Methods and systems are provided for configuring for declaratively configuring a user self-registration process and a user self-registration page process for a particular service provider. A graphical user interface is displayed that includes a plurality of options for declaratively configuring different user self-registration processes and corresponding user self-registration pages for the particular service provider. One of the options can be selected, and a type of identifier and a type of verification process can be specified from different types for each. The type of identifier is associated with a user to be verified as part of the user self-registration process, and can be specified to define how the user is identified and looked-up during the user self-registration process. The type of verification process can define how the user will be verified as part of the user self-registration process.