Resend event: email.clicked, a click is intent, but verify it

TL;DR

The recipient clicked on a link in the email. This is your best engagement signal: it requires interaction, unlike an open pixel.

Steps

1. Record the click against data.email_id and the link URL. This is the event to trigger follow-up flows (abandoned cart nudges, onboarding steps).
2. Before you count a click as human intent, sanity-check it: multiple clicks within seconds of delivery, clicks on every link in the email, or clicks from security-scanner user agents are bots prefetching your links.
3. Treating every click as a human. Corporate email security tools detonate links automatically, and those clicks arrive fast and look real. If your flow sends a "thanks for your interest" email or advances a sales stage on one click, bot clicks will spam your funnel. Dedupe rapid multi-link clicks and consider a small delay before acting on click-triggered flows.

When to use

You are seeing this: The recipient clicked on a link in the email. Use this skill when you run into "Resend event: email.clicked, a click is intent, but verify it".

When not to use

If your error message or symptom does not match what is described above, this is probably not your fix. Search for your exact error text instead of forcing this one to fit.

Versions

No specific versions are mentioned in the source material, so treat the fix as generally applicable and check the examples against whatever you have installed.

Why this happens

The original report does not dig into a root cause. It documents the symptom and the fix that resolved it.

Resend's event reference says email.clicked occurs whenever the recipient clicks on an email link. Verified live at https://resend.com/docs/webhooks/event-types.