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# AwardCo

AwardCo is an employee recognition platform that offers millions of rewards, free shipping, and no markups through Amazon Business (see <https://www.award.co/>). You can protect access to AwardCo by integrating AwardCo with Identity as a Service. Once integrated, users can use single sign-on to log in to their AwardCo account through Identity as a Service.

note

This integration was tested using Identity as a Service version 5.15 and AwardCo Release March 1, 2021. Other versions of AwardCo may require integration and configuration steps that differ from those documented in this procedure. For other versions of AwardCo, use this procedure as a starting point for integrating AwardCo. In the event of other issues, contact <support@entrust.com> for assistance.

To integrate AwardCo with Identity as a Service, you must do the following:

## Step 1: Copy the SAML Configuration from Identity as a Service

Copy the SAML Configuration from Identity as a Service

1. Log into your Identity as a Service administrator account.
2. Click Menu icon **>** **Security > Applications**. The **Applications** **Lists** page appears.
3. Under **SAML Cloud Integrations**, click **SAML Configuration**. The **SAML Configuration** dialog box appears.

This dialog box contains information you need to configure your SAML application for Identity as a Service authentication.

4. Do one of the following:
   - Leave this dialog box open to reference later in this procedure.
   - Copy the Entity ID, Single Sign-on URL, and Single Logout URL to a text file and save it to reference later in this procedure.

note

Depending on the integration you are performing, you may not need all three of these SAML configuration values.

## Step 2: Copy the signing certificate from Identity as a Service

## Step 2: Copy the signing certificate from Identity as a Service

Copy a SAML signing certificate

1. Log in to your Identity as a Service administrator account.
2. Click Menu icon **>** **Security > Applications**. The **Applications List** page appears.
3. Under **SAML Cloud Integrations**, click **SAML Signing Certificates**. The **SAML Signing Certificates** page appears.
4. Click the copy icon next to the certificate to copy it to the clipboard. You can additionally download the certificate and save it for future use.
5. Open a text editor, such as Notepad, and paste the contents of the certificate into the text file.
6. Save the file.

## Step 3: Configure AwardCo for single sign-on with Identity as a Service

Configure Awardco for single sign-on

1. Log in to your AwardCo administrator account. The **Home** page appears.
2. Click **Admin**. The **Dashboard** page appears.
3. Click the **Settings** tab. The **General** page appears.
4. In the menu pane, select **Single Sign On**. The **Single Sign-On** page appears.
5. Set **Standard Login** to **On**.
6. Set **SSO with SAML** to **On**.
7. Set **Assertion or Response Signed** to **On**.
8. In the **SSO URL** field, paste the **Single Sign-On URL** you copied is _Step 1: Copy the SAML Configuration from Identity as a Service_.
9. In the **Entity Id** field, paste the **Entity ID** you copied is _Step 1: Copy the SAML Configuration from Identity as a Service_.
10. In the **Certificate** field, paste the SAML signing certificate you copied in _Step 2: Copy the SAML signing certificate from Identity as a Service_.
11. Enter a **Sign In Button Label**, for example enter your company name.

attention

AwardCo autosaves changes.

12. Once the changes have been saved, click **Download Metadata**. You need this file in _Step 4: Add AwardCo to Identity as a Service_.

## Step 4: Add AwardCo to Identity as a Service

## Step 4: Add AwardCo to Identity as a Service

Add AwardCo as an application to Identity as a Service

1. Log into your Identity as a Service administrator account.
2. Click Menu icon **>** **Security > Applications**. The **Applications** **Lists** page appears.
3. Click **Add**. The **Select an Application Template** page appears.
4. Do one of the following:
   - Select **SAML Cloud Integrations** from the search drop-down list and scroll to find the application you want to add to IDaaS.
   - - or -
   - In the **Search bar**, enter a search option to filter for the application you want to add to IDaaS.
5. Click **AwardCo**. The **Add AwardCo** page appears.
6. Enter an **Application Name**.
7. Enter an **Application Description**.
8. Optional. Add a custom application logo.
   1. Click Plus icon next to **Application Logo**. The **Upload Logo** dialog box appears.
   2. Click Upload icon to select an image file to upload.
   3. Browse to select your file and click **Open**. The **Upload Logo** dialog box reappears showing your selected image.
   4. If required, resize your image.
   5. Click **OK**.
9. Click **Next**. The **General** page appears.
10. Select the **Authentication Flow** that appears to users during login.
11. Click Upload icon to the **Upload Metadata XML** and browse to the location of the metadata file you downloaded in _Step 1: Download the AwardCo metadata file_. The **Metadata Configuration** dialog box appears.
12. If required, click **Merge with existing values** to merge new values with existing values for Alternative Assertion Consumer Services URLs and SAML attribute names.
13. Click **Save**.
14. Click **OK** on the **Metadata Configuration** dialog box to complete the upload of the metadata.
15. Optional. Enter the **SAML Username Parameter Name** used to identity the user ID being requested for authentication. The user ID can then be passed as a parameter, for example, Username=jdoe.
16. Enter the **SAML Session Timeout** to the time when the SAML Assertion times out. The maximum is 720 minutes.
17. Enter the **Max Authentication Age (seconds)** to set the maximum amount of time that can elapse before a user is required to reauthenticate during a new login attempt. This applies for both SP-initiated and IDP-initiated login. Set this field to -1 to disable this feature.
18. From the **SAML NameID Attribute** drop-down list, select **Email**.
19. From the **SAML NameID Encoding Format**, select **Email**.
20. From the **SAML Signing Certificate** from the drop-down list, select the signing certificate.
21. Select **Sign Complete URL Response**.
22. Optional: Select **Respond Immediately for Unsuccessful Responses** to return to the application immediately after a login failure, rather than allow user to try again with a different userID.
23. Deselect **Enable Go Back Button** if you do not want users to be able to go back to the application login page to log in.
24. Select **Show Default Assertion Consumer URL Service in the My Profile**. When selected, the Default Assertion Consumer URL appears in a user's My Profile page in addition to relay states and Alternative Assertion Consumer URLs.
25. Optional. Add **Alternative Assertion Consumer Service URLs**, as follows:
    1. Click **Add**.
    2. Enter a **Name**.
    3. Enter a URL **Value**.
    4. Select **Show in My Profile** to display the Alternative Consumer Service URL in a user's My profile page.
    5. Optional. **Add an Application Logo**.
    6. Click **Add**.
    7. Repeat these steps to add more Alternative Assertion Consumer Service URLs.
26. Click **Submit**.

## Step 5: Add a resource rule

See [Create resource rules](/docs/authentication-and-security/create-and-manage-resource-rules.md).

## Step 6: Test the integration

## Step 6: Test the integration

Testing Service Provider Login

1. Open a Web browser and enter the URL for your AwardCo account. You are directed to Identity as a Service.
2. Enter your AwardCo account **User ID** and click **Next**.
3. Respond to the second-factor authentication challenge. If you respond successfully, you are logged in to the AwardCo.

Testing Identity as a Service redirect log in

1. Log in to your Identity as a Service account.
2. Go to your **My Profile** page if you are not already there.
3. Under **Applications**, click **AwardCo**.
4. Respond to the second-factor authentication challenge. If you respond successfully, you are logged into AwardCo.