Overview

This quickstart guide will walk you through how to sign up for an account and provide a brief overview of the features and functionality of the API Dashboard. 

Our API Dashboard gives you access to our products in just minutes and enables you to:

• Preview Person, Company, and IP data

• View usage data

• Manage your API keys

• Expand your subscriptions

• and more

All free plans have monthly access to our most popular products. To learn more about other plan options and product availability, check out this Help Center article

💡Pro Tip

Location and contact data values are not available on a free plan. To access these values you’ll need to upgrade to a Pro plan or get in touch with our sales team to discuss an Enterprise plan. 

Signing up for a Free Account

Create a free account by navigating to People Data Labs - Sign Up and completing the form.

💡Pro Tip

Make sure to use your work email!

API Dashboard

Available on: ✅ Free ✅ Pro ✅ Enterprise

Log in to People Data Labs - API Dashboard to access your account dashboard. 

The Home page provides: 

• At-a-glance information about your active plans

• Quick access to your API key

• Links to valuable tools and resources

💡Pro Tip

Ready to code right away? Click Copy in the upper right corner to copy your API and paste it into your code.

Explore the Data

Available on: ✅ Free  ✅ Pro  ✅ Enterprise

This tool allows you to visualize what PDL data might look like in your platform. Get a sense of our Person resume data, Company insights, and IP information.

💡Pro Tip

Customers find this tool extra helpful as a visual aid for non-technical teammates (i.e. managers, decision-makers, design partners, etc.)

API Keys

Available on: ✅ Free ✅ Pro ✅ Enterprise

This page allows you to manage your existing API keys or create new ones. 

💡Pro Tip

While all API keys have access to all products, using different API keys can allow you to track usage by:

• Different API endpoints

• Various teams / teammates

• Specific projects

API Explorer Tool

Available on: ✅ Free  ✅ Pro ✅ Enterprise

Not an engineer? No problem!  View the results of an API request without writing a single line of code. This tool enables you to iterate rapidly on testing before involving a technical resource from your team.

I’m technical. How does this tool help me? Generate code snippets across 20 of the most popular languages and copy the code directly to your data pipeline. 

Query Builder

Available on: ✅ Free  ✅ Pro ✅ Enterprise

Using a no-code interface, generate search queries, view the count of profiles that match the query, generate code snippets for use in your data pipeline. Check out this Help Center article for a detailed walkthrough.

💡Pro Tip

After you generate your search query, click Copy & Explore to view the results of your query in the API Explorer Tool.

Batch Enrich

Available on: ✅ Free  ✅ Pro  ❌ Enterprise

Upload a CSV to enrich your Person, Company, and IP data with hundreds of fields like email, location, funding data, and more. 

💡Pro Tip

Don’t have an idea of where to start on how to structure your list? Download the CSV template in the first step of the Batch enrich tool to simplify the process.

Salesforce Enrichment

Available on: ❌ Free  ❌ Pro ✅ Enterprise

Use our Salesforce Integration to keep your Contacts, Leads, and Accounts up-to-date with emails, job titles, revenue, funding data, and more. 

💡Pro Tip

Interested in enabling Salesforce enrichment but aren’t ready for an Enterprise plan? Use a low-code tool like our Zapier or Make integrations.

Ready for an Enterprise plan with Salesforce enrichment? Chat with our team today!

Usage

Available on: ✅ Free  ✅ Pro ✅ Enterprise

View and download usage data by hour, day, week, month, or year by product over a specified time range. To learn more about the Usage page, check out this Help Center article. 

💡Pro Tip

Click the Configure Alerts button in the top right to set custom notifications for usage thresholds to make sure you never run out of credits again.

Plans & Billing

Available on: ✅ Free  ✅ Pro ✅ Enterprise

View and manage your existing plans and billing details.

💡Pro Tip

Click the Manage button to add additional credits, unlock contact fields, and add-on premium fields for deeper and more scalable access to the APIs.

User Management

Available on: ✅ Free  ✅ Pro  ✅ Enterprise

Invite and manage user access in the dashboard. Presently, all users have full admin privileges.

💡Pro Tip

To invite multiple users at once, separate the emails with a comma, tab, or space

Status Page

Available on: ✅ Free  ✅ Pro ✅ Enterprise

View historic uptime of our products.

💡Pro Tip

Click Subscribe to Updates in the top right to make sure you don’t miss out on scheduled maintenance or downtime notifications.

Contact Sales

Available on: ✅ Free  ✅ Pro  ✅ Enterprise

Click Contact sales and complete the form to get in touch with our data experts about upgrading your Free or Pro plan to a custom Enterprise plan.

Feedback

Available on: ✅ Free  ✅ Pro ✅ Enterprise

Submit feature requests, bugs, and view our public roadmap to get an insight into what we’re building next.

💡Pro Tip

Voting on existing feature requests signs you up for automatic notifications so you can track the progress as it moves across our roadmap. We will often open up early access to new features so keep an eye on your inbox!

Help

Available on: ✅ Free  ✅ Pro  ✅ Enterprise

Access the Help Center or view developer documentation.

💡Pro Tip

Can’t find what you’re looking for and need additional assistance from a real person? Click Submit a request to open a ticket with our support team.

Settings

Available on: ✅ Free  ✅ Pro  ✅ Enterprise

View and update your profile, adjust your email preferences, and set up custom usage alerts. 

💡Pro Tip

Check out this Help Center article for a step-by-step guide to setting up custom Usage Alerts.