Managing your login options and email account changes (Google or Email-Password)
You have the option to login with a traditional email+password combo; and using your Google account as your login method (Google Single Sign-On aka SSO)
Enabling 2-Factor on your Email login method
If you are using the email login + password combo to log in, we strongly advise that you add more security by enabling 2-factor on your account.
We handle 2-Factor using an authenticator app (SMS options are not as secure) -- Whatever you usually use (Google Authenticator, Authy etc) will work for us
If you are using the Google SSO login method, it is your Google account that will provide the 2-Factor protection.
You only see "Enable 2-Factor" if you have an Email login method on your account
If you see this option available ("Enable 2-Factor") in your Salary Confidential account even though you are logged in via Google SSO, it means your account also has an email login account associated. The "Enable 2-Factor" option you see refers to your email login method.
Advanced login management options
You can use both an email login method AND a Google SSO to log into your account
You can use both methods at once, and if you do, this also gives you a pathway to change which Google account is being associated to Salary Confidential.
If you have both an Email login/Password combo and a Google SSO login method enabled, you should know that the Email login email address is what Salary Confidential considers to be 'primary'
That distinction doesn't matter if you only have a Google SSO login enabled.
Email login + Password
If you use the email login + password option, you can change the password or email login as you would expect (after verifying a temporary code as an extra security measure that we will send to you existing email)
If you want to change what Google SSO account you use
If you wanted to change the Google account you are using to sign on (in this example: foo@gmail.com), you need to add an email login+Password to your account -- even temporarily.
- Add the new email login method, and verify that email. This email address, let's say it's mynewlogin@email.com becomes the 'primary' email of Salary Confidential. This is where you're getting your marketing (if opt-ed in) and your survey notifications (unless opted out). This email address could also be a gmail, like random_email@gmail.com -- as long as you control it.
- At this point, you can delete your Google SSO association (foo@gmail.com is deleted from your account)
- You can now associate your account with a different google account, like your account never had a Google SSO attached to it. You now associate bar@gmail.com
The primary email is still mynewemail@email.com - the email that is tied to your Email login+password combo
Perhaps that's good for you, or perhaps you just want only the Google SSO option and had created the Email login option as a temporary step in order to change the Google SSO account you were using.
--> You can delete the Email login option if you have a Google SSO option enabled. We allow this. When you delete the email login option of a Salary Confidential account that has a Google SSO, we will automatically change the Primary email of your account (where you get notifications from us) to the Google SSO email.
So in our example here, if you decide to delete your Email login of mynewemail@email.com only to leave the Google SSO of bar@gmail.com, we will set your primary email to bar@gmail.com as part of the deletion of the email login.
If you want to align your Email login email and your Google SSO address and keep both methods
In the above example your login email (and therefore the primary email as far as Salary Confidential is concerned) is not aligned with your Google SSO account.
If you want to get your marketing and survey notifications at your Google SSO email bar@gmail.com, you can change the Email login to bar@gmail.com -- that's it, that will effectively line up where you get emails from us (the primary email login being dominant) and what Google SSO you are using but keep both options available to log in
About passkey login options (or alternative SSOs)
We currently only plan to offer the Google SSO as a third-party login method. It is both widely used and offers state of the art security features -- good enough for us!
We understand not everyone wants to have Google in their lives - this is why you can use the email + login combo, and add 2-Factor for extra security.
We do not plan to support other SSOs at this time, but we are paying attention to user feedback. If there is strong demand for a particular SSO, we could add it.
As for passkeys -- we do plan on using these eventually.
Drop by our Reddit to share your feedback on these login options if this is on your mind