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# Single sign-on

Find out about single sign-on and how to set it up for your Adyen Customer Area.

[View source](/account/single-sign-on.md)

Single sign-on (SSO) lets you use the same set of credentials to securely access several other services, like your work email or your Adyen Customer Area.

The Customer Area supports SSO based on the [Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) 2.0 protocol](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAML_2.0). SSO solutions that use the SAML 2.0 protocol include Okta, Azure, and Microsoft AD FS.

The benefits of using SSO are:

* **Improved security**: Controlled user access to the Customer Area. For example, when an employee leaves, their Customer Area access is removed through the SSO solution.
* **Better user experience**: Employees use a single set of credentials to log in to the services they need to use.

We support:

* Authentication using SSO.
* [Creating users](/account/single-sign-on/set-up-sso#create-users-sso) who log in using SSO.
* [Migrating existing users](/account/single-sign-on/migrate-users-to-sso) to SSO.
* [Exchanging service provider information using metadata URL](/account/single-sign-on/set-up-sso#configure-service-provider-in-customer-area).

## How it works

Users log in to your identity provider with their SSO credentials. The identity provider then authenticates them and gives them access to the services it is connected to.

![](/user/pages/docs/12.account/07.single-sign-on/how-sso-works.svg?decoding=auto\&fetchpriority=auto)

## Next steps

[**Set up SSO**\
Add the Customer Area to your identity provider.](/account/single-sign-on/set-up-sso)

[**Migrate users to SSO**\
Allow existing users to log in using SSO.](/account/single-sign-on/migrate-users-to-sso)

[**Logging in using SSO**\
How users switch to logging in using SSO.](/account/single-sign-on/log-in-with-sso)
