Introduction to Arc XP Identity

Creating a great user registration and login experience is critical for building meaningful relationships with your customers. Arc XP Identity provides the tools for you to create custom and secure user registration and login experience across your sites. These tools are powered by a set of APIs and SDK methods with Themes Blocks to give you development options that best suit your team.

This document provides an overview Arc XP Identity solutions for authentication, user account management and security, site security and first-party data management. In additional to the workflows that are supported, we also document best practices and recommendations to get started.

For the various workflows you will find documentation is organized into categories for Learning, Building, Configuring, and Managing.

• Learn sections have descriptions of the workflows, features, and quick start guides.
• Build sections are how-to guides with step-by-step details for implementation.
• Configure sections describe settings and management tools for advanced setup and to protect your site.
• Manage sections provide information on maintaining user accounts and assisting with issues.

Identity Solutions Overview

You’re looking to increase revenue. To do this, you must correctly target your current users with your monetization options and grow your user base. This requires understanding of your current users and how to effectively acquire new subscribers through the acquisition funnel

Arc XP Identity provides solutions to:

• Build low-friction registration flows
• Understand your various types of users
• Grow your active user base
• Effectively communicate and engage with your audience

Identity Solutions and Workflows Overview

You must, with the least amount of friction, get users through the acquisition and registration process to understand and build the relationship with your users. This helps you build user profiles, understand engagement, and communicate effectively.

Arc XP Identity provides multiple registration options for you to offer your audience as a means to creating accounts. If you’re just starting, basic registration options are available with password and social identities. If you want more advanced options, we offer an integration to connect other sign-in providers and the ability to create single sign-on for external sites.

Note: Acquisition includes all the actions users take to connect with client products, not just registration and account creation. An acquisition method not handled by Identity is newsletter sign-up, and we provide extensible options for connecting to other tools in these cases.

Main Workflows and Use Cases:

• Authentication

  • Password, Social, OIDC and one time access link
  • Single Sign-in with Arc XP Identity - Arc as an OIDC Provider
  • Account Unification - Multiple sign-in, one account

• Security

  • Password resets, email verification and compliance
  • Site security and threat reduction
  • Account sharing controls

• Account Management

• User data management and first party data

Arc XP Identity Accounts

The Arc XP Identity accounts are more than just a method for users to authenticate and sign in. The account and profile enable you to provide authentication and storage for your store your users’ first-party data. More details on what in available with the Identity accounts is included

Development Option

Arc XP Identity has multiple options for building the workflows for your site. You can quickly add end-user workflows to your site using PageBuilder Theme blocks. You can build customized flows using SDK methods or APIs. APIs are available for connecting to external systems and tools. Detailed guides for using these tools to build workflows on your site are included in our How To guides.