What is the first thing I should do after signing up?

The single most useful thing you can do in your first minute on Valid Email Checker is verify one real email. Not a fake test address — a real subscriber, a real contact from your CRM, or even your own personal address. The single-email verifier on the dashboard is built for exactly this, and it costs nothing extra to try because Unknown results auto-refund.

Why one real verification beats reading documentation

Reading about an 11-step verification engine tells you what is supposed to happen. Watching a result come back tells you what actually happens. You will see the status (Safe / Risky / Invalid / Catch-All / Disposable / Role / Spam Trap / Disabled / Inbox Full / Unknown), the confidence indicator, and the credit charge. That single result calibrates your expectations for everything that follows — bulk uploads, the API, the integrations.

The 60-second onboarding path

1. Open the dashboard at /overview.
2. Paste any real email into the verifier widget at the top of the page.
3. Click Verify. Wait the 2 seconds for the result.
4. Open Credits History and see the welcome_bonus row plus the new verification charge.
5. Click Bulk Upload in the sidebar to see the upload page (you do not need to actually upload anything).
6. Click Developer in the sidebar to see where API keys live (they unlock after your first purchase).
7. Click Integrations to see the 17 connect options.

Pick a meaningful email for the first test

Some good first-verification candidates:

• Your own personal address (returns Safe — sanity check that the engine works)
• A known-bad address you have seen bounce in the past (should return Invalid or Disabled — confirms the engine catches what your ESP catches)
• A info@ or support@ address at any company (returns Role — shows how role accounts surface)
• An address at a catch-all domain you know about (returns Catch-All — shows what those look like in practice)