Configure Accredible for Single sign-on with Microsoft Entra ID

2025-03-25

In this article, you learn how to integrate Accredible with Microsoft Entra ID. Integrating Accredible with Microsoft Entra ID provides you with the following benefits:

You can control in Microsoft Entra ID who has access to Accredible.
You can enable your users to be automatically signed-in to Accredible (Single Sign-On) with their Microsoft Entra accounts.
You can manage your accounts in one central location.

If you want to know more details about SaaS app integration with Microsoft Entra ID, see What is application access and single sign-on with Microsoft Entra ID. If you don't have an Azure subscription, create a free account before you begin.

Prerequisites

The scenario outlined in this article assumes that you already have the following prerequisites:

A Microsoft Entra user account with an active subscription. If you don't already have one, you can Create an account for free.
One of the following roles:

Accredible single sign-on enabled subscription

Scenario description

In this article, you configure and test Microsoft Entra single sign-on in a test environment.

Accredible supports IDP initiated SSO

Adding Accredible from the gallery

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

To add Accredible from the gallery, do the following steps:

Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.
Browse to Entra ID > Enterprise apps > New application.
In the Add from the gallery section, type Accredible, select Accredible from result panel then select Add button to add the application.

Configure and test Microsoft Entra single sign-on

In this section, you configure and test Microsoft Entra single sign-on with Accredible based on a test user called Britta Simon. For single sign-on to work, a link relationship between a Microsoft Entra user and the related user in Accredible needs to be established.

To configure and test Microsoft Entra single sign-on with Accredible, you need to complete the following building blocks:

Configure Microsoft Entra Single Sign-On - to enable your users to use this feature.
Configure Accredible Single Sign-On - to configure the Single Sign-On settings on application side.
Create a Microsoft Entra test user - to test Microsoft Entra single sign-on with Britta Simon.
Assign the Microsoft Entra test user - to enable Britta Simon to use Microsoft Entra single sign-on.
Create Accredible test user - to have a counterpart of Britta Simon in Accredible that's linked to the Microsoft Entra representation of user.
Test single sign-on - to verify whether the configuration works.

Configure Microsoft Entra single sign-on

In this section, you enable Microsoft Entra single sign-on.

To configure Microsoft Entra single sign-on with Accredible, perform the following steps:

Sign in to the Microsoft Entra admin center as at least a Cloud Application Administrator.
Browse to Entra ID > Enterprise apps > Accredible application integration page, select Single sign-on.
On the Select a Single sign-on method dialog, select SAML/WS-Fed mode to enable single sign-on.
On the Set up Single Sign-On with SAML page, select Edit icon to open Basic SAML Configuration dialog.
On the Set up Single Sign-On with SAML page, perform the following steps:

a. In the Identifier text box, type a URL using the following pattern:
```
https://api.accredible.com/sp/admin/accredible
https://api.accredible.com/sp/user/accredible
```
b. In the Reply URL text box, type a URL using the following pattern: https://api.accredible.com/v1/saml/admin/<Unique id>/consume

Note

The Reply URL value isn't real. According to the role of user, use the identifier value respectively. Each customer has a unique Reply URL depending on their ID. Contact Accredible support team to get these values.
On the Set-up Single Sign-On with SAML page, in the SAML Signing Certificate section, select Download to download the Federation Metadata XML from the given options as per your requirement and save it on your computer.
On the Set up Accredible section, copy the appropriate URL(s) as per your requirement.

a. Login URL

b. Microsoft Entra Identifier

c. Logout URL

Configure Accredible Single Sign-On

To configure single sign-on on Accredible side, you need to send the downloaded Federation Metadata XML and appropriate copied URLs from the application configuration to Accredible support team. They set this setting to have the SAML SSO connection set properly on both sides.

Create and assign Microsoft Entra test user

Follow the guidelines in the create and assign a user account quickstart to create a test user account called B.Simon.

Create Accredible test user

In this section, you create a user called Britta Simon in Accredible. You need to send the user's email id to Accredible support team, then they verify the email and send you the invite mail so that you can add user in accredible platform.

Test single sign-on

In this section, you test your Microsoft Entra single sign-on configuration using the Access Panel.

When you select the Accredible tile in the Access Panel, you should be automatically signed in to the Accredible for which you set up SSO. For more information about the Access Panel, see Introduction to the Access Panel.