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To demonstrate how zanox Connect can work for you, this page offers a basic example. It shows you how to quickly integrate your application or site with zanox Connect by simply setting up a Connect application and adding a brief snippet of code to your site. By doing just this, you can easily have users log in with zanox, or connect their accounts on zanox with existing accounts on your site.

zanox Connect concept

The new single sign-on solution called zanox Connect ensures an easy, smooth and secure way of integrating applications. This process is similar to what is being widely used on platforms such as Facebook. Once logged-in, using an application can be done via just one click. Thanks to zanox Connect, developers can now create applications that optimize the affiliate marketing performance of their customers.

If you implement zanox Connect you will need to integrate your application with zanox in one of the following ways:

• Users will be authenticated and redirected to your system from the Application Store.
• You need to let them log in using their zanox credentials directly from your application.

In both cases, after being authenticated users will be redirected to your application (to a callback URL you need to configure) with the appropriate credential of that partnership between you and the buyer of the application.

In case you provide a tool or software you need to place under the callback URL the URL where your tool can be downloaded.

In case you offer instead a software as a service you need to place under the callback URL the link to your landing page.

In any case the callback URL will be the entry point of the users to your system not only the first time but also each time they want to use your service. This implies that your landing page (the one you configure under the callback URL) has to check when ever it received the authentication token.

Once you receive the authentication token you can then execute a specific SOAP request to retrieve the ConnectID (the identifier of the partnership between your application and the user of your application).

With the ConnectID you will be able to execute Web Services requests on behalf of the user in a controlled way.

Visual description of this process:

Download the whitepaper

File:Zanox Connect Quick Start Guide EN download.pdf

How to integrate your application with zanox Connect?

To integrate your application with zanox Connect just follow the steps below:

• Step 1 - Connect your application or site with zanox
• Step 2 - Authenticate the user
• Step 3 - Use the authorization token to retrieve the user credentials
• Step 4 - Get the user credentials
• Step 5 - Use zanox Web Services