Onboarding
Verify users on any device, anywhere, against the source of truth
The right checks for your market to minimize user drop off.

Onboarding shouldn't make you choose between compliance and conversion
Sign-up fraud prevention
Fake signups waste marketing spend, inflate your CAC, and enable fraud. Our onboarding products catch synthetic identities, multi-account abuse, and referral fraud before they cost you.
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Funnel conversion
Verify in seconds across your users’ preferred channels: mobile, web, agent, QR, WhatsApp. Built for conditions that break other vendors — low bandwidth, low light, legacy devices — without compromising pass rates.
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Source of truth verification
Choose the verification method that works best in your market — government database, document, biometric, or a combination. With 30+ local government data sources and 8,500+ ID types across 226 countries, the best option is always available.
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Onboarding Product Suite
Enhanced KYC
Biometric KYC
Smile Secure (Biometric Deduplication)
Business Verification
Phone Number Verification
Bank Account Verification
Address Verification
Success stories
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Tayo Oviosu
Founder and CEO, Paga
Paga reduced identity-related fraud by 40% with Smile ID's Biometric KYC
"Smile Identity's Biometric KYC product allows us to verify the true identity of our users quickly and with extreme confidence, without having to choose between high growth and fraud mitigation."
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Ankit Gupta
Product Lead, Fairmoney
Fairmoney sped up onboarding, reducing loan approvals to under 5 minutes with Smile ID’s Document Verification and Enhanced KYC products
“We were dealing with numerous issues with our previous KYC provider, prompting us to seek out a more reliable alternative. We scouted the market for potential partners. Eventually, after a thorough review process, we decided to move forward and partnered with Smile ID at FairMoney and it has been seamless so far.”
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Jemima Kenyanjui
Compliance Operations Lead, Paystack
Paystack onboarded more than 40,000 merchants across Africa using Smile ID’s KYB, Enhanced KYC and Biometric KYC products
“As Paystack continues to grow across Africa, it's important that we bring the right customers and merchants onto our platform quickly while meeting every local requirement. With Smile ID, we can verify people and businesses in real time across South Africa, Kenya, Ghana, and Nigeria. This verification data informs our decision-making and gives us confidence that the people using Paystack are genuine.”
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