diff --git a/docs/sphinx/quickstart.rst b/docs/sphinx/quickstart.rst
index 68a1c52ba..51938e921 100644
--- a/docs/sphinx/quickstart.rst
+++ b/docs/sphinx/quickstart.rst
@@ -41,6 +41,11 @@ You can generate an API key on the **Management** page under Security.
 
 .. image:: ../guide/images/create-api-key.png
 
+Confirm that the connection was successful.
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+    print(client.info())
 
 Using the client
 ----------------
@@ -49,16 +54,30 @@ Time to use Elasticsearch! This section walks you through the most important
 operations of Elasticsearch. The following examples assume that the Python 
 client was instantiated as above.
 
+Create an index with mappings
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
-Creating an index
-^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
-This is how you create the `my_index` index:
+This is how you create the `my_index` index.
+Optionally, you can first define the expected types of your features with a custom mapping.
 
 .. code-block:: python
 
-    client.indices.create(index="my_index")
-
+    mappings = {
+        "properties": {
+            "foo": {"type": "text"},
+            "bar": {
+                "type": "text",
+                "fields": {
+                    "keyword": {
+                        "type": "keyword",
+                        "ignore_above": 256,
+                    }
+                },
+            },
+        }
+    }
+
+    client.indices.create(index="my_index", mappings=mappings)
 
 Indexing documents
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
@@ -76,6 +95,23 @@ This indexes a document with the index API:
         },
     )
 
+You can also index multiple documents at once with the bulk helper function:
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+    from elasticsearch import helpers
+
+    def generate_docs():
+        for i in range(10):
+            yield {
+                "_index": "my_index",
+                "foo": f"foo {i}",
+                "bar": "bar",
+            }
+            
+    helpers.bulk(client, generate_docs())
+
+These helpers are the recommended way to perform bulk ingestion. While it is also possible to perform bulk ingestion using ``client.bulk`` directly, the helpers handle retries, ingesting chunk by chunk and more. See the :ref:`helpers` page for more details.
 
 Getting documents
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^