Getting started
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Sign up, verify your first email, and find your way around.
- Can I sign up using a Gmail or Outlook personal address?Yes. Personal Gmail, Outlook.com, iCloud, ProtonMail, and any other real mailbox provider works for Valid Email Checker signup. Only disposable services (Mailinator, 10MinuteMail, GuerrillaMail) are blocked.
- Dashboard overview: every section explainedA tour of the Valid Email Checker dashboard — the logo, single verifier, credit balance, auto-refill toggle, sidebar navigation, account settings, and analytics. Know where everything is.
- Do I need a credit card to sign up?No. You can sign up, verify emails in the dashboard, and use bulk uploads without entering any payment information. A card is only needed if you want more than 200 credits or want API access.
- How do I find my dashboard after logging in?Valid Email Checker drops you on the dashboard at app.validemailchecker.com/overview right after login. The single-email verifier, your credit balance, and the sidebar nav are all on that page. If 2FA is on, the dashboard loads after the 2FA challenge.
- How do I know my account is fully set up?Confirmed email, 200 credits visible in the sidebar widget, a Welcome bonus row in Credits History, and a successful single-email verification — those four checkmarks mean your Valid Email Checker account is fully operational.
- How do I sign up for a Valid Email Checker account?Sign up at app.validemailchecker.com/auth/signup with email + password, or use Continue with Google. Confirm your email, log in, and 200 free credits are waiting in your dashboard.
- How fast can I start verifying emails after signing up?About a minute. Sign up, click the confirmation link, log in, and the single-email verifier sits at the top of the dashboard with your 200 free credits already loaded.
- How many free credits do I get when I sign up?Every new account gets 200 free credits after email confirmation. One credit verifies one email, so that is 200 verifications you can run without paying anything. Credits never expire.
- Quick start guide: verify your first email in 5 minutesStep-by-step walkthrough from signup to your first verified email. Create the account, confirm your email, run a single check or a bulk list, and download clean results.
- Welcome to Valid Email CheckerValid Email Checker verifies your email lists before you send. 11-step verification engine, 99%+ accuracy, 17 native integrations, and 200 free credits to start — no credit card.
- What does the "Welcome bonus" entry in my Credits History mean?The Welcome bonus row in Credits History records your 200 free credits being deposited into the Pay-As-You-Go bucket after email confirmation. It is permanent — even after you spend the credits, the row stays as an audit trail.
- What does the email confirmation link do when I click it?Clicking the confirmation link verifies your email, deposits your 200 welcome credits into the Pay-As-You-Go bucket, logs a Welcome bonus entry in your Credits History, and redirects you to the login page so you can sign in cleanly.
- What happens immediately after I confirm my email?Three things happen at once: your account is marked verified, 200 welcome credits land in your Pay-As-You-Go bucket, and a Welcome bonus entry is logged in your Credits History. Then you are bounced to the login screen to sign in fresh.
- What is the first thing I should do after signing up?Verify one email with the single-email widget on your dashboard. It costs nothing extra (Unknown results auto-refund), takes 2 seconds, and confirms the platform works end-to-end before you commit your real list.
- What is Valid Email Checker?Valid Email Checker verifies whether an email address is real and safe to send to. Real SMTP checks, 11-step verification engine, 99%+ accuracy, and automatic credit refunds on results we cannot definitively verify.
- Why am I being asked to solve a captcha during signup?Valid Email Checker uses Cloudflare Turnstile on the signup and login forms to block automated bots. It runs invisibly in most cases, only showing a challenge if your traffic looks unusual to Cloudflare.
- Why am I redirected to /auth/2fa-verify after login?Valid Email Checker sends you to the 2FA challenge page when you have two-factor authentication enabled on the account. Enter your authenticator code or email code (whichever you set up) and you land on the dashboard.
- Why did I get fewer than 200 welcome credits?The standard welcome bonus is 200 credits, but a signup with a borderline abuse score can be created with zero credits pending review. Confirmed accounts that show a different number are usually seeing a stale balance.
- Why did my signup fail eligibility checks?Beyond the disposable check, Valid Email Checker runs an abuse score on every signup. Tor exits, datacenter IPs, recently abused devices, and Gmail plus-aliasing patterns can flag a signup as ineligible.
- Why was my signup rejected with a "disposable email" error?Valid Email Checker blocks signups from disposable email providers (Mailinator, 10MinuteMail, GuerrillaMail, and ~10,000 others). Use your real work or personal address instead. The list is maintained in a live database, not hardcoded.
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