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Identity verification integration flow

We show you how to integrate the identity verification flow into your application.

Prerequisites​

  • You need a custom integration and its Access Key at hand, see Creating an Access Key.
  • Provide the URL of your portal, where the users are redirected when they finish the identity verification, that is, a redirect URL. If you did not specify the redirect URL when ordering Authentication Cloud identity verification, create a ticket on the Nevis Portal.
Identity verification integration flow

Start the identity verification session​

Start the identity verification session in Authentication Cloud by sending a POST request to the idverification/sessions endpoint as described in Start identity verification session.

You get a sessionId, which is a unique nine-digit identifier of the identity verification session. We recommend you store the returned sessionId and link it to the user, so that you can retrieve the verification data for that user later.

Verify the identity of the user​

Navigate the user to startUrl you get back in the previous step, which looks like this:

https://{your-instance-id}.mauth.nevis.cloud/idv/welcome.html?tc={sessionId}

The user is then asked for consent and guided through the verification process. The verification process takes up to a few minutes.

From a technical perspective, the identity verification is done in a separate web application. Your portal redirects the users, and the users finish the process there.

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Users who start the verification in a desktop application are first directed to their mobile device by scanning a QR code with their camera application.

Complete verification​

Once the user finished the identity verification process, they are redirected to the redirect URL of your portal.

Get verification information​

During or after the process, you can request the current status of the process by sending a GET request to the idverification/sessions endpoint.

  • If the verification process is either in pending or in_progress state, the endpoint returns only the current status of the verification.
  • The failed or verified status means that the process is finished, and in this case the response contains the detailed result and data of the verification, see Get identity verification information and Identity verification error codes.
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The idverification/sessions endpoint may still return the status pending at this point, if the user exited without starting the actual identity verification process.

Another case when the redirect does not happen, is if the user does not continue with the process, or lets the session time out.

The following illustration shows the lifecycle of the identity verification session:

Lifecycle of an identity verification session