> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.reply.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Schedule email validation

> <small>_Requires the `contacts:operate` scope (or a broader one that includes it)._</small>

Schedules an asynchronous email-validation job for the supplied contact IDs. Returns `202 Accepted` with a `Location` header pointing at `/v3/background-jobs/{jobId}` — poll that endpoint for status and the eventual result.

The eligibility filter (team scope + `RequiresValidation` status) and the credits cap applied here mirror the `/estimate` semantics. Set `acceptPartial = true` to schedule whatever credits allow when the team's balance is below the eligible count.



## OpenAPI

````yaml /api-reference/bundled.yaml post /v3/email-validations/schedule
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  version: 3.0.0
  title: Reply API
  description: API for managing email sequences, contacts, and automation workflows
servers:
  - url: https://api.reply.io
security:
  - bearerAuth: []
tags:
  - name: User Account
    description: Account information and authentication verification
  - name: Accounts
    description: Manage accounts (companies/organizations)
  - name: AI SDR Insights
    description: Read AI SDR insights for sequence contacts
  - name: AI SDR Intent Signals
    description: >-
      Read Reply industry IDs and technology slugs used in AI SDR intent-signal
      configuration (typeahead)
  - name: AI SDR Sequences
    description: >-
      Manage AI SDR sequences and their AI SDR-specific settings — create, read
      settings, partial update, autopilot enable/disable/force-start, approval
      mode, generated step types, and playbook/knowledge-base connections
  - name: AI SDR Web Search
    description: Find contacts via AI-driven web search and review past searches
  - name: Attachments
    description: >-
      Upload file attachments used across email templates, sequence steps, and
      direct emails
  - name: Account Lists
    description: Manage account lists and account membership
  - name: Background Jobs
    description: >-
      Track and cancel asynchronous background operations (e.g., email
      validation)
  - name: Custom Fields
    description: Manage custom contact fields
  - name: Direct Outreach
    description: >-
      Send one-off outreach directly to a contact outside of any sequence —
      direct emails and LinkedIn connection requests, messages, InMails, and
      voice messages
  - name: Contact Blacklist Rules
    description: Manage blacklist rules for domains, emails, and email exceptions
  - name: Contact Enrichment
    description: >-
      Enrich contacts with emails, phone numbers, LinkedIn data, and AI-filled
      custom fields
  - name: Contact Lists
    description: Manage contact lists and contact membership
  - name: Contacts
    description: Manage individual contacts
  - name: Email Accounts
    description: Manage email accounts used for sending and receiving
  - name: Email Templates
    description: Manage email templates and template folders
  - name: Email Validations
    description: Estimate and schedule asynchronous email validation jobs
  - name: Holiday Calendars
    description: Manage holiday calendars for scheduling
  - name: Inbox
    description: >-
      Manage inbox threads and per-team thread categories — list/filter, read
      state, replies, category assignment, and meeting-intent flagging
  - name: LinkedIn Accounts
    description: Manage LinkedIn accounts for outreach
  - name: Live Data
    description: >-
      Find new contacts via Live Data searches and read typeahead values for the
      Live Data / Autopilot filter sidebar
  - name: AI SDR Knowledge Bases
    description: >-
      Manage AI SDR knowledge bases — collections of documents, links, reply
      handlers, and reengagement cards that inform the agent's responses
  - name: AI SDR Offers
    description: >-
      Manage AI SDR offers — bundles of company-context inputs (ICP, pain
      points, value propositions, etc.) used to personalize outreach
  - name: AI SDR Pending Approvals
    description: >-
      Review, send, regenerate, and provide feedback on AI-generated messages
      awaiting human approval
  - name: AI SDR Playbooks
    description: >-
      Manage AI SDR playbooks — tone, voice, and style guides applied during
      personalized message generation
  - name: Reports
    description: >-
      Generate and access performance reports across email, calls, tasks,
      LinkedIn, and team performance
  - name: Schedules
    description: Manage email send schedules and timing
  - name: Settings
    description: Manage team and user settings
  - name: Sequence Contacts
    description: Manage contacts within sequences
  - name: Sequence Email Accounts
    description: Manage email accounts linked to sequences
  - name: Sequence Folders
    description: Organize sequences into folders
  - name: Sequence LinkedIn Accounts
    description: Manage LinkedIn accounts linked to sequences
  - name: AI SDR Sequence Preview
    description: >-
      Read and regenerate per-contact previews of the messages a sequence will
      send, and provide feedback on preview messages
  - name: Sequence Steps
    description: Manage individual steps in sequences
  - name: Sequence Templates
    description: Manage sequence templates
  - name: Sequences
    description: Manage email automation sequences
  - name: AI SDR Strategist
    description: Trigger AI Strategist runs
  - name: Tasks
    description: Manage tasks and to-do items
  - name: Webhooks
    description: Manage webhook subscriptions and inspect delivery history
paths:
  /v3/email-validations/schedule:
    post:
      tags:
        - Email Validations
      summary: Schedule email validation
      description: >-
        <small>_Requires the `contacts:operate` scope (or a broader one that
        includes it)._</small>


        Schedules an asynchronous email-validation job for the supplied contact
        IDs. Returns `202 Accepted` with a `Location` header pointing at
        `/v3/background-jobs/{jobId}` — poll that endpoint for status and the
        eventual result.


        The eligibility filter (team scope + `RequiresValidation` status) and
        the credits cap applied here mirror the `/estimate` semantics. Set
        `acceptPartial = true` to schedule whatever credits allow when the
        team's balance is below the eligible count.
      operationId: ScheduleEmailValidation
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              title: Email Validation Request
              description: >-
                Request body shared by both `/estimate` and `/schedule`.
                Specifies the contacts to validate and an optional
                partial-credit acceptance flag.
              required:
                - contactIds
              properties:
                contactIds:
                  type: array
                  description: >-
                    Contact IDs to validate. Must be non-empty, contain at most
                    10000 items, and every value must be a positive integer.
                  items:
                    type: integer
                    minimum: 1
                  minItems: 1
                  maxItems: 10000
                acceptPartial:
                  type: boolean
                  nullable: true
                  description: >-
                    When `true`, the schedule call proceeds with
                    `min(eligibleCount, creditsAvailable)` contacts even if
                    available credits are below the eligible count. When `false`
                    (default), insufficient credits become a `NotEnoughCredits`
                    blocker on `/estimate` and a `400` on `/schedule`.
      responses:
        '202':
          description: Job scheduled successfully
          headers:
            Location:
              schema:
                type: string
              description: >-
                Path of the corresponding background job, relative to the API
                root (`v3/background-jobs/{jobId}`)
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                title: Email Validation Schedule
                description: >-
                  Acknowledgement returned by `/v3/email-validations/schedule`.
                  The `jobId` corresponds to a background job — poll
                  `/v3/background-jobs/{jobId}` for status and result.
                properties:
                  jobId:
                    type: string
                    format: uuid
                    description: >-
                      Background-job identifier — use with
                      `/v3/background-jobs/{jobId}` to poll status
                    readOnly: true
                  scheduledCount:
                    type: integer
                    description: >-
                      Number of contacts scheduled for validation (capped by
                      available credits when `acceptPartial = true`)
                    readOnly: true
                  creditsReserved:
                    type: integer
                    description: >-
                      Credits held against the team's quota for this job.
                      Released for any contacts whose validation does not
                      succeed.
                    readOnly: true
        '400':
          description: |-
            Validation failure on the request body, or a business rule
            rejection (no eligible contacts, insufficient credits with
            `acceptPartial = false`, etc.).
          content:
            application/problem+json:
              schema:
                oneOf:
                  - allOf:
                      - allOf:
                          - type: object
                            title: Problem Details
                            description: >-
                              Bare RFC 9457 problem-details envelope. Returned
                              by middleware-level errors

                              that don't carry domain context: 401 Unauthorized
                              (auth middleware),

                              429 Too Many Requests (rate-limit middleware), and
                              route-level 404 / 405 /

                              415 (framework middleware).


                              Business and validation responses extend this
                              envelope and add additional

                              fields — see `business-problem.model.yaml` (adds
                              `code` slug) and

                              `validation-problem.model.yaml` (adds `errors[]`
                              array).
                            properties:
                              title:
                                type: string
                                description: Short, human-readable summary of the problem.
                              status:
                                type: integer
                                description: HTTP status code.
                                minimum: 100
                                maximum: 599
                              detail:
                                type: string
                                description: >-
                                  Human-readable explanation specific to this
                                  occurrence.
                          - type: object
                            properties:
                              errors:
                                type: array
                                description: >-
                                  List of field-level validation errors. Always
                                  non-empty when this

                                  envelope is returned. Each entry pins a single
                                  offending field

                                  via JSON Pointer plus a sanitized detail
                                  string.
                                items:
                                  type: object
                                  title: Validation Error
                                  description: A single field-level validation error.
                                  properties:
                                    pointer:
                                      type: string
                                      description: >-
                                        JSON Pointer (RFC 6901) to the offending
                                        field — e.g.

                                        `/steps/0/subject`.


