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Prepare your production environment to go live
As you build your business on Kinde and configure connections and features, you will eventually want to set your production environment to be ‘live’. This indicates the status of the environment to anyone making changes.
Follow the checklist below before you switch your environment to show as ‘Live’.
Go-live checklist
Link to this sectionBefore you go live, make sure you’ve done the following:
- (Required) Enter a
Client IDandClient secretin all your third-party authentication connections (such as social connections or enterprise connections). If you left these fields blank at setup, Kinde’s credentials are used and rate limits will apply. - (Required) Add Twilio details if you have phone or SMS authentication switched on.
- Add a development environment to continue building your product on Kinde without affecting the live production instance.
- Add policies and terms so that users can access and agree to these on sign up.
- Configure custom email details so that authentication emails sent to your users come from your business, and not Kinde.
- Connect your own domain and customize the sign in screens to provide a seamless and branded experience for users.
- Set up multi-factor authentication to add extra layers of security for user sign in.
- Connect Google analytics to track sign ups through Kinde.
- Set up default roles for assigning to new users when they sign up.
Switch an environment to appear live
Link to this sectionWhen you are ready, turn the ‘Live’ indicator switch on.
- Open your production environment.
- Go to Settings > Environment > Details.
- Scroll to the Environment status section and toggle the switch to Live.
- Select Save. If there are any issues, an error message will appear. Where there are no errors, your Kinde environment should now show as ‘Live.