Send your first email

Author a template in the dashboard, then send a personalized transactional email through the Sebar API — in about ten minutes.

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In this tutorial you'll send your first transactional email: author a template, then trigger a personalized send from your server. Budget about ten minutes. You'll need a Sawala Cloud account and a project.

1. Author a template

In the dashboard, open Sebar in your project and create a template:

Slug: welcome
Subject: Welcome, {{name}}!
Body: an HTML (or plain-text) body that greets {{name}}

The {{name}} placeholders are filled in at send time from the variables you pass.

2. Mint an API key

Open Organization Settings → API Keys and create a key scoped to this project and the Sebar product. Copy it — it's shown once. (More in API keys & access.)

Send email from your server, never the browser — anyone who sees the key could send mail as you. Use a server-side (secret) key and keep it on the server.

3. Send the email

Call the send endpoint with your template slug, a recipient, and the variables:

curl -X POST https://api.sawala.cloud/public/sebar/notifications/send \
  -H "X-API-Key: sk_live_xxx" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "templateId": "welcome",
    "to": { "email": "ada@example.com", "name": "Ada" },
    "variables": { "name": "Ada" }
  }'

Sebar renders the template, queues the message, and delivers it. The response includes the new message's id so you can look it up later.

4. Watch delivery

Open the message in the Sebar dashboard. Its status advances as the email is processed:

queued → sent → delivered

If something goes wrong it lands in a terminal state instead — bounced, spam, suppressed, or failed — and every step is recorded in the message's delivery log.

What's next

Send email — personalization, inline (template-free) sends, reply-to, and tagging.
API reference — the send endpoint, the full body, and delivery states.