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Verify API

Validate customers easily across the world at scale. Our patented 2FA technology helps you protect against fraud, build trust and increase conversion across multiple channels — no telecom or security experience required. Plus, you’ll only pay for successful verifications.

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Verify V2 in Beta

Our enhanced Verify V2 API is now available in beta. Start using our new WhatsApp and email authentication channels now!

Verify V2 in Beta

Our enhanced Verify V2 API is now available in beta. Start using our new WhatsApp and email authentication channels now!

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See how Verify helps businesses like yours succeed

Prevent Fraud

Use up-to-date intelligence on phone numbers to detect potentially fraudulent transactions. The second step in 2-factor authentication easily minimises fraud with an extra layer of security.

New Authentication Channels

We are adding new channels like Silent Authentication, WhatsApp, and email, allowing you to authenticate your end-users where they prefer.

Scale Your Deployments Globally

Whether you have customers in one country or hundreds of countries around the world, Verify takes care of all the heavy lifting so you can focus on your business.

Customisable

Empower your clients to tailor the failover sequence to other channels and generate and manage their own PINs.
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Only Pay for Successful Authentications

Efficiency and effectiveness matter. Only pay when your customers successfully verify their accounts.
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Experience our new Silent Authentication channel

Streamline verifications without requiring any user input by using our Silent Authentication channel in Verify V2.

 

 

 

 

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Start developing now with free credit. No credit card required.
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Authentication Channels

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SMS

Send one-time passwords (OTP) via the convenience of a text! Deliver SMS using approved sender IDs that are compliant with local rules and regulations.
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Voice

Text-to-speech (TTS) adds the personal touch of a human voice to your authentication workflow. Use TTS as a back-up when delivery of SMS is challenged.

WhatsApp

Now you can leverage WhatsApp to start the authentication process! Use this popular chat app as a failover method after SMS and/or Voice. Learn more
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Email

Unable to Verify using a phone? Send a one-time passcode to any email address to authenticate. Learn more
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ACCOUNT AUTHENTICATION

Acquire genuine customers anywhere in the world

Easily add a layer of protection by using a phone number to authenticate new and existing customers.
  • A single API offers a secure full two-factor authentication solution
  • Bring your own number! Or, we can provide numbers for your authentication flow. Works with any phone number—no additional hardware or apps required
  • We do the heavy lifting for you, including sender ID management, OTP generation, failover, and fraud monitoring

  • Ensure one-time passwords (OTP)  are delivered in accordance with country requirements

FRAUD DETECTION

Protect your business from scammers

Prevent expensive unauthorised transactions while delivering a better experience.
  • Trigger step-up authentication only for those numbers suspected of being fraudulent
  • Use up-to-date phone number intelligence to detect illegitimate transactions
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SPAM AND BOTNET PREVENTION

Eradicate unsolicited messages more effectively

Block botnets and bulk account creation via frictionless phone verification for mobile users.
  • Suppress spam
  • Minimise personal information sharing
  • Give every user a unique identifier via their phone
  • Confidently grow your application’s audience
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PASSWORDLESS AUTHENTICATION

Provide convenience without compromise

Guarantee safe access by delivering time-limited, single-use authorisation codes with passwordless authentication.
  • Let users gain instant and secure access to your app with just their phone
  • Works with any type of phone line anywhere in the world — with a single API
  • Pay only when users access your application successfully

Get smarter fail-safe, reliable delivery, and tailor-made messaging

Global Text-to-Speech (TTS)

TTS in languages to ensure you reach clients all over the world.

Intelligent failover

Automatically resend PIN codes via voice (TTS) to customers through one API request— without additional code.

Adaptive Routing™

Optimise delivery by re-routing messages proactively around congestion.

Flexible implementation

Choose from three Verify models: Verify Success, Verify Request or Verify Conversion.

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