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Getting started
From signup to your first screened call in about ten minutes.
Create your workspace
- Go to the signup page and add a card. Billing is pay as you go: $0.010 per lookup, drawn from a prepaid balance you open with a $20 minimum top-up. The How billing works guide has the details.
- Your workspace and roles are provisioned instantly, and the opening top-up funds the balance you screen against from your first call.
- You land on the screening dashboard: empty for now, and about to get busy.
First wins, in order
- API key: on the home page, generate a screening key. Your call tracker authenticates every lookup with it. There is nothing else to connect; lookups run on CallerSift's own line-type intelligence.
- Point your tracker: paste your lookup URL and key into your platform and route calls on the response. Step-by-step guides cover TrackDrive, Ringba, Retreaver, CallTrackingMetrics, Phonexa, CallRail, Invoca, and boberdoo.
CallerSift screens US and Canada caller numbers only; any other number answers block, marked out of region. Invite your team (Settings → Team) and turn on 2FA (Settings → Security) while you are at it. Both take under a minute.
If your balance runs out
Nothing is deleted, ever. Low balance alerts arrive first, and auto-recharge (if enabled) tops up before it matters. If the balance empties completely, lookups answer HTTP 402 and screening pauses until you top up; your data and configuration stay exactly where you left them, and billing lives inside the app under Settings → Plan.