Create Your Siren Cloud Account

The usual way into Siren Cloud is a free trial. It gives your new organization 30 days of Siren Pro, and you don’t need a card to start. You start the trial, create your account, and confirm your email. Then you connect a sales channel, create and test a program, and choose a paid plan before the trial ends. If you already know which plan you want, you can buy a plan instead. Either way, you’re the organization’s first Admin.

Start a free trial

Start a free trial on the Siren website. Siren asks a few quick questions about the program you have in mind, then opens the Siren Cloud sign-up form with your email filled in. The Siren Cloud sign-in page can also offer a “Create an organization” link to the same form. The trial doesn’t hold a founding spot.

Enter your organization's name

Usually your business or brand name. Your teammates and collaborators see it.

Enter your email and choose a password

Use 12 to 72 characters. Avoid common passwords, your email address, and your organization's name.

Tick "I agree to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy"

Both pages are linked in the label. Siren Cloud records which version of each page you accepted, when, and for which account and organization, and records no IP address or browser details.

Click "Create organization"

Without the tick, Siren Cloud shows "Agree to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy to create an organization." and creates nothing.

Confirm your email

Siren Cloud emails you a code. Enter it on the next screen, or open the link in the email.

One email address starts one organization. If the address already has a Siren account, the form says “An account with that email already exists. Try signing in instead.” Sign in with that account, and ask an Admin of the organization you want to join to add you as a member.

You sign up with an email and a password. Once your account exists, you can also sign in with Google, GitHub, or Microsoft, as long as that account uses the same, verified email address. Sign In to Siren Cloud explains how.

Confirm your email

After you click “Create organization”, the “Confirm your email” screen says where the code went. Enter the code and click “Confirm email”, or open the link in the email instead. If the email doesn’t arrive within a few minutes, check your spam folder, then click “Send a new code”, then use the newest email, because each new code replaces the last one. After several wrong codes or new-code requests, wait 15 minutes and try again.

You can’t open your organization until your email is confirmed. If you leave and come back later, sign in with your email and password, and the same confirmation step appears. Click “Send a new code” there if your earlier code no longer works.

What you get

When you confirm with the code, Siren Cloud signs you in and opens your dashboard. When you use the link in the email instead, you see “Your email is confirmed”. Click “Sign in” and sign in with your email and password. Your trial takes a moment to set up, so if you land on Integrations first, wait a moment and open the dashboard again. Your organization starts with:

You as its only member, with the Admin role.
A 30-day trial of Siren Pro. Admins see a “Pro trial” banner at the top of the screen that counts down the days left and links to “View plans”.

Next steps during your trial

Use the trial to set up and test the program you’ll run, then pick the plan that fits it. Run Your First Program on Siren Cloud walks through these steps in detail.

Connect a sales channel. Add a Property for your store and connect it through Stripe, Shopify, or a WordPress site.
Create and test a program. Create a program, add a collaborator, and send a test sale to see who it credits and what they earn.
Choose a paid plan before the trial ends. “View plans” on the trial banner opens the Siren Cloud pricing page. Buy with the email you sign in to Siren Cloud with, and your organization moves onto that plan and keeps everything you built. Choose or change a plan covers the details, and Without an active plan covers a trial that ends first.

Buy a plan

You can skip the trial and buy a plan straight away on the Siren website, starting from the Siren Cloud pricing page. Your organization starts on that plan. Use the email you want to sign in with, because Siren sets up your login for that address and attaches the plan to it.

Choose a plan

On the Siren Cloud pricing page, pick monthly or annual billing, then click the buy button on the plan you want.

Enter your details and pay

The checkout page, "Almost there", asks for your email address, your name, and a billing address, and a phone number if you like. Click "Continue to Payment". Stripe runs the payment form inside the page, so your card details go straight to Stripe. The button shows the total, with any tax for your address.

Check your inbox

"Check your inbox to get started" shows the address Siren emailed. That email holds your receipt and a "Set up your login" link that works for 72 hours.

