Products you buy online in your Card2Tap account are connected to your account automatically when your payment is confirmed. There is nothing to activate: you find them in NFC Products.
A product you received another way — as a gift, at an event, from your company or as a spare — is activated by you. It takes a minute.
Start the activation
Use any one of these:
- Tap it with your phone. A product that isn’t activated yet shows “Activate Your Card2Tap” with Sign In and Create Account.
- Scan the setup QR code in the packaging.
- Type the setup code. Go to card2tap.com/a/ and enter the setup code printed in the packaging. It looks like C2T-XXXX-XXXX.
Already in My Card2Tap? Select Activate a product at the top of NFC Products.
Activate it
- Sign in or create an account. Use your own Card2Tap account. Creating one is free. See Create a Card2Tap account.
- Confirm it’s yours. Enter the setup code, unless the product was ordered with your account’s email address.
- Choose its profile. Pick which of your profiles it opens, or create a new profile for it.
- Confirm. Tick the box and select Activate.
- Done. Your Card2Tap is connected. Select Test Connection to see what a tap opens.
You can change the profile it opens later in NFC Products.
About setup codes
- A setup code and its setup QR code work once. After activation they stop working.
- Codes expire after a set time, normally 365 days.
- Having the product in your hand isn’t proof that it’s yours. You need the setup code, or the account it was ordered with.
- Code lost or expired? Contact Card2Tap Support online. If you bought the product yourself, sign in with the account you ordered with first.
Team products aren’t activated this way: your team’s owner or an admin assigns them in the Team dashboard. If a tap says “This Card2Tap isn’t assigned yet”, ask them.