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Merchants: Registering Your Service

To register as a customer of InAcademia, the InAcademia Service requires some administrative data, and needs to validate some of your technical configuration, as well as to agree terms of business.

This page describes the procedure you need to follow. Our support team will contact you to discuss terms and pricing.

Registration Information

Please complete the following information request form:

Contractual Information

Registered Company Name (required)
Company Registration Number (required)
Registered Office Address (required)
This should be the details of the legal entity that will register the service.

Administrative Data

Your Name (required)
Company Name (required)
Company Logo URL (required)
This should be the company name and URL of the logo of the service that you'd like to present to users

Administrative Contact
Administrative Email
Support Contact (required)
Support Email (required)
Are you an EU Based Service? (required)
Service Status
Purpose of Service
Privacy Statement URI (required)
Approximate number of users to validate per annum
Required Affiliation scopes
Required Claims

Technical Data

Technical Contact
Technical Email (required)
Security Contact
Security Email (required)

Production RedirectURI (callbackURL) (required): Please provide us with the callback URL of your production application. This is the URL where InAcademia will respond to your request after validation took place. The RedirectURI and the ClientID are tightly coupled, and must match the data registered at the InAcademia service. To secure communications between the InAcademia service and the clients, the use of a valid https certificate for the RedirectURI is mandatory.
Pre-Producution/Test RedirectURI (test callbackURL) (required): Please provide us with the callback URL of your pre-production/test application. This is the URL where InAcademia's pre-production platform will respond to your request after validation took place. The RedirectURI and the ClientID are tightly coupled, and must match the data registered at the InAcademia service. To secure communications between the InAcademia service and the clients, the use of a valid https certificate for the RedirectURI is mandatory.

Note:

Client Secret: A client secret is *not* used by InAcademia. You may send a Client Secret if your implementation requires you to, but it will be ignored.

The use of self-signed certificates is not allowed. Free certificates may be obtained at LetsEncrypt, though for production platforms it is probably a better idea to register a longer lived certificate at a certificate authority of your choosing.

Validation of the information

When we have received your data, we will proceed with validating it.

As part of this validation, you must prove that you own the domain of the RedirectURI. To do so, the InAcademia support team will send you a challenge: a string value which you must incorporate into your configuration so it can be validated.

We support 2 options to prove the domain is yours, assuming the challenge provided is for example “4c69da58bccff54feb90b70d0fa33518e93e1d6e9d6f9dc97f256f9b18f6f4e0”

HTTPS validation

Create a file named 4c69da58bccff54feb90b70d0fa33518e93e1d6e9d6f9dc97f256f9b18f6f4e0 with the following content:
validation-code = 4c69da58bccff54feb90b70d0fa33518e93e1d6e9d6f9dc97f256f9b18f6f4e0
Place it on the root of the domain: yourdomain.com
Make sure the proper link is not broken, and can be reached from the Internet: https://yourdomain.com/4c69da58bccff54feb90b70d0fa33518e93e1d6e9d6f9dc97f256f9b18f6f4e0
An HTTP(S) request to that resource should return an HTTP(S) 200 response

DNS validation

Add the challenge to a TXT record of your domain: 4c69da58bccff54feb90b70d0fa33518e93e1d6e9d6f9dc97f256f9b18f6f4e0

Note the challenge will be a unique string each time, so copying the example string from this page will not work, you must use the challenge provided to you by InAcademia support!

The InAcademia service will notify you when the validation succeeded and the connection is active.