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title: "Test Configuration tab"
slug: "courier-configurator-test-configuration-tab"
updated: 2026-10-09T16:35:33Z
published: 2026-10-09T16:35:33Z
canonical: "help.quickbase.com/courier-configurator-test-configuration-tab"
---

> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://help.quickbase.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Test Configuration tab

## About the Test Configuration tab

*Available to: all roles, when your company has the QB Courier extension.*

On the **Test Configuration** tab you send yourself a sample email, to check the subject, message, recipients, and attachments before the configuration goes live. Your recipients don't receive anything. See [Create or edit a configuration](/quickbase-extensions/docs/create-or-edit-a-configuration).

For a Trigger configuration, you don't need to create the Quickbase email notification first. You can test the configuration on its own.

## Send a test

1. Make sure the configuration's **Status** on the **Configuration** tab is **Test Mode** or **Enabled**. A **Disabled** configuration isn't run, so its test sends nothing.
2. Check the first box:
  - **Trigger:** enter the **Record ID#** of the record to use for the sample.
  - **Scheduled** and **On Demand:** the box shows the configuration's report ID, read-only. Courier uses the first record the report returns.
3. In **Enter an email address**, type the address that should get the sample. If you leave it empty, the sample goes to the **Copy email** address on the **Email Options** tab. The configurator remembers the address you enter for your next test.
4. Select **TEST**. When the request is sent, you see *Test email sent successfully*.

The test always sends a single sample, even when the configuration's Status is **Enabled**.

## What the sample looks like

- The sample goes to the test address as both To and CC. No BCC is sent.
- It starts with a banner, **QB COURIER : RUNNING IN TEST MODE: NO EMAILS WERE SENT TO CLIENTS**, which also says how many emails the configuration would send when it's **Enabled**.
- Below the banner is your message, filled in with the values from the sample record, and with that record's attachments and your generic attachments.
- The **Update field** isn't written, and no record is added to the local activity log.
- Courier's sending limits still apply. See **View Limits** in [Create or edit a configuration](/quickbase-extensions/docs/create-or-edit-a-configuration#view-limits).

## If no sample arrives

- Open the configuration's activities to see what happened in the run. See [Configuration activities](/quickbase-extensions/docs/courier-configurator-configuration-activities).
- Check that the sample record has an address in the **Email field**. Courier skips records without one.
- Check your spam or junk folder.

## Next

This tab has no **Next** button. Select the **FINISH** tab to finish the configuration. See [Finish tab](/quickbase-extensions/docs/courier-configurator-finish-tab).