Connect Benchmark Email to the Tools You Already Use
Your stack should talk to itself. The Benchmark Email API keeps your contacts and lists in sync with your CRM, e-commerce store, and the rest of your business tools. No more CSV exports on a Friday afternoon.
Sound familiar?
You’ve got customers in your e-commerce store. Leads in a spreadsheet. More contacts in your POS or CRM.
Your team is exporting, scrubbing and importing CSVs to get an up-to-date email list. By Monday, it’s already out of date. When you want to know how a campaign performed, it’s copy/paste to a spreadsheet.
It works. But it eats your week.
One API keeps contact data current.
The Benchmark Email API connects your Benchmark account to the other software your business runs on:
- Contacts and list management
- Campaign creation and configuration
- Read access to reports
- Read access to your sending domains
It’s built for marketers who are comfortable working with APIs, or who have a developer or AI tool to help. Hand it to your developer, or use an AI coding assistant to build the integration yourself. Either way, you stop being the integration.
What you can do with Benchmark’s API
Use cases to explore.
Add contacts from other apps.
When a customer signs up in another tool in your tech stack (think: an e-commerce platform, a booking app, or a CRM) they show up in the right Benchmark list automatically. No more importing CSVs.
Keep contact data up to date.
Your customer data changes constantly. The API keeps Benchmark current with whatever the rest of your stack knows about a contact today. So your next campaign doesn’t go out with last quarter’s information.
Search and segment before you create.
Search contacts by email, custom field, list, status, or creation date. Useful for deduplication (don’t add a contact that already exists) and for building segmented queries before a send.
Manage your lists from anywhere.
Create, rename, duplicate, merge, and delete lists from another system. Useful when your CRM or e-commerce tool is the source of truth for how customers should be grouped.
Read campaign performance into your reports.
Stop copy-pasting open rates into a slide. Pull campaign results into your BI tool, your weekly digest, or whatever dashboard you actually look at.
Check sending-domain status.
Read-only access to the verification status of your private sending domains. Useful when you want a deliverability dashboard outside Benchmark, or want another system to know when a domain is ready to send from.
Create and configure campaigns programmatically.
Set up the campaign name, subject line, sender details, and recipient list via the API. The final design and the actual send still happen in the Benchmark builder.
Specs at a glance
For your developer or technical team member. Marketers can skip this section.
- JSON over HTTP, OpenAPI specification published
- Authentication via scoped API key (
X-API-Keyheader) - Per-resource permissions: No Access, Read, or Read & Write (contacts, campaigns, reports, domains)
- Optional expiration dates per key; deactivate and reactivate without rotating
- Rate limits with hourly and monthly quotas; clear response headers
- Step-by-step scenario guides for the most common workflows
- Migration guide for customers moving from Benchmark Classic
# Add a contact to a list curl https://api.benchmarkemail.io/v1/contacts \ -H "X-API-Key: $BENCHMARK_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "email": "mia@example.com", "list_id": "ls_42", "fields": { "first_name": "Mia", "plan": "Pro" } }'
Frequently asked questions
Does Benchmark Email have an API?
Do I need to know how to code to use the API?
Is the API free?
How do I get an API key?
What can I do with the Benchmark Email API?
Can I send emails through the API?
What’s the rate limit?
Where are the docs?
Stop being the integration
Get in, hook it up, get back to the rest of your week.
