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title: "Login codes for finance teams — a shared company number"
description: "Your accounting software texts a code to one employee’s phone and the close waits. How finance teams receive login codes together, and where it will not work."
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# Your finance team can receive company login codes together

> Your accounting software texts a code to one employee’s phone and the close waits. How finance teams receive login codes together, and where it will not work.

Accounting software, expense tools and supplier portals text a verification code to one number. When that number is a colleague’s mobile, the close waits for them to pick up.

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## Where the phone becomes the bottleneck

Finance runs on deadlines that do not move, using accounts that were set up years ago by whoever happened to be there.

- **The close stops on day three** — Reconciliations are due Friday. The accounting system texts its code to your financial controller, who is on leave with roaming switched off. Nothing gets posted until she answers.
- **The system asks every single time** — Your bookkeeper, your accounts payable clerk and your external accountant each sign in two or three times a day. Every one of those sign-ins sends a text to the same phone, belonging to one of them.
- **The payment platform belongs to someone who left** — He opened it four years ago with his own mobile. He left in March. Now a supplier payment needs releasing and the code goes to a number nobody in the building controls.
- **The auditor needs access until the fifteenth** — They want to pull reports themselves. Today that means somebody sits beside them reading codes off a phone, or you hand over a login you will have to change again afterwards.

## What this does, and what it will not do

### How can our finance team receive the login code for our accounting software?

Put a company-owned phone number on the account instead of an employee’s mobile, and let the approved people in finance read the code in a shared inbox.

### Can we use a shared number for our company bank account?

Usually not. Many banks deliberately refuse phone numbers that are not personal mobiles, and some regulated services require the code to go to a named individual rather than to a shared inbox.

### How do we give an auditor temporary access to a shared account’s codes?

Invite them, give them access to the one number they need, and remove it on the day the audit ends. They sign in as themselves, so there is no password to change afterwards.

The software does not know whose phone is on the other end. It texts the number recorded on the account. So you change that number to one the company owns, and the code lands in an inbox your controller, your bookkeeper and your accounts payable clerk can all open in a browser.

Nobody forwards a screenshot, nobody rings anyone on leave, and the account no longer depends on one person being reachable at 4pm on the last working day of the month.

> Whether your accounting software accepts the number is that provider’s decision, not ours. Add it and send yourself a test message before the next close, not during it.

Of all the accounts a finance team handles, **bank accounts are the ones most likely to refuse the number** — either at the point you enter it, or quietly later on. Payment authorisation is often tied to a named person on purpose, and that is a control your bank is unlikely to relax for a shared inbox.

Treat banking as out of scope until your bank tells you otherwise, and ask them directly before you change anything. What finance teams do use this for is the layer around the bank: accounting and bookkeeping software, expense and card platforms, payroll systems, supplier and procurement portals, tax and filing services, and the payment tools that will accept it.

Access is a named list of people rather than a password, so adding an auditor for two weeks does not affect anyone else and does not leave a shared credential behind when they are gone.

The inbox also records who opened which message, which is a more useful answer than “we think it was one of us” if anybody asks later. See [security and access](https://sharedsmsinbox.com/security).

## Four steps, and none of them are IT projects

Do it in a quiet week, not in the last three days of the month. Start with one account.

1. **Create your account** — Sign up with your work email. Nothing is charged and no card is asked for. _(Free to look around.)_
2. **Get your number** — Choose an available company number. It belongs to the company account, not to a member of staff. _($49/month starts here.)_
3. **Invite the finance people who need it** — Your controller, your bookkeeper, whoever runs accounts payable, and your external accountant if they sign in too. Each gets their own login, and you choose who sees the number. _(No per-user charge.)_
4. **Move one account across and test it** — Sign in to your accounting software, replace the mobile number with your company number, and send yourself a test code. If it arrives, move the next account. If it does not, that service has refused the number and you have lost nothing. _(Test before you rely on it.)_

## When a shared number is the wrong answer for finance

Finance has controls that other teams do not, and a shared inbox can work against some of them. Read this part before you buy.

There are four situations where we would tell you to leave the account alone:

- **Your bank, and anything your regulator treats like a bank.** Expect refusal. Some services check the kind of number, some require a named individual for payment approval, and some accept the number and then stop accepting it. Ask the provider before you change anything, and never move a payment-approval account across the week before a payment run.
- **Anywhere a named person is required by law or by your filing agent.** Tax portals, statutory filings and company registers often tie the code to a named director, officer or agent. If the service says the code goes to that person, that is the arrangement, and routing it to a shared inbox is not a workaround you want on your file.
- **Software that already gives every finance user their own account.** Most modern accounting systems do. A login each is better than any form of sharing, and it also tells you who posted what — which you need anyway. Use a shared number only for accounts the provider genuinely issues as one company login.
- **Anything where two different people are supposed to be involved.** If releasing a payment is meant to need one person to prepare and another to approve, an inbox that both of them can read can quietly collapse that into one. Give the number only to the people who should have it, or take a second number so the two groups stay apart.

What is left over is the ordinary, tedious majority of a finance team’s week: **the accounting system, the expense platform, the payroll portal, the supplier sites and the card provider** — accounts several of you genuinely share, at services that insist on a phone number. That is the case this is built for.

> A note on records: the text of a message, and any code inside it, is permanently erased 72 hours after it arrives by default, and an administrator can change that. The record that the message arrived stays. If your audit file needs the content of a message, save it yourself at the time — do not rely on the inbox to hold it.

## Questions from finance teams

### Can I use the number for login codes?

Yes — that is the most common reason teams get one. You give your company number to the account that sends the code, and the code arrives in the shared inbox where approved teammates can read it. Whether a particular service accepts the number is decided by that service, so test it before you rely on it.

### Will the number work with every website?

No. Some services accept only certain kinds of phone number, and many accept only numbers from their own country. That decision belongs to the service sending the message, not to us, and it can change without notice. Before you depend on the number for an important account, add it there and send yourself a test message.

### Can I have more than one number?

Yes. Each number is $49 a month, and teams often take a second one to keep departments apart — one for finance, one for marketing — so the people who need one set of messages are not reading the other. Each number has its own list of approved teammates.

## Where to go next

- [All use cases](https://sharedsmsinbox.com/use-cases) — The other teams that hit this, in case finance is not the only one in your company.
- [Operations teams](https://sharedsmsinbox.com/use-cases/operations-teams) — The same problem across shift patterns and time zones, where nobody is on leave and the phone is still asleep.
- [Login codes for teams](https://sharedsmsinbox.com/login-codes-for-teams) — The general version of this problem, and what to do about the codes already sitting in your group chat.
- [Security and access](https://sharedsmsinbox.com/security) — Who can read a code, how you remove an auditor’s access, and what we do not claim.
- [How it works](https://sharedsmsinbox.com/how-it-works) — The four steps in detail, including what to do on the day you switch an account over.
- [Pricing](https://sharedsmsinbox.com/pricing) — $49/month per phone number, whether three people in finance need it or thirty.

## Do not let the close wait on one phone

Move your accounting system onto a company number this week, while nothing is due. By month-end nobody will be chasing a colleague for a code.

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_$49/month per phone number. No credit card required. Pay only when you choose your number._

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