# Sign in with Google: single sign-on for your brokerage

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> Sign in and sign up with your Google account: one click, no extra password. What Capitality receives from Google, what it never sees, and how it works with 2FA.

**Status:** Beta — Complete for the first firms using it; details may still move.
**On the broker’s path:** Platform

**The problem this solves:** One more password for one more tool: brokers reuse the same one everywhere or reset it every other week.

Choose **Continue with Google** on either the sign-in or sign-up page. An existing
account signs in; a new account continues to the remaining registration steps when access
is available. Your invitation and the page you wanted to open are preserved.

## What you can do

- **Sign in without a password.** Single sign-on (SSO) with Google: you sign in to Google
  once and Capitality takes over the confirmed identity. If you have several Google accounts,
  you pick the right one each time.
- **Sign up with Google.** Google supplies your name and address. If you are new, review your name
  and accept the terms and data processing agreement (AVV) before creating the account.
  Marketing updates and the design-partner programme remain optional.
- **Keep your existing account.** If you already have an account with a password and the same
  confirmed email address, Google signs you in to exactly that account. You then have two ways
  in: password and Google.
- **Stay safe with 2FA.** If you switched on [two-step sign-in](https://docs.capitality.io/features/two-step-sign-in/),
  Capitality asks for the code from your authenticator app after Google as well.

## How it works

1. On the sign-in page you click **„Continue with Google“**.
2. Google shows its own page: you pick your account and confirm if Google asks. You type your
   Google password only at Google, never at Capitality.
3. Google sends you back to Capitality, signed in — to the page you wanted to open.

If there is no account yet, Capitality offers the short registration step. When registration
is closed and you have no valid invitation, it shows an access request with your address
already filled in. You never need to restart from a different page. No workspace is created
by signing in.

## What Capitality receives from Google

| Capitality receives                | Capitality does not receive |
| ---------------------------------- | --------------------------- |
| Name                               | Email in Gmail              |
| Email address, confirmed by Google | Events in Google Calendar   |
| Profile picture                    | Files in Google Drive       |
|                                    | Your Google password        |

A mailbox or a calendar you connect separately in the settings, if you want to — with its own
consent at Google, which you can take back at any time.

## Limits and notes

- **Unconfirmed password account.** If your address has an account with a password whose
  address is not confirmed yet, Capitality does not join it to Google: nobody can take over an
  account someone else created under your address. Sign in with the password and confirm the
  address from the email; after that, Google works too.
- **Sign-up by invitation only.** When sign-up is closed, that holds for Google too: an
  account is made only for an invited address.
- **Taking access back.** In your Google account under _Security → Your connections to
  third-party apps and services_ you remove Capitality. Your data in Capitality stays; you
  then sign in with email and password.
- **Your own identity provider.** Signing in through your firm's own identity provider (for
  example via SAML) is not offered at the moment.

## Frequently asked questions

You can also [continue with Microsoft](https://docs.capitality.io/features/microsoft-sign-in/).

**Does Capitality read my email when I sign in with Google?**
No. For signing in, Capitality receives only name, email address and profile picture.

**Do I need Google Workspace?**
No. Any Google account works, a personal one as well as a Google Workspace one.

**Does two-step sign-in apply to Google too?**
Yes. After Google, Capitality asks for the code from your authenticator app.

## New in this feature

No published change to this feature yet.

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