Add Patra’s DNS records at Wix
How to add the records from your Patra panel at Wix. Keep the panel open in another tab: it lists your exact records, with copy buttons.
Is your DNS at Wix?
Wix manages your DNS if your domain’s nameservers end in wixdns.net. Your Patra panel shows the DNS host it found: open Domains in your admin console, then your domain. Only domains that use Wix’s nameservers can be edited in Wix. If your domain is connected to Wix by pointing, add the records where you bought the domain.
Open your DNS settings
- Open Domains.
- Select the three-dot menu next to your domain, then Manage DNS Records.
Add the records
Copy each record exactly as your Patra panel shows it. Open Domains in your admin console (the Patra panel), then your domain. The panel lists every record your domain needs, with its type, name and value in your DNS host’s own words, and a copy button for each. The records, and how many there are, depend on your domain, so always work from the panel.
For each record in your panel, find the section for its type (for example TXT or CNAME (Aliases)), choose + Add Record, fill in the fields, then choose Save. Fill in the fields like this:
- Host Name
- The short name your panel shows. For the domain itself, leave it empty
- Value
- The value your panel shows (for MX records, Wix calls this field Points to)
- Priority
- For MX records, the priority your panel shows
- TTL
- Leave the default
- Add the records under Required first, then the ones under Recommended for better delivery.
- Already have an SPF record (a TXT record on your domain that starts with
v=spf1)? Edit it instead of adding a second one. See Tips. - Leave the MX record for your domain itself until you go live (below).
- Press Verify in your panel. It also keeps checking by itself while the page is open, and we email you when your domain is verified.
- If there’s no SRV section, skip the Outlook record. Outlook can always be set up by hand.
- Records under Recommended for better delivery help your mail arrive but aren’t needed for it to work. If Wix won’t take one of them, skip it.
Go live at Wix
When your team is ready to receive mail at Patra, switch your MX record. Use the MX record your panel lists under At go-live.
- In MX (Mail Exchange), choose Edit MX Records, then Other.
- Add a record with an empty Host Name, then Points to and Priority exactly as your panel shows.
- Delete the other MX records for your domain, then choose Save.
Your panel shows Watching for the switch, then confirms when mail for your domain is coming to Patra. Read Go live for what happens next.
Tips
Only one SPF record. A domain can have only one SPF record (a TXT record that starts with v=spf1). If you already have one, don’t add a second. Instead, edit the one you have: copy the part of your panel’s SPF value that starts with include: and paste it just before the ~all or -all at the end. For example, v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com ~all becomes v=spf1 include:_spf.google.com include:… ~all, with the include from your panel in place of include:…. Once you’ve moved, remove your old provider’s include if it no longer sends mail for you.
The name field. Most DNS hosts add your domain to the name for you, so type only the short part: _dmarc, not _dmarc.yourcompany.com. Your panel already shows names in this short form. For the domain itself, type @, or leave the field empty if your host asks you to; your panel shows which. If the checker shows your domain twice in a name, remove it from the name.
Related: Add your domain’s DNS records · Go live · Other DNS hosts
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