I don't have an active email address, but need to create one for payroll onboarding.
It only takes a couple of minutes to set up your email account. Here’s what you’ll need to do:
1. From your Internet browser, navigate to the sign-up page for your email provider.
Once again, you can use a trusted provider such as Gmail (from Google), Yahoo! Mail or Outlook (from Microsoft).
2. Enter your details to open an email account. These often include:
| Name | First and last |
| Desired Login Name | This is the email address you’d like to create. Choose a login name that is easy for you to remember, spell and type. Once your create this, you can’t change it. Many people will use their name separated by a dot, such as firstname.lastname@gmail.com, as this is recognizable and easy for others to email you. |
| Password | Create a password that is secure, which is often not easy to remember, spell or share. Use at least eight characters with a combination of upper case, lower case, letters, numbers and symbols. For example, a password such as “password999” is easy for a person or automated bot to guess. But a password such as “a3#b975!d” is much harder. Write this password down and store that in a safe place. |
| Phone number | This can be used as an extra security measure in case you can’t get into your email account in the future. |
3. Follow the rest of the steps as required.
Some sign-up forms will also ask for things such as your birthday and location. You may also be asked to create a security question, which can be a helpful way for you to recover a forgotten password.
4. Accept the “Terms of Service.”
You’ll also be asked to read and accept the terms of their service. This is usually one of the final steps.
5. Start using your new email account!
You can easily log in from any computer, phone or tablet that has Internet access.