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Keep your seat on another phone

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Your spot in an event lives in the browser you joined from. Another phone or browser, a private window or a cleared browser counts as a new device. On Android, the CabuTally app and Chrome on the same phone share your spot, so moving between them needs nothing. To get back in as yourself, use a recovery link for one event, or an account for every event. Anyone in the event can do this, view-only people included.

  1. Right after you join, the welcome screen offers your recovery link. Tap the button to get it.
  2. To get it later, open the event, open the event menu, choose Members and tap the button to get your link.
  3. Tap the copy button and keep the link somewhere private, such as your notes. Your recovery link in Members, with the copy button
  4. On the other phone or browser, open the link.
  5. The page says the event comes back on this device and your other devices keep working. Tap the confirm button. The event opens, with you as yourself. The recovery page on another device: the explanation and the this-is-me button

With an account

  1. On the device that has your events, open your profile and tap the button to sign up or log in. The same offer can also appear on your events list, and on the welcome screen after you join. The note on the events list that your events live on this device only, with the add-account button
  2. Choose Google, or type your email, continue and ask for a code. Type the 6-digit code you receive. If you already set a password, you can use it instead. The events on this device stay yours. The sign-in dialog to add an account: continue with Google or with an email address
  3. On the new device, open your profile and sign in before you join anything. If you open an invite link on a device with nothing on it, the join page offers to sign in first. Your events are there.

Don’t join again as someone new

Joining again with the event’s link makes a second spot. Your expenses stay on the old one, every cost shared by everyone splits one more way, and nobody can merge the two.

Good to know

  • A recovery link works once, has no time limit and works in every phase of the event. Getting a new link stops the old one, and so does being removed from the event. If yours no longer works, get a fresh one on a device where you are still in.
  • You can only get a recovery link for your own spot. For someone who has not joined yet, see Add people who haven’t joined yet.
  • If you already joined as someone else on the new device, the link cannot bring your old spot there.
  • If your email already has an account, for example from another phone, the sign-in dialog offers to move this device’s events onto it, exactly as they are. An event that account is already in under another name stays on this device.

If you’re offline

You need a connection to get a recovery link and to use one, and to sign in.

Can’t find the answer? Write to us from the support page.