Sweego

Documentation from christian-ek/sweego, recorded October 23, 2026. APIs and setup may differ in the Bijection adaptation.

Sweego Convex Component

A Convex component for sending transactional email and SMS through Sweego, with durable delivery and webhook-based delivery tracking.

Features:

• Email + SMS through Sweego's unified /send API, plus personalized bulk email (/send/bulk/email).
• Durable execution — sends run in a workpool and are retried automatically through transient failures (429s, 5xx, network blips). Permanent failures (4xx) are recorded without futile retries.
• Delivery tracking — verifies Sweego's HMAC-SHA256 webhook signatures and maintains per-recipient delivery state (delivered / bounced / opened / clicked / complained / unsubscribed; SMS undelivered / stopped / clicked).
• Templates, attachments, custom headers, List-Unsubscribe, expiry, and campaign metadata — the full send surface.
• Event callbacks — register a mutation that runs whenever a delivery event arrives.
• Status, cancellation, and retention cleanup out of the box.

No svix dependency and no Sweego SDK — the component calls the REST API with fetch and verifies signatures with the Web Crypto API.

Installation

Copy codenpm install @christian-ek/sweego

Create a Sweego account, verify a sending domain (and set up an SMS channel if you want SMS), and create an API key. Set it in your Convex deployment:

Copy codenpx convex env set SWEEGO_API_KEY swg_xxxxxxxx

Add the component to your app in convex/convex.config.ts:

Copy codeimport { defineApp } from "convex/server";
import sweego from "@christian-ek/sweego/convex.config";

const app = defineApp();
app.use(sweego);

export default app;

Get started

Copy code// convex/sweego.ts
import { components } from "./_generated/api";
import { Sweego } from "@christian-ek/sweego";
import { internalMutation } from "./_generated/server";

export const sweego = new Sweego(components.sweego, {});

export const sendWelcome = internalMutation({
  handler: async (ctx) => {
    await sweego.sendEmail(ctx, {
      from: "Acme <hello@yourdomain.com>",
      to: "user@example.com",
      subject: "Welcome!",
      text: "Welcome to Acme!", // Sweego requires text (or a template)
      html: "<h1>Welcome to Acme</h1>", // html is supplementary
    });
  },
});

sendEmail (and sendSms / sendBulkEmail) can be called from a mutation or an action. It enqueues the message and returns a MessageId immediately; the component delivers it durably in the background.

from/to/cc/bcc/replyTo accept either "Name <email>" strings or { email, name } objects.

Sending SMS

SMS goes through the same component. Sweego requires a campaignType ("transac" or "market"), and a region for each recipient:

Copy codeawait sweego.sendSms(ctx, {
  to: "+33600000000",
  region: "FR", // ISO-3166 alpha-2; applied to bare-string recipients
  campaignType: "transac",
  senderId: "Acme", // 3–11 chars; required if you have multiple sender IDs
  text: "Your code is 123456",
});

You can also pass structured recipients: to: [{ num: "+1...", region: "US" }].

Estimate cost/segments before sending (from an action):

Copy codeconst estimate = await sweego.estimateSms(ctx, {
  campaign_type: "transac",
  message_txt: "Your code is 123456",
  recipients: [{ num: "+33600000000", region: "FR" }],
});

Templates

Reference a Sweego-hosted template by id and pass variables for {{ placeholder }} interpolation:

Copy codeawait sweego.sendEmail(ctx, {
  from: "Acme <hello@yourdomain.com>",
  to: "user@example.com",
  subject: "Your receipt",
  templateId: "your-template-uuid",
  variables: { name: "Ada", amount: 42 },
});

You cannot combine templateId with html. On a single /send, variables are only applied for a single recipient — use sendBulkEmail for per-recipient personalization.

Bulk personalized email

Copy codeawait sweego.sendBulkEmail(ctx, {
  from: "Acme <hello@yourdomain.com>",
  subject: "Newsletter",
  templateId: "your-template-uuid",
  recipients: [
    { email: "alice@example.com", variables: { name: "Alice" } },
    { email: "bob@example.com", variables: { name: "Bob" } },
  ],
});

Bulk sends require ≥2 recipients and do not support cc/bcc/replyTo.