Set up your login

The link opens "Set up your Siren login" with your email filled in. Choose a password of at least 10 characters, with an uppercase letter, a lowercase letter, and a number, type it again under "Confirm password", and click "Set password and open Siren". The page can also offer Google, Microsoft, or GitHub instead of a password.

Open your dashboard

"Setting up your account" waits while Siren finishes your organization, which takes a few seconds, then opens your Siren Cloud dashboard with you signed in.

The setup link proves the address is yours, so a buyer never enters a confirmation code. Setting up also signs you in to your account on the Siren website, where your plan appears under Subscriptions, as Your plan on the Siren website describes. If your organization takes longer than a minute to finish, the setup page says so and offers “Continue to your dashboard”. Your workspace appears shortly after you open it.

While your payment confirms

If the payment hasn’t cleared by the time the page loads, you see “Confirming your payment” instead. The page refreshes itself for about a minute. Don’t pay again. If it doesn’t move on, email support@sirenaffiliates.com. When Siren can’t look up the order at all, the page says “Thanks for choosing Siren”, and if you paid, your receipt and setup link still arrive by email.

If the email doesn’t arrive

Check your spam folder first. Then click “Send the email again” on the “Check your inbox to get started” page. The page answers that a new link is on its way if your login still needs setting up, and the button works again after 30 seconds. Use the newest email, because each new link replaces the one before it.

If your email already had a Siren login when you bought, keep using it. Click “Sign in” on the same page and sign in as usual.

If the setup link doesn’t work

Opening a link that can’t set up your login shows a heading that says why.

Heading	What it means and what to do
”This link has expired”	More than 72 hours have passed. Use “Forgot password?” on the Siren Cloud sign-in page, as the page suggests, or email support@sirenaffiliates.com.
”This link was replaced”	A newer setup email went out, for example after “Send the email again”. Open the most recent email from Siren.
”Your login is already set up”	Your login already has a password or a linked sign-in account. Click “Sign in to Siren” and sign in with the login you chose.
”We couldn’t check this link”	Siren couldn’t check the link just then. Click “Try again” in a minute.
”This link isn’t valid”	The link is incomplete or isn’t a setup link from a purchase. Open “Set up your login” from your receipt email again, or click “Sign in to Siren”.

A password that misses the rules doesn’t use up the link. The page says what’s wrong, and you can try again. If you pick a Google, Microsoft, or GitHub account that’s already linked to a different Siren login, the page says so, and you can choose another account or set a password.

Work through the Get started checklist

The “Get started” card on your dashboard lists five steps. Each one ticks itself off when Siren Cloud sees it done, so the card always shows what’s left. Run Your First Program on Siren Cloud walks through the same work in the order that lets you test a referral, with a link to the full guide for each step.

Create your first program

Decide how collaborators earn: the incentive, what triggers it, and the payout. You can build one from scratch or start from a ready-made recipe. See Create a Program in Siren and Working with Recipes.

Add a collaborator

Under Manage > Collaborators, add someone who will promote your program and enroll them in it, so sales can be credited to them. See Managing Collaborators.

Connect your sales source

Connect the Property where your sales happen to Stripe or Shopify and add its tracking line, or connect your WordPress site, as Connect Stripe, Connect Shopify, and Connect a WordPress Site describe. You can also send visits and sales from your own code with an API key that an Admin creates under Settings > Developer > API keys, as API Keys describes.

Get your first referral

Select collaborators under Manage > Collaborators and click "Send Signup Email". They copy their referral link from their portal. The step is done when the first visit or sale arrives.

Connect a payout provider

Connect Stripe or PayPal so Siren Cloud can send payouts for you, on the Plus and Pro plans and during the trial. "Set up payouts" opens "Manage Autofulfillers". The step stays open on Essentials, where you pay collaborators yourself. See Set Up Automatic Payouts.

The Create a Program in Siren and How to Pay Collaborators guides are written for the WordPress plugin, and the steps match Siren Cloud apart from where screens sit. Find Your Way Around Siren Cloud maps each plugin menu item to its place in Siren Cloud. Working with Recipes covers the recipe browser and importing a recipe file.