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Recover your account
Recovery is your back door for you, not for anyone else. It works with two things only you have — your business's business code and one of the recovery codes you saved when you created the account.
When you'd use this
- Use recovery when you can't get to your sign-in email — a changed address, a lost inbox. On the sign-in page tap Locked out? Recover your account. (If you can still open your email, just request a fresh sign-in link instead — that's simpler.)
- When it finishes, the account's owner sign-in becomes the email you signed in with, you are shown a new set of recovery codes once, and then you land on your dashboard.
Recovery asks you to sign in first, and that surprises people. Tapping Locked out? Recover your account takes you to the sign-in page, not to a recovery form.
| What the screen says | Why |
|---|---|
| Locked out? Sign in first with any email you can get into — then we'll take you straight back to recovery, where your business code and one of your saved recovery codes put you back in. | So the sign-in page tells you what recovery needs before you get there. |
- Any email you can open will do — a personal address, a second one, it does not have to be the address that is on the account. That is the whole point: the address on the account is the one you have lost.
- turnda needs to know it is talking to a real inbox before it will hand an account over, and your recovery code is the proof that the inbox should be yours.
- The moment you are signed in you are taken back to the recovery form by itself — you do not have to go looking for it again.
No sign-in email AND no recovery codes? Then this page can't help, because it needs a recovery code. Read I lost my sign-in email and my recovery codes — turnda restores the owner by hand after checking who you are with the card on file and your business details. A business with no card on file can't be restored that way.
What you need
| What you type | What it is |
|---|---|
| Business code | The short code for your business — up to four letters, the one in your join links and posters. |
| Recovery code | One of your recovery codesOne-time codes shown once when you create your account. They're the only way back in if you lose access to your sign-in email.. |
- Tap Recover my account. Each recovery code works once, so cross it off after use.
After you're back
- Before anything else you see Save your new recovery codes, with a new set of recovery codesOne-time codes shown once when you create your account. They're the only way back in if you lose access to your sign-in email. — shown once. Copy or download them before you tap I've saved them — continue. Every code from before has stopped working, including any you still had left over.
- Every device that was signed in as the owner with a username and PIN is signed out, and any PIN reset code for the owner that had not been used yet stops working. Your teammates stay signed in.
- Recovery closes every door the old sign-in had. Example: if a former manager still had your old code list, or a tablet at the counter was signed in as you, none of that works any more.
- If you closed the screen before saving the new codes, make another set on your profile with Generate new codes. It's also a good moment to confirm your sign-in email there is one you can reach.
The emails this sends
Recovery moves who can sign in to your business, so it is never silent — these emails exist for exactly this, and they are the ones to read carefully rather than skim
| When it's sent | What it says | |
|---|---|---|
| "Your sign-in email was changed" | A recovery code is used — sent to the old sign-in address and the recovery address. | The date and time, the new owner sign-in address with most of it hidden — enough to recognise your own, not enough to be useful to anyone else — that every device signed in as the owner was signed out and the other recovery codes stopped working, and the names of the other people who can manage the business — check them on the Team page once you are back in. |
| "You now sign in to (your business) with this address" | A recovery code is used — sent to the address you recovered to. | That the old codes and devices are gone, and where to make a new set of codes if you did not save the ones on screen. |
| "New recovery codes were created" | A fresh set of recovery codes is generated. | Every code from before has stopped working, so if you kept the old list on paper or in a drawer, throw it away and keep the new one. |
If it was you The first email says plainly that only the new address can sign in as the owner from now on, and that the old one no longer opens the account. If it was you, there is nothing to do.
If either of those arrives and it was not you, act on it straight away. Someone with your business code and one of your recovery codes has moved the owner sign-in, which means they can now get in and you cannot. Your own saved codes stopped working at that moment, so they cannot move it back.
What to do Each email ends with what to do in that case — contact us straight away. We check who you are and move the owner sign-in back to you. Do not wait, and do not reply to the message asking whether it is genuine.
"That business code or recovery code isn't valid." Recovery needs the business code (your business's short code) and a recovery code together — a mismatch or an already-used recovery code is refused. Double-check both, and that you're using a code you haven't spent.
Wrong guesses are limited
| What the screen says | What it means |
|---|---|
| Too many recovery attempts. Please wait a little while and try again. | Too many wrong tries from one internet connection (10 to begin with), or too many tries with one sign-in email (12 in 10 minutes), or from one address (20 in 10 minutes). A connection that has used up its wrong tries is locked for 15 minutes. Wait, then try again with the right codes. |
| Account recovery is very busy right now. Please try again in a few minutes. | Many people are using recovery at once, across the whole platform. Nothing is wrong with your codes. Try again in a few minutes. |
- The limit is on the person trying, never on the business. Nobody can lock you out of recovery by typing your business code, because the counting is by the connection and the sign-in email that is trying. One inbox written with a +tag or dots counts as one.
- A correct recovery clears the count for the connection you used.
- On a phone, the recovery page and the sign-in step that comes before it open normally, so you can finish. The rest of the business app asks for a computer or a tablet.