Users

The Box API supports a variety of users, ranging from real employees logging in with their Managed User account, to applications using App Users to drive powerful automation workflows.

Learn more about user types

(De-)Provision Users

Managing the onboarding and offboarding of employees, customers, and users is a common requirement in the lifespan of a Box application.

During account provisioning the main tasks that will be needed will be:

• How to create new app and managed user accounts to represent the users.
• How to instantiate the new user account with common or repeatable folder and file architectures.

During account deprovisioning the main tasks that will be needed will be:

• How to transfer files and folders from one account to another for offboarding.
• How to delete user accounts.