SCIM user management for your organization

Shopify Plus

The Shopify organization admin is only available to the Shopify Plus plan.

After you've set up SAML authentication for your organization, you can generate a SCIM API token.

Features

Providing the SCIM API token to your identity service provider allows you to take the following actions through your identity provider:

• Create users
• Deactivate users

Requirements

Before you set up SCIM user management, you need to verify your domain and create a SAML configuration. You can only manage users who are associated with a domain that you've verified.

Configure SCIM user management

1. In your Shopify organization admin, go to Users > Security.
2. In the SCIM integration section, click Generate API token.
3. Click Copy to copy the generated token to your clipboard.
4. Provide the token to your identity service provider. The procedure for adding the token depends on which identity service provider you use.

Complete SCIM configuration in Okta

1. Open the Shopify Plus app.
2. Click the Sign On tab.
   1. Set the Application username format to Email.
   2. Click Save.
3. Click the Provisioning tab.
   1. Click Configure API Integration.
   2. Check Enable API integration, and then paste the API token in the provided field.
   3. Click Test API Credentials. If you encounter an error, then verify that you have correctly copied the API token from your Shopify Plus admin. If you continue to encounter errors, then contact Shopify Plus support.
   4. Click Save.

Complete SCIM configuration in OneLogin

1. Open the Shopify Plus app.
2. Click the Configuration menu item.
   1. In the SCIM Bearer Token field, paste the API token.
   2. Click Save.
3. Click the Parameters menu item.
   1. Set the SCIM Username default value to Email.
   2. Click Save.

After your API token has been added to your identity service provider, you can add or remove users through that service. Depending on the status of that user within Shopify and your identity service provider, this can change how they log in to Shopify.

Effects of creating a user in an identity provider

User status	Effect within Shopify
User already exists in your organization	If you add a user in your identity service provider, then the user is required to log in using SAML authentication if all the following are true: the user already exists in your organization you use Specific users enforcement The effect of removing a user's access through your identity provider depends on their user status. If you remove an active user's access to Shopify using your identity service provider, then they are suspended in your organization. If you permanently delete a user using your identity service provider, then they might be deleted from your organization, depending on your identity provider setup.
User exists in Shopify with access to an organization admin, but not your organization	If you add a user in your identity service provider, then the user is added to your organization and required to log in using SAML authentication if all the following are true: the user already exists in Shopify the user has access to the Shopify organization admin for another organization the user does not exist in your specific organization you use Required or Specific users enforcement
User does not exist in Shopify	If you add a user in your identity service provider, then the user is added to your organization and required to log in using SAML authentication if all the following are true: the user does not exist in Shopify you use Required or Specific users enforcement When the user signs in to the Shopify organization admin for the first time, then that user must do so through the identity provider, not through the Shopify login page.

When you add a new user after adding this token, either through your identity provider or the organization admin, your new user is set to pending status. If your user is required to log in using SAML, then they will remain in pending status until they log in using your identity provider.

Removing SCIM integration

If you no longer require a SCIM integration, then you can remove it. This action can't be undone. If you need to reactivate your integration, then you need to generate a new API token.

Steps:

1. In your Shopify organization admin, go to Users > Security.
2. In the SCIM integration section, click ... beside the API token.
3. Click Delete token.

Restrictions

Store owners and organization owners can't be removed through an identity service provider. Both types of ownership must be transferred before the user can be removed. If you need to change the store owner, then you can do so from your Shopify admin. If you need to change the organization owner, then contact Shopify Plus support.