Sign in with a link by email

No password, or forgotten it? The sign-in page can email you a link instead. It signs you in, or makes your account if the address is new, and it confirms the address is yours, which starting a team, a team's join link or invitation, and a calendar that emails the people you book all ask for. "Continue with Google" and your password keep working beside it.

Ask for one

1. On the sign-in page, type your address under "Email" and press "Email me a link and a code", the first button under it. No password needed: the password waits under "Use a password instead".
2. "Check your email" says "We've sent a link and a code to …. They work once, for 15 minutes." Every address gets the same words, so the page never tells anyone whether an account exists.
3. Nothing after a few minutes? Look in spam or promotions, and check the address. "Email me a new link and code" sends a new email; only the newest one's code works.

A team's or a calendar's invitation has its own "Email me a sign-in link", and its link brings you back to the invitation.

The email

"Your eKard sign-in link and code" doesn't assume you asked: "Someone asked to sign in to eKard as …, on the eKard website. If it was you, use the button or the code: no password needed." For a new address, the button or the code "makes your account and signs you in". Press "Sign in to eKard", or paste the address written under it, or type the 8-digit code beside it. Signing in, with either or any other way, ends both and every older link. Didn't ask? Ignore it: nobody can sign in without the link or the code in it.

Reading it somewhere else? Type the code

Asked on your computer and reading the email on your phone (or in another app's browser)? Type the code, "4821 7390" in the email, under "Code from the email" on the "Check your email" page of the browser that asked, and press "Sign in". That browser signs in and stays signed in, as if the link had been opened there. The code works only in the browser that asked, once, for 15 minutes; 5 wrong tries end it, and so does using the link. Don't share it: eKard never asks for it, and anyone you give it to can sign in as you.

Open it in the browser that asked

The link opens a page, "Sign in to eKard", with one button. Opening it signs nobody in, because mail scanners open every link in an email; the button does.

• In the browser you asked from, one press of "Sign in", and you stay signed in there.
• Anywhere else (another device, or a mail app's own browser), the page says "This link was asked for in another browser or on another device. It signs you in here until you close this browser."

An account nobody has confirmed yet becomes yours alone only from the browser that asked. The page says so first, for you as the owner, under "Confirm your address and sign in": "Signing in confirms this address is yours, and makes the account yours alone. Your other phones and browsers will be signed out. The old password stops working too", with the AI key and connected apps named only when the account has them. The button reads "Confirm and sign in". Opened anywhere else, the account stays as it was, unconfirmed.

A link for another account

Signed in as someone else in that browser? The page says "This link is for another account" and names both addresses. "Sign out and continue" signs you in as the link's address; "Stay signed in as …" changes nothing, and the link works until its 15 minutes are up.

When it doesn't work

"This sign-in link doesn't work any more" means it was used, ran out, or the account signed in another way since: "Ask for a new link". An address gets 5 links an hour from one network and 20 from anywhere, and the sign-in page says how long to wait.

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