# Connect your domain (DNS records)

> The DNS records to add for your site and its e-mail, how to check them, and the Cloudflare settings that matter.

Canonical page: https://buildpropfirm.com/help/connect-your-domain  
Topic: Your prop firm site  
Last updated: 2026-11-08

## 1. Find your records

Open your site under [My sites](https://buildpropfirm.com/account/sites) and scroll to **DNS records**. Each row shows the **Type**, **Name (host)**, **Value** and **Status**, with a **Copy** button. Add them where your domain's DNS is managed — at your registrar or at Cloudflare.

## 2. The records for your site

- **TXT** `_bpf-verify` with the value `bpf-verify=…` shown on the page — proves you own the domain. Required.
- **A** records for `@`, `api` and `admin`, pointing at our server (and **AAAA** records too, if they are shown). Required.
- **CNAME** `www` pointing at your domain — optional.

Your site runs on your domain, its API on `api.` and its admin panel on `admin.` your domain.

## 3. Your site's e-mail

Your site sends its e-mails (sign-up, orders, payouts, notifications) through a mail provider **you** connect. When your site is up, open its admin panel, go to **Emails → Settings**, choose your provider (SMTP, Mailerino, Elastic Email or MailerLite), enter its details and send a test e-mail.

Then add the **SPF** and **DKIM** records your mail provider gives you (and optionally **DMARC**) to your domain, so your e-mails reach the inbox.

> A domain can have only one SPF record: if you already have one (for your own mailbox), merge your mail provider's value into it instead of adding a second one.

## 4. Check your records

Click **Check DNS**. Each record shows **Found** or **Not found yet**. New records can take a few hours to be seen everywhere, so check again later; you can check at most once a minute.

We can approve your request once the ownership TXT record is found and `@`, `api` and `admin` point at our server.

## 5. Using Cloudflare

- Keep `api` and `admin` on **DNS only** (grey cloud). Your site and `www` may be proxied (orange cloud).
- If your domain goes through Cloudflare's proxy, turn off **Email Obfuscation** and **Rocket Loader**.
- Set SSL/TLS to **Full (strict)** only after your site's certificate has been issued.

## Related guides

- [Review, changes and the build](https://buildpropfirm.com/help/review-and-build): What each site status means, how to answer a change request, and how the build progresses until your site is up.
- [Order your prop firm site](https://buildpropfirm.com/help/order-your-site): The order form on Start, field by field: your firm, company and contacts, look, features, languages and the setup invoice.
- [Open your site's admin and launch](https://buildpropfirm.com/help/site-admin-and-launch): Set your admin password, find your admin panel, work through the opening checklist and see the demo.