Getting Started
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- Set up and populate your SaaS stack
- Integrate your ERP & accounting software with Sastrify
- Uncover SaaS Usage and Shadow IT with SSO Discovery Integrations
- Admin Installation Guide: Sastrify Browser Extension for Google Chrome
- Admin Installation Guide: Sastrify Browser Extension for Microsoft Edge
- Manual Installation Guide: Sastrify Browser Extension for Google Chrome
- Manual Installation Guide: Sastrify Browser Extension for Microsoft Edge
- Set renewal dates & reminders
- Assign and modify tool owners
- Upload your SaaS documents into Sastrify
- Sastrify App Support: Assistance at your fingertip
- Sastrify's commitment to security and privacy standards
- Getting started guide: Fast and easy way to self-onboard your Sastrify platform
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- Google Workspace SSO integration for subscription discovery
- Enhance organizational SaaS management with HRIS Integrations
- Summary tab & Contract AI for storing your subscription details
- Use discovered page to detect new subscriptions
- Tools and Spend Importer: Easily upload and visualize data in Sastrify
- Align vendor names using the Tool Matching feature
- Add Sastrify App to your Slack workspace
- Manually add a new subscription on the go
- How to bulk upload your invoices
- Forward your SaaS documents via email
- Change notification preferences
- A quick glance at your stack using the overview page
- Manage activities and collaborate using custom tasks
- Task Automation: Streamline the creation of routine tasks
- Sunset or delete inactive subscriptions
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- Get expert procurement support for new purchases and renewals
- How to submit and track Procurement Requests via Jira Integration
- Scope of service: Custom benchmarking & contract review
- Scope of service: Negotiation & renewal support
- Scope of service: Custom SaaS Optimization Advisory
- Purchase your SaaS through the SastriMarket
- Control your cloud costs with SastriCloud
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- Usage Analytics: Full visibility into usage and cost optimization
- Okta Discovery and Usage Analytics Integration Guide
- How to integrate Pleo with Sastrify
- Spend Import: Validate and fine-tune your imported spend data
- How to connect Microsoft Dynamics 365
- How to connect Netsuite
- How to connect Quickbooks
- Export spend data from Candis to Sastrify
- Export spend data from Spendesk to Sastrify
- Export spend data from Pleo to Sastrify
- Export spend data from Moss to Sastrify
- Export spend data from DATEV to Sastrify
- Export spend data from Ramp to Sastrify
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- Configure and manage your authentication settings
- Understanding user roles and permissions
- Microsoft SSO Login Configuration Guide
- Okta SSO Login Configuration Guide
- JumpCloud SSO Login Configuration Guide
- Cisco Duo SSO Login Configuration Guide
- OneLogin SSO Login Configuration Guide
- Having trouble logging in?
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- ERP & Accounting Integration FAQs
- SSO Discovery Integration FAQs
- Browser Extension FAQs
- HRIS Integration FAQs
- Usage Analytics FAQs
- Contract AI & Subscription Details FAQs
- Tools and Spend Importer FAQs
- Invoices FAQs
- Achieved & Potential Savings FAQs
- Form component guide for Sastrify form builder
- What is SaaS and Sastrify's scope of work?
- Who can invite a new user?
- Who receives the renewal alerts or reminders?
- How does Sastrify work with currencies?
- Is the spend data from accounting export always up-to-date?
- How to work with benchmark prices
- When and how to involve Sastrify in a contract evaluation or negotiation?
- How does Sastrify interact with SaaS vendors?
- How do you handle confidentiality clauses in vendor contracts?
- Does Sastrify handle SaaS contract termination?
- Why is contract data essential for benchmarking and negotiation support?
Manual Installation Guide: Sastrify Browser Extension for Microsoft Edge Print
Modified on: Fri, 18 Jul, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The Sastrify Browser Extension is a lightweight browser add-on designed to enhance visibility into SaaS usage across your organization. It seamlessly supports the discovery of shadow IT and provides actionable insights—such as SaaS utilization trends and usage patterns—directly within your Sastrify platform. The extension operates only when users interact with SaaS applications using their company email, ensuring relevance and data accuracy while respecting user privacy.
