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✦ Task type · Website testing

Signup tests that include the part after the button

Most signup testing stops when the form submits. Most signup abandonment happens after that, in an inbox you cannot see.

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The signup form is the part teams look at, because it is the part they built. The verification email is the part they configured once and never watched anyone wait for.

What to put in the public brief

Keep the URL and any invite code private.

What to put in the private instructions

  1. Say to start the timer at the first click

    And to keep recording through the email wait. The dead time is data: four minutes of nothing is a finding, and it is invisible in every analytics tool you own.

  2. Ask them to report where the email landed

    Inbox, promotions, spam, or not at all. Ask which provider they used, because deliverability is provider-specific and one bad answer is not a pattern.

  3. Ask them to get the password wrong first

    Deliberately, once. Rules revealed only on failure are among the most common causes of abandonment and they never appear in a funnel.

  4. Ask what they expected to happen next

    At the moment after verification. If the answer is not what your product does, you have found the gap between promise and landing.

Proof worth requiring

Ask for

The full recording including the wait, a screenshot of where the email landed, and the email provider.

Do not ask for

The account credentials. You do not need them, storing them creates an obligation you did not want, and you can verify the account exists from your own side.

When this task type is the wrong tool

If people sign up fine and then leave, the problem is after this boundary — run an onboarding test instead.

If your verification email is not arriving at all, fix deliverability before paying anyone to observe it. You will get fifteen identical reports and learn what a spam-folder check would have told you free.

Common questions

What makes this different from an onboarding test?

Onboarding starts once someone is in. Signup is everything before that, and it contains the two failure points nobody watches: the verification email that lands in spam or takes four minutes, and the password rule that is only revealed after it has been broken.

Should testers use their real email?

Yes, on a throwaway they control, and say so explicitly. The verification step is the part you are buying, and a plus-addressed or temporary mailbox behaves differently in deliverability terms than a real one.

What reward is fair?

Ten to eighteen dollars. Short, but you are asking someone to create a real account with a real address on a service they do not know, and some will reasonably decline. Price that.

What about social sign-in?

Test it as a separate campaign. A Google or Apple button changes the flow so completely that mixing it with email signup produces results you cannot separate, and its failure modes are account-linking problems that email signup never hits.

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The same job, from the other side. Rewards are set by the poster, so treat these as the range this task type usually sits in rather than a promise.

Usually pays
$10 to $18
You need
An email address you control and a phone or computer
Proof expected
A recording including the wait for the verification email

Keep recording while you wait. The dead time is the finding, so a four-minute gap is worth more to the poster than a fast, tidy run.

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Test your signup

Set the reward and how many testers you need. Workers reserve a spot; your URL and any invite code stay private until they do.

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