A User Store in Zephr organizes and manages users based on their account storage or authentication method.

A User Store in Zephr is a way to organize and manage users based on where their account information is stored or how they authenticate. Each user in your Zephr instance belongs to a User Store, which may represent:

• Users created directly within Zephr (internal store).
• Users logging in through a third-party identity provider, such as Okta, Azure AD or Google (amongst others) using Zephr’s JSON Web Token integration.
• Custom authentication systems you’ve integrated with Zephr.

The image below illustrates the transition from a shared user store model, where a single user store served all sites within an environment, for example, Staging or UAT, to a more robust architecture where each site has its own dedicated user store per environment and per site.