# Attachments for transactional emails

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/attachments-for-transactional-emails/43140>\
**Category:** HubSpot Ideas\
**Tags:** api\
**Created:** [August 31, 2021, 8:28am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/attachments-for-transactional-emails/43140 "2021-08-31T08:28:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Teun](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/teun/32/28739_2.png) [@Teun](https://community.hubspot.com/u/Teun)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2021, 8:28am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/attachments-for-transactional-emails/43140/1 "2021-08-31T08:28:04Z")

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We are currently migrating a lot of transactional emails from a different platform to HubSpot. One of those e-mails is a order confirmation. Currently, it is not possible to send an attachment with a transactional email unless you use the SMTP API. But by using the SMTP API, we can not use HubSpot templates and have to use coded templates instead.

Please make it possible to send attachments with the Single Send API (Transactional Email Addon)

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**Author:** ![MBlaschke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MBlaschke](https://community.hubspot.com/u/MBlaschke)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2022, 1:50pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/attachments-for-transactional-emails/43140/2 "2022-06-12T13:50:03Z")

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Hubspot advertises this costly feature with “send purchase receipt”…not mentioning here that you can’t send the real documents is at least shady. Now we have to program a costly workaround for that. That is indeed disappointing!

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**Author:** ![IgorP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19b73/32.png) [@IgorP](https://community.hubspot.com/u/IgorP)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2023, 9:05am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/attachments-for-transactional-emails/43140/3 "2023-01-27T09:05:59Z")

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@MBlaschke I have to agree with you.

Seems like this idea is on the table for a long time now:

[https://community.hubspot.com/t5/HubSpot-Ideas/Add-file-attachments-to-marketing-mails/idi-p/33683](https://community.hubspot.com/t5/HubSpot-Ideas/Add-file-attachments-to-marketing-mails/idi-p/33683)

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**Author:** ![michellelewis](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/michellelewis/32/43753_2.png) [@michellelewis](https://community.hubspot.com/u/michellelewis)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2024, 2:02am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/attachments-for-transactional-emails/43140/4 "2024-02-16T02:02:11Z")

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When I purchased transactional emails I assumed this would be possible. It seems like an obvious inclusion.

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**Author:** ![MWegener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e19b73/32.png) [@MWegener](https://community.hubspot.com/u/MWegener)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 7:17pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/attachments-for-transactional-emails/43140/5 "2025-10-28T19:17:38Z")

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Still no update on this?