Authenticating using Self Sign Up

If you want to follow along, you need the following:

• An Elastic Path Commerce Cloud account and the Client ID and Client Secret of your store, available from your Commerce Manager.
• A front-end application or a custom application accessible to you in a web browser which accesses the Elastic Path Commerce Cloud API with the implicit token.
• A basic understanding of object-oriented programming or JavaScript.
• An access token.

The following list outlines the steps of the single sign-on authentication flow to get account token:

1. Create Password Profile.
2. Update the Account Authentication Settings.
3. Generate a token using self_signup mechanism.
4. Login as an admin and add account member created to the account.

Send a POST request to create a password profile to use for self sign up. Make sure you set the username_format to email. Use the id from the returned response to authenticate using self sign up.

You can find more detailed instructions on password profile creation here

Send a PUT request to update Account Authentication Settings to set enable_self_signup to true. This enables self sign up for the account.

You can also set auto_create_account_for_account_members to true. This automatically creates an account for the account member and then creates a membership.

Send a POST request to generate a token using the self sign up authentication mechanism. This creates an account member that you can add to the account. You can find more detailed instructions on generating an authentication token using self sign up here.

Log in as an Admin to add a newly created account member to the account. Once this step is completed, a buyer can log in as usual.

If your auto_create_account_for_account_members setting in account authentication settings is set to false then you need to manually create an account for the account member and afterwards create account membership.

If the setting is set to true then you can log in as usual with no extra steps needed.