Welcome to the Login.gov developer guide

This contains everything you’ll need as a federal government agency to integrate and deploy your application with Login.gov.

Same great support with an all new ticketing system! Login.gov is moving our Agency Partner support team to a new help center and ticketing system beginning March 9th. The new system will allow us to more efficiently and effectively meet Partner needs. Please go to logingov.zendesk.com to request support. We will now be requiring all partners to create a Login.gov account with their work email to ensure quick resolution and reduce spam. Login.gov accounts are free.

Login.gov will continue to support its existing email and Slack channels.

Get started…

Understand our flow.
Determine your application needs, like the level of proofing and user attributes that will be requested.
Select between OpenID Connect (OIDC) or SAML protocol implementation protocols. Please note that we recommend OIDC.
Configure your app. We have implementation guides and example apps to get you up and running quickly.
Register your app in the sandbox dashboard and start testing.
Let us know when you are ready to go live and our team will help you promote the application to production. We will check you against our production checklist to ensure your application is good to go to production from an administrative and technical standpoint.
Be sure to read the FAQ for answers to the most common questions.