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@@ -117,6 +117,8 @@ Suspenders also comes with:
 
 ## Heroku
 
+Read the documentation on [deploying to Heroku][heroku deploy]
+
 You can optionally create Heroku staging and production apps:
 
     suspenders app --heroku true
@@ -131,6 +133,7 @@ This:
 * Schedules automated backups for 10AM UTC for both `staging` and `production`
 
 [Heroku Pipeline]: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/pipelines
+[heroku deploy]: https://github.com/thoughtbot/suspenders/blob/master/docs/heroku_deploy.md
 
 You can optionally specify alternate Heroku flags:
 
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+# Deploying to Heroku
+
+## Setup
+
+Deploying to Heroku requires two additional steps:
+
+1. Manually add buildpacks `node.js` and `ruby` (in that order) to your Heroku
+   app. This is necessary because build order is important and Heroku's
+   auto-detection will add them in the wrong order.
+
+2. Set the following environment variables:
+
+- `ASSET_HOST`: `siteURL.herokuapp.com`
+- `APPLICATION_HOST`: `siteURL.herokuapp.com`
+- `SMTP_ADDRESS`: `smtp.example.com`
+- `SMTP_DOMAIN`: `example.com`
+- `SMTP_USERNAME`: `username`
+- `SMTP_PASSWORD`: `password`
+
+## Execution
+
+- Use the `./bin/deploy` convention for deploying to Heroku