How to receive SMS verification codes with a virtual number
A guide for first-time users. Follow five steps to receive your first code.
- 5
- steps
- From sign-up to your first code
- $25
- minimum top-up
- Bonus from $40
- 30 min
- code window
- One code per single-use number
- Auto
- refund
- No code, the price goes back
Step 1
Sign up with a token
Get an access token on the sign-up page. This token is your login and password. It is not stored on the server, so save it as a .txt file.
If you lose the token, the account cannot be recovered. Keep a second copy of the saved file somewhere else.
Step 2
Top up your balance
Press Add funds on your account screen. A secure PayGate checkout window opens: choose the amount, the coin and network, enter an email for the receipt, then send the exact amount shown to the address shown within 60 minutes. Top-ups start at $25 and are added once the payment is confirmed.
Your first top-up of $40 or more gets a bonus balance. See the bonus for each amount on the prices page.
Step 3
Choose an app and a country
In the order box, choose the app you need a code from and the country of the number. The price per number appears as soon as you choose.
If the app only accepts numbers from a certain country, choose that country first.
Step 4
Get the number and enter it in the app
Click Buy this number and the number appears in your numbers list. Enter it in the app's phone number field and request a verification code.
If the app has a separate country code field, enter only the digits after the country code.
Step 5
Read the code on your account screen
The SMS code the app sends appears in your numbers list. If no code arrives within 30 minutes, the price goes back to your balance.
Before the code arrives you can also get the price back at once with the Cancel button.
If the code does not arrive
Try another country
Each app works better with some countries. Numbers that receive no code cost nothing, so try another country.
Check the number format
Make sure you did not enter the country code twice and check whether the app wants a leading 0 removed.
Resend only once
Pressing resend many times can make the app block the number for a while. Wait 1~2 minutes and press it once.
Using it the right way
- Use it only to verify your own accounts and services you run.
- It cannot be used to take over other people's accounts, for fraud, spam or illegal trade.
- Numbers only receive messages; sending texts and calls are not available.
Get the verification code you need today
Sign-up takes one token. Top up from $25, then pick an app and a country.