diff --git a/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/README.rst b/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/README.rst
index d96b35adc..eb7ae0094 100644
--- a/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/README.rst
+++ b/{{cookiecutter.repo_name}}/README.rst
@@ -13,16 +13,15 @@ Settings
 
 For configuration purposes, the following table maps the '{{cookiecutter.project_name}}' environment variables to their Django setting:
 
-======================================= =========================== ============================================== ===========================================
+======================================= =========================== ============================================== ======================================================================
 Environment Variable                    Django Setting              Development Default                            Production Default
-======================================= =========================== ============================================== ===========================================
+======================================= =========================== ============================================== ======================================================================
 DJANGO_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID                AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID           n/a                                            raises error
 DJANGO_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY            AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY       n/a                                            raises error
 DJANGO_AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME          AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME     n/a                                            raises error
 DJANGO_CACHES                           CACHES (default)            locmem                                         memcached
 DJANGO_DATABASES                        DATABASES (default)         See code                                       See code
 DJANGO_DEBUG                            DEBUG                       True                                           False
-DJANGO_EMAIL_BACKEND                    EMAIL_BACKEND               django.core.mail.backends.console.EmailBackend django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend
 DJANGO_SECRET_KEY                       SECRET_KEY                  CHANGEME!!!                                    raises error
 DJANGO_SECURE_BROWSER_XSS_FILTER        SECURE_BROWSER_XSS_FILTER   n/a                                            True
 DJANGO_SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT              SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT         n/a                                            True
@@ -31,7 +30,14 @@ DJANGO_SECURE_FRAME_DENY                SECURE_FRAME_DENY           n/a
 DJANGO_SECURE_HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS   HSTS_INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS     n/a                                            True
 DJANGO_SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY          SESSION_COOKIE_HTTPONLY     n/a                                            True
 DJANGO_SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE            SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE       n/a                                            False
-======================================= =========================== ============================================== ===========================================
+DJANGO_EMAIL_BACKEND                    EMAIL_BACKEND               django.core.mail.backends.console.EmailBackend django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend
+DJANGO_EMAIL_HOST                       EMAIL_HOST                  localhost                                      smtp.sendgrid.com
+EMAIL_PORT                              EMAIL_PORT                  1025                                           587
+SENDGRID_USERNAME                       EMAIL_HOST_USER             n/a                                            raises error
+SENDGRID_PASSWORD                       EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD         n/a                                            raises error
+DJANGO_DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL               DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL          n/a                                            "{{cookiecutter.project_name}} <noreply@{{cookiecutter.domain_name}}>"
+EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX                    EMAIL_SUBJECT_PREFIX        n/a                                            "[{{cookiecutter.project_name}}] "
+======================================= =========================== ============================================== ======================================================================
 
 * TODO: Add vendor-added settings in another table
 
@@ -109,6 +115,9 @@ Run these commands to deploy the project to Heroku:
     heroku config:set DJANGO_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=YOUR_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY_HERE
     heroku config:set DJANGO_AWS_STORAGE_BUCKET_NAME=YOUR_AWS_S3_BUCKET_NAME_HERE
 
+    heroku config:set SENDGRID_USERNAME=YOUR_SENDGRID_USERNAME
+    heroku config:set SENDGRID_PASSWORD=YOUR_SENDGRID_PASSWORD
+
     git push heroku master
     heroku run python manage.py migrate
     heroku run python manage.py check --deploy