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# Icypeas email verification in Default

> How Default uses Icypeas to verify email addresses you already have, without finding new ones: where it runs, the fields it returns, the credits it uses, and how to turn it on.

Default integrates with Icypeas for email verification. Icypeas checks whether an email address you
already have is valid and deliverable. It does not find or guess new email addresses. Default
manages access to Icypeas and bills each check in credits, so you don't need an Icypeas account or
API key.

## Icypeas in Default at a glance

| | |
| - | - |
| What it does in Default | Verifies an existing email address and returns its status, a certainty level, and mail server details. |
| What it does not do | Find an email from a name and a company. To find emails, use a waterfall with Clearbit, Apollo, People Data Labs, or Wiza. |
| Integrations category | **Enrichment**, on the **Icypeas** card. |
| Where it shows up | The **Email validation** check in a [waterfall](/settings/configurations/waterfalls), the **Enrich Data** workflow node, the Chrome extension's **Request enrichment**, and [Tables](/tables) (available where enabled). |
| What it needs | An email address. Without one, the check is skipped. |
| Who supplies the data | Default. No Icypeas account needed. |
| Credits | 1 credit per email checked, including emails Icypeas cannot verify. |

## Where Icypeas shows up in Default

* Waterfall email validation: In a waterfall's **Validation** section, turn on
  **Email validation** and choose **Icypeas**. The other choice, and the default, is
  **Abstract Email Reputation**. The check runs on the person's email when the waterfall runs in an
  **Enrich Data** node, and during form pre-enrichment when it is your primary waterfall. See
  [Waterfalls](/settings/configurations/waterfalls).
* **Enrich Data** node: Pick **Icypeas** under **Providers** in the node's **Enrichment source**
  field, with **Enrichment target** set to **Person**. See [Enrichment nodes](/workflows/steps-enrichment).
* Chrome extension: A rep can pick Icypeas under **Request enrichment**. See
  [Chrome extension](/chrome-extension).
* Tables: Verify an email column with Icypeas, where Tables is enabled for your workspace.

You cannot add Icypeas under **Enrichment order** in a waterfall, because it does not return new
contact data.

## Fields Icypeas returns

| Field | What it holds |
| - | - |
| Email verification status | The verification result, for example `FOUND` or `NOT_FOUND`. |
| Email verification certainty | How sure Icypeas is, for example `HIGH` or `MEDIUM`. |
| Email | The verified email address. |
| Email MX provider | The mail provider behind the address's domain. |
| Email MX records | The domain's mail server records. |

Use the status and certainty to hold back risky addresses before a sequence or a CRM write. For
example, branch after the **Enrich Data** node so only emails with a `FOUND` status continue.

## Icypeas or Abstract Email Reputation

Both run as the waterfall **Email validation** check. Pick by what you need:

| | Icypeas | Abstract Email Reputation |
| - | - | - |
| Returns | Status, certainty, and mail server details. | Deliverability, a quality score, disposable, role, catch-all, and free-email flags, domain age and risk, and breach history. |
| Credits per email | 1 | 2 |

See [Abstract](/settings/integrations/abstract) for the full Abstract field list.

## Turn on Icypeas

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open Integrations">
    Select **Settings** in the sidebar, then **Integrations** under **Workspace Settings**. Admin
    access is required.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Open Icypeas">
    Select the **Icypeas** card in the **Enrichment** category.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Turn it on">
    Turn on the switch next to the name. If the switch is unavailable, contact Default to turn Icypeas
    on for your workspace.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Put it to work">
    Choose Icypeas for **Email validation** in a [waterfall](/settings/configurations/waterfalls), or
    pick it in an **Enrich Data** node.

    Icypeas now checks emails in the places you added it.
  </Step>
</Steps>

Related: [Default integrations](https://www.default.com/integrations)


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