How to Create Auto-Login Links in AccessAlly Emails

Create an auto-login link to help users quickly access protected content on your site without requiring them to manually log in with their username and password. Sometimes you don’t want to ask your members to log in through the login page.

Instead, you want to make it easy for them to access the exact page you’re sending them to via a link in an email.

That’s where these auto-login links come in! You can auto-login any member by creating a customized auto-login link that points to a specific page on your member site, or the main dashboard page – it’s up to you!

It’s important to note that this article covers links sent via AccessAlly Emails.

Requirements to Use This Feature

In order to use this feature passwords will need to be stored as an option AccessAlly → Settings → General Setup → CRM Integration.

AccessAlly Managed passwords are encrypted.

Setup Steps

Step 1: Email Text

AccessAlly → Emails → Select your desired email type → Edit content

1. Type the desired wording into the text editor.
2. Select “Personalize” and add email placeholder
3. Select “Personalize” add password placeholder

Step 2: Create Auto-login Link

Use the following example with items 2 & 3 from the image above to create the link.

https://link.to.page/?accessally_user={{[email]}}&accessally_password={{[password]}}

Step 3: Add Link

In the email content highlight your link text and add the auto-login link with coding.

Step 4: Delete Placeholders

Now that your auto-login link is created you can remove the email placeholder and password placeholder from the email content.

Auto-Login After Purchase

After purchase on an AccessAlly order form auto-login follows the examples below.

1. New user > makes purchase = auto-logged in
2. Existing user > logged in > makes new purchase = remains logged in
3. Existing user > not logged in > makes new purchase = required to log in for security purposes. They’ll be redirected to the “login to your account” page or “please login first before accessing the site” page. Here’s more info on these two key pages.