# Invite by email without registering?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/invite-by-email-without-registering/177055
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 23, 2021, 7:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/invite-by-email-without-registering/177055 "2021-01-23T19:17:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![patrickemin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/patrickemin/32/520162_2.png) [@patrickemin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/patrickemin)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2021, 7:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/invite-by-email-without-registering/177055/1 "2021-01-23T19:17:55Z")

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Hi, can someone explains to me this functionality “Invite by email”. How can someone join my site if he has no login as indicated in the dialog box message? Thanks

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/e/2/e2f2b656e856ccc3c4aa047d25f29353a5808af5.png)

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### Author: ![ondrej](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ondrej/32/198804_2.png) [@ondrej](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ondrej)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2021, 8:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/invite-by-email-without-registering/177055/2 "2021-01-23T20:57:46Z")

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Hello,

If you know the users email then you can send a invite from there. It sends them a link via email that must be redeemed. This could be used if you are a team of people moving to discourse or your friends for example. Hope this answers your question. Here’s what the email looks like.

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/9/f/9f5b5e861f3f060fd3e02fea39bd9654cdc050d9.png)

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### Author: ![patrickemin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/patrickemin/32/520162_2.png) [@patrickemin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/patrickemin)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2021, 9:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/invite-by-email-without-registering/177055/3 "2021-01-23T21:22:03Z")

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Ok, is this invitee asked to type in a password for his account? The sentence “no login required” is confusing me. “No login” does not mean “no registration” is it? And registration does require a password ?

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### Author: ![simon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/simon/32/339122_2.png) [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2021, 9:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/invite-by-email-without-registering/177055/4 "2021-01-25T21:19:06Z")

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> [@patrickemin](#):
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> The sentence “no login required” is confusing me.

That text isn’t accurate. The user _does_ login to the site. When the user clicks the link in the invite email, they will be shown a form that’s similar to this:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/b/a/ba57ffff04e12da73c6456a6c4ae6a2b94671cbf.png)

Clicking the “Accept Invitation” link logs the user into the site. The main differences between accepting an invite and going through the normal username/password registration process are that the user doesn’t need to confirm their email address and that setting a password on the accept-invite form is optional. If a user does not set a password, they will be prompted to set one the next time they log out and then log back into the site.

I think that just removing the “no login required” text from the Invite by email text would be an improvement.

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### Author: ![patrickemin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/patrickemin/32/520162_2.png) [@patrickemin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/patrickemin)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2021, 10:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/invite-by-email-without-registering/177055/5 "2021-01-25T22:05:28Z")

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Ok, thanks for your explanations, now that’s clear !