Setting up Google SSO for Persona Dashboard

Overview

You can enable Google SSO via your Google Workspace account by following the steps in this guide.

Availability

SSO is available on Growth and Enterprise plans. See our Pricing page for details.

Steps

1. From Google Workspace admin console, navigate to Menu > Apps > Web and mobile apps.

2. Click on ‘Add app’ and select ‘Add custom SAML app’

3. Fill out App details. Hit continue.

4. Download IdP metadata (Option 1). Hit continue

5. Add service provider details. Leave Name ID format as UNSPECIFIED and Name ID as Basic Information > Primary email

          a. ACS URL format: https://withpersona.com/saml//acs

          b. Entity ID: https://withpersona.com/saml//metadata

6. Leave attributes and group membership as-is. Hit finish.

7. You’ll now see your SAML app added

8. If you haven’t already downloaded the metadata, click on Download Metadata. Copy the Metadata.
9. Find the org in admin, click on ‘Edit Organization’. Scroll down to to the ‘IdP metadata’ field.
10. In another window, click on ‘Download Metadata’. Configuration details will appear in a window:

Open metadata in a text editor to get the full XML text. Copy and paste this in this field