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Bring people in

Give customers a complete path into—and back into—your product.

Handle account creation, sign-in, sessions, password recovery, and optional one-time codes without creating a separate identity backend.

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Authentication in a product

A person arrivesCreate an account or sign in

Prove they own the accountPassword, recovery, or one-time code

Continue as the same personUse one identity across records and actions

Sign-in becomes product context

01Cover the account lifecycleSupport joining, returning, recovering access, and signing out.

02Give APIs a known callerCarry a session identity into product requests.

03Connect identity to real workThe signed-in account can own records and join teams.

Why it matters

Sign-in only matters when the rest of the product knows who arrived.

A login screen is the beginning, not the identity system. The application must create accounts, verify credentials, issue sessions, help people recover access, and connect the returning person to their data and teams.

Daptin includes account actions for sign-up, sign-in, password reset, and optional one-time-password verification. A successful session gives the resource and action paths the identity they need to make access decisions.

Because accounts live in the same model as groups, ownership, and records, identity becomes useful application context rather than a token checked at the edge and forgotten.

Avoid rebuilding common account flows

Start with the lifecycle every customer-facing product needs.

Keep sessions useful across the backend

Use the same caller identity in APIs, actions, files, and live experiences.

Add another factor when needed

How it fits

Part of one connected backend.

Authentication does more when it can reuse the records, people, access rules, and workflows already in your application.

Step 1Enroll

Create the account and establish credentials.

Step 2Authenticate

Verify the chosen sign-in method.

Step 3Issue

Return a session token or browser session.

Step 4Use

The backend carries the account into access and ownership checks.

What it enables

Use it in products people recognize.

Start from the experience you want to create; the backend capability supports the work behind it.

Customer portal

People create accounts, recover access, and return to their own records.

Team product

Members sign in, join a workspace, and continue with team permissions.

Protected content

Subscribers authenticate before reaching private records and files.

Connected by design

Build the next part without starting over.

These capabilities share the same application context, so each one makes authentication more useful.

Know the boundary

What Daptin leaves in your hands.

Authentication features do not remove the need for secure transport, strong signing and encryption secrets, account-abuse controls, email deliverability, administrator protection, and a deliberate session lifetime.

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Build from one foundation

Make authentication part of the product—not another disconnected service.

Run Daptin locally, explore the live administration surface, and follow one complete application path.

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