                                        * An empty string (`""`) means the error
                                        applies to the whole
                                          request body (e.g. body is missing or unparseable).
                                        * For route or query parameter failures
                                        the pointer is the parameter
                                          name (e.g. `id`, `top`).
                                      example: /steps/0/subject
                                    detail:
                                      type: string
                                      description: >-
                                        Sanitized, human-readable explanation of
                                        this field's error. One of a

                                        small set of templates — `"Field is
                                        required."`, `"Value has an

                                        invalid type."`, `"Value has an invalid
                                        format."`, `"Request body is

                                        not valid JSON."`, `"The request body is
                                        required and cannot be

                                        empty."` — or a FluentValidator message
                                        on body endpoints.
                                      example: Field is required.
                        title: Validation Problem
                        description: >-
                          Input-validation error response at 400. Returned when
                          the request body

                          fails binding, FluentValidator rules, or when
                          route/query parameter

                          attribute validation (`[Range]`, `[Required]`) fails.
                          Route, query, and

                          body errors are combined into a single `errors[]`
                          array — clients should

                          not assume one error per request.
                      - example:
                          title: Validation failed
                          status: 400
                          detail: The request body contains validation errors.
                          errors:
                            - pointer: /name
                              detail: Field is required.
                  - allOf:
                      - allOf:
                          - type: object
                            title: Problem Details
                            description: >-
                              Bare RFC 9457 problem-details envelope. Returned
                              by middleware-level errors

                              that don't carry domain context: 401 Unauthorized
                              (auth middleware),

                              429 Too Many Requests (rate-limit middleware), and
                              route-level 404 / 405 /

                              415 (framework middleware).


                              Business and validation responses extend this
                              envelope and add additional

                              fields — see `business-problem.model.yaml` (adds
                              `code` slug) and

                              `validation-problem.model.yaml` (adds `errors[]`
                              array).
                            properties:
                              title:
                                type: string
                                description: Short, human-readable summary of the problem.
                              status:
                                type: integer
                                description: HTTP status code.
                                minimum: 100
                                maximum: 599
                              detail:
                                type: string
                                description: >-
                                  Human-readable explanation specific to this
                                  occurrence.
                          - type: object
                            properties:
                              code:
                                type: string
                                description: >-
                                  Stable, machine-readable error slug in the
                                  form

                                  `"<resource>.<variant>"`.


                                  * `resource` is the camelCased domain — e.g.
                                  `sequence`,
                                    `contact`, `inboxThread`, `blacklistDomainRule`.
                                  * `variant` is the camelCased specific failure
                                  mode — e.g.
                                    `notFound`, `forbidden`, `duplicateName`, `globalRuleReadOnly`.

                                  Use `code` for programmatic error handling;
                                  use `detail` for

                                  user-facing messages. Slugs are stable across
                                  server-side enum

                                  reorderings and never change meaning under a
                                  given resource.
                                pattern: ^[a-z][a-zA-Z0-9]*(\.[a-z][a-zA-Z0-9]*)+$
                                example: sequence.notFound
                        title: Business Problem
                        description: >-
                          Domain error response carrying a stable, namespaced
                          error slug.

                          Emitted for most 4xx responses (business 400, 403,
                          404, 409, …) and

                          for 503 when a downstream dependency is unavailable.
                      - example:
                          title: Bad Request
                          status: 400
                          detail: Pagination parameters are invalid.
                          code: sequence.invalidPagination
              examples:
                validation_failed:
                  summary: Body validation failure (FluentValidator)
                  value:
                    title: Validation failed
                    status: 400
                    detail: The request body contains validation errors.
                    errors:
                      - pointer: /contactIds
                        detail: At least one contact id is required.
                business_not_enough_credits:
                  summary: Insufficient credits for the eligible contacts
                  value:
                    title: Bad Request
                    status: 400
                    detail: >-
                      User does not have enough credits to validate all eligible
                      contacts.
                    code: emailValidation.unknown
        '401':
          description: >-
            Unauthorized. The response body is empty; check the
            `WWW-Authenticate` header for the expected scheme.
          content:
            application/problem+json:
              schema:
                allOf:
                  - type: object
                    title: Problem Details
                    description: >-
                      Bare RFC 9457 problem-details envelope. Returned by
                      middleware-level errors

                      that don't carry domain context: 401 Unauthorized (auth
                      middleware),

                      429 Too Many Requests (rate-limit middleware), and
                      route-level 404 / 405 /

                      415 (framework middleware).


