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Send your first email
in five minutes.

Three steps. No SDK to install (we don't have one yet — REST is enough). The same flow works in any language that can make an HTTPS request.

Step 1

Mint an API key.

From your dashboard at /dashboard/api-tokens. Click + New token, give it a name (e.g. “local dev”), copy the value once. We store only the hash; if you lose the plaintext you'll have to mint a new one. Give it the email:send scope. An ed_test_… key records and renders everything and delivers nothing; ed_live_… sends for real. Start on test.

export ED_TOKEN="ed_test_qm4x7ptbz2hs6kdrfw3nyc5jvea7lqtm"
Step 2

Create a journey and give it a trigger key.

Your app fires a trigger, not a body of HTML — the email itself lives in a journey you write once. Create one at /dashboard/transactional, or describe the sequence and let us draft it. The trigger_key you choose (e.g. welcome) is what your code calls. A live key needs the journey activated; an ed_test_ key works against a draft.

Step 3

POST to /api/transactional/send.

One endpoint. The key already knows its workspace — no X-Workspace-Id header required. Returns 202 Accepted with the enrollment; pass the same idempotency_key on a retry and it's a no-op.

POST /api/transactional/send
# Fire the trigger — one authenticated POST
curl -X POST https://api.emaildigit.com/api/transactional/send \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ED_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "trigger_key": "welcome",
    "to": "you@yourcompany.com",
    "variables": { "first_name": "Ada" },
    "idempotency_key": "signup_8f21c"
  }'

# → 202 Accepted
{
  "trigger_key": "welcome",
  "status": "enrolled",
  "mode": "live",
  "enrolled_steps": 1,
  "message_ids": ["9f2c1a4e-..."]
}
Next

What to read next.

  • → Webhooks — receive events when sends land, replies arrive, domains verify.
  • → Full REST reference — every endpoint with multi-language samples.
  • → Domain setup — three DNS records to start sending from your own domain.
Docs · Quickstart

Five minutes done.
Now build something.

Subscribe to webhooks, connect a mailbox for reply intelligence, add a domain. Each takes about as long as the quickstart.

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