Integrations - How To Set Up a Google Integration for Authentication

How Clients Can Enable Google Integration

To enable Google integration, log in to Reward Manager, go to the Integration Dashboard, and search for Google under the Explore Integrations tab.

Select the integration and turn it On using the toggle button on the top right-hand side.

Username & Password 

Please note, that if the username and password option is disabled, Google Social Login will not work on your platform, and the Sign in with Google button will not be visible on the login page. You can check this from the integration’s dashboard and enable it if needed.

This is not a SAML 2.0 integration, if you’d like to learn about our G Suite SSO integration, read this Google Suite document: 

How Employees Can Use the Google Integration

When enabled, employees will be given the option to sign in to their platform using Google as their Identity Provider. To do this, please take the following steps:

Step 1: Employee visits their platform URL and clicks Sign in with Google

Step 2: The employee is asked to Authorize the Reward Gateway application by Google and they need to choose an account

Before Reward Gateway can access any of the user’s data stored on their Google account, they must explicitly grant access to the data. If the user chooses to Cancel at this stage, the authentication attempt will fail. 

If they choose to Continue, they will grant Reward Gateway access to their email address, language preference, and their approximate age on their Google account.

For more on Google Application Permissions, please visit the Google Help Center.

Step 3: The employee is logged into their program

Reward Gateway will look up the member based on the email address passed from Google and try to locate a registered account. If a valid account is found, the user will be logged in automatically. If we cannot find an account, the employee will be prompted to complete a registration step and enter their unique identifier. This could be their Payroll Number, Employee ID, or any type of identification that the administrators of the platform decided to use.

If we cannot find the ID, we will not allow the user to create an account. Their ID has to be uploaded beforehand on to the system, so they can complete the registration process.

How Employees Can Unlink Their Google Account From Their Reward Gateway Account

The employee can go to the menu in the top right → Account → Account Settings → Security Centre (from the menu on the left) → scroll down to the Linked Accounts section → Click Unlink.