Attachments, headers, and more

Copy codeawait sweego.sendEmail(ctx, {
  from: "Acme <hello@yourdomain.com>",
  to: "user@example.com",
  subject: "Your invoice",
  text: "Your invoice is attached.",
  html: "<p>See attached.</p>",
  attachments: [
    { filename: "invoice.pdf", content: base64Pdf /* base64-encoded bytes */ },
  ],
  headers: { "Ref-1": "643524" }, // omit the X- prefix; max 5 headers
  listUnsub: { method: "one-click", value: "<mailto:unsub@acme.com>,<https://acme.com/u>" },
  expires: "2026-07-26T19:30:00+02:00", // or a delta like "1 day"
  campaignType: "transac",
  campaignTags: ["welcome"],
});

Attachment size: attachment bytes are stored inline with the message, so the whole message must fit within Convex's ~1 MiB document limit. Keep attachments small; host large files elsewhere and link to them.

Tracking status

sendEmail/sendSms return a branded MessageId. Use it to:

Copy codeconst status = await sweego.status(ctx, messageId);
// {
//   status: "queued" | "sent" | "failed" | "cancelled",
//   channel, transactionId, errorMessage, creditLeft,
//   deliveries: [
//     { swgUid, recipientKey, status, delivered, bounced, opened, clicked, ... }
//   ],
// }

const full = await sweego.get(ctx, messageId); // full message + deliveries
const cancelled = await sweego.cancel(ctx, messageId); // true if not yet sent

A message produces one delivery per recipient (Sweego returns one swg_uid per recipient), each tracked independently.

Listing & searching (admin views)

For an admin "all emails sent" view, the component can query its own message log (newest first), so you don't have to mirror sends into your own table:

Copy code// Paginated — use with Convex's `usePaginatedQuery`. Optional filters: send
// status, primary campaign tag, and an inclusive creation-time range (ms).
const result = await sweego.list(ctx, {
  paginationOpts, // { numItems, cursor }
  status: "sent", // optional
  tag: "invitation", // optional — matches the first campaignTag
  start,
  end, // optional — creation-time bounds
});
// result.page: [{ messageId, channel, status, subject, recipientCount,
//                 campaignTags, transactionId, errorMessage, createdAt }]

// Full-text search over subject + recipients (relevance-ranked, capped at 50,
// not paginated). Same status / tag / date filters as `list`.
const hits = await sweego.search(ctx, { search: "welcome", status: "sent" });

// Earliest message time (for a date-range picker default), or null.
const { earliest } = await sweego.bounds(ctx);

Tag your sends (campaignTags) to group them in the log — the tag filter matches the first tag (e.g. by template or campaign).

Webhooks (delivery events)

Sending alone won't tell you whether a message was delivered, bounced, opened, or clicked — for that, set up a webhook.

1. Mount an HTTP route in convex/http.ts:

   Copy codeimport { httpRouter } from "convex/server";
   import { httpAction } from "./_generated/server";
   import { sweego } from "./sweego";
   
   const http = httpRouter();
   http.route({
     path: "/webhooks/sweego",
     method: "POST",
     handler: httpAction(async (ctx, req) => sweego.handleSweegoWebhook(ctx, req)),
   });
   export default http;
   

   Your endpoint is then https://<your-deployment>.convex.site/webhooks/sweego.

2. In the Sweego dashboard, create a webhook pointing at that URL and select the email/SMS events you care about.

3. Copy the webhook's signing secret and set it in your deployment:

   Copy codenpx convex env set SWEEGO_WEBHOOK_SECRET <secret>
   

The component verifies Sweego's webhook-id / webhook-timestamp / webhook-signature HMAC-SHA256 signature against the raw request body before processing anything. Set webhookToleranceSeconds in the options to also reject stale (replayed) requests.

Reacting to events

Register an onEvent mutation that runs whenever a delivery event arrives:

Copy codeimport { components } from "./_generated/api";
import { internal } from "./_generated/api";
import { Sweego, vOnEventArgs } from "@christian-ek/sweego";
import { internalMutation } from "./_generated/server";

export const sweego = new Sweego(components.sweego, {
  onEvent: internal.sweego.handleEvent,
});

export const handleEvent = internalMutation({
  args: vOnEventArgs, // { messageId, swgUid, event }
  handler: async (ctx, { messageId, swgUid, event }) => {
    // event.eventType e.g. "delivered", "hard_bounce", "email_opened",
    //   "sms_undelivered", ...; event.raw holds the full Sweego payload.
    console.log(messageId, swgUid, event.eventType);
  },
});

With vOnEventArgs, event is loosely typed. For a fully-typed event (SweegoEvent), define the handler with sweego.defineEventHandler(async (ctx, { messageId, swgUid, event }) => { ... }) instead — it registers an internal mutation with the right argument types.

