Understand Storefront SSO Message Flow

SAML 2.0 supports a variety of different message flows for authentication and authorization.

This section applies to Open Storefront Framework (OSF).

The following diagram illustrates the approach used by Retail Digital Commerce. It shows the flow of messages when a shopper logs into a Retail Digital Commerce storefront using storefront SSO. Note that in SAML terminology, Retail Digital Commerce Commerce is referred to as the service provider, while the external system that provides authentication is called the identity provider: