Introducing Automations

Resend now lets you build lifecycle email sequences triggered by events in your app. Define a trigger, personalize each step, test it, and go live—all from the Dashboard or the API. Read the full announcement: https://resend.com/blog/introducing-automations ## What's covered - How Automations work: triggers, time delays, wait-for-event steps, and conditional branching - The drag-and-drop visual editor (plus AI-powered automation generation from plain language) - Condition logic: equals, contains, greater than, and composable and/or operators - Testing automations with test events before going live - Firing events from your app via the API to kick off published automations - Real-time observability: inspecting runs in progress, completed, or failed - Full API and SDK support for creating automations, defining events, and inspecting runs programmatically (API, SDKs, MCP Server, CLI) ## Use cases - Onboard new users with timed welcome sequences - Re-engage inactive users - Send trial expiration reminders - Recover abandoned carts - Branch content based on plan type (free vs. paid) ## Resources - Resend Automations page: https://resend.com/docs/dashboard/automations/introduction - API docs: https://resend.com/docs/api-reference/automations/create-automation