Emburse cloud application

You must be signed in as a super administrator for this task.

Using Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), your users can use their Google Cloud credentials to sign in to enterprise-cloud applications.

Set up SSO via SAML for Emburse

Here's how to set up single sign-on (SSO) via SAML for the Emburse application.

Step 1: Get Google identity provider (IdP) information

1. Sign in to your Google Admin console.

   Sign in using an account with super administrator privileges (does not end in @gmail.com).

2. From the Admin console Home page, go to AppsWeb and mobile apps.
3. Click Add appSearch for apps.
4. Enter Emburse in the search field.
5. In the search results, hover over the Emburse SAML app and click Select.
6. On the Google Identity Provider details page, download the IDP metadata file.

Leave the Admin console open, you'll continue with the configuration wizard after performing the next step in Emburse.

Step 2: Set up Emburse as a SAML 2.0 service provider (SP)

1. Open a new incognito browser window.
2. Sign in to https://app.emburse.com/login?next=/members with your organization's Emburse admin account.
3. Navigate to Admin  Company Settings.
4. In Single Sign-On (SSO) Settings, click Enable Single Sign-On.
5. Enter your organization's domain name and click Next.
6. Paste the Google IdP metadata you downloaded in Step 1 into the IdP Metadata text input area in Emburse.
7. Click Save.
8. Copy and save the Single Sign-on URL (ACS URL). You'll use this URL to finish SSO configuration in the Admin console in the Step 3.

Step 3: Finish SSO configuration in Admin console

1. Return to the Admin console browser tab.
2. On the Google Identity Provider details page, click Continue.
3. On the Service provider details page, replace the default ACS URL with the ACS URL you copied from Emburse in Step 2.
4. Click Continue.
5. On the Attribute Mapping page, click the Select field menu and map the following Google directory attributes to their corresponding Emburse attributes:
    

   Google directory attribute	Emburse attribute
   Basic Information > First Name	firstName
   Basic Information > Last Name	lastName

6. (Optional) If you want to send a user’s group membership information in the SAML response, enter the group names that are relevant for this app in the Group membership field.

   1. Under Google groups, click in the Search for a group entry field.
   2. Type one or more letters of the group name.
   3. Choose the group name from the dropdown list.
   4. Add additional groups as needed (total groups cannot exceed 75).
   5. Under App attribute, enter the service provider’s corresponding groups attribute name.

   Note: Regardless of how many group names you enter, the SAML response will only include groups that a user is a member of (directly or indirectly). For more information, see About group membership mapping.

7. Click Finish.

Step 4: Enable the Emburse app

1. Sign in to your Google Admin console.

   Sign in using an account with super administrator privileges (does not end in @gmail.com).

2. From the Admin console Home page, go to AppsWeb and mobile apps.
3. Select Emburse.
4. Click User access.

5. To turn on or off a service for everyone in your organization, click On for everyone or Off for everyone, and then click Save.

6. (Optional) To turn a service on or off for an organizational unit:

   1. At the left, select the organizational unit.
   2. To change the Service status, select On or Off.
   3. Choose one:
      • If the Service status is set to Inherited and you want to keep the updated setting, even if the parent setting changes, click Override.
      • If the Service status is set to Overridden, either click Inherit to revert to the same setting as its parent, or click Save to keep the new setting, even if the parent setting changes.
        Note: Learn more about organizational structure.

7. (Optional) Turn on the service for a group of users.
   Use access groups to turn on a service for specific users within or across your organizational units. Learn more

8. Ensure that your Emburse user account email IDs match those in your Google domain.

Step 5: Verify that the SSO is working

Emburse supports both Identity Provider (IdP) initiated and Service Provider (SP) initiated SSO. Follow these steps to verify SSO in either mode:

IdP-initiated

1. Sign in to your Google Admin console.

   Sign in using an account with super administrator privileges (does not end in @gmail.com).

2. From the Admin console Home page, go to AppsWeb and mobile apps.
3. Select Emburse.
4. At the top left, click Test SAML login. 

   Emburse should open in a separate tab. If it doesn’t, use the information in the resulting SAML error messages to update your IdP and SP settings as needed, then retest SAML login.

SP-initiated

1. Open https://app.emburse.com/login?next=/members , enter your account email address, and click Next.
2. Click Log in with SSO. You should be redirected to the Google sign-in page.
3. Enter your email address and password and click Sign in.

   As part of Emburse’s two-factor authentication process, a verification code is sent to the phone associated with your admin account.

4. Click Verify Code.

After your sign-in credentials are authenticated, you're automatically redirected back to Emburse.

Step 6: Set up auto-provisioning

As a super administrator, you can automatically provision users in the Emburse application.

 

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