The complete guide to logging in — and staying logged in

Your first sign-in, step by step

Every program follows the same shape. Once you have done one, the rest are the same ritual with different colors.

1. Click the program link in your task. It opens the real program in a new tab.
2. Click "Sign up" or "Register" at the top of their page — not in an email sent to you, but on the program's own website.
3. Enter your one email address. The same address used everywhere on this desk.
4. Choose a password. Strong, unique, written down.
5. Go to your email and click the confirmation link. Every program sends one. No click, no active account.
6. Sign back in with your email and password to confirm the account is live before you do anything else.

Signing in every day

• Bookmark each program and keep them in a saved folder called "Earning sites". You will never type a URL again, and you will never land on a lookalike by mistyping.
• Let your browser save the login. When it offers "Save password?", say yes. This is a program account, not banking — the convenience is worth it.
• Stay signed in on your own computer. None of these programs need you to log out, and signing in fresh every day is where most lockouts happen.
• Check "Keep me signed in" when it is offered, but only on a device you alone use.

Forgotten password — the recovery flow

This is the single most important skill on the whole desk, because this is where balances get rescued.

1. On the sign-in page, click "Forgot password" or "Can't access your account".
2. Enter your email address — the one you registered with.
3. Open the reset email, checking the spam folder if it has not arrived in two minutes.
4. Click the link and set a new password. Write it down this time.
5. Sign in and confirm your balance is intact.

Locked out of an account entirely

"Locked out" almost always means one of three things, and each has a different fix:

• Wrong email address. Check the accounts tracker, or search your inbox for the program's name to find which address they mail. The confirmation email is the record.
• Account deactivated for inactivity. Logging in once a week on your sweep keeps every account alive. If one was closed, re-registering with the same email usually works, though the balance may be gone.
• Duplicate-account flag. Two accounts, one person, same program. Support can sometimes merge them; a frozen balance usually cannot be recovered. One account per person, always.

Staying signed in safely

• One device, your own. The phone or laptop you keep at home. Everything remembered, nothing logged out.
• Do not clear browser data carelessly. "Clear cookies and site data" wipes every saved login at once. Clear one site at a time if you ever need to.
• Two-factor if offered, but only when the program lets you use an app or a text message. It is worth the one-time setup on the account that will hold the most money.

Shared and public computers

If you have to sign in on someone else's device, or a library computer:

• Use a private or incognito window, which forgets everything the moment you close it.
• Never tick "keep me signed in" on a device you do not own.
• Sign out when you are done — explicitly, using the program's sign-out button, then close the window.
• Never check "remember this computer" on a shared machine.

Apple and Google sign-in buttons

Some programs offer "Continue with Google" or "Continue with Apple" instead of an email and password. It is convenient, but it comes with a rule:

• Pick one method and stay with it. Signing in with Google one day and a password the next can create two separate accounts, and one of them quietly stops earning.
• If you use "Sign in with Apple", note the hidden-relay email. Apple can generate a private forwarding address. Write down exactly what address the program shows you, because that is the one on the account.
• Our recommendation: use a plain email and password everywhere for the first month. It is the simplest thing to keep consistent across six sites, and consistency is what protects a balance.

Avoiding fake login pages

Because these programs are popular, scammers build lookalike pages to steal passwords. Two habits stop it:

• Always arrive by bookmark or by the link in your task — never by clicking a link inside an email that asks you to log in.
• Check the address bar. The real program's name must appear in the address with no misspelling and no extra words. If it says "swagbucks-rewards.com" or "inboxdollars.login-verify.com", that page is not the real site.
• A program will never email you to ask for your password. If an email asks you to type your password into a page you opened from that email, close it.