Confused about how user accounts work with invites, Retool branding, and existing Retool users

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We are on the Business plan so not sure if Enterprise changes things or is needed. There's a couple issues I'm facing. I've done the custom domain thing, and changed the logos etc, so the login pages and password reset all look like our brand.

Where I'm confused though is in these 2 scenarios:

  1. If I invite a new user to Retool, it literally sends them an email saying "Bob has invited you to Retool!" and then it's just a generic Retool sign up page and no branding whatsoever. Can this all be changed in the Enterprise version or what do you do to prevent people from knowing it's Retool?

  2. Bigger issue is when trying to create a new user, sometimes it says they already exist in another Retool organization, so how does that work? I can't obviously tell a partner to sign up for a whole new email address just to use our portal because they may have signed up for a Retool free account in the past. Hoping there's an option here or this is a hard stop dealbreaker for us. Even for us internally, we use Retool for one application, but when building a completely separate partner application that I wanted separate, I had to sign up for a second Retool instance, but then I couldn't invite any of my existing users as they all say they are existing. Am I supposed to do my own authentication or something and not use Retool's built in users?

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Hi @lmonroe :wave:

  1. That's strange, I'm getting redirected to the "branded" signup page from the invite email. I would reach out to the amazing support team at retool to look into that. Could be a delay if you tried it immediately after setting up branding.
  2. Ah yes, we deal with that issue often. We use + to sign up to multiple cloud instances with the same email. For example, if the email is hello@stackdrop.co you can sign up with hello+two@stackdrop.co and it will create a separate account while emails will be received by the "original" email account.

Afaik this is supported by major providers but not all providers.

Hope that helps,
mj

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Thanks that helps! It started working after I deleted the logo and added it again on branding.

Do you know much about multifactor? When I enabled that, as soon as a user logged in there's NO branding at all. It's got the Retool logo and it says "your Retool admin requires you set up multifactor" or whatever it says.

It doesn't even show that page under branding so wasn't sure how to remove any of that there.

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Thanks for flagging this @lmonroe! It looks like branding for the 2FA page is currently only supported on self-hosted instances. I've raised the issue with the dev team and can let you know here when it's fixed!