Getting Started

Welcome to YubiKey as a Service and the Customer Portal! This section guides you to supporting content for common tasks performed by different user categories working with the Customer Portal and integrations using the YubiEnterprise API.

Logging in

To access the Customer Portal, your organization must first be set up, and your account must be activated through a first-time log in with a registered YubiKey as described in Activating User Accounts.

Important

For enhanced security, the Customer Portal is being upgraded to use passwordless authentication. If you have not yet upgraded your Customer Portal account to passwordless authentication, you will be given the option to move to passwordless when logging in. For a limited time, you can still log in with your password. See Upgrading to Passwordless.

To log in to the Customer Portal, do the following:

  1. Have your YubiKey ready, go to https://portal.yubico.com/login, and click Login.

  2. Click Sign in with Passkey.

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  3. Ensure to select the security key passkey option if your browser suggests other (synced) passkey options. For example in the Chrome scenario below, click Use a different passkey to locate and select the passkey associated with the YubiKey registered with your Customer Portal account.

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  4. When prompted, tap your YubiKey and provide the PIN associated with the YubiKey.

  5. You will be logged in and taken to the Home page for your organization from where you can start working with your Customer Portal tasks.

Note

To ensure that the YubiKey (device-bound passkey) is always used when logging in, it is recommended to remove any existing synced passkeys. See Best Practices - Synced Passkeys.

Viewing Notifications

Notifications provide an overview of activities in the system, as well as important information regarding for example failed shipments requiring your interaction. Notifications are a good starting point when you first log in to the Customer Portal.

The Notifications (bell) icon in the top menu indicates the number of unread notifications if any.

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You can do the following when working with notifications:

  • Click the Notifications icon to check the list of notifications to see if there are any activities that require user interaction, for example shipments with failed address validation.
  • Click the unread notifications to read them and take action if needed. Notifications remain in the list after being read until they expire after 30 days.
  • To filter notifications, click the Filter icon at the top right and select the desired option. You can for example filter notifications to only view unread ones.
  • To keep desired notifications, click Archive for a notification to move it to the archive where it will be stored until deleted. Click Archived to view all archived notifications.
  • Click Mark all as read to clear all unread indications. Notifications that have been read remain visible and you can see their record and take action at any time.

Note

Notification interactions are personalized. When you mark a notification as read, it will only be marked as read for you. Other Customer Portal users in your organization will still see the notification as unread until they mark the notification as read.

Working in the Customer Portal

Note

What you see in the Customer Portal depends on the services available to your organization, and your role and permissions in the system. You might not be able to access all features described here.

Customer

Organization account owner with CONSOLE OWNER role

You are an account owner working with purchasing plans for your organization. You want to set up your organization’s account, order a first set of YubiKeys, add more Customer Portal users for your organization, and manage their permissions. As Console Owner, you can also reset accounts if needed.

Understanding purchasing and delivery

Onboarding and accessing the Customer Portal

Managing Customer Portal users for your organization

Organization IT administrator with CONSOLE ADMIN role

You manage deployment of YubiKeys for your organization. You want to see the inventory, understand how many keys are available, and ship keys to various parts of your organization. You want to check the status of shipments, and update shipment request details if needed.

Monitoring your inventory

Creating shipment requests

Managing shipments

Organization auditor with CONSOLE AUDITOR role

You are an auditor for an organization and want to review data like purchase orders, shipments and permission settings. You also want to download information for reporting purposes.

Viewing data for an organization

Downloading information

Reseller

User with RESELLER VIEW access

Resellers are organizations that sell Yubico products to end customers. As a reseller you want to see what was sold to your customers, monitor their inventories, and provide access for customers to view purchase orders.

Getting an overview

Viewing purchase orders

Managing view permissions

Distributor

User with DISTRIBUTOR VIEW access

Distributors are organizations that sell Yubico products to associated resellers that in turn sell the products to end customers. As a distributor you want to see what was sold by your resellers, monitor customer inventories, and provide your resellers with access to view purchase orders.

Getting an overview

Viewing purchase orders

Managing view permissions

Integrator

Developer with CONSOLE ADMIN role

You are a developer integrating the YubiEnterprise API into a system on behalf of a customer organization. You want to understand how to get started with the YubiEnterprise API, and how to use it for example to create shipment requests.

Getting started with the YubiEnterprise API

Working with the YubiEnterprise API

Integration examples