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Preview for verified coupons with Entra Verified ID

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AnkurPatel
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Sep 15, 2022

Hello!

 

It’s been just over 30 days since Entra Verified ID became Generally Available (GA). I’m thrilled to share with you our latest update, developed by Emilia Borisova this summer: Verified Coupons (e.g., a ticket for an exclusive event).  

 

Thanks,

Ankur Patel

Head of Product, Microsoft Entra Verified ID

 

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My name is Emilia Borisova, and I’m an intern on the Decentralized Identity Team. I’m excited to share that the feature I designed and developed over the course of my internship is now available for preview. This feature provides functionality for setting a limit on the number of times a Verified ID can be presented per day, per user, and per credential type. We believe such an approach unlocks functionality for verified discounts, tickets, and differentiated experiences across a wide variety of scenarios such as travel, healthcare, retail, and more.   

 

Sample usage: A closer look at getting one free cup of coffee with Verified ID  

 

 

 

To help students jumpstart their week, Woodgrove Coffee is offering a free cup of coffee every Monday. At checkout, students can present their Verified Student ID and receive their weekly free cup of coffee. Woodgrove Coffee can notify students to come back next week when attempting to redeem for an additional cup. Functioning exactly as a coupon would, this feature is intuitive to use and expands the definition of what Verified ID is, further highlighting its endless potential.   

  

How does it work?  

Developers can use the Entra Verified ID APIs to programmatically specify the number of times a particular credential can be presented during verification. The image below shows a sample request where the field “maximumAllowedPresentationsCount” is set to 1 for a Verified ID that can only be used once. Thus, through a change of a single property value, the feature is seamless to use and flexible enough to support changes in presentation limits. Additionally, apps can programmatically configure their preferred value for the presentation count to build the most suitable offer for their customers. 

 

 

 

 If you’re interested in receiving access to this feature, please fill out this form.  

 

Thank you for your feedback   

We enjoy hearing thoughts and reactions from the community, so please let us know what you think in the comments below, on Twitter (@AzureAD), or in the Azure Feedback Forum. Check out documentation for further details.   

 

Emilia Borisova  

Software Engineering Intern  

Microsoft Identity Division  

  

 

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  • Smiki's avatar
    Smiki
    Iron Contributor
    Sep 27, 2022

    Hi AnkurPatel ,

    It’s just amazing going through the seamless registration processes and check-in experience with Verified Credentials at Entra AirLift event. I did try to influence my friends at the NIC conference:

     

    https://www.nicconf.com/xedition

     

    To use DID and also how it could be used in a company building as the “access card” or even better the company card; making it even easier to allow access for also the Omni Channel, partners, employees, customers, suppliers, service workers and more; just like the CompanyID(entity) model I have referred to several times. The concepts Microsoft seems to build where the interests or focus are on the tenant (our customers) and the identity owner; not on a special interest to an IDP. In Norway we have BankID with interests to banks, VIPPS to even fewer banks, IDPorten to the public sector and Signicat, Buypass, Comfides, Produsent Registere and others in the private market. Those IDP’s including the social, IM and other cloud identities that can be used as “yet another MFA factor” or as we have shown in the B2C playground as “one true cloud identity” to several other IDP’s, also with different callbacks concepts and where we are not using the ledger to host/store more than the essential.

    I just love how easy we in the future can let our decision makers and companies to no longer just manage companies on their faith, hope, love and the apparently history, but on actual incidents, events and observations including the support of AI/ML that facilitate a far better and safer decision-making world and future.

    I have already discussed some of the challenges with several of your colleagues and participants here on the “happy hour”; this seems to be just the dream event where we’re not looking at the clouds but go beyond; take a glimpse of, learn and head for the (brightest) stars. What a thrilling event with the best of the best; THX in advance..

     

    Best regards

    MrSmith