No webhooks yet? sweego.refreshStatus(ctx, messageId) (from an action) polls Sweego's logs and updates delivery state on demand.

Options

Copy codenew Sweego(components.sweego, {
  apiKey,                   // default: process.env.SWEEGO_API_KEY
  webhookSecret,            // default: process.env.SWEEGO_WEBHOOK_SECRET
  provider,                 // default: "sweego"
  testMode,                 // default: false — see below
  initialBackoffMs,         // default: 30000
  retryAttempts,            // default: 5
  webhookToleranceSeconds,  // default: 0 (disabled)
  onEvent,                  // your event-handler mutation reference
});

testMode — when true, email sends are submitted with Sweego's dry-run (validated by Sweego but never delivered) and SMS sends use BAT test mode. It is off by default: because dry-run produces no real delivery and no webhooks, you must opt in. You can also set dryRun: true (email) or bat: true (SMS) on an individual send.

Data retention

The component retains messages, deliveries, and raw events. Clean them up on a schedule with the built-in mutations:

Copy code// convex/crons.ts
import { cronJobs } from "convex/server";
import { components, internal } from "./_generated/api";
import { internalMutation } from "./_generated/server";
import { v } from "convex/values";

const crons = cronJobs();
crons.interval(
  "Clean up old Sweego messages",
  { hours: 1 },
  internal.crons.cleanupSweego,
);

const ONE_WEEK_MS = 7 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000;
export const cleanupSweego = internalMutation({
  args: {},
  returns: v.null(),
  handler: async (ctx) => {
    await ctx.scheduler.runAfter(0, components.sweego.lib.cleanupOldMessages, {
      olderThan: ONE_WEEK_MS,
    });
    await ctx.scheduler.runAfter(
      0,
      components.sweego.lib.cleanupAbandonedMessages,
      { olderThan: 4 * ONE_WEEK_MS },
    );
  },
});

export default crons;

cleanupOldMessages deletes finalized messages (and their deliveries/events) older than the cutoff (default 7 days); cleanupAbandonedMessages clears never-finalized messages (default 30 days).

Notes & gotchas

• Email body: Sweego requires text (the plain-text part) or a templateId. html is supplementary — sending html alone is rejected with Either 'message-txt' or 'template-id' is required. The component enforces this locally (it throws before sending), so you get a clear error instead of a 422. Always include text alongside html.
• Auth: Sweego authenticates with an Api-Key: header (not Authorization: Bearer) — handled for you.
• Field names: Sweego's API uses hyphenated keys (message-html, template-id, campaign-type, …). The component maps your camelCase options to the exact wire format.
• SMS: there's no bulk SMS endpoint — multi-recipient SMS goes through one /send call. campaignType is required, and each recipient's region must match the number's country (e.g. +46… → SE) or Sweego 422s. SMS variables are shared across all recipients.
• Senders must be authorized by Sweego (account-level): the email from must be on a domain verified for your API key, and SMS sender IDs must be registered — some regions (e.g. Sweden) require a verified alphanumeric sender ID and reject the default numeric sender, and US/Canada require a Toll-Free Number passed as senderId. These are dashboard settings; the component surfaces Sweego's rejection but can't pre-validate them.
• Open/click tracking is enabled per-domain in the Sweego dashboard, not per send. Tracking events can be delayed up to ~10 minutes.
• Rate limiting: Sweego does not publish API limits, so the component bounds throughput via the send workpool's parallelism and retries 429s with backoff rather than guessing a fixed rate.
• Delivery is at-least-once. Sweego's /send exposes no idempotency key, so the component never retries once a request has been accepted (only transient failures before acceptance are retried). In the rare event the process dies between Sweego accepting a request and the component recording it, a retry could re-send. This window is kept as small as possible.

License

Apache-2.0