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Configure your Entri account for Power

Before you can use Entri Power, you’ll need to provide some basic information on the Entri dashboard and set up your DNS records accordingly. Log into the Entri Dashboard, navigate to the configure section, and enter your company’s desired cname_target. The cname_target is the CNAME record that your end-users will eventually need to add. For example: domains.saascompany.com After inputting the cname_target on the Entri dashboard, you’ll need to create a CNAME record that points your cname_target to power.goentri.com on your domain’s DNS. For example, if you run saascompany.comand your cname_target is domains.saascompany.com, then you would add this record to the DNS for saascompany.com:
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After this DNS record is added, you are ready to offer custom domains to your customers!

Power a new domain

After you’ve configured your account, there are two methods of adding a new custom domain: utilizing the Entri modal, or making a direct API request. Please note that you’ll need an active subscription to Entri Connect to use the Entri modal method. For questions about this, contact your account manager.
For more information about configuring the Entri modal, see: Create the configuration object.
To power a custom domain via the Entri Modal, you will need to make 2 additions to the standard configuration object for the Entri Modal.
  • Add the property power and set it to true.
  • Add the property applicationUrl . The applicationUrl is the URL of your application that you would like to render on the customer’s domain. This will likely change for every user. For example, the applicationUrl for a calendar booking app might look something like this: https://calenderapp.com/meetings/user-name

Powering a root domain

For powering a root domain, you just need to add an A record to the dnsRecords array, and the value as the {ENTRI_SERVERS} placeholder. Make sure to also add your target application destination as the applicationUrl key value. Entri will take care of the rest. If you are prompting users to enter a domain in the Entri modal, make sure that you use dynamic configuration variables. Sample configuration:
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Shopify domains only support a single A record at the root domain. Since this setup is not recommended, Entri automatically manages the logic for you.

Powering a subdomain

When powering a subdomain, you just need to add a CNAME record to the dnsRecords array. Be sure that the value is set to {CNAME_TARGET}. If you are prompting users to enter a domain in the Entri modal, make sure that you use dynamic configuration variables. Sample configuration:
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SSL Provisioned by Default Entri Power will automatically provision an SSL certificate so there is no need to also set up Entri Secure when using Power