login.gov is the United State government’s primary identity provider, used for many different agency’s sites, including EDGAR Next.  Registration in login.gov is required to access the EDGAR Filer Management dashboard and other EDGAR websites after September 15, 2025.  Registration using your business email address(es) is encouraged by the SEC, and involves providing the email address, a password which receives a confirmation email message, and choosing one or more of the supported two-factor authentication methods.  The supported methods include SMS text messages (not available in all countries), a TOTP/Google Authenticator 6 digit number, security key, and a set of backup codes for users without phones.  Use of the two-factor authentication method is currently required every 30 days to log into login.gov.

Any EDGAR Next account administrator, or Workiva filing user who needs to or chooses to provide their User Token, must have a login.gov account. 

• The login.gov email address used for registration is also the EDGAR Next username, which is visible to certain users, therefore the EDGAR Business Office recommends using a business email address as opposed to a personal address.

The SEC has strongly indicated that they do not want shared accounts/email addresses to be used for EDGAR Next and that a filing should be traceable back to a single individual. login.gov requires multifactor authentication and, while you could share a QR code image amongst multiple individuals to generate the 6 digit “Google Authenticator” style codes, this is not the SEC’s desired approach.  Therefore, you should have one login.gov account per individual - both (potentially) non-filing administrators and any user who will be filing in Workiva.