Prove a real person is in front of the camera and match their face to their BVN, NIN, driver’s licence or voter’s card. Read and check their ID document, confirm their address, screen them against sanctions lists and keep watching them, and catch one face behind several accounts. One API, with libraries for Node, Python, PHP, React Native and Flutter. No developers? Send a verification link instead.
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{ "status": "verified", "id_number": "222*****678", "field_matches": { "first_name": true, "last_name": true, "date_of_birth": true }, "face_match": { "status": "matched", "score": 92, "liveness": "passed" }, "data": { "full_name": "ADAEZE TEST OKAFOR", "date_of_birth": "1990-01-15", … }, "amount_charged": 150, "currency": "NGN"}Liveness detection
A selfie can be a picture of a picture. The liveness check takes about 20 seconds in any phone browser, or inside your own iOS and Android app with our React Native and Flutter packages, and stops printed photos, screens, replayed videos and still images.
In your customer’s language
Every prompt, tip and message, in the language they choose. It starts in their phone’s language, so it’s easy for every customer to follow.
Depth. The person moves closer to the camera. A real face changes shape with perspective; a photo or a screen stays flat.
Colour flash. The screen flashes colours picked for this session only. They have to reflect off the face, which a recording can’t do.
Random prompts. Two random actions, such as a blink or a head turn, each checked within its own moment.
Face match. The face that passed, not an uploaded selfie, is compared with the photo on the ID record.
Duplicate check. Optional: a face already verified under a different BVN or NIN is flagged, so one person can’t open several accounts.
₦50.00 per session, refunded if it’s never completed.
Verification links
Create a verification link in the dashboard and send it however you already talk to customers: WhatsApp, SMS or email. The whole check happens on a page we host.
Create the link. Add the customer’s name, choose which IDs they can use (BVN, NIN, driver’s licence or voter’s card), and optionally ask for a photo of their ID. Links last seven days.
They verify on their phone. On a page with your logo and colour, they enter their ID number, do the liveness check in the browser, in English, Pidgin, Hausa, Yorùbá or Igbo, and, if you asked, photograph their ID. No app, no account.
You see the result. Verified, face mismatch or not found, with the matched record, straight in your dashboard.
Have developers too? The same links come from POST /kyc/requests, with the result by redirect, webhook or polling. You pay the usual liveness and face-match prices, and nothing if the link is never used.
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Fraud checks
A real ID and a real face aren’t the whole story. These checks catch fake or altered documents, made-up addresses, sanctioned people and companies, and one person opening several accounts.
ID documents
Your customer photographs their NIN slip or card, driver’s licence, voter’s card or international passport. We read it, check it, and compare its photo with the face that passed liveness.
POST /documents/verify₦100.00 per document
AML screening
Check a customer or a company against the UN, US OFAC, UK, EU and Nigeria sanctions lists, refreshed every day, then keep watching them. Built for real names, not exact spelling.
POST /aml/screen₦50.00 per name
Address checks
Check that an address is real and in the LGA and state given, instantly. Send a link: your customer opens it at home and shares their phone’s location, which we measure against the address. Then read their utility bill or bank statement to confirm it’s theirs.
POST /address/links₦250.00 per link
Duplicate faces
Turn it on and every live face is compared with your earlier customers’ faces. A face already verified under a different BVN or NIN is flagged before you approve it.
Dashboard setting₦20.00 per face
Every check returns the same shape: a status, the fields that matched, and the record. You pay per record found. Not-found lookups and registry errors are refunded automatically, and sandbox calls are free.
Name, date of birth, phone, photo
POST /identity/bvn₦150.00 with face matchName, date of birth, address, photo
POST /identity/nin₦150.00 with face matchName, date of birth, issue and expiry, photo
POST /identity/drivers-license₦200.00 with face matchName, VIN details, photo
POST /identity/voters-card₦200.00 with face matchRegistered name and status
POST /identity/tinCompany status, address, directors, owners
POST /business/cacHosted camera check, per session
POST /liveness/sessionsPhoto of an ID read and checked, per document
POST /documents/verifyUN, OFAC, UK, EU and Nigeria sanctions lists, per name
POST /aml/screenA name re-screened after every list update, per name, monthly
POST /aml/monitorsAddress found on the map, in the LGA and state given
POST /address/verifyCustomer’s phone location compared with the address, per link
POST /address/linksA bill or bank statement checked for name, address and date, per document
POST /address/documentsEach live face compared with your earlier customers, per face
Prices in naira. High volume? Custom rates are available once you’re set up.
Two calls for a fully verified, live customer. The edge cases are handled for you.
