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A collection of 52 posts

Authentication

Limiting sign ups with PropelAuth

PropelAuth offers a variety of customization options when it comes to controlling who can access your product - everything from completely disabling public signups to specifically blocking users with specific email domains. Who Can Signup The majority of customization options for who can access your product are found in the

Remix

Remix Authentication

We are very excited to officially release the @propelauth/remix library - a library that makes it incredibly easy to add authentication, authorization, and multi-tenancy to your Remix apps. If you want to jump straight to the docs, you can do so here. Choosing a JS Framework When it comes

Product

PropelAuth July Updates

Hope you’re all having a great summer! We’ve got a lot of exciting news for you, so let's jump right in. Audit Logging Whether you want it for debugging purposes, or you just like to keep an eye on things - audit logging is the best

Product

PropelAuth June Updates

We’ve had a bunch of miscellaneous changes go out over the past couple of weeks - here’s a roundup: * New SSO option: Login with Apple * New Framework: We officially support Spring Boot - you can read our guide here. * New user management feature: You can now see and

Product

Advanced Roles and Permissions

Today we’re bringing our RBAC system to the next level with the addition of Roles & Permission Mappings. Mappings make it possible for you to configure roles and permissions on a per-org basis. It’s best explained by an example: * You have two pricing plans: Free and Paid * Users

Product

Active orgs, SAML links, and more

Today's theme is making it easier to manage things: helping your users manage SAML connections, helping you manage the orgs your users are in, helping both you and your users manage which login methods are allowed for an organization. The highlights are below, but you can check out

Product

New Login Flows, Improved API Keys, and more

Today's release is a mix of features, improvements and bug fixes primarily focused on SSO/SAML, API keys and Roles & Permissions. There's a lot of surface area, but we'll touch on the highlights: New SSO/SAML Login Flow Option If the majority of

Product

Take Full Control of your PropelAuth Emails

Today we’re bringing you some pretty exciting news: you can now replace the default PropelAuth transactional emails with your own, so you can have full control over the content and styling. We’ve designed this feature in an email-provider agnostic way. If you use Postmark, Mailchimp, Sendgrid, or any

Product

Charts, User Activity, and more

At PropelAuth we believe it’s not enough to help you get your users onboarded - we also want to provide you with the tools you need to keep an eye on the health of your customer base. We have more planned in this area, but today we’re happy

Founder

Do This Before Launching a New Feature

A mistake that’s all too common among founders is to get a feature built, release it to the world and… move onto the next feature, perhaps expecting their customers to find it on their own or telling themselves they’ll do “all the other stuff” later, when they get to it.

Product

More User Insights: Churn & Reengagement Reports

A couple of weeks ago, we announced the addition of metrics to our dashboard to make it easier to see what’s going on with your users at a glance. However, those metrics (while helpful) aren’t exactly actionable. It’s really useful to see how many active users you

Product

Custom Email Domain & Metrics

We’re excited to announce some new features: the ability to send emails from your own domain and a visual of signup and activity metrics. Sending Emails from Your Own Domain There are plenty of reasons you may want to make sure PropelAuth transactional emails are coming from your domain

Product

September Release Notes

Hope you’re all having a great autumn so far! September’s been a busy month for PropelAuth - we kicked it off with a refresh of our account and org pages, and then have been working on improving our dashboard and client libraries. You can see a full list

Product

API Key Authentication

We are excited to announce the release of API Key authentication, a powerful feature that adds another way for your users to make requests to your product. With API Keys, you can now create unique authentication keys for your end users and organizations, ensuring secure communication between your product and

Product

Authentication in Go

We are thrilled to announce that we now officially support Go! If you want to skip right to it, you can check out our getting started guides or the reference documentation for our Go library. As with all of our libraries, there are a few major features that we provide:

Product

Announcing User Impersonation in PropelAuth

We are incredibly excited today to announce that User Impersonation support is now live in PropelAuth! User impersonation, masquerading, ghosting, assume identity, delegated access… this feature goes by a lot of different names. No matter what you call it, at a high level, the feature works like this: User impersonation

Coding

Custom Metadata: How It Works

Last week, we released a long awaited and asked for feature in PropelAuth, Custom Metadata on both users and organizations! However, the term “metadata” is nebulous and vague, so today we’re excited to walk through this new aspect of the product, and how you can start customizing to your

Authentication

PropelAuth Product Updates: Dashboard Revamp, Staging Env, and More

We are often working on large feature releases or product improvements, but this time around we have been hard at work on something truly large and impactful: a new and improved dashboard for PropelAuth! We wanted to walk through all of these changes to give you a sense of all

Authentication

What Does SAML Actually Mean?

Amongst the various acronyms and abbreviations in the world of authentication, SAML, which stands for Security Assertion Markup Language, is one of the most confusing. So here we’ll walk through what is involved in SAML SSO and paint a clearer picture of what it actually means. First, a brief

Product

Rust Authentication with PropelAuth

We are incredibly excited to release the propelauth crate, which you can use to add authentication and authorization to your Rust backend. We have support built out for Actix and Axum, as well as a generic library that can be used in any other framework.

RBAC

Adding Customizable Roles and Permissions to PropelAuth

We’re happy to share the latest update to PropelAuth—adding more customizability to role based access control (RBAC), so you can have full control over what your users can see and do within your product.

Product

Should You Disable Public Signups?

By manually onboarding your users, you can invite selected users while keeping your product private to the greater public. In this blog we’ll highlight different scenarios where it’s beneficial to disable public signups for your company.

Product

Custom Organization Naming

When users sign up for your product, do they sign up as individuals or in groups? If you are building a B2B product, they likely sign up in groups alongside their coworkers. But what do you call these groups?

Authentication

Why B2B Companies Waste More Time on Authentication

B2B companies have a lot of additional user authentication needs than B2C. You start with an organization ID and an invitation flow, and slowly you are adding roles and self-service UIs, and org-aware middleware.

Case Study

How PropelAuth Solved Tennr's B2B Auth Needs

One of the many pressing questions that every new company must determine is, “When should we implement auth?” And, soon after, “Should I build auth myself or use a service provider?” When Trey Holterman was co-founding Tennr, a startup helping business teams build and send personalized insight reports to users,