# The Send guide

Set up Dbrij Send step by step: what you need, what to press, and how you know each step worked.

Canonical page: https://dbrij.com/products/send/guide

## Set up Send, step by step

By the end your app sends receipts and alerts through the API, and your team can broadcast to an audience safely.

Before you start, have these ready

- A verified domain: one you own, or one you buy on Dbrij.
- For email your app sends: a developer, or somebody comfortable pasting a key into your app. Broadcasts need no code at all.

1. ### Verify a domain

  DKIM, SPF and MX are issued for you. Open **Domains** and press **Add a domain**; a domain bought on Dbrij is listed under **Your Dbrij domains**, ready to use.
  [Open domains](https://dbrij.com/send/domains)
  You will know it worked when the domain shows as verified on the Domains page.
2. ### Create a key

  Bound to one sender address. Open **API**, press **Create key**, and pick the address it sends as, such as `alerts@yourcompany.com`. Copy the key straight away; it is shown only once.
  [Open API keys](https://dbrij.com/send/keys)
3. ### Send your first email

  `POST /v1/emails` from your code, with the key. The Docs page has an example ready to copy.
  [Open Docs](https://dbrij.com/send/docs)
  You will know it worked when the message appears under Emails with its timeline: sent, delivered, opened.
4. ### Build an audience

  Import a CSV or add through the API. Unsubscribes are handled for you.
  [Open audiences](https://dbrij.com/send/audiences)
5. ### Send a broadcast

  Pick a template, an audience and a time. Open **Broadcasts**, press **New broadcast**, write the message and send.
  [Open Broadcasts](https://dbrij.com/send/broadcasts)

## Add the records

Publishing the DNS records for a domain bought somewhere else.

1. ### Add the records

  Send gives you a few records to add where your domain is managed, just like Mail. Never used a DNS screen? The Mail guide walks through one slowly. Verification finishes on its own.
  [The DNS step, slowly](https://dbrij.com/guides/mail#connect-domain)
  You will know it worked when the domain shows as verified on the Domains page.

## Questions people ask

### What is the difference between Send and Mail?

Mail is for people: inboxes you read and reply from. Send is for your product: the emails it sends by itself, and your broadcasts.

### Why did my email land in spam?

Check that every record on the domain is verified, then run the free deliverability check to see what receiving servers see.

### I lost my API key.

Keys are shown once and cannot be shown again. Create a new one and revoke the old one.

## How each part works

### [What Send is](#what-send-is)

Send delivers email from your domains through one API, with a timeline for every message. Broadcasts and automations run against audiences, with unsubscribes and suppressions checked on every send.

It covers the email your product sends on its own, such as sign in codes, receipts, alerts and updates, and broadcasts stop themselves if bounces or complaints spike. Send has its own plans and its own Billing page in the Send menu.

### [Good to know](#good-to-know)

- A leaked key is one address, never a whole domain.
- On a paid plan, extra emails bill per thousand at renewal. Free stops at its limit.
- Suppressions are checked on every send, API included.
- Webhooks tell your app what happened to each message, the same story the Emails page shows.