We are now dealing with two different user communities!

People are signing up for our new Kerika+Box product, and we are continuing to grow our Kerika+Google user base.

Next up: we are upgrading our Google Apps Marketplace integration to also use OAuth 2.0, so that all logins to Kerika will be with OAuth 2.0, across all platforms.

The background to this work is slightly wonky, and reflects the way Google Apps Marketplace has evolved within the Google ecosystem.

If you sign up for Kerika+Google today, you actually go through a OAuth 2.0 authentication and authorization process with Google, which gives us your basic profile information (name, email, photo) that we use to set up your Kerika+Google account, as well as access to your Google Docs.

But, if you sign up for Kerika+Google through the Google Apps Marketplace, you had been going through an older OAuth 1.0 protocol.

Google has deprecated OAuth 1.0, so we are updating our Google Apps Markeplace to also work with OAuth 2.0, just like a regular sign-up through Kerika.com.

This change will not affect any existing users: the most visible effect will be on our Sign Up page, which will start to show three options for new users:

Sign up for a Kerika+Box account: this will work as it does today – it will use OAuth 2.0 to set up a Kerika account using your Box credentials (name, email address, and access to your Box account to store your Kerika-related files).

Sign up for a Kerika+Google account: this will also work as it does today – it will use OAuth 2.0 to set up a Kerika account using your regular Google credentials (e.g. Gmail ID, YouTube ID) and store your Kerika-related files in your Google Drive.