Go to Cord.
The add-on says authorization is required Open the Cord icon and accept every permission Google asks for, without unchecking any.
“Your Cord plan used its AI quotes for this month” Create a blank quote or upgrade your plan.
“Quote in this thread” does not appear The email has no quote number in the subject or at the start of the text.