Sandbox to live: sign up and your sandbox key works at once. Build and test every outcome for free, then submit your CAC details for review, fund your wallet, and swap uvk_test_ for uvk_live_.
import { ByteID } from '@uverifyng/node';
const byteid = new ByteID({ apiKey: process.env.BYTEID_API_KEY });
// 1. Create a liveness session and send your customer to the link
const session = await byteid.liveness.createSession({
redirect_url: 'https://yourapp.com/kyc/done',
});
redirect(session.url);
// 2. When they return, match the live face to their ID record
const v = await byteid.identity.bvnFaceMatch({
id_number, first_name, last_name,
liveness_session_id: session.id,
aml_screening: true, // and screen them against sanctions lists
});
if (v.status === 'verified'
&& v.face_match?.status === 'matched'
&& v.aml_screening?.status === 'clear') {
approve(customer);
}SDKs
Call every check from your server with the Node, Python or PHP library. Run the face check inside your own iOS and Android app with the React Native or Flutter package: it opens our hosted check in the app and hands you the result, so every anti-spoofing layer comes with it and updates reach your app without a release.
npm install @uverifyng/nodepip install uverifycomposer require uverify/uverify-phpnpm install @uverifyng/react-native-livenessflutter pub add uverify_livenessThe parts that matter once you’re live, and your compliance, engineering and finance people all need a way in.
Identity records sealed with AES-256-GCM.
ID numbers masked and hashed. ID photos never stored. You set how long the rest is kept.
Every view of identity data is logged: who, when and from where.
Charged only for records found. Everything else is refunded automatically.
Only when a record is found. Not-found lookups, registry outages and face matches that couldn’t run are refunded to your wallet automatically, and every refund appears in your wallet history. A liveness session is refunded if the person never completes it.
Yes. Every account gets a free sandbox key at sign-up. The last two digits of the ID number choose the outcome (found, not found, registry error, face mismatch), and liveness sessions can be completed with a single simulate call, so you can test every path in CI.
Create a session with one API call and send your customer to the link it returns. In any phone browser they move closer to the camera, watch a few screen colours and follow two quick prompts, in about 20 seconds. The check speaks English, Nigerian Pidgin, Hausa, Yorùbá and Igbo, and starts in the phone’s own language. Then pass the session to a face-match check and the response says liveness: "passed".
Printed photos, photos or videos shown on another screen, pre-recorded videos and still images. It runs in the browser and isn’t certified to ISO/IEC 30107-3, so for very high-risk onboarding combine it with your other checks.
Yes. Create a verification link in the dashboard and send it to your customer. They enter their ID number and do the face check on a page we host, and the result appears in your dashboard. It works in sandbox too, so you can try it first.
Yes. Send a photo of a NIN slip or card, driver’s licence, voter’s card or international passport to POST /documents/verify, or ask for one in a verification link. It’s read, checked for expiry and visible tampering, its number is looked up in the registry, and its photo can be matched to the customer’s live face. Photos aren’t stored, and an unreadable photo is refunded.
Two ways. A digital address check finds the address on the map and confirms it’s in the LGA and state given, instantly. A location link goes further: your customer opens it at home and shares their phone’s location once, and we measure how far it is from the address. A phone’s location can be faked with special apps, so it’s strong evidence rather than proof. For more, ask for a proof of address too: a recent utility bill, bank statement or tenancy agreement, checked for their name, the address and its date. Physical agent visits are not offered yet.
The UN Security Council Consolidated List, the US OFAC SDN list, the UK Sanctions List, the EU Consolidated Financial Sanctions List and the Nigeria Sanctions List, each refreshed daily. A potential match is a lead for your team to review, not a verdict. Screening doesn’t yet cover politically exposed persons (PEPs) or adverse media.
Yes, all open source: @uverifyng/node for Node.js, uverify for Python and uverify/uverify-php for PHP, to call every check from your server, plus @uverifyng/react-native-liveness and uverify_liveness for Flutter to run the face check inside your own app. Your API key stays on your server; the app only opens the session link.
Yes. Turn on monitoring for a name and it’s re-screened after every daily list update. If a new potential match appears, you get an aml.match_found webhook and an email, and it’s billed monthly per name. You can also screen automatically with every verification by adding aml_screening: true.
Verify your email, submit your CAC number and documents from the dashboard, and our team reviews them, usually within one business day. Then create a live key and fund your wallet. Your code stays the same.
Records are encrypted at rest with AES-256-GCM, ID numbers are stored masked and hashed, ID photos are never stored, liveness captures are encrypted and removed once used, and every view of identity data in the dashboard is audit-logged.
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