Syncronizing login between WordPress site and our software database

Hi,

Apologies if this is a well tread topic, but I have done some searching and found few leads. However, mostly the topics I’ve found for user account synchronizing revolves around multisite installations of WP.

At this point, I’m looking mostly for high-level suggestions for documentation and ways to go about this. I’ll be working with my programers to do any implementation with our software’s backed.

Here is what I want to accomplish:

We have software (stock screener for day traders) that has online login for access from the browser if they choose not to use the downloadable application. This should be their login (subscriber level) for the wordpress site as well.

I want to let the user’s login state on the wordpress site also log them into the online software. So if the user wants to use the online software, they can login on the WP site and then click through to access the browser software. Or, if they’re logged into the browser software – they are also logged into the WP site.

I do not intend for the users to use wordpress to create or modify their accounts/profiles. Essentially, I’d like it so when a user creates an account for our software (paid or choosing free) a WP account is also created for them at the subscriber level allowing them to use the same login credentials for our software and the WP site.

Absolute syncing shouldn’t be necessary (i.e. we don’t really need wordpress to know if their account is actively paid or not since our backend knows this for accessing the software).

Thank you for reading and any suggestions you have. Cheers.