                      Business and validation responses extend this envelope and
                      add additional

                      fields — see `business-problem.model.yaml` (adds `code`
                      slug) and

                      `validation-problem.model.yaml` (adds `errors[]` array).
                    properties:
                      title:
                        type: string
                        description: Short, human-readable summary of the problem.
                      status:
                        type: integer
                        description: HTTP status code.
                        minimum: 100
                        maximum: 599
                      detail:
                        type: string
                        description: >-
                          Human-readable explanation specific to this
                          occurrence.
                  - example:
                      title: Unauthorized
                      status: 401
                      detail: Authentication credentials are missing or invalid.
        '403':
          description: >-
            Email validation is forbidden — feature disabled, missing addon, or
            the request includes contacts the user does not have scope to
            validate.
          content:
            application/problem+json:
              schema:
                allOf:
                  - allOf:
                      - type: object
                        title: Problem Details
                        description: >-
                          Bare RFC 9457 problem-details envelope. Returned by
                          middleware-level errors

                          that don't carry domain context: 401 Unauthorized
                          (auth middleware),

                          429 Too Many Requests (rate-limit middleware), and
                          route-level 404 / 405 /

                          415 (framework middleware).


                          Business and validation responses extend this envelope
                          and add additional

                          fields — see `business-problem.model.yaml` (adds
                          `code` slug) and

                          `validation-problem.model.yaml` (adds `errors[]`
                          array).
                        properties:
                          title:
                            type: string
                            description: Short, human-readable summary of the problem.
                          status:
                            type: integer
                            description: HTTP status code.
                            minimum: 100
                            maximum: 599
                          detail:
                            type: string
                            description: >-
                              Human-readable explanation specific to this
                              occurrence.
                      - type: object
                        properties:
                          code:
                            type: string
                            description: >-
                              Stable, machine-readable error slug in the form

                              `"<resource>.<variant>"`.


                              * `resource` is the camelCased domain — e.g.
                              `sequence`,
                                `contact`, `inboxThread`, `blacklistDomainRule`.
                              * `variant` is the camelCased specific failure
                              mode — e.g.
                                `notFound`, `forbidden`, `duplicateName`, `globalRuleReadOnly`.

                              Use `code` for programmatic error handling; use
                              `detail` for

                              user-facing messages. Slugs are stable across
                              server-side enum

                              reorderings and never change meaning under a given
                              resource.
                            pattern: ^[a-z][a-zA-Z0-9]*(\.[a-z][a-zA-Z0-9]*)+$
                            example: sequence.notFound
                    title: Business Problem
                    description: >-
                      Domain error response carrying a stable, namespaced error
                      slug.

                      Emitted for most 4xx responses (business 400, 403, 404,
                      409, …) and

                      for 503 when a downstream dependency is unavailable.
                  - example:
                      title: Forbidden
                      status: 403
                      detail: You do not have permission to access this resource.
                      code: sequence.forbidden
              example:
                title: Forbidden
                status: 403
                detail: User is not allowed to validate emails for these contacts.
                code: emailValidation.forbidden
        '409':
          description: Another email-validation job is already running for this user
          content:
            application/problem+json:
              schema:
                allOf:
                  - allOf:
                      - type: object
                        title: Problem Details
                        description: >-
                          Bare RFC 9457 problem-details envelope. Returned by
                          middleware-level errors

                          that don't carry domain context: 401 Unauthorized
                          (auth middleware),

                          429 Too Many Requests (rate-limit middleware), and
                          route-level 404 / 405 /

                          415 (framework middleware).


                          Business and validation responses extend this envelope
                          and add additional

                          fields — see `business-problem.model.yaml` (adds
                          `code` slug) and

                          `validation-problem.model.yaml` (adds `errors[]`
                          array).
                        properties:
                          title:
                            type: string
                            description: Short, human-readable summary of the problem.
                          status:
                            type: integer
                            description: HTTP status code.
                            minimum: 100
                            maximum: 599
                          detail:
                            type: string
                            description: >-
                              Human-readable explanation specific to this
                              occurrence.
                      - type: object
                        properties:
                          code:
                            type: string
                            description: >-
                              Stable, machine-readable error slug in the form

                              `"<resource>.<variant>"`.


                              * `resource` is the camelCased domain — e.g.
                              `sequence`,
                                `contact`, `inboxThread`, `blacklistDomainRule`.
                              * `variant` is the camelCased specific failure
                              mode — e.g.
                                `notFound`, `forbidden`, `duplicateName`, `globalRuleReadOnly`.

                              Use `code` for programmatic error handling; use
                              `detail` for

                              user-facing messages. Slugs are stable across
                              server-side enum

                              reorderings and never change meaning under a given
                              resource.
