System and method for pre-staged account creation with 2D codes background

A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions, which when executed by a processing unit, configure the processing unit to perform operations comprising:

• receiving a confirmation that a user has been authenticated by a physical establishment located at a physical authentication location, the user being associated with a user profile and a user identifier;
• querying a database using the user identifier as input to determine if the user profile has an online user account of an online service;
• determining, based on the querying, that the user profile does not have the online user account of the online service;
• based on the determining that the user profile does not have the online user account and the confirmation that the user has been authenticated by the physical establishment, generating a two-dimensional (2D) barcode encoded with a link to open a credential creation user interface on a computing device, the credential creation user interface associated with the user identifier;
• receiving an indication of activation of the link from the computing device;
• in response to the receiving, calculating a time difference between a 2D barcode generation time and an indication receiving time;
• and
• determining the time difference is less than a threshold time difference;
• and
• in response to determining the time difference is less than the threshold time difference, presenting on the computing device the credential creation user interface configured to receive a username and a password for creating a credential to access a new online user account of the online service.

A system comprising:

• a processing unit;
• and
• a storage device comprising instructions, which when executed by the processing unit, configure the processing unit to perform operations comprising:
• receiving a confirmation that a user has been authenticated by a physical establishment at a physical authentication location, the user being associated with a user profile and a user identifier;
• querying a database using the user identifier as input to determine if the user profile has an online user account of an online service;
• determining, based on the querying, that the user profile does not have the online user account of the online service;
• based on the determining that the user profile does not have the online user account and the confirmation that the user has been authenticated by the physical establishment, generating a two-dimensional (2D) barcode encoded with a link to open a credential creation user interface on a computing device;
• receiving an indication of activation of the link from the computing device;
• in response to the receiving, calculating a time difference between a 2D barcode generation time and an indication receiving time;
• and
• determining the time difference is less than a threshold time difference;
• and
• in response to determining the time difference is less than the threshold time difference, presenting on the computing device the credential creation user interface configured to receive a username and a password for creating a credential to access a new online user account of the online service.