A practical guide to authentication and identity platform
What to look for when evaluating a authentication and identity platform, and the mistakes teams make.
Beacon Access makes data analysis easy for everyone. Visualise key metrics, track performance, and discover trends without needing a data science background.
Create intuitive, custom dashboards to visualise your most important metrics. No coding or technical skills required.
Get the latest insights with real-time data refreshes. Stay on top of changes as they happen, keeping your team informed.
Set up automated reports to be delivered directly to your inbox. Save time and focus on making decisions, not creating reports.
Share dashboards and reports with your team for seamless collaboration. Comment, edit, and review data insights together.
Always stay up-to-date with live data flowing directly into your dashboard. Track changes as they happen.
Tailor your dashboard to show the metrics that matter most. Create multiple views for different team members or purposes.
Easily share your insights with the team. Comment, edit, and collaborate on reports without leaving the platform.
Save time with automated, scheduled reports. Get the insights you need, delivered straight to your inbox.
Discover patterns and trends in your data effortlessly. Visualise historical data to forecast future performance.
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Answers to questions you might have about Beacon Access.
Beacon Access is a data analytics platform that helps businesses track, visualise, and optimise their performance metrics in real-time. It enables teams to make data-driven decisions through customisable dashboards and powerful insights.
Beacon Access is ideal for startups, tech companies, and growing businesses that want to harness the power of their data. It’s built for teams looking to improve their decision-making by tracking key performance indicators (KPIs) across all departments.
Security is our top priority. Beacon Access uses end-to-end encryption, secure data centres, and regular security audits to ensure your data is protected at all times. We also offer role-based access control to manage permissions within your team.
Yes, Beacon Access integrates with a wide range of tools, including CRM systems, marketing platforms, and cloud storage services. Our API allows for seamless integration, helping you connect Beacon Access to the software you already use.
Absolutely! Beacon Access’s interface is user-friendly and intuitive, designed for both technical and non-technical users. You can create custom reports, dashboards, and visualisations without any coding knowledge.
Recognized as a leader in authentication and identity platform on G2 across SMB and Mid-Market categories.
Top scores for ease of use and customer support among authentication and identity platform tools.
Beacon Access ranked first for fastest time to ROI in its category — typically under 90 days.
Beacon Access is consistently ranked top-3 for shortest implementation time in its segment.
Connect your data and the tools your team already uses in a few clicks.
Set up authentication and identity platform workflows that match how engineering teams building B2B web and mobile applications operate.
Get the insights, alerts, and reports you need to move — and prove impact.
engineering teams building B2B web and mobile applications use Beacon Access to cut manual, repetitive work and ship outcomes in days instead of weeks.
One shared source of truth keeps engineering teams building B2B web and mobile applications on the same page, with no more scattered spreadsheets or threads.
Built-in reporting shows the impact of Beacon Access so you can justify the investment to leadership.
The numbers from Beacon Access customers in the first six months.
engineering teams building B2B web and mobile applications who switch to Beacon Access report cutting onboarding by nearly half — from weeks to days.
Automating routine work in Beacon Access frees teams to focus on the decisions only humans should make.
Customers consolidate an average of four overlapping authentication and identity platform tools after rolling out Beacon Access.
What to look for when evaluating a authentication and identity platform, and the mistakes teams make.
The criteria and workflows that matter most when picking authentication and identity platform software.
How Beacon Access protects your data, and the certifications we hold.
Teams in regulated and high-velocity industries pick Beacon Access for the same reason: it fits the way they already work.
Used by product, growth, and engineering teams to ship authentication and identity platform workflows that scale.
Meets the audit, SOC 2, and data-residency requirements regulated finance teams expect.
Supports HIPAA-eligible plans, signed BAAs, and per-tenant data isolation for clinical teams.
Integrates with order, customer, and event streams so commerce teams act on authentication and identity platform signals in minutes.
Handles bursty event volume from large audiences without a re-platform.
Available in dedicated regions with an annual contract and a named success manager.
Every plan includes the basics; Enterprise unlocks the rest. Full plan comparison below.
Beacon Access integrates with the tools you rely on.
Beacon Access ships open APIs, webhooks, and bulk exports. Your data is yours — there is no vendor lock-in.
No hidden seats, no surprise overage bills. Beacon Access is free up to 1,000 monthly active users, then priced per block of MAU.
Beacon Access is SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certified, is a CNCF-aligned OIDC provider, and supports FIDO2 hardware keys and SCIM. You can keep data in the EU or US region of your choice.
Beacon Access is built with engineering teams building B2B web and mobile applications, not at them. Every feature ships with a real workflow in mind.
Practical writing for engineering teams building B2B web and mobile applications — new features, workflow patterns, and the occasional teardown of how a customer rebuilt their authentication and identity platform. No spam, unsubscribe in one click.
Familiar but fragile. They break the moment engineering teams building B2B web and mobile applications grow past one team, and there is no audit trail.
Powerful but slow to roll out, priced per seat, and built for a 2014 stack. Most teams use 20% of the feature set.
Drop-in auth, SSO, and user management for B2B apps. Modern, opinionated, $0 up to 1k MAU to start, and you can swap it out any time — your data exports cleanly.
Beacon Access ships often. Here's the last eight months at a glance.
Added SCIM provisioning and a dedicated region in eu-west-2 for Beacon Access Enterprise.
New audit-log SIEM exports (Splunk, Datadog) and a per-workspace API rate limit.
Refreshed dashboards with a faster query engine — most reports load 2× quicker.
Okta integration moved out of beta; Azure AD integration entered beta.
New Slack and Microsoft Teams notification triggers, plus a digest mode.
Annual contracts now include a 15% discount; first 30 days fully refundable on every plan.
Public API now returns idempotency keys on POST endpoints; SDKs updated.
Launched Beacon Access on AWS Marketplace with private offer support.
The playbook our success team walks every new customer through.
List the authentication and identity platform tools currently in use and the workflows that depend on them. Beacon Access usually replaces between one and four overlapping tools.
Document the entities you care about and how they relate. Beacon Access has importers for the common shapes; the rest fits a clean JSON model.
Don't migrate the whole company on day one. Pick the team that most needs the new workflow — usually engineering teams building B2B web and mobile applications — and roll out Beacon Access there first.
Run Beacon Access alongside the incumbent for two weeks. Compare reports daily. Flip the switch only when the team can't tell which tool the data came from.
Export everything from the legacy tool, archive it, and turn off the contract. Beacon Access can store the archive as a read-only dataset so nobody loses history.
Beacon Access is a drop-in authentication and identity platform for B2B applications. It adds login, multi-factor auth, organizations, and enterprise SSO in an afternoon, so engineering teams stop rebuilding auth.
Everything Beacon Access does is shaped around how engineering teams building B2B web and mobile applications actually work — no bloated setup, no consultants required.
Native integrations with React SDK, Okta, Azure AD, Auth0 import, plus a documented REST API and webhooks so Beacon Access fits the tools you already use.
Beacon Access is SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certified, is a CNCF-aligned OIDC provider, and supports FIDO2 hardware keys and SCIM.
Skip the long implementation. Most teams have Beacon Access running the same day and see value in the first week.
Dashboards, reports, and alerts turn raw authentication and identity platform data into decisions your whole team can make confidently.
From your first project to millions of events, Beacon Access grows without a re-platform or a pricing surprise.
The standard story about authentication and identity platform tools — that you pick the biggest brand, sit through a six-month implementation, and hope your team adopts it — has stopped being true. The teams that move fastest in 2026 are the ones that pick opinionated software, get a workflow live in days, and replace incumbents that nobody on the team actually liked anyway. Beacon Access is built around that reality.
Three patterns show up over and over with engineering teams building B2B web and mobile applications: the first tool of any new category gets adopted in the first week or never; an integration that doesn't exist on day one will be requested every quarter; and pricing that is hard to predict is the single fastest way to lose internal sponsorship. Beacon Access addresses each of those head-on — drop-in auth, sso, and user management for b2b apps., React SDK, Okta, Azure AD, and Auth0 import on day one, and Beacon Access is free up to 1,000 monthly active users, then priced per block of MAU.
What that means in practice: a team that adopts Beacon Access this quarter has a high probability of standardizing on it. The cost of switching to a different authentication and identity platform a year from now is by design lower than with the incumbents — your data exports cleanly, the API is documented, and the contracts have no escape clauses. We think confidence in the exit is what makes the adoption easy.
The terms that show up most often when teams evaluate Beacon Access — explained without jargon.
Annual recurring revenue — the predictable revenue your business generates each year.
Monthly active users — the number of distinct users active in a 30-day window.
The moment a new user has done enough in the product to be likely to come back.
Time to value — how long it takes a customer to get the first measurable outcome.
Net revenue retention — revenue from existing customers including expansion and churn.
A group of customers grouped by a shared trait (e.g., sign-up month) so you can compare them.
An API guarantee that repeating the same request produces the same result, with no duplicates.
Architecture where one running system serves many customers with strong isolation between them.
A geographical zone (e.g., EU-West) where data can be stored to meet residency requirements.
Boundaries that ensure one customer's data can never be read by another.
A contractual guarantee about uptime or response time, usually with credits when missed.
An immutable record of who did what and when, used for security and compliance reviews.
“Switching to Beacon Access paid for itself within a quarter. Our team finally has one source of truth instead of five.”
Dana R., VP of Operations
“The fastest rollout we've ever done. Drop-in auth, SSO, and user management for B2B apps. It just works.”
Marcus L., Director of Engineering
“Support is responsive and the product keeps getting better. Beacon Access is now core to how we operate.”
Priya S., Head of Growth
Beacon Access is SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certified, is a CNCF-aligned OIDC provider, and supports FIDO2 hardware keys and SCIM. Beacon Access maintains a public trust center, supports SAML SSO and SCIM provisioning, offers per-customer data isolation, and can complete most enterprise security reviews in a week.
“We evaluated five authentication and identity platform tools and Beacon Access was the only one that didn't make our team feel like they were filling out a form. It just gets out of the way.”
Jordan A., Head of Product
“Three months in, Beacon Access is the tool people open first every morning. That's a metric I trust more than any NPS.”
Sam K., Director of Operations
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