B2B

A collection of 27 posts

Authentication

6 Best Authentication Platforms for B2B SaaS in 2026

Choosing an authentication platform for a B2B SaaS product is a decision you live with for years. The wrong choice shows up later as custom middleware for multi-tenancy, enterprise deals stalled on a missing SCIM checkbox, or a painful migration once per-user pricing catches up with your growth.

B2B

SCIM Provisioning: What It Is and When You Need It

What Is SCIM? SCIM stands for System for Cross-domain Identity Management. It's an open standard (RFC 7643/7644) that automates user provisioning and deprovisioning between an identity provider (IdP), like Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, or JumpCloud, and third-party applications like yours. In plain terms: SCIM is

B2B

A Type-Safe Stack for Building B2B Apps Fast

Picking a tech stack is an important decision for any product. There’s a lot of constraints that you need to balance. On the one hand, you want to get your product out into the world as quickly as possible. You want to see what works, what doesn’t work,

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Isolated Organizations: An easier way to do user isolation

When you're building a B2B product, one of the first architectural decisions you'll face is how to separate your customers from each other. This concept is commonly called an “organization” or “tenant,” and it essentially means you are defining clear boundaries between different groups of users.

Authentication

Predicting Your Auth Roadmap: What Your B2B Customers Will Need As They Grow

Authentication is pretty simple when you first get started. Signup, login, password reset… maybe social login integrations or 2FA if you want to add some frills. Many frameworks have these features out of the box, and they may only take a little while to implement. Unfortunately… things often don’t

Next.js

Protecting a Multi-tenant Next.js client/server app with PropelAuth

Learn how to create a B2B Next.js app that creates digital coupons on demand using OpenAI's API and PropelAuth to secure it.

Guide

React/FastAPI Starter Guide

This guide walks through the process of setting up authentication using PropelAuth on top of a product built in FastAPI & React. Setting up our Authentication UIs PropelAuth provides UIs for signup, login, and account management, so we don’t need to build them ourselves. To get started, let’s

RBAC

Guide to RBAC for B2B SaaS

Role based access control (RBAC) is a method of answering the question “Can a user do this thing?” If you’ve ever used a product where some users are "Admins" or "Owners", and they can do more than everyone else, you’ve used a product with

FastAPI

Building a Multi-Tenant App with FastAPI, SQLModel, and PropelAuth

Building a multi-tenant (sometimes also known as B2B) product can be a trickier than building for consumers. Instead of handling users as individuals, you generally have to handle them working together in groups or teams. In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through how to create a multi-tenant

Coding

Custom Metadata: How It Works

Last week, we released a long awaited and asked for feature in PropelAuth, Custom Metadata on both users and organizations! However, the term “metadata” is nebulous and vague, so today we’re excited to walk through this new aspect of the product, and how you can start customizing to your

B2B

Why Our Startup Program Has No Time Limit

Note: Free Until Funded has been discontinued. If you are an early stage startup, please email support@propelauth.com to learn about our latest startup deals. When I first founded PropelAuth, I had an idea of what I felt was wrong with authentication tools today. The idea was largely based

B2B

PropelAuth’s Annual Security Audit (2023)

PropelAuth is deeply committed to the security of data within our platform. We have features like 2FA, enterprise SSO/SAML, brute force detection, custom roles & permissions for RBAC - all to make sure everyone’s accounts are protected and you can build secure applications on top of us. Furthering this

B2B

Adding Multi-Account Support to Your Product

When starting a startup, the initial focus is usually on getting your product into peoples hands as quickly as possible. You want to cut any features that aren’t important so you can find out if you are heading in the right direction - this is usually known as making an

Guide

Next.js Multi-Tenant Starter Application

In this guide, we’ll build an example B2B application in Next.js where users can sign up, login, manage their accounts, and view organization and member information, all using PropelAuth and NextJS. We're going to use the following technologies for walkthrough: * Next.js - for our frontend and

Guide

React Hooks for Multi-Tenancy and Authorization w/ PropelAuth

Say you built a SaaS application for restaurants to track information about their orders. There are multiple people at the restaurants who need access to this information. There’s an owner, there are managers, and there are frontline employees who need access too. Each of these users will have different

Authentication

Roles and Permissions in Plain English

Let’s say you build newspaper websites for local newspapers. Your simplest product is a newspaper website where everyone can post articles and everyone can read them. That’s not good.

Guide

Instant Multi-Tenant GraphQL APIs with PostGraphile, RLS, and PropelAuth

GraphQL is a query language for APIs that can help your engineering team move faster. Just one set of developers can build and maintain the overall schema, and everyone else gets a friendly interface for accessing/mutating the data. The queries are written like this: { hero { name height } } And it

Authentication

Why B2B Companies Waste More Time on Authentication

B2B companies have a lot of additional user authentication needs than B2C. You start with an organization ID and an invitation flow, and slowly you are adding roles and self-service UIs, and org-aware middleware.

Next.js

Multi-Tenant Next.js App with Prisma and PropelAuth

In this post, we’ll show how to build a multi-tenant application using Next.js, Prisma, and PropelAuth. We’ll build a simple B2B application where each user can make "posts" within a tenant.

Product

Updates to Our Hosted Auth Pages

We’re excited to share new user interface (UI) and feature updates to our hosted auth pages! These are the UIs that we host on your behalf for your users.

B2B

Customer Specific URLs in SaaS Applications

There are many ways to structure your URLs for your customers. You can explicitly reference the customer in the URL or you can manage that separately. You can put the customers name in the path, a subdomain, or a query parameter, each of which have different pros and cons.

Product

PropelAuth Announces Improvements to Organization Concepts

PropelAuth today announced the launch of improved Organization concepts along with updated front-end and back-end libraries. PropelAuth customers will now be able to create and manage Organizations on behalf of their users.

Authentication

Dynamic Organization Routing with React

In this post, we'll look at how to create a dynamic route for the organization a user is a member of in React using react-router and PropelAuth

Next.js

Setting up a Responsive Multi-Tenant Template with Grommet, PropelAuth, and Next.js

Grommet is a React-based framework that provides tools for you to quickly build responsive and accessible applications. It has some of the most intuitive components for setting up the structure of your product (e.g. headers, footers, responsive sidebars, etc).

Product

Why Traditional Auth Tools Won't Cut It For B2B Businesses

Your business deserves more. We've spoken to hundreds of startup founders about their auth experiences, and we discovered a few things...