Adding social logins with popular services like Google, Microsoft, GitHub, GitLab, and LinkedIn can significantly increase user signup and login conversions on your B2B SaaS application. Scalekit’s new Social Login integration simplifies this process, enabling seamless and secure login options.
OAuth based Social Logins
OAuth (Open Authorization) is a protocol that enables secure, delegated access to resources by using tokens instead of passwords. Here’s a breakdown of the key components:
- Resource Owner: User who authorizes access
- Client: Application requesting access
- Authorization Server: Server that authenticates the user and issues access tokens
- Resource Server: Server hosting the user’s resources
The flow of OAuth ensures that user credentials are never exposed to the client application, offering an additional layer of security.
Ready-to-deploy Social Authentication Methods
Scalekit offers ready-to-deploy social authentication solutions, eliminating the need for your engineering team to internally implement and iterate. Integrating with Scalekit takes less than a day, allowing you to focus on your core application.
- Simplified Integration: Scalekit streamlines OAuth workflows with all social identities and shares responses to your redirect URI with user information
- Unified Data Formats: Scalekit unifies the diverse properties, headers, and response formats across different social identities, so you don’t have to worry about dealing with individual quirks.
- Secure Authentication: Scalekit uses robust security measures like:
- State parameter for CSRF protection
- HTTPS for secure token transmission
- Secure storage of access tokens
- Minimal scopes requested for login, ensuring users’ data is protected
- Test Connection: Verify your configuration and the OAuth handshake directly from the Scalekit dashboard
- Email Verification & User Validation: Only users with verified emails can log in, simplifying email verification and user validation.
Next Steps
Follow this guide to integrate Social Login into your application.
If you have any specific questions, feel free to reach out to us at support@scalekit.com.
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