Control account access to admin portal features

Frontegg allows you to define how users interact with the admin portal of your application by giving you full control over their access to key features.

This functionality can facilitate your business growth by enabling you to offer premium features to customers on higher-tier plans. By controlling feature access in this way, you can ensure that users only receive the functionalities that are relevant to them. This not only enhances the customer experience by delivering tailored solutions, but also helps you optimize your product offerings and resources.

Step 1: Enable the entitlements option in your application code

To begin, you need to enable the entitlements option in your application code by adding the following lines:

entitlementsOptions={{
    enabled: true,
}}

Step 2: Create a feature

1. In the Frontegg portal, navigate to [ENVIRONMENT] → Configurations → Entitlements → Features.

2. Click Create feature.

3. Enter the required feature name into the Name field (the feature is the actual tab in the admin portal you'd like to control), description into the Description field and feature key into the Key field.
4. Click Save.

Step 2: Create a feature plan

1. Navigate to Plans.

2. Click Create plan.

3. Enter the required plan name into the Name field. If required, provide an optional description in the Description field and metadata into the Metadata field. Additionally, you can enable this plan for all new accounts in the environment, by switching the Grant to all new accounts toggle.
4. Click Save.

Step 3: Add the feature to the plan

1. Go to the Features tab.

2. Click Assign features.

3. Select the feature you created in step 1.
4. Click Save.

Step 4: Add accounts to the feature inside the plan

1. Go to the Accounts tab.

2. Click Assign accounts.

3. Select accounts that you want to grant access to this feature in the admin portal.
4. Click Save.

Step 5: Define the feature's permissions

This step establishes the connection between a feature and its corresponding permission. Once configured, users must have both the required permission and the associated feature enabled to gain access. If a user has the permission but lacks the feature, access will not be granted. Only when both are assigned will the user be entitled to the feature. Read more about this functionality here.

1. Go to the Features tab.
2. In the row of your feature, click the three vertical dots at the end of the line.

3. Click Edit.
4. Click the Permissions tab.

5. Click Assign permissions.
6. Select the required permissions.
7. Click Assign permissions

8. Click Save.

Example integration: SSO feature

Before the change, the user had access to all available permissions, and the SSO tab was visible in the admin portal:

After the change, the user no longer sees the SSO tab, as they no longer have access to it.

Admin portal permissions

Use these permissions to control access using plans.