# Create your account and sign in

> An account opens with your first order, and every sign-in after that is a link or a code sent to your email. There is no password to lose.

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You do not sign up before you buy. An account opens with your first order, and the receipt email carries your way in.

## Getting your first account

There is no separate registration step.

- **Buy a template, start a plan or commission a build.** Any one of the three opens the account.
- **Watch the receipt email.** It carries the link into your portal.
- **The email address you paid with is the account.** Use the same one to sign in afterwards.

## Signing in after that

Sign in from any page with **Log in**, at the top right.

1. Type your email address into the sign-in card.
2. Press **Get Magic Link**.
3. Open the email and click the link, or type the six-digit code from it into the same card.

## What the magic link does

The link is the password, and it is single use.

- **It works once.** A used link cannot be used again.
- **It expires in ten minutes.** Ask for another if it lapses.
- **There is no password** to choose, forget or have stolen.
- **A code is the fallback.** If the link will not open, the same email carries a six-digit code you can type instead.

## Signing in with Google or GitHub

Two other doors into the same account.

- **Continue with Google** - we receive your email address and nothing else.
- **Continue with GitHub** - the same.
- **Use the address you ordered with.** A different address is a different account.

## If nothing arrives

Three things to try, in order.

- **Check spam.** Sign-in mail is transactional and lands there occasionally.
- **Resend it** from the same card, or switch to a different email address.
- **Email team@noboringsites.com** if none of that works. A person answers and can sign you in another way.