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My team member cannot sign in or is stuck choosing a role. How do I fix it?

They need to accept their staff invitation from the link in the email. Until the invite is accepted, their account is not linked to your merchant, so they land on the role screen with nowhere to go.

2 min read
Updated Sep 5, 2026

Staff access is granted through an invitation, not just by creating an account. If a teammate signs up or signs in before accepting the invite, they are not yet attached to your merchant account and land on the "Welcome to LinkJolt" role screen with nowhere to go.

The fix

  1. Make sure you sent the invitation to the exact email address they sign in with. The invite is checked against their login email and refused if the two differ.
  2. Have them open the invitation email and click Accept Invitation. If they are signed out, that page offers "I Have an Account", which signs them in and brings them back to press Accept Invitation, or "Create Account", which signs them up with the invited address already filled in and joins them straight away. Signing in somewhere else does not join them.
  3. Tell them not to pick a card on the "Welcome to LinkJolt" screen while they wait. "Continue as Affiliate" creates an affiliate account on that email address, and "Continue as Merchant" starts a merchant account of their own. A staff invitation is refused for anyone who has either.

Staff are managed by the account owner under Settings, on the Staff tab, and billing is owner only as well. When you invite someone you can also allow payout and webhook management, or API key management.

If the invitation is refused because they already have an affiliate or merchant account on that address, invite them again at a different email address. If they accepted and are still stuck, contact support with the email address they used.

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