# Provisional Accounts

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:::card{title="Provisional Accounts" href="/guides/provisional-accounts-development-guides-overview"}
Implement provisional Discord accounts for users who don't have Discord accounts yet.
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:::card{title="Bot Token Endpoint" href="/guides/provisional-accounts-development-guides-bot-token-endpoint"}
Create provisional accounts server-side from your game's own unique user IDs using your application's bot token.
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:::card{title="Configuring Identity Providers" href="/guides/provisional-accounts-development-guides-identity-providers"}
Configure OIDC, Steam, EOS, and other identity providers for provisional accounts, including the full OIDC integration requirements.
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:::card{title="External Credentials Exchange" href="/guides/provisional-accounts-development-guides-external-credentials-exchange"}
Exchange an external provider token (OIDC, Steam, EOS, and more) server-side to create a provisional account.
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:::card{title="Public Client Integration" href="/guides/provisional-accounts-development-guides-public-client"}
Create provisional accounts directly from the client when you don't have a backend server.
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:::card{title="Managing Provisional Accounts" href="/guides/provisional-accounts-development-guides-managing-accounts"}
Refresh provisional account access tokens and set display names.
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:::card{title="Merging Accounts" href="/guides/provisional-accounts-development-guides-merging-accounts"}
Convert a provisional account into a full Discord account, migrating the player's friends, DMs, and lobby memberships.
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:::card{title="Unmerging Accounts" href="/guides/provisional-accounts-development-guides-unmerging-accounts"}
Sever the link between a Discord account and a provisional account, and understand out-of-band and ban-driven unmerges.
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:::card{title="Provisional Accounts Design Guidelines" href="/guides/provisional-accounts-design-guidelines-provisional-accounts"}
Design guidelines for handling provisional Discord accounts and onboarding users.
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## Related pages

- [API Reference](./api-reference-index.md)
- [App Fundamentals](./app-fundamentals-index.md)
- [Best Practices](./best-practices-index.md)
- [Bots & Companion Apps](./bots-companion-apps-index.md)
- [Building Games](./building-games-index.md)
- [Building on Discord](./building-on-discord-index.md)
- [Change Log](./change-log-index.md)
- [Communities & Servers](./communities-servers-index.md)
- [Components](./components-index.md)
- [Core Concepts](./core-concepts-index.md)

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