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💜 Heroku Student Pack : Activating

Activating your Heroku student pack.

Heroku for GitHub Students

  1. Navigate to https://www.heroku.com/github-students

    a banner for Heroku and GitHub students

  2. Click “Get the student offer”

    a button below some text

  3. Login with Heroku if necessary

    a login button

  4. Click “Verify with GitHub”

    some warning text above a verification button

  5. Click “Authorize heroku”

    an authorization screen with an authorize button

  6. In order to receive the Heroku credits, payment details are required. If you have already supplied details, continue by clicking “Verify my billing information” and skip to step 7. If, however, you have not provided any details, click “Add a credit or debit card to your account now”

    some explanatory text along with a link to add a credit or debit card

  7. In the new tab, click “Add credit card”. Note that this doesn’t have to be a credit card, a debit card will work just as well

    add credit card button

  8. Enter your payment details as requested and then head back to the Heroku sign up process (you may need to refresh the page for Step 2 to validate). If you closed the tab, open it up again here

    If you have any issues adding your card to Heroku, check the following:

    • The cardholder details (name and address) are exactly the same as what your bank has.
    • Your card is open to web purchases, as Heroku will debit a small amount (under 1 euro) to verify the card, and then refund it. This should take no more than a few hours.

  9. Enter your details, ensuring to put “Code Institute” as your School name, heed the warning and then click “Send”

    heroku student offer application form

  10. Read Heroku’s terms and click “Agree” to continue

    terms of use

  11. A thank you message will be shown, indicating that it can take up to 24 hours for the request to be processed

    thank you message

  12. When the confirmation email comes through from Heroku, you can check your credits via https://dashboard.heroku.com/account/billing. Here you should find that $156.00 of credits have been applied to your Platform Credits. It can take a while for the dashboard to update, so please wait the full 24 hours before contacting Heroku support in the event of any errors

    email confirmation

    applied credits

    If you don't get your Heroku credits within 24 hours. Raise a ticket with Heroku here and they can fix that for you.

That's it for now. We will return to Heroku later on to activate the dynos for your projects.