Signup Validation
Block fake and mistyped emails during account registration, so every new account starts with a working address.
Email validity · 1 credit per lookup · no monthly fee
How it works
One call, structured answer
Signup Validation runs on the email validity lookup at 1 credit per lookup. Same API key, same JSON shape as every other Encrata lookup.
- Answers come from the mail server itself, not a guess from patterns
- Disposable and throwaway domains are flagged before they cost you anything
- 1 credit per check, cheap enough to run on every address you touch
- Cached results are free, so repeated checks never double-charge
Validate before the account exists
Most teams wire the check into the form's submit handler: validate on blur or on submit, and only create the account once the verdict comes back. The response arrives fast enough to sit inline in the signup flow, and the did_you_mean field doubles as a typo prompt, so a single call covers both rejection and correction. Catch-all and risky verdicts are worth accepting with a flag rather than rejecting outright, corporate domains often answer that way even for real mailboxes.
Cleaner funnels from day one
The change shows up within the first week: activation-email bounce rates collapse, and the fake-signup noise that used to pollute product analytics disappears. Teams that A/B tested inline validation consistently find the small added friction costs less than the dead accounts did, and support stops fielding 'I never got my confirmation email' tickets from addresses that never existed.