# Quick Start

This walks you from a new account to a sent campaign. It takes a few minutes of setup, plus however long the email takes you to write.

## 1. Create your account and workspace

1. Sign up and confirm your email address. You cannot reach the dashboard until you do.
2. On the `Set up your workspace` screen, enter a workspace name (2 to 80 characters). It is the name of your team or business, and you can change it later.

## 2. Set your sending details

Open `Settings > Workspace` and fill in the `Email sending` card:

- **From name** and **reply-to**, which control how your emails appear in an inbox.
- **Business mailing address.** This is required before you can send a campaign. It appears in every email footer, as marketing email rules require.

To send from your own domain instead of the shared Flomailr address, add a custom domain on the same page and publish the DNS records it shows you. See [Sending Health](/docs/concepts/sending-health).

## 3. Add contacts

Go to `Audience > Contacts`.

- `Add contact` creates one person.
- `Import CSV` loads a file. It needs an `email` column. First name, last name, tags and status columns are recognized, and the importer accepts common header spellings. The limits are 5 MB and 10,000 rows per file.

Only contacts with the status `SUBSCRIBED` receive campaigns. See [Contacts](/docs/platform/contacts) and [Double Opt-In](/docs/concepts/double-opt-in).

To collect subscribers instead of importing them, build a form or a landing page under `Pages & Forms`. See [Forms](/docs/platform/forms).

## 4. Make a list

Go to `Audience > Lists`, choose `New list`, then add contacts to it. A campaign is sent to a list. See [Lists](/docs/platform/lists).

## 5. Create a campaign

Go to `Campaigns` and choose `New campaign`. You have two ways to design it:

- **By hand.** Use the visual builder. Drag in blocks such as headings, text, images and buttons, and edit text directly on the canvas. See [Campaigns](/docs/platform/campaigns).
- **With your AI.** Connect Claude or another AI app, ask it for the email, and open the draft it saves in the builder to adjust. See [Connect Your AI](/docs/ai/connect) and [Designing Emails with AI](/docs/ai/design-emails).

Choose the list the campaign goes to, and set the subject line. Merge tags such as `{{firstName}}` are filled in per recipient. See [Personalization](/docs/concepts/personalization).

## 6. Test, then send

- Send yourself a test email from the builder first.
- Send the campaign now, or schedule it for later.

Before a campaign goes out, Flomailr skips suppressed addresses and applies your guardrails (daily cap, quiet hours, blocked domains) and your plan's monthly limit. Each email gets an unsubscribe link automatically. See [Compliance](/docs/concepts/compliance).

## 7. Check the results

Open `Overview` for results across your workspace, or a campaign's own analytics page for one send. See [Analytics](/docs/platform/analytics).

## Next steps

- Automate a welcome series: [Automations](/docs/platform/automations)
- Connect your own app: [API Overview](/docs/api/overview)