Generating a verification link

Once you've created an applicant, you can generate a hosted link for verification.

This endpoint allows you to generate a hosted verification link, where applicants can upload their documents and verify themselves on your chosen flow.

By default, verification links are hosted on our domain https://enterprise.personr.co and are easily embeddable into your website or mobile application.

Once an individual has finished uploading their documents, the verification will process automatically. You can go to Retrieving applicant verification results to retrieve the results, or create a webhook by going to Setting up a webhook.

Example Verification Screen

Whitelabelling is available upon request. This allows you to customise the verification screens' logo, font, and colours to align with your brand. Reach out to your account manager to discuss your options.

We support all device types and modern browsers for verification.

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Generate a verification link

POST /api-verificationlink-create

Generate a verification link, to send to an applicant.

Name	Value
Content-Type	multipart/form-data
Authorization	Bearer YOUR_TOKEN

Body

Name	Type	Description
applicantId	string	Unique applicantId generated on applicant creation (required)

Request

cURL

curl --location 'https://enterprise.personr.co/api/1.1/wf/api-verificationlink-create' \
--form 'applicant="4242424242424x424242424242424242"'

Node.js

var axios = require('axios');
var FormData = require('form-data');
var data = new FormData();
data.append('applicant', '4242424242424x424242424242424242');

var config = {
  method: 'post',
maxBodyLength: Infinity,
  url: 'https://enterprise.personr.co/api/1.1/wf/api-verificationlink-create',
  headers: { 
    ...data.getHeaders()
  },
  data : data
};

axios(config)
.then(function (response) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(response.data));
})
.catch(function (error) {
  console.log(error);
});

Javascript

var form = new FormData();
form.append("applicant", "4242424242424x424242424242424242");

var settings = {
  "url": "https://enterprise.personr.co/api/1.1/wf/api-verificationlink-create",
  "method": "POST",
  "timeout": 0,
  "processData": false,
  "mimeType": "multipart/form-data",
  "contentType": false,
  "data": form
};

$.ajax(settings).done(function (response) {
  console.log(response);
});

Ruby

require "uri"
require "net/http"

url = URI("https://enterprise.personr.co/api/1.1/wf/api-verificationlink-create")

https = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
https.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
form_data = [['applicant', '4242424242424x424242424242424242']]
request.set_form form_data, 'multipart/form-data'
response = https.request(request)
puts response.read_body

Python

import requests

url = "https://enterprise.personr.co/api/1.1/wf/api-verificationlink-create"

payload={'applicant': '4242424242424x424242424242424242'}
files=[

]
headers = {}

response = requests.request("POST", url, headers=headers, data=payload, files=files)

print(response.text)

Response

200

{
  "status": "success",
  "response": {
    "verificationLink": "https://enterprise.personr.co/verification/4242424242424x424242424242424242",
    "customLink": "https://enterprise.personr.co/verification/4242424242424x424242424242424242"
  }
}

400

{
    "statusCode": 400,
    "message": "Error: incorrect applicantId provided"
}

Verification Link

The verificationLink key contains the standard enterprise.personr.co domain that applicants can access to provide information and go through the flow.

Custom Link

The customLink key contains the custom domain that you have linked to the platform. To return a custom link with this endpoint, you need to specify the domain you wish to use when editing or creating a flow.

Custom links default to enterprise.personr.co if you have not specified which domain you'd like to use when creating or editing a flow.

Verification links aren't sent to an applicant's email or phone number by default.

For more customisation and control over what your users see, upload document images directly via API instead. Head to the next page to read more.