Onboarding & lifecycle

Sign up as a new user and follow every email.

Lifecycle email is a sequence: verify, welcome, invite a teammate, receipt, password reset, digest. Run it against one shared account and each test starts with the previous run's mail still in the inbox. Reclario gives you a private catch-all domain for $49/mo per domain. newuser+trial@yourteam.reclar.io receives mail as soon as your product sends to it, so each persona starts its journey at step one with an empty inbox.

newuser+trial@yourteam.reclar.io verify+expired@yourteam.reclar.io billing+receipt@yourteam.reclar.io reset+password@yourteam.reclar.io
The lifecycle

From the verification code to the digest.

Signup verification

Codes and magic links arrive within seconds. Read the code or click the link, then try the expired and already-used cases on separate addresses.

Welcome series

A drip that unfolds over several days is hard to check by eye. Give the series a persona of its own and every message collects in one thread.

Team invitations

An invite involves two people and two inboxes. Give the admin and the invitee each a Reclario address and run the whole handshake without borrowing a colleague's email.

Receipts and billing

Check totals, tax lines and PDF attachments in the receipt the customer gets, rather than in the template preview.

Password resets

Check that the link works, expires when it should and can't be replayed. Each scenario gets its own address, so one run's reset email never turns up in the next.

Digests and notifications

Batched notifications and digests are where rendering breaks first. Look at the layout and images as a user would.

How it works

How a test signup works.

Sign up in your own product with an address you make up, then follow the mail. The address works without any setup on your side.

1

Claim a domain

A private catch-all domain for your team at $49/mo per domain. Addresses are unlimited, and only your team can see the mail.

yourteam.reclar.io
2

Sign up as a persona

Use a new address for each journey: a trial user, an invited teammate, the expired-link case. Each one starts with a clean inbox.

newuser+trial@yourteam.reclar.io
3

Read what the user reads

The rendered message, full headers and attachments, plus a raw .eml download when you need to look closer.

download .eml

See it the way the user sees it.

Transactional templates break in ways a unit test never catches: an image that doesn't load, a button that collapses, a link that points at staging, a merge field that renders as the literal placeholder. Reclario shows each message in a sandboxed reading pane with headers, cc and attachments visible. To dig further, download the raw .eml with its headers and MIME parts intact.

Migrations, incidents, and staging you can't email from.

Three situations make this urgent. The first is switching email providers, when headers and link wrapping change and every dashboard still looks green. The second is the aftermath of a deliverability incident, when you need proof that mail is landing intact again. The third is any staging environment where compliance forbids emailing real users, which covers most regulated teams most of the time. In each case, a private domain of made-up personas lets you check without involving a real customer. For hiring pipelines, see recruiting email testing, or calendar invite testing for scheduling flows. If you want an agent to play a whole cast (admin, teammate, invited customer), see agent product testing.

FAQ

Lifecycle email questions

Can I test verification codes and magic links?
Yes. The verification email lands in the inbox seconds after signup. Read the code or click the magic link there, or pull it over the API to finish the flow in an automated test. The expired-link and reused-link cases are two more addresses.
Will emails render like a real client?
Messages render in a sandboxed reading pane with images, styling and layout as a user would see them, and with headers, cc and attachments visible. For byte-level checks, download the raw .eml and inspect it yourself.
Can I test after switching ESP?
Yes, and it's a good reason to. Moving to a new email provider changes headers, link wrapping, tracking pixels and sometimes rendering, often without anyone noticing. Send the full lifecycle to a set of Reclario addresses from the old provider, repeat from the new one, and compare the delivered mail instead of the dashboards.
Is it safe for staging data?
Yes. Your domain is private by default: it isn't listed or searchable, and only teammates you invite can read it. That matters when compliance forbids emailing real users from staging. It's also why public throwaway inboxes aren't an option for lifecycle mail that carries names, receipts or reset links.
Can I automate it?
Yes. With API keys and webhooks, CI can mint addresses, wait for delivery and assert on the message, so a broken welcome series fails the build before a customer sees it. Email testing for QA covers the automation in more detail.

Test the emails your product sends every day.

Walk your first signup through the free public sandbox at public.reclar.io (work email required, no credit card). When you want a domain of your own, a private catch-all is $49/mo per domain. If you're comparing tools, see email testing tools compared.

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