Getting Started With ID Verification📘

Welcome to Verified! With this guide, we aim to help you find your way around and verify your first identity within minutes.

1. Setup your Verified account

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Visit https://verified.africa and provide the relevant details to create an account for free.

2. Verify your Company

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You verify your company by verifying your company RC number real time. We provide two free verification attempts so use them judiciously!

3. Retrieve your User ID

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Your user id will be required for authentication when you integrate to our services.

To retrieve your user id, follow the steps below.

  1. Sign in to your Verified.Africa account on https://verified.africa
  2. Retrieve your user id from the top right corner as shown in the image below

4. Setup your Verification Flow/Link

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Your API Keys, Token ID, Auth Key, and Org ID will be required for authentication when you want to integrate to use our Verification Link. To set up your verification flow, follow the steps below.

  1. Sign in to your Verified.Africa account on https://verified.africa
  2. Go to the No Code menu

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Click on 'Create a KYC Verification Flow'

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Input Verification Details

  1. Input the Name of your Verification Flow.
  2. Input a Short Description.

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Select your preferred options

  1. Select a Verification Type. (Face Capture + Face Match, ID Verification, Face Capture)
  2. Select Verification Usecase. (Private Link, API/SDK)

5. Configure verification components

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Here you can configure the different components to be used in your project. You can set up your steps according to how it fits your project. Depending on the type of verification selected we would suggest configuration steps for you;

Add Image

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Choose Issuing country and Government Issued ID

  1. Choose your verification Country.
  2. Document Type
  3. Choose your verification options.

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Configure Selfie. (Here you can configure your selfie quality specification and liveness detection attributes.)

  • Enable Selfie Quality Specifications. These configurations are easy to toggle and users can select the types of specifications they want for their project.
  • Enable Liveness Attributes. As an organization, you can easily set and activate the types of liveness challenges you want our system to push to your customers. Once you select this, we would be able to select at random for your project.
  • Background Cleanup. As an organization, you can also easily add background cleanup on your project to ensure that all image capture can have a cleaned up background.
  • Retake Configuration: As an organisation, you can easily limit the number of times you want a customer to retake image during Face capture.

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Configure Face match. (Here you can configure your face match threshold.)

  • Enable Selfie Quality Specifications. These configurations are easy to toggle and users can select the types of specifications they want for their project.

6. Configure your Theme

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Theme configuration enables users of customizing the visual appearance and layout of their widget, by adjusting various settings within a theme, including elements such as colors, fonts, images, and page layout.

8. Setup Integrations

Our integration setup process is flexible and direct users can interact with our Widget in two unique ways;

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Integrate using API.

To integrate using API, the users will need to copy the Token ID, Auth Key, API Key, and API secret Key which can be obtained from WebView on the integrations Page. This would allow you call to integrate our widget into your existing project with ease. As part of the setup organizations also need to provide their webhook URL and customer support URL to enable our widget handover to you once the capture is completed.

HeaderTypeDescription
Token IDStringProvided to you on the portal
Auth KeyStringProvided to you on the portal
API URLStringProvided to you on the portal
API secret KeyStringProvided to you on the portal
Org IDStringProvided to you on the portal

Sample API Call below to generate Capture widget

Refer to the link here to understand more about API Link generation, https://docs.verified.africa/docs/link-generation

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Integrate using SDK.

http://npm.seamfix.com/-/web/detail/@seamfix/sfx-capture

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Private Links to End users

Our private links enable you as an organization to send a direct link to your end users email account and they can complete the experience at their own time. An active duration can also be enabled for this such that the link can last only a duration of time.

9. Fund your wallet

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You must fund your wallet before you can enjoy our services in live mode. Fund your wallet on the portal.


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