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Magic-link login

How clients sign in to the portal — they enter their email and receive a single-use, short-lived sign-in link. No passwords.

Clients sign in to the portal with a magic link — there are no passwords. They enter the email their invoice was sent to and receive a single-use sign-in link.

Before you start
Plan
Studio
Role
OwnerAdmin

The portal needs a Studio or Agency plan. Sign-in is for your client contacts — external people, not team members. Owners/Admins control who's enabled.

How a client signs in

Go to the portal login

The client opens /portal/login, headed "Client portal" with the prompt "Enter the email your invoice was sent to. We'll email you a sign-in link."

Enter the email

They type the email their invoice was sent to and submit. If it matches an enabled contact in your workspace, a single-use, short-lived sign-in link is emailed to them.

Clicking the emailed link lands on /portal/verify, which sets their session and signs them in.

Browse and pay

They arrive at /portal and see their invoices. To leave, they use Sign out (/portal/signout).

A neutral, private confirmation

The login page always shows the same neutral message — "If there's an account for that email, we've sent a sign-in link." — whether or not the email matches. This is deliberate: it doesn't reveal who is or isn't a contact in your workspace.

Because the confirmation is the same for every email, tell clients to check the inbox of the exact address you invoice — and the spam folder — rather than expecting an on-screen "not found" message.

  • Each link is single-use and short-lived (it expires).
  • The login page is rate-limited to curb abuse.
  • Expired or already-used links show a clear message; the client just requests a new one from /portal/login.

Troubleshooting

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