📍 Shoppers / Your Shopper Dashboard Account / How Bolt Accounts Work How Bolt Accounts Work A Bolt Account is created automatically during your initial experience with a Bolt Checkout. Your account saves the contact, shipping, and billing information provided for your first order. A Bolt Account is created automatically during your initial experience with a Bolt Checkout. Your account saves the contact, shipping, and billing information provided for your first order. From then on, whenever you visit a site that uses Bolt Checkout, we’ll recognize you by your contact information (email or phone number) and send a verification code to the email or phone number on file. Enter the code to verify your identity, and you’re in! TIP Bolt uses one-time codes via email or text to verify your identity. You do not need to create a username or password to access your Bolt account.