---
title: "Add user accounts and login to your app"
description: "Ask Buildy to add sign-up and login. Users sign in with email and password, you see them in Data Management, and you sign in as admin from Dashboard > Site & App Settings."
canonical: "https://www.buildy.ai/docs/build/add-user-accounts-and-login"
last_updated: "2026-10-26"
---

# Add user accounts and login to your app

Your app can have its own users with sign-up, login and password reset. Ask Buildy for it in chat. Users sign in with an email and a password that is separate from Buildy.

## Steps

1. In chat, say what users should be able to do: "Add user accounts. Members can log in and see their past orders. Guests can only see the home page."
2. Buildy adds the sign-up, login and forgot-password pages and a profile area.
3. Test it in **Preview**: sign up with a test email, log out, log in again.
4. Click **Publish & Share**.

## Your admin account

Every app has one admin account for you. Open **Dashboard > Site & App Settings** and find the **Admin login** card. It shows the email and lets you set or change the password. Use it to sign in to your own app as the admin. It is separate from your Buildy password.

## See and manage users

Open **Advanced > Data Management** and select the **User** entity. Each user shows a name, email and role. Click **View all** on the Admin login card to get there faster.

## Rules

- Passwords need at least 8 characters with letters and numbers.
- Users sign in with email and password. Sign in with Google or other social accounts is not available in apps.
- User sign-ups also appear in **Contacts** with the source "App signup".

## Common problems

### A user forgot their password

They click **Forgot password** on your app's login page and get a reset email. You cannot set a user's password for them.

### I want only some pages behind login

Use **Dashboard > Site & App Settings > App Access**. See [Make pages require login](/docs/build/require-login-on-pages).

## Related

- [Make pages require login](/docs/build/require-login-on-pages)
- [Add forms and capture leads](/docs/build/add-forms-and-capture-leads)