# Activate by signing in from the app

> Approve this computer in your browser instead of copying an activation code.

Status: Available · Level: Start here · About 3 minutes · Canonical: https://paracrux.com/docs/sign-in-from-the-app

## You need

- The desktop app installed on Windows
- An active subscription on your ParaCrux account
- An internet connection

## You'll come away with

- Activate a computer without copying a code
- Spot a request you did not start
- Know when to use a code or a licence file instead

## Step by step

1. **Start in the app.** Open Licensing. On the ParaCrux Solidworks Agent access card, choose Sign in with your ParaCrux account. The app opens paracrux.com in your browser and shows an 8-letter code, such as BCDF-GHJK.
2. **Sign in on the website.** If you are not signed in, sign in with your email and password. The page shows the computer's name, the product, the code and when the request expires.
3. **Check, then approve.** Approve only if you started this sign-in on your computer just now and the code matches the one in the app. Anyone can choose a computer's name, so never approve a code someone sent you. Approving needs an active subscription and counts as one of your 10 activations a day; it does not take a seat.
4. **Back in the app.** The app finishes on its own. It says Signed in, switches on Use a seat automatically when online and takes a seat when one is free. A request lasts 10 minutes; if it expires, start again.
5. **When to use something else.** Under Use an activation code instead you can still paste a code from My account, for example for scripted set-ups. A computer that is never online uses offline licence files.

## Walkthrough

The labels and messages are the app's and the website's own. The code, computer name and company are examples.

- **Licensing:** Button = Sign in with your ParaCrux account; Help = Opens paracrux.com in your browser. Approve this computer there; there is no code to copy.
- Provenance: real-code

- **Waiting:** Panel = In your browser, approve the code BCDF-GHJK. Only approve a code this computer shows.; Status = Waiting for approval in your browser…
- Provenance: real-code

- **paracrux.com/activate · Sign in this computer?:** Computer name = ParaCrux Desktop on WORKSTATION-07; Product = Solidworks Agent; Code = BCDF-GHJK
- **Gate:** Only approve if you started this sign-in in ParaCrux on your computer just now and the code matches.
- Provenance: real-code

- **paracrux.com/activate:** Result = Computer approved.
- Provenance: real-code

- **Agent:** Signed in. Your company · floating seat valid until 02/10/2026, 22:15:00.
- *The app then takes a seat automatically when one is free.*
- Provenance: real-code

## What it won't do

- Approving needs an active subscription; denying does not.
- A request lasts 10 minutes and works once. A declined or expired request cannot be reused.
- Each account can approve 10 activations a day, the same limit as activation codes.
- The computer and your browser both need to be online. For a computer that never is, use offline licence files.

## Covers

- Sign in from the app (Available): Activate a computer by approving it in your browser, with no code to copy. Where: Licensing, Sign in with your ParaCrux account; paracrux.com/activate

## Next

- [Licence a computer with no internet](https://paracrux.com/docs/license-a-computer-without-internet.md): Carry two signed files between an offline computer and a connected one, so an air-gapped workstation can hold a seat.