User provisioning with BlogIn enables you to provision and deprovision users in BlogIn from Zoho Directory Admin Panel, enabling you to use Zoho Directory as a single source of truth.
Prerequisites
- A user account in BlogIn with Administrator role.
- SSO must have been set up
In BlogIn: Enable SCIM and generate token
1. Sign in to your BlogIn account.
2. Go to Settings in the left navigation panel, then click the User Authentication tab.
3. Scroll down and click CONFIGURE SSO & USER PROVISIONING.
4. Click on the User Provisioning tab, then enable the USER PROVISIONING STATUS.
5. Copy BASE (TENANT) URL, then click SAVE CHANGES.
6. Copy SECRET (BEARER) TOKEN. They will be used in Zoho Directory to set up provisioning.
7. Click SAVE CHANGES.
In Zoho Directory: Set up provisioning
2. Ensure that you have set up SSO for BlogIn.
3. Go to Application, then click BlogIn.
4. Go to Provisioning, then click Configure.
5. Paste the BASE (TENANT) URL and SECRET (BEARER) TOKEN you copied from BlogIn in the Sync endpoint and SCIM Token fields.
6. Click Authorize.
7. Select the fields that have to be synced with BlogIn, and map the relevant Zoho Directory fields with them. If you'd like to have a constant value to be set in BlogIn for any fields, click Edit next to the field, enter the value in the Hardcoded value field, then click OK.

Note: By default, all BlogIn fields will be mapped to a relevant Zoho Directory field. To change this mapping, you should have the Standard or Professional plans in Zoho Directory.
8. Click Save and Next.
9. Choose which of the changes made in Zoho Directory have to be synced with BlogIn:
- Create users: Assigning a user to BlogIn in Zoho Directory automatically creates a new user account in BlogIn.
- Update user profile: If a user account already exists in BlogIn for a user, any changes made to the mapped fields in user's profile in ZD will be synced with BlogIn.
- Delete users: Unassigning BlogIn for the user from ZD will delete the user's account in BlogIn.
- Activate and deactivate users: If a user account already exists in BlogIn for a user, assigning them to BlogIn in ZD will activate the user in BlogIn. Additionally, activating or deactivating a user in ZD will also activate and deactivate them in BlogIn.
10. Click Save.
11. If you'd like to have the users currently in BlogIn to be imported to ZD, click Import. It is advisable to import users to ZD during initial setup or when activating the app after a while. A list of users that can be imported will be displayed.
12. The following filters can be used to select users to import:
- All Users: All the users that can be imported from BlogIn to ZD.
- New Users: Users that are present in BlogIn, but not in ZD. These users will be created in ZD, and BlogIn will be assigned to them.
- Update Users: Users already present in ZD. Any changes in the user profile for these users will not be synced, and the field values from BlogIn will be used to overwrite the values in ZD.
- Users to Activate: Users inactive in Zoho Directory but active in BlogIn will be activated while importing.
- Users to Deactivate: Users active in Zoho Directory but inactive in BlogIn will be deactivated while importing.
13. Click Confirm Assignment.
14. Click Done.