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# Claude Direct Top-Up Guide

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### 📌 Activation Notes

<mark style="color:$warning;">Please read this section carefully before proceeding to the activation steps below.</mark>

#### ⚠️ **Do not log out during activation**:

* <mark style="color:$danger;">Please stay logged into your Claude account</mark> until the activation is fully completed.\
  You will receive an automatic notification on the page once your order has been successfully fulfilled.

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#### 🔁 Existing Subscription

* If you already have an <mark style="color:$danger;">**active subscription (web or app)**</mark><mark style="color:$danger;">, please wait until it expires and then fill the form.</mark>

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### Installing the Claude Session Key extension

1. Go to the link: [https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/claude-session-key/ppofmhjkjfinjpidlidepeonimpjmadj](<https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/claude-session-key/ppofmhjkjfinjpidlidepeonimpjmadj&#xA;>)
2. Install the Claude Session Key extension in the Google Chrome browser.

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### Logging into the Claude account

1. Go to the site [claude.ai](https://claude.ai)
2. Log into your Claude account.
3. <mark style="color:$success;">Ensure that you are fully authorized (the account is open).</mark>

ℹ️ Make sure you opened [claude.ai](https://claude.ai), not platform.claude.com.
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### Copying the Session Key

1. In the top right corner of Chrome, click on the Extensions icon (next to the profile icon)
2. Select Claude Session Key.
3. You will see a **"✓ Session key found!"** message and a shortened key that starts with **sk-ant-sid...**
4. Click the **Copy to clipboard** button — the key will be automatically copied to your clipboard.

ℹ️ The caption "Paste this key in the Claude Usage widget setup" below the button refers to the extension itself and has nothing to do with our service — you can ignore it.

### <sub><mark style="color:$success;">Click the picture below to view it in a larger size.<mark style="color:$success;"></sub>

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### Sending the Session Key

1. Paste the copied key into the form that was provided to you.
2. The field accepts only the key itself — a single line starting with sk-ant-sid.
3. Send the data.
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DO NOT LOG OUT of your Claude account until the order is completed. You will receive an automatic notification on the form page when the order is fulfilled.
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