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# Circular Signup & Sign-in Error
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**This issue is RESOLVED** by changing the Sign-up/Sign-in email from Magic Link to a One-Time Password (OTP). If you would like to update your environment, please reach out to the Customer Success team.
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When a Customer wants to Sign-up or Sign in to your Club’s app, they will need to enter the email address associated with their Profile. If the Customer enters their email address, receives the system email to Sign-up/Sign in, clicks on the button inside the email, and it appears the system is asking them to Sign-up/Sign in again, they are likely stuck in a circular error.
**This error is a result of the email application on the Customer’s phone**. Meaning, the Customer’s email application (Gmail, Outlook, Mail, etc.) will open a browser INSIDE the email application, rather than opening the browser application on the Customer’s phone.
Staff (or a Customer) can notice if this error is happening by looking at the top of the phone’s screen, where there might be a “Done” or “Back” button available for the Customer to click.
Or by looking at the bottom of the phone’s screen, where there will be an icon to open a browser like Safari or Chrome (the icon in this example is Safari).
The way to escape the circular sign-up error is to hold down a finger on the SIGN UP button inside the system email.
And to click on the “Copy Link” button, then paste that link inside the Customer’s preferred browser.
Another easy way to notice if the Customer is stuck in the circular sign-up error is to review the different applications open on the phone. Notice the below screenshot, where the Customer is clearly signed into the system on their Gmail application and not on Chrome, a browser application, where the Customer needs to be signed in.
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