Create an account and workspace
Create your Bird account, verify your email address, and open your first workspace. You can then send a test email before configuring your own domain.
1. Sign up and verify your email
Go to the Bird signup page and enter your work email address. Use an address you check regularly. Bird sends the sign-in link and code there, and your teammates recognize it when you start inviting them.
Open the link in the email or enter the six-digit code on the signup page. Either option verifies your address, creates the account, and signs you in.
To create an account with a password, select Use password instead, enter a password, and select Sign up with email. Follow the verification link Bird sends before signing in.
If the email does not arrive, check your spam folder. For password signup, select Resend verification email on the confirmation screen. For passwordless signup, wait for the resend timer, then select Resend code.
Once your address is confirmed, you're signed in and looking at your dashboard for the first time.
2. Meet your workspace
You land in a workspace: where the work happens. Sending, domains, message history, suppressions, webhooks, API keys, and your team all live here, and the dashboard is built around it. API keys, webhooks, and logs are pinned at the bottom of the sidebar. Billing and workspace settings are reachable from the top bar.
An API key belongs to one workspace, so it can send and read data only in that workspace. The dashboard tour shows where workspace resources and settings live.
3. Send a test email: no setup required
Every new workspace can send a test email from Bird's shared onboarding domain without adding DNS records or verifying a domain. The shared domain has onboarding limits and is not intended for production traffic.
- Curious how the shared domain works and what its limits are? See the Email sending FAQ.
- Ready to send one (you or a developer on your team)? The Send your first email quickstart is the fastest path from a fresh account to a delivered message.
Next steps
- Take the dashboard tour to learn where everything lives.
- Invite your team so the right people have access from day one.