Verifications
Verify users your way
Identity verification isn’t one-size-fits-all. At Persona, we let you tailor identity verification for each customer and use case. Most decisions take just 5 seconds, so users can get verified quickly and be on their way.
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Verify users quickly and securely
With Persona’s fully automated verifications, you can verify your users quickly, set granular controls over verification checks, and protect your users’ data.
Talk to a product expertConvert good users quickly
Automatically verify most users in seconds, and send any edge cases to your team for further investigation.
Customize how you verify
Dynamically configure each user’s verification journey in real time with the most configurable checks in the industry.
Keep user data secure and private
Collect only the data you need, set redaction and access policies, and safeguard user data. PII is not exposed to third-party manual review teams.
Documentary verifications
Collect and verify your choice of documents to identify the users and businesses you work with, stay compliant with KYC/AML regulations, and deter would-be fraudsters.
Learn more from our expertsGovernment ID
Extract and verify government IDs, such as passports and driver’s licenses, with configurable and automated heuristic checks across 200+ countries and territories.
Business documents
Know the businesses you partner with by requesting and verifying certificates of incorporation, government-issued business licenses, partnership agreements, or similar documents.
Supplemental documents
Need proof of address or other supplemental documents not listed here? Request, extract, and verify the authenticity of other documents like utility bills, SSN cards, and more.
Selfie verifications
Protect against identity spoofing by automatically comparing a selfie to the ID portrait with a 3 point composite and liveness checks. Let good users in quickly while keeping fraudsters out with custom liveness thresholds.
Learn more from our expertsDatabase and non-documentary verifications
Collect and extract PII, such as SSNs and addresses, and verify it against global issuing and other authoritative databases to ensure authenticity.
Learn more from our expertsSSN (eCBSV)
Compare names, SSNs, and addresses against Social Security Administration records to verify more users (e.g. those with thin credit).
DMV (AAMVA)
Validate information on US driver’s licenses and IDs against DMV records to detect fraudulent IDs.
Phone carrier
Verify the authenticity of inputted phone numbers by checking the legal name and phone number against global telecommunications carrier databases.
Phone Number
Verify the ownership of an inputted phone number with two-factor authentication via call or text.
Device signals
Detect potential fraud by monitoring passive signals such as IP address, device fingerprint, and more.
NFC
coming soon
Allow users to verify electronic IDs (eIDs), such as passports, by scanning the NFC chip using their mobile device.
Mdl
Verify mobile driver’s licenses (mDLs) from industry leading digital wallet providers to reduce friction for users. Now available for iOS devices.
Digital ID verifications
Future-proof your identity verification process by collecting and verifying digital ID formats via integrations to leading digital ID authorities.
Learn more from our expertsDocumentary verifications
Collect and verify your choice of documents to identify the users and businesses you work with, stay compliant with KYC/AML regulations, and deter would-be fraudsters.
Database and non-documentary verifications
Collect and extract PII, such as SSNs and addresses, and verify it against global issuing and other authoritative databases to ensure authenticity.
Digital ID verifications
Future-proof your identity verification process — collect and verify digital ID formats with integrations to leading digital id authorities.
Persona enables us to seamlessly customize the verification process, accounting for the unique needs and forms of identification across Coursera’s global learner community.
Shravan Goli
Chief Product Officer at Coursera
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