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# open()

Presents a continuation sheet that enables people to choose whether to open your app’s link to an external website for account creation or management.

```
static func open() async throws
```

## Discussion

Call this method in response to deliberate user interaction, for example, tapping a button. Call [`canOpen`](/documentation/StoreKit/ExternalLinkAccount/canOpen) to determine whether to display a button or other user-interface control. If [`canOpen`](/documentation/StoreKit/ExternalLinkAccount/canOpen) is `false`, this method always throws a [`StoreKitError`](/documentation/StoreKit/StoreKitError) instance.

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