Shopify Popular Use-Cases | Single Sign-On (SSO) Shopify

miniOrange provides wholesome security solutions within Shopify using our Apps like Single Sign-on, Two Factor Authentication, Social Login, Firewall, etc. If you want users to login into Shopify using other application credentials, you can simply do it using our Single Sign-On(SSO) app on Shopify. Our SSO integration protocols include SAML 2.0, OAuth 2.0, JWT, OpenID with supported IDPs like ADFS, Google Apps, etc with Secured 2FA feature. For Authenticating users on Shopify you can use our two-factor authentication (2FA) application. Some of the 2FA methods we provide are OTP over SMS, mail, telegram, Whatsapp, etc.

USE CASE 2:  Connect multiple Shopify Store and allow access to users with Single Set of credentials:

You have multiple Shopify stores for different e-commerce solutions and services like you have different stores for dealer/wholesalers and different stores for retail users. Customers regularly access multiple stores for different services and this might create trouble for customers since they need to remember different sets of credentials to access each store and whenever they go from one store to another they need to log in again which is not a good experience. Moreover, if they misplace the credentials then you might lose business as well.
With miniOrange Single Sign-On Solution, You can connect as many stores as you want and allow users to log in with just a single set of credentials. All users will be migrated to a centralized identity provider and all stores will be connected to the centralized identity provider. Once a user is logged in to one store then they will be able to access all other stores with a single click.

USE CASE 3:  Single Sign on into SAML/OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Application via Shopify as Identity Provider:

Consider all customers are in Shopify Store and now you want to expand your business and you are looking to involve multiple platforms like Salesforce, LMS(Canvas, Docebo, Thinkific), Mobile Application, or any platform which supports SAML / OAuth2.0 / JWT / OpenID, etc. Users will be able to access multiple platforms with their Shopify Existing Credentials and they will not be required to signup / Login into other platforms with different sets of credentials. They can SSO into other platforms using Shopify Store existing credentials, that is Shopify Store can be used as a Centralised Identity Provider.

USE CASE 4:  Single Sign On into Shopify Store via multiple Identity Providers and access to specific pages, products or collection based on logged in user’s Identity Provider:

There’s a Shopify Store and you have clients whose end-users are stored in multiple identity Providers. Client A users are stored in OKTA and Client B users are stored in AWS Cognito. All end-users from Multiple Identity Provider can perform SSO into Shopify Store and access the store with their existing Identity Provider credentials. Pages and products can be restricted based on which organization's customers are logging in. Only specific pages can be made available for organization A or Client A users and another set of pages or products or collections can be made available for organization B or Client B users after Single Sign-On into Shopify Store.

USE CASE 5:  Restrict access to products, Pages, collection or complete store based on user groups in Identity Provider:

Consider you have a Shopify store. And the customers of this store are part of some organization. All these users are stored in an Identity provider. Now, these users are categorized into different groups such as employees, managers, administrators, etc. Let’s assume that they are categorized in user groups A, B, and C. All end users from this Identity Provider can perform SSO into your Shopify Store and access the store with their existing Identity Provider credentials. These users are assigned groups A, B, and C in IDP as well. Pages, products, or collections can be restricted based on the groups of the user, who is logging in. Different restrictions can be imposed to make the right content of the Shopify store available to the correct group of users. After the users perform SSO, some parts of the pages, products, collections can be made available to the users of category A, other parts of the pages and products can be made available to the users of category B. Similarly remaining part of the pages or collections can be made available to the category C users.

USE CASE 6:  OTP verification at guest checkout and 2FA authentication:

When the merchants allow guests to checkout on their storefront they face the problem of fake orders. To tackle this problem Store owners can use one of the two methods mentioned below to prevent fake orders.




OTP verification at guest checkout - When the user lands on the checkout page, the checkout button can be disabled by default. To enable the checkout button the user will need to do OTP verification. When a guest user lands on the checkout page he is prompted to enter his mobile number by clicking the OTP verification button. After only successful OTP verification, the checkout button will be enabled.

2FA authentication - Store owners can enable 2FA authentication in their stores. When the user logs in using his email and password then they are prompted for OTP verification on their mobile number. Until the OTP verification is done they cannot access the store. 2FA can also be implemented for OTP over email for an extra layer of security. In this way, fake orders can be avoided by allowing only verified users to access the store.