Using Disposable Emails for a Demo

We have a demo environment in Auctibles, the dynamic prices and sales events platform.

Demo Compared to Production

The demo environment has:

1. Emulated shipping that takes 10 minutes in each direction.
2. Emulated payment — you click the Pay Now button to pay, and the payment is immediately executed.

Remove Friction in the Demo

Asking people to enter their real email for signup will be a major friction point in the demo. To test the demo’s functionality, our customer needs to create several users in our demo environment.

Users for testing:

1. One seller user
2. Multiple buyer users
3. Optionally team member users — as a seller can operate a team

The effort to create multiple emails might cause our customers to drop.

Disposable Emails

Several providers supply temporary disposable emails that you can use for a few days. So, we decided to allow our customers to use disposable emails in the demo environment.

So now our signup page has a button to show the customer how to get a disposable email: