Getting started

Sign in

Sign in with your email address: Botensten Mail emails you a code to type in. Each code works once, for 5 minutes, so there's no password to remember.

Set up your newsletter

Add your newsletter from the dashboard: its name, a one-line description you can skip, and the address it sends from, at a domain you added on the Domains page.

You can change all of it later in the newsletter's settings.

Before you pick a plan

Adding your domain, and so your first newsletter, starts with a plan, as do sending, test emails, imports, API keys and AI assistants. See Plans and billing.

Send your first issue

The overview page lists these steps until they're done.

1. Add your domain. Add its DNS records on the Domains page, then send from an address at it. Sender addresses and domains
2. Write your first issue. Start a draft from the Campaigns page. It saves as you type. Writing an issue
3. Add your subscribers. Import a CSV file from the platform you're leaving, or add people one by one on the Contacts page. Importing contacts
4. Send your first issue. Open your draft, send yourself a test, then send it now or schedule it. Sending and scheduling
5. Connect your AI agent, if you use one. ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Codex or Grok Bot can write, test and schedule issues for you. API and AI assistants

Your first campaign also starts your account's 30-day warm-up, when bigger sends go out over a few hours. Warm-up and sending pace