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October 25, 2022
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Educational license - email not being sent.

  • October 25, 2022
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Given that the perpetual license of substance painter that I paid for is made unusable compared to even student license downloads, I decided to switch back to the student license download (even though I own the perpetual license)

I went through the education page of substance and filled out my adobe-id email and it said successful request. 

But never received any email with the code and further instructions to verify my eligibility.

The email is verified, I do receive other adobe emails, yes I checked all the spam and promotional folders incl. the troubleshooting tips from adobe for not receiving expected emails.

 

I tried then making the request again, but since then I am receiving a "unique-id already exists" which i dont understand as this is not a sign up.

 

Then I tried filling out my secondary email adress instead which goes through a different domain and same story, it gave the succesful request message but no email request.

7 replies

Participant
June 6, 2025

I am having the same issue. I've tried different accounts. I made a new Gmail account. I finally got the account verification email (did not receive it on any other email addresses), but still no education license request.

Shivangi_Gupta
Community Manager
Community Manager
June 9, 2025

I see! Would you mind reaching our to our support team here: https://adobe.ly/3SLiJQK

Let us know if you have any questions.


^Shivangi

Participant
August 12, 2024

Hello,
I gave Adobe customer service a call (800-915-9428). I did have to wait on hold for a bit, but once the operator answered, he walked me through the steps. 

1) on the [ https://substance3d.adobe.com/education/ ] page, provide a gmail account.
I was using an edu account, but that wasn't going through.
2) Check that gmail's spam folder for "Adobe Partner Offer" email
3) go to the link provided (ends in  "identit-e.com/adobe")
4) It will take you to a page where you will need to provide the Product code (this is included in the "Adobe Partner Offer" email)
5) Answer the questions and fill out the form.
6) afterward, if you are approved it will send the message to the academic email you provided when filling out this form (I don't think it accepts non-academic emails)
7) In your academic email, search for "@mail.identit-e.com" --Even if you are approved and they send the email, some academic email portals won't update your inbox. You have to search for it. Hopefully it shows up for you.

Participant
November 29, 2023

Same issue here!

Hope they fix it soon, but if the bug exists for more than a year now, the chances are bad 😞

Participant
August 30, 2023

I am currently having the same issue!

Participant
June 29, 2023

Same issue here!

kglad
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 27, 2023

there have been off & on problems on adobes end. check, https://substance3d.adobe.com/education/ to see if there's a current service outage.

Participating Frequently
April 27, 2023

same message 

kglad
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 27, 2023

@abdelrhmanm1297697 

 

periodically check until service is restored.

Participant
December 23, 2022

Looks like there are others having this exact same issue! (thread here)

All of the issues seem to have popped up around the same time of October this year, I would guess it's something on the backend of Adobe rather than a problem with Substance3D itself, unfortunately, it doesn't look like there is a support forum for issues with the website itself. Hopefully someone with more power than a commenter sees this and can escelate to the correct people.

Participating Frequently
April 26, 2023

well my friend what if i told u till this day in 27/4/2023 and still they didnt fix this issue well ill go to marmoset tool bag at least the purchase system on them very simple 

Participant
February 27, 2024

It's Feb 2024 and they still haven't fixed.