Address Verification Service 🇳🇬

At Verified.africa, our address verification services enable our customers to carry out thorough background checks of their own customers & employees by securely verifying both individual and business addresses.

With our address verification service, you are guaranteed detailed feedback containing images of the customer’s place of residence, consultation with the customer’s neighbor, closest landmark report, street name, and nearest bus stop.

Our Address verification services can be accessed by:
• Companies
• Individuals

Overview

The Address Verification Service accepts the lastName, Street name, LGA, phone number, kyc type and searchParameter and returns detailed information on the address verified to the customer's webhook. This article will guide you on how to integrate to the Address Verification Service.

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Important!

Before you proceed, ensure you review the prerequisites for integrating to our APIs for a more detailed guide.

API Endpoint

https://api.verified.africa/sfx-verify/v3/id-service/

Headers

Our service accepts headers for authentication. See below the headers to pass to the API

Header	Type	Description
userid	String	This is your user id retrieved from the portal. Check the getting started article to understand how to retrieve your userid
apiKey	String	This is your api key retrieved from the portal. Check the getting started article to understand how to retrieve your apiKey

Request

Request Parameter	Status	Description	Test Data
firstName	Optional	The first name will be passed into this field	John
lastName	Required	The last name will be passed into this field	Doe
dob	Optional	The date of birth will be passed into this field	04-04-1944
phone	Required	The phone number will be passed into this field	08121234567
verificationType	Required	This field is used to identify the service being called. Ensure to use the value provided exactly as provided	ADDRESS-VERIFICATION
kycType	Required	This field depicts the Identity type to be used for the verification	kyc
callbackUrl	Required	The callback url is inputted here	"https://webhook.site/7518d538-18ad-4eeb-b944-e168c54d020f"
searchParameter	Required	The driver's license number will be passed into this field	08121234567
street	Required	The street name will be passed into this field	270 Murtala Muhammed Way, Alagomeji. Yaba
lga	Required	The local government area will be passed into this field	surulere
city	Optional	The city will be passed into this field	lagos
state	Required	The state will be passed into this field	lagos
landmark	Required	The landmark will be passed into this field	Beside GTbank

200

{
    "firstName":"John",
    "lastName":"Doe",
    "dob":"04-04-1944",
    "phone":"08121234567",
    "verificationType":"ADDRESS-VERIFICATION",  
    "kycType": "kyc",
    "callbackUrl": "https://webhook.site/7518d538-18ad-4eeb-b944-e168c54d020f",
    "searchParameter":"08121234567",
    "street": "270 Murtala Muhammed Way, Alagomeji. Yaba",
    "lga": "surulere",
    "city": "lagos",
    "state": "lagos",
    "landmark": "Beside GTbank"
}

Response

Response Parameter	Type	Description
responseCode	String	Please reference Response Codes page for details on all possible responses.
description	String	This is a description of the response received.
verificationType	String	The same verificationType passed in request will be returned here
verificationStatus	String	This field lets you know if the identity verification was successful. Options are: VERIFIED: This means that the ADDRESS-VERIFICATION is valid. NOT VERIFIED This means that the ADDRESS-VERIFICATION is invalid PENDING This status means that the verification could not be completed. Refer to the responseCode for the specific failure reason.
transactionStatus	String	This indicates the wallet debit status. The options are successful or failed.
transactionReference	String	If you supplied a transactionReference, the same will be returned here. Else, we would generate a reference and return that to you in this field.
transactionDate	String	Date the transaction was done
searchParameter	String	Driver's License number used for the address verification
response	Json	This is a json containing all the actual ADDRESS VERIFICATION data as retrieved from the service provider.

JSON

{
  "responseCode": "00",
  "description": "Success",
  "verificationType": "ADDRESS-VERIFICATION",
  "verificationStatus": "VERIFIED",
  "transactionStatus": "SUCCESSFUL",
  "transactionReference": "null",
  "transactionDate": "1669884508175",
  "searchParameter": "PQR41659AA50",
  "livenessScore": 0,
  "response": {
    "applicant": {
      "firstname": "John",
      "lastname": "Doe",
      "phone": "08121234567",
      "idType": "kyc",
      "idNumber": "08121234567",
      "middlename": "BISMARK",
      "photo": "/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQAASABIAAD/"
      ,
      "gender": "Male",
      "birthdate": "04-04-1944",
      "formattedAddress": "270 Murtala Muhammed Way, Alagomeji. Yaba lagos"
    },
    "createdAt": "2022-12-01T08:48:28.160",
    "completedAt": "2022-12-01T08:48:28.160",
    "lattitude": "9.081999",
    "comment": "Address is valid.",
    "agentSubmittedAt": "2022-12-01T08:48:28.160",
    "longitude": "8.675277",
    "photos": [
      "https://unsplash.com/photos/Hh18POSx5qk",
      "https://unsplash.com/photos/2d4lAQAlbDA"
    ],
    "neighbor": {
      "isAvailable": false,
      "name": "Jane Doe",
      "comment": "Nice neighbor",
      "phone": "080900000000"
    },
    "status": {
      "status": "VERIFIED",
      "subStatus": "VERIFIED",
      "state": "COMPLETE"
    },
    "city": "lagos",
    "street": "270 Murtala Muhammed Way, Alagomeji. Yaba",
    "lga": "surulere",
    "state": "lagos",
    "country": "Nigeria",
       "callBackUrl": "https://webhook.site/55156e97-94e9-4f3a-80ae-42662e304e84"
  }
}