All collected data is securely transmitted to your Sastrify platform, where Sastrify admins can:
View detailed usage data under the Usage tab of each tool.
Discover and manage new tools through the Shadow IT Radar feature.
The browser extension can be installed using one of the following methods:
Admin Installation (Recommended): This centralized method allows an administrator to remotely deploy the extension across the entire organization in a single action. It ensures a seamless, company-wide rollout without requiring any action from individual users.
Manual Installation: This decentralized approach requires your Sastrify admin to send installation notifications to selected users. Each notified employee must then manually install the browser extension on their own work browser.
IN THIS ARTICLE
- Data Collection and Privacy Safeguards
- Sastrify Admin Guide: How to Notify Users
- End User Guide: Install the Sastrify Extension for Microsoft Edge
- Frequently Asked Questions
Data Collection and Privacy Safeguards
The extension strictly tracks access to and activity within approved SaaS applications accessed via the organization’s work email. It collects the following data points:
- Website hostnames of approved SaaS tools
- User interaction metrics (e.g., click counts, keystroke counts, file upload events)
- Session duration and timestamps (access and exit times)
- Configuration data, such as approved product URLs
- Work email address from the Edge work profile, which serves as an Employee/User ID
The extension collects data and sends it to the server every 15 minutes.
In doing so, we maintain a strict privacy-first approach to data handling:
- User identifiers are cryptographically hashed to ensure anonymization.
- Only whitelisted business SaaS applications are monitored—personal websites and content are never tracked.
- Automatic exclusion of certain domains, including career sites, job boards, and non-business application URLs.
- Data is transmitted securely via HTTPS, using OAuth for authentication.
- Minimal data collection principle: Only essential usage metrics are gathered to support organizational analytics.
Sastrify Admin Guide: How to Notify Users
As mentioned above, this method involves two steps: First, your Sastrify admin initiates the rollout by sending installation notifications to selected users based on the user list in your Sastrify account. Then, each notified user follows the instructions and uses the provided link to manually install the extension on their work browser.
Step 1: Locate the Edge Extension in Sastrify
- Log into your Sastrify platform.
- Navigate to Integrations > Discovery.
- Under Browser Extension Integrations, locate the Microsoft Edge connection card.
- Click "Enable".
Step 2: Set Up the User List (via HRIS Integration or Manual Input)
Why is this step required? The browser extension requires a verified user list—a list of employees within your organization that the extension will target. Only users on this list can be notified via email, receive the installation link, be authorized to install the extension, and have their usage tracked. This ensures that data is collected exclusively from verified users, making this step essential for accurate tracking and compliance.
- If your HRIS integration is not connected, you’ll be prompted to either connect HRIS or manually add employees.
- Click "Connect HRIS Integration" to proceed to the HRIS setup page. Follow this guide for detailed instructions.
- Alternatively, choose to "Add employees manually".
Once the user list is created, it can be found under the "Employee" tab on the browser extension connection page. Only the users listed here will have their usage interactions—such as click counts, keystroke counts, and file upload events—tracked and collected after a successful admin installation of the browser extension.
Step 3: Send the instructions to the targeted users
- In the setup screen, click Manual Install to open the notification page.
- Click View Instructions to preview the step-by-step guide your users will receive.
- Select the users or employees you want to notify by checking the corresponding boxes.
- Click Notify to send them the installation instructions via email.
End User Guide: Install the Sastrify Extension for Microsoft Edge
- Open the email from Sastrify containing the installation instructions for Microsoft Edge.
- Log in to your company-managed Edge profile. The extension will not function on personal or non-managed profiles.
- Click the link in the email to open the Sastrify Edge Extension page in the Edge Add-ons Store.
- Click Get, then confirm by selecting Add Extension when prompted.
- Confirm the installation by clicking "Add extension" in the popup.
- Once installed, the extension icon will appear in your Edge toolbar.
Frequently Asked Questions
Please refer to the Browser Extension FAQ page for a complete list of frequently asked questions.
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