Passbase is