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Setting up single sign-on (SAML and SCIM) on Pressable

By Fathi Arfaoui · Updated · 5 min read · Disclosure

For agencies and teams, Pressable supports SAML single sign-on with an identity provider, so people log in with the company account and lose access the day they leave.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

  • Tools → Single Sign-On has a 5-step wizard: Pressable settings, connect, verify domain, test login, enforce.
  • You copy Pressable's Entity ID and ACS URL into a new SAML app at your identity provider.
  • Domain verification uses a DNS TXT record.
  • Enforce only after a successful test login.
  • SCIM keeps users in sync automatically (optional).

The 5 steps

  1. Settings: copy Pressable's Entity ID and Assertion Consumer Service (ACS) URL into a new SAML application at your identity provider.
  2. Connect: paste the provider's metadata URL (Pressable re-reads it daily, so certificate rotations just work) or enter details by hand.
  3. Verify domain: add a TXT record, then claim the domain. People with email addresses on that domain sign in through your provider.
  4. Test login: required before enforcement.
  5. Enforce: turn on SSO for everyone.
Pressable Single Sign-On (SAML) setup in five steps
Step 1: values to copy (account-specific parts blurred).
Pressable SSO step 2: connect your identity provider by metadata URL or by hand
Step 2: connect by metadata URL.
Pressable SSO step 3: verify a domain with a TXT record
Step 3: verify a domain.
Pressable SSO step 4: run a test login
Step 4: test login.
Pressable SSO step 5: enforce single sign-on
Step 5: enforce.
Pressable SCIM directory synchronization
Optional SCIM directory sync.

Tips

  • Keep one owner account outside SSO as a break-glass login, protected by 2FA or a passkey.
  • Use SCIM if people join and leave often, so access is removed automatically.
  • Without SSO, still turn on 2FA and passkeys under Settings → Security.
Pressable account security with two-factor authentication and passkeys
2FA and passkeys.

FAQ

Does Pressable support SAML SSO?

Yes, with domain verification, test logins, enforcement and optional SCIM.

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Fathi Arfaoui

Fathi Arfaoui has helped people choose web hosting, start blogs and build WordPress sites since 2013. He founded SiteHostingFinder to replace opinion-based hosting reviews with real prices and public data. He has been a HostGator customer since 2013 and has hosted 40-50 WordPress sites on Pressable since 2017.