                            pattern: ^[a-z][a-zA-Z0-9]*(\.[a-z][a-zA-Z0-9]*)+$
                            example: sequence.notFound
                    title: Business Problem
                    description: >-
                      Domain error response carrying a stable, namespaced error
                      slug.

                      Emitted for most 4xx responses (business 400, 403, 404,
                      409, …) and

                      for 503 when a downstream dependency is unavailable.
                  - example:
                      title: Conflict
                      status: 409
                      detail: A resource with this name already exists.
                      code: sequence.duplicateName
              example:
                title: Conflict
                status: 409
                detail: Another email-validation job is already running for this user.
                code: emailValidation.alreadyRunning
        '429':
          description: Too Many Requests
          headers:
            Retry-After:
              description: Seconds to wait before retrying
              schema:
                type: integer
                minimum: 1
          content:
            application/problem+json:
              schema:
                allOf:
                  - type: object
                    title: Problem Details
                    description: >-
                      Bare RFC 9457 problem-details envelope. Returned by
                      middleware-level errors

                      that don't carry domain context: 401 Unauthorized (auth
                      middleware),

                      429 Too Many Requests (rate-limit middleware), and
                      route-level 404 / 405 /

                      415 (framework middleware).


                      Business and validation responses extend this envelope and
                      add additional

                      fields — see `business-problem.model.yaml` (adds `code`
                      slug) and

                      `validation-problem.model.yaml` (adds `errors[]` array).
                    properties:
                      title:
                        type: string
                        description: Short, human-readable summary of the problem.
                      status:
                        type: integer
                        description: HTTP status code.
                        minimum: 100
                        maximum: 599
                      detail:
                        type: string
                        description: >-
                          Human-readable explanation specific to this
                          occurrence.
              example:
                title: Too Many Requests
                status: 429
                detail: Rate limit exceeded. Retry after 60 seconds.
        '503':
          description: Background-jobs service is temporarily unavailable
          content:
            application/problem+json:
              schema:
                allOf:
                  - allOf:
                      - type: object
                        title: Problem Details
                        description: >-
                          Bare RFC 9457 problem-details envelope. Returned by
                          middleware-level errors

                          that don't carry domain context: 401 Unauthorized
                          (auth middleware),

                          429 Too Many Requests (rate-limit middleware), and
                          route-level 404 / 405 /

                          415 (framework middleware).


                          Business and validation responses extend this envelope
                          and add additional

                          fields — see `business-problem.model.yaml` (adds
                          `code` slug) and

                          `validation-problem.model.yaml` (adds `errors[]`
                          array).
                        properties:
                          title:
                            type: string
                            description: Short, human-readable summary of the problem.
                          status:
                            type: integer
                            description: HTTP status code.
                            minimum: 100
                            maximum: 599
                          detail:
                            type: string
                            description: >-
                              Human-readable explanation specific to this
                              occurrence.
                      - type: object
                        properties:
                          code:
                            type: string
                            description: >-
                              Stable, machine-readable error slug in the form

                              `"<resource>.<variant>"`.


                              * `resource` is the camelCased domain — e.g.
                              `sequence`,
                                `contact`, `inboxThread`, `blacklistDomainRule`.
                              * `variant` is the camelCased specific failure
                              mode — e.g.
                                `notFound`, `forbidden`, `duplicateName`, `globalRuleReadOnly`.

                              Use `code` for programmatic error handling; use
                              `detail` for

                              user-facing messages. Slugs are stable across
                              server-side enum

                              reorderings and never change meaning under a given
                              resource.
                            pattern: ^[a-z][a-zA-Z0-9]*(\.[a-z][a-zA-Z0-9]*)+$
                            example: sequence.notFound
                    title: Business Problem
                    description: >-
                      Domain error response carrying a stable, namespaced error
                      slug.

                      Emitted for most 4xx responses (business 400, 403, 404,
                      409, …) and

                      for 503 when a downstream dependency is unavailable.
                  - example:
                      title: Service Unavailable
                      status: 503
                      detail: Background-jobs service is temporarily unavailable.
                      code: backgroundJob.upstreamUnavailable
              example:
                title: Service Unavailable
                status: 503
                detail: Background-jobs service is temporarily unavailable.
                code: emailValidation.lroUnavailable
components:
  securitySchemes:
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: >-
        Authenticate every request with a Bearer token. Pass your Reply API key
        in the

        `Authorization` header:


        ```

        Authorization: Bearer <your-api-key>

        ```


        Get your API key from the Reply dashboard: **Settings → API Key**.

````