A live face check, matched to the photo on their BVN, NIN, driver’s licence or voter’s card. One API for developers, or a link you send with no code at all.
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Liveness detection
A selfie can be a picture of a picture. The check takes about 20 seconds in any phone browser, or inside your app with our React Native and Flutter packages, and stops printed photos, screens, replayed videos and still images.
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.
In your customer’s language
Every prompt and tip, starting in their phone’s own language.
₦50.00 per session, refunded if it’s never completed.
For developers
Create a liveness session, send your customer to it, then match the live face to their ID record. Two calls for a fully verified customer.
{ "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"}Sandbox to live: your sandbox key works the moment you sign up. Test every outcome free, submit your CAC details, fund your wallet, and swap uvk_test_ for uvk_live_.
Your language, and inside your app
Server libraries call every check. Mobile packages run the face check in your iOS and Android app.
npm install @uverifyng/nodepip install uverifycomposer require uverify/uverify-phpnpm install @uverifyng/react-native-livenessflutter pub add uverify_livenessVerification links
Create a link in the dashboard and send it on WhatsApp, SMS or email. The whole check happens on a page we host, with your logo and colour.
Create the link. Add the customer’s name, choose which IDs they can use (BVN, NIN, driver’s licence, voter’s card, or BVN with a code NIBSS sends them), 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. 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. Catch fake documents, made-up addresses, sanctioned people, risky borrowers and one person behind several accounts.
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
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
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
Pull a person’s credit report from the credit bureaus by their BVN: the loans they hold, how they repay, and where they’ve lived. With their consent, before you lend.
POST /credit/history₦750.00 per report
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
Pricing
Every check returns the same shape: a status, the fields that matched, and the record. You pay per record found. A BVN or NIN that isn’t found costs a flat ₦50, 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/cacName, date of birth, gender, issue and expiry
POST /identity/passportBVN record with phone numbers and NIN, released by the customer; face match included
POST /identity/bvn-igree₦100.00 with face matchHosted 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.
For your whole team
Encrypted at rest
Identity records sealed with AES-256-GCM.
Audited access
Every view of identity data is logged: who, when and from where.
Minimal retention
ID numbers masked and hashed. ID photos aren’t kept: a verification link holds one, encrypted, only until the face check.
Fair billing
Pay for records found. A BVN or NIN that isn’t found costs a flat ₦50; registry errors are refunded automatically.
NDPC registered · NDPA 2023 compliant
Bytid is run by SendCore Limited, registered with the Nigeria Data Protection Commission as a Data Controller and Processor of Major Importance under the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023.
Registration NDPC/DCP/13105 · valid to 30 June 2028
FAQ
When a record is found. A BVN or NIN that isn’t found costs a flat ₦50, because the registry still charges for the lookup; other not-found checks are free. 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.
Yes. UVerify is now Bytid: the same product and team, now at bytid.com and owned by SendCore Limited. API keys, wallets, prices and integrations carry over unchanged, and the old api.uverify.com.ng address still works.
Your customer releases their own BVN record: they enter their BVN, NIBSS sends a code to the phone or email their bank has, and they type it in. It proves they control the BVN, and the record comes with their phone numbers and NIN. Use it in a verification link or through the API; the face match is included in its price.
Yes. Send their BVN to POST /credit/history with consent: true and get their report from the credit bureaus: loans, repayment performance and address history. You’re only charged when the bureaus have a history for them.
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 aren’t kept (a verification link holds the registry photo encrypted only until the face check, an hour at most), liveness captures are encrypted and removed once used, and every view of identity data in the dashboard is audit-logged. Bytid is run by SendCore Limited, registered with the Nigeria Data Protection Commission under the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 (NDPC/DCP/13105).
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