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What are Player Profiles?

Introduction​

Player profiles are the primary representation of your players.
They can either be created and linked to an account or have anonymous profiles (profiles that are not linked to an account).
They are useful to store metadata about the players, and it is through their IDs that players can interact with other systems.

Accounts and Player Profiles​

An account is created when a player uses the in-platform signin options.
Accounts are mainly used to authenticate users across WellPlayed endpoints, they are only used to provide permissions through the user and permissions management system.
An account can be linked to multiple Player Profiles and must have, at least, one player profile attached to be able to interact with most of WellPlayed systems.

Anonymous Player Profiles​

It is also possible to create Anonymous Player Profiles, meaning that the Player Profile is not linked to an account.
This is useful if you want to control (through the API for example, or the tournament management console) the creation of the Player Profile.
Player Profiles provide a field organizationCustomId which allows you to set an external custom ID to the Player Profile (if you are using external accounts for example) and provide a way to retrieve the Player Profile directly through the organizationCustomId variable.