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Tutorial: Microsoft Entra SSO integration with Recurly

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In this tutorial, you'll learn how to integrate Recurly with Microsoft Entra ID. When you integrate Recurly with Microsoft Entra ID, you can:

  • Control in Microsoft Entra ID who has access to Recurly.
  • Enable your users to be automatically signed-in to Recurly with their Microsoft Entra accounts.
  • Manage your accounts in one central location.

Prerequisites

To get started, you need the following items:

  • A Microsoft Entra subscription. If you don't have a subscription, you can get a free account.
  • Recurly single sign-on (SSO) enabled subscription.

Scenario description

In this tutorial, you configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO in a test environment.

  • Recurly supports SP and IDP initiated SSO.

Note

Identifier of this application is a fixed string value so only one instance can be configured in one tenant.

To configure the integration of Recurly into Microsoft Entra ID, you need to add Recurly from the gallery to your list of managed SaaS apps.

  1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.
  2. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > New application.
  3. In the Add from the gallery section, type Recurly in the search box.
  4. Select Recurly from results panel and then add the app. Wait a few seconds while the app is added to your tenant.

Alternatively, you can also use the Enterprise App Configuration Wizard. In this wizard, you can add an application to your tenant, add users/groups to the app, assign roles, as well as walk through the SSO configuration as well. Learn more about Microsoft 365 wizards.

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO for Recurly

Configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Recurly using a test user called B.Simon. For SSO to work, you need to establish a link relationship between a Microsoft Entra user and the related user in Recurly.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra SSO with Recurly, perform the following steps:

  1. Configure Microsoft Entra SSO - to enable your users to use this feature.
    1. Create a Microsoft Entra test user - to test Microsoft Entra single sign-on with B.Simon.
    2. Assign the Microsoft Entra test user - to enable B.Simon to use Microsoft Entra single sign-on.
  2. Configure Recurly SSO - to configure the single sign-on settings on application side.
    1. Create Recurly test user - to have a counterpart of B.Simon in Recurly that is linked to the Microsoft Entra representation of user.
  3. Test SSO - to verify whether the configuration works.

Configure Microsoft Entra SSO

Follow these steps to enable Microsoft Entra SSO.

  1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.

  2. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > Recurly application integration page, find the Manage section and select single sign-on.

  3. On the Select a single sign-on method page, select SAML.

  4. On the Set up single sign-on with SAML page, click the pencil icon for Basic SAML Configuration to edit the settings.

    Edit Basic SAML Configuration

  5. On the Basic SAML Configuration section, the Identifier and Reply URL values are pre-configured with https://app.recurly.com and https://app.recurly.com/login/sso respectively. Perform the following step to complete the configuration:

    a. In the Sign-on URL text box, type the URL: https://app.recurly.com/login/sso

  6. On the Set up single sign-on with SAML page, in the SAML Signing Certificate section, click Edit, select the ... next to the thumbprint status, select PEM certificate download to download the certificate and save it on your computer.

    The Certificate download link

  7. Your Recurly application expects the SAML assertions in a specific format, which requires you to add custom attribute mappings to your SAML token attributes configuration. The following screenshot shows an example of this. The default value of Unique User Identifier is user.userprincipalname but Recurly expects this to be mapped with the user's email address. For that you can use user.mail attribute from the list or use the appropriate attribute value based on your organization configuration.

    image

  8. Recurly application expects to enable token encryption in order to make SSO work. To activate token encryption, Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > select your application > Token encryption. For more information see the article Configure Microsoft Entra SAML token encryption.

    1. Please contact Recurly Support to get a copy of the certificate to import.
    2. After importing the certificate, select the ... next to the thumbprint status, click Activate token encryption certificate.
    3. For more information on configuring token encryption, please refer this link.

Create a Microsoft Entra test user

In this section, you'll create a test user called B.Simon.

  1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a User Administrator.
  2. Browse to Identity > Users > All users.
  3. Select New user > Create new user, at the top of the screen.
  4. In the User properties, follow these steps:
    1. In the Display name field, enter B.Simon.
    2. In the User principal name field, enter the username@companydomain.extension. For example, B.Simon@contoso.com.
    3. Select the Show password check box, and then write down the value that's displayed in the Password box.
    4. Select Review + create.
  5. Select Create.

Assign the Microsoft Entra test user

In this section, you'll enable B.Simon to use single sign-on by granting access to Recurly.

  1. Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.
  2. Browse to Identity > Applications > Enterprise applications > Recurly.
  3. In the app's overview page, select Users and groups.
  4. Select Add user/group, then select Users and groups in the Add Assignment dialog.
    1. In the Users and groups dialog, select B.Simon from the Users list, then click the Select button at the bottom of the screen.
    2. If you are expecting a role to be assigned to the users, you can select it from the Select a role dropdown. If no role has been set up for this app, you see "Default Access" role selected.
    3. In the Add Assignment dialog, click the Assign button.

Configure Recurly SSO

Follow these steps to configure single sign-on for your Recurly site.

  1. Log into your Recurly company site as an administrator.

  2. Navigate to Admin > Users.

    Screenshot shows Navigating to Users menu

  3. Click the Configure Single Sign on button on the top right.

    Screenshot shows navigating to SSO configuration page

  4. In the Single Sign-On section, select the Enabled radio button and perform the following steps in the Identity Provider section:

    Screenshot shows complete SSO configuration

    a. In PROVIDER NAME, select Azure.

    b. In the SAML ISSUER ID textbox, paste the Application(Client ID) value.

    c. In the LOGIN URL textbox, paste the Login URL value which you copied previously.

    d. Open the downloaded Certificate (PEM) into Notepad and paste the content into the CERTIFICATE textbox.

    e. Click Save Changes.

Create Recurly test user

In this section, you will invite a new user to join your site and require them to use SSO to test the configuration.

  1. Navigate to Admin > Users, click Invite User and type the email address of the Azure test user that was previously created. Your invitation will default to requiring them to use SSO.

    Screenshot shows Navigating to Invite User page

    Screenshot shows Invite User page

  2. The test user will receive an email from Recurly inviting them to join your site.

  3. After accepting the invite, the test user will be listed under Company Users in your site and will be able to log in using SSO.

Test SSO

In this section, you test your Microsoft Entra single sign-on configuration with following options.

SP initiated:

  • Click on Test this application, this will redirect to Recurly Sign on URL where you can initiate the login flow.

  • Go to Recurly Sign-on URL directly and initiate the login flow from there.

IDP initiated:

  • Click on Test this application, and you should be automatically signed in to the Recurly for which you set up the SSO.

You can also use Microsoft My Apps to test the application in any mode. When you click the Recurly tile in the My Apps, if configured in SP mode you would be redirected to the application sign on page for initiating the login flow and if configured in IDP mode, you should be automatically signed in to the Recurly for which you set up the SSO. For more information, see Microsoft Entra My Apps.

Next steps

Once you configure Recurly you can enforce session control, which protects exfiltration and infiltration of your organization’s sensitive data in real time. Session control extends from Conditional Access. Learn how to enforce session control with Microsoft Cloud App Security.