Registration

How to create your free Hayyalasalah account. The registration form is a five-step wizard — Mosque, Timetable, Contact, Account, Review — followed by an email check. Allow about 10 minutes, a little longer if you upload a timetable.

Before you begin

Have these ready:

• An active email address for the contact person — the verification link and your welcome email go here. Use an inbox someone checks daily (not noreply@…).
• Your mosque's full name, street address, postal code, phone number and website.
• Optional: your current prayer timetable as an Excel or CSV file. Any layout works — the platform works out the columns for you. You can skip this and import later.
• A safe place to keep a password — a password manager (Bitwarden, 1Password, Apple Keychain) is best.

Step-by-step

Open hayyalasalah.co.uk/hayyalasalah/register.php in any browser (phone, tablet or computer). The progress bar at the top shows which of the five steps you are on; Back takes you to the previous step without losing what you typed.

1. Step 1 — Mosque details

   

   • Mosque / Masjid name — the full name exactly as it should appear on your screens (e.g. Norbury Muslim Centre).
   • Country — pick from the list. This sets the postal-code format, the currency label, and which region/city lists appear.
   • Postal / ZIP code — used for your address and prayer-time location, so check it carefully.
   • State / Province / Region, City, District / County / Borough — drop-downs appear for countries we have curated; otherwise type the names. City and borough are used to group Janazah announcements with nearby mosques.
   • Street address, Phone, Website — shown on your screens and public listing.
   • Calendar source — which Hijri (Islamic) calendar your displays follow: Umm al-Qura (calculated), Moonsighting (moonsighting.org.uk), Wifaq ul-Ulama (UK), AlAdhan, newcrescentsociety.org (UK) or Manual (your own moon sightings, recorded later in the Kiosk admin). Most mosques pick one of the automatic sources here; you can change it any time in Settings — see Guide 03.

   Click Continue →. If a required field is missing, a message tells you which one.

2. Step 2 — Upload your timetable (optional)

   

   If you already have your prayer times in a spreadsheet, choose the file(s) here — .csv, .xlsx or .xls, up to 3 files of 2 MB each — and click Upload & preview. The platform reads the column headers and a few rows, guesses the layout, and shows you a mapping to check. Nothing is written until your account is created.

   No file to hand? Click Skip →. You start with a standard starter timetable and can import the real one from the Kiosk admin at any time.

3. Step 3 — Contact person

   

   Enter the full name and email address of the primary administrator, and type the email a second time to confirm. The optional "Where did you hear about Hayyalasalah?" helps us, but you can leave it blank.

4. Step 4 — Create your account

   

   • Username — 3 to 32 characters, letters, numbers and underscores only, starting with a letter (e.g. nmc_admin).
   • Password — at least 12 characters, using at least three of: lowercase, uppercase, digits, symbols. Confirm it in the second box.
   Important

   This password is what you will sign in with. If you forget it, the only recovery is the forgot-password email flow — there is no other way to retrieve it.

5. Step 5 — Review & Register

   

   Check the summary (country, timetable choice, password length). Tick the Cloudflare "Verify you are human" box, then click Verify & Register →. You will see a "check your email" confirmation screen.

6. Verify your email

   Open the email titled "Verify Your Email — Hayyalasalah Registration" and click the gold Verify My Email button. The link is valid for 24 hours; after that the pending registration is discarded and you simply register again.

   Email not arriving?

   Check your spam / junk folder first — Gmail and Outlook sometimes route the first message there. If nothing has arrived after 10 minutes, register again with the same email; the new link replaces the old one.

7. Save your credentials — the critical step

   Clicking the verification link creates your account and shows a confirmation page with:

   • Your Mosque ID (e.g. MSQ-0072) — the one identifier you sign in with, enter on your screens and quote to support.
   • Your login password — shown once on this page and never sent by email.

   Store the password before you leave the page. The page gives you three helpers: a Copy button, a ⬇ Download credentials as .txt button, and an "I have saved my password" checkbox that unlocks the Go to Admin Panel → button.

   Do not skip this step

   If you close the page without saving the password, your only recovery is the forgot-password flow in Guide 02. Put it in a password manager now.

8. Sign in for the first time

   Click Go to Admin Panel →. Enter your Mosque ID (MSQ-…) and your password. Continue with Guide 02 — Signing in, which also explains how to switch on two-factor authentication.

What happens behind the scenes

When you verify your email, the platform automatically creates:

• Your admin account and, if you uploaded one, imports your timetable into a prayer-time table dedicated to your mosque.
• A kiosk display URL at screen.hayyalasalah.co.uk/?m=72 and a signage display URL at info.hayyalasalah.co.uk/?m=72 (the number from your Mosque ID).
• A welcome email with your Mosque ID, the sign-in link, and download links for the Android TV app and the Raspberry Pi installer image.

Frequently asked questions