diff --git a/src/masonite/__version__.py b/src/masonite/__version__.py
index 4c9f8f24f..7f8658719 100644
--- a/src/masonite/__version__.py
+++ b/src/masonite/__version__.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 __title__ = 'masonite'
 __description__ = 'The core for the Masonite framework'
 __url__ = 'https://github.com/MasoniteFramework/masonite'
-__version__ = '2.3.5'
+__version__ = '2.3.6'
 __author__ = 'Joseph Mancuso'
 __author_email__ = 'joe@masoniteproject.com'
 __licence__ = 'MIT'
diff --git a/src/masonite/auth/guards/WebGuard.py b/src/masonite/auth/guards/WebGuard.py
index 6136f3a9a..a2e78a689 100644
--- a/src/masonite/auth/guards/WebGuard.py
+++ b/src/masonite/auth/guards/WebGuard.py
@@ -75,8 +75,8 @@ def login(self, name, password):
             # while PostgreSQL can store it as bytes
             # This is to prevent to double encode the password as bytes
             password_as_bytes = self._get_password_column(model)
-            if (not isinstance(password_as_bytes, bytes)):
-                password_as_bytes = bytes(password_as_bytes, 'utf-8')
+            if not isinstance(password_as_bytes, bytes):
+                password_as_bytes = bytes(password_as_bytes or '', 'utf-8')
 
             if model and bcrypt.checkpw(bytes(password, 'utf-8'), password_as_bytes):
                 if not self._once: