Introduction to Arc XP Identity
Creating a great user registration and login experience is critical for building meaningful customer relationships. Arc XP Identity provides the tools to create custom and secure user registration and login experiences across your sites. These tools are powered by APIs and SDK methods with Themes Blocks to give you development options that best suit your team.
This document provides an overview of Arc XP Identity solutions for authentication, user account management and security, site security, and first-party data management. In addition to the supported workflows, we document best practices and recommendations to get started.
We organized documentation into categories for the various workflows: Learning, Building, Configuring, and Managing.
Learning sections have descriptions of the workflows, features, and quick-start guides.
Building sections are how-to guides with step-by-step details for implementation.
Configuring sections describe settings and management tools for advanced setup and to protect your site.
Managing 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 process requires understanding 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 a relationship with your users. This process 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 create accounts. If you're starting, basic registration options with passwords and social identities are available. If you want more advanced options, we offer an integration to connect other sign-in providers and the ability to create a single sign-on for external sites.
Note
Acquisition includes all users' actions 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 are as follows:
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-ins, 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 authenticate and store your users' first-party data. More details on what is available with the Identity accounts are included.
Development option
Arc XP Identity offers multiple options for building workflows for your site. You can quickly add end-user workflows to your site using PageBuilder Theme blocks. You can also build customized flows using SDK methods or APIs. APIs are available to connect to external systems and tools. Our How-To guides include detailed instructions for using these tools to build workflows on your site.