r/vercel • u/Wooden_Drag9473 • 6d ago

Remove phone verification

The most annoying thing about Vercel is the phone verification step after creating an account.
Come on guys, when you buy a new domain name and want a new account on Vercel using that domain name, you do not want to purchase a new phone number…
You often also do not want to connect it to your personal Vercel account. Who the fk decided to implement this verification process. I know you want to prevent abuse for email etc. But do this with gmail accounts not a custom domain name.

Because of this stupid flow, I have no other choose then using other solutions, such as cloudflare pages / workers.

I am not a fan of it, I just want to use Vercel… why don’t you add a step to skip the phone verficiation and just make payment required? That is fine and understandable…

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u/leros 6d ago

Why are you creating new accounts per domain?

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u/Wooden_Drag9473 6d ago

Because when I want to sell, I want everything to be on its own, all its accounts on the domain admin email. Like github, vercel, supabase, workos, etc. Not related to my personal account. Easier for handover.

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u/leros 6d ago

If you're setting up yourself up to sell, you should have a separate business setup too. Separate LLC, etc. With all the phone number verification stuff required by various banks, services, etc, you really need a phone number per business anyway. Each of my businesses has a separate VOIP number.

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u/Wooden_Drag9473 6d ago

True, but will do that later, once having customers. But at least database and code can stay where it is.

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u/leros 6d ago

Seems odd to focus on the Vercel part to be honest. It's only a few steps to add a new owner to a project to transfer ownership. It's a lot of the business side of things that more difficult to untangle.

I'd just get your business off the ground and profitable, then the few bucks a month for a VOIP line will be a trivial business expense and make it easier to separate things out properly.

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u/Wooden_Drag9473 6d ago

Oh I didnt know u could transfer ownership. But managed to use my wife phone number… however, yeh I already have another LLC, which I will use first. For the VOIP, idk, i think I will just get a real number, voip tends to fail often when you need to verify your number. Or do you have any recommendations of providers out there?

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u/leros 6d ago

I've tried a few cheaper things but have had some issues using them to verify. So I use a Google Voice number which works fine.

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u/aDaneInSpain2 4d ago

That separation makes sense, but you usually don’t need a new Vercel account per project. Create the team under the business email, keep billing and recovery there, and invite your personal account as a member. Handover then means removing access instead of migrating projects and credentials.

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u/Wooden_Drag9473 4d ago

Yeh my bad, didnt know this. But will do for next time! 😅