SSO
Google Workspace
API integration
Ship SSO features without building the integration. Full Google Workspace API access via Proxy, normalized data through Unified APIs — extend models and mappings to fit your product.
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Use Cases
Why integrate with Google Workspace
Common scenarios for SaaS companies building Google Workspace integrations for their customers.
Automate employee onboarding and offboarding from Google Workspace
SaaS companies can sync user lifecycle events from their customers' Google Workspace directories to automatically provision new accounts and instantly revoke access when employees are suspended or removed — eliminating manual seat management and closing security gaps.
Build org charts and reporting structures without a standalone HRIS
Many SMB and mid-market customers don't have a dedicated HRIS. By pulling manager, department, and title data from Google Workspace via the Unified HRIS API, SaaS products like performance management or collaboration tools can auto-generate org hierarchies.
Map Google Groups to in-app roles for automatic access control
SaaS companies can let their customers define which Google Workspace Groups correspond to specific product roles or permissions, enabling zero-touch role assignment and ensuring access stays in sync as group memberships change.
Enable enterprise SSO login with Google Workspace
B2B SaaS products need to support 'Sign in with Google' for their customers' employees. Integrating Google Workspace as an SSO provider reduces login friction, enforces centralized MFA policies, and satisfies enterprise security requirements.
Audit SaaS app access against Google Workspace identity data
Spend management and security platforms can reconcile which users have active access to configured SAML/OAuth applications in Google Workspace, helping customers identify unused licenses and shadow IT.
What You Can Build
Ship these features with Truto + Google Workspace
Concrete product features your team can ship faster by leveraging Truto’s Google Workspace integration instead of building from scratch.
Real-time user provisioning from Google Workspace groups
Automatically create or disable accounts in your product when users are added to or removed from specific Google Workspace Groups, with no admin intervention required.
Auto-generated org chart from directory data
Pull employee names, titles, departments, and manager relationships from Google Workspace to build and continuously sync an organizational hierarchy inside your app.
Group-to-role mapping engine
Let customers configure rules that map their Google Workspace Groups or Organizational Units to your product's internal roles and permission levels.
Instant access revocation on employee offboarding
Detect when a user is suspended or deleted in Google Workspace and immediately invalidate their sessions and reassign their assets within your application.
SSO app usage and license reconciliation dashboard
Surface which third-party apps are configured in a customer's Google Workspace and which users have access, enabling license optimization and shadow IT detection.
Department-based ticket and workflow routing
Use Google Workspace group memberships and department data to automatically route tickets, approvals, or tasks to the correct internal queue when a user logs in via SSO.
Unified APIs
Unified APIs for Google Workspace
Skip writing code for every integration. Use Truto’s category-specific Unified APIs out of the box or customize the mappings with AI.
Unified HRIS API
Unified User Directory API
How It Works
From zero to integrated
Go live with Google Workspace in under an hour. No boilerplate, no maintenance burden.
Link your customer’s Google Workspace account
Use Truto’s frontend SDK to connect your customer’s Google Workspace account. We handle all OAuth and API key flows — you don’t need to create the OAuth app.
We handle authentication
Don’t spend time refreshing access tokens or figuring out secure storage. We handle it and inject credentials into every API request.
Call our API, we call Google Workspace
Truto’s Proxy API is a 1-to-1 mapping of the Google Workspace API. You call us, we call Google Workspace, and pass the response back in the same cycle.
Unified response format
Every response follows a single format across all integrations. We translate Google Workspace’s pagination into unified cursor-based pagination. Data is always in the result attribute.
FAQs
Common questions about Google Workspace on Truto
Authentication, rate limits, data freshness, and everything else you need to know before you integrate.
Which Google Workspace APIs does this integration use?
The integration primarily leverages the Google Admin SDK Directory API for user, group, organizational unit, and role data, as well as Google Identity Services for SSO-related app and app user information.
What authentication method is required to connect a Google Workspace account?
Google Workspace uses OAuth 2.0 for authorization. The customer's Google Workspace admin grants consent with the required admin scopes (e.g., admin.directory.user.readonly, admin.directory.group.readonly) so Truto can access directory and identity data on their behalf.
What Unified APIs does Google Workspace map to in Truto?
Google Workspace maps to the Unified HRIS API (Employees, Groups), the Unified User Directory API (Users, Roles, Role Assignments), and the Unified Single Sign-On API (Apps, App Users). Specific tools are built on request to match your integration needs.
How does Truto handle pagination and rate limits for the Google Admin SDK?
Truto manages pagination tokens and respects Google's per-user and per-domain rate limits automatically, so your application receives complete result sets without needing to implement retry logic or cursor management.
Can I access custom user attributes defined in Google Workspace?
Google Workspace supports custom schemas on user profiles (e.g., cost center, employee ID). Availability of custom fields through Truto depends on your specific requirements — reach out to discuss mapping custom schema attributes to unified models.
Are write operations supported, or is the integration read-only?
The current Unified API models focus on reading identity and directory data from Google Workspace. Write operations such as creating users or modifying group memberships can be scoped and built on request based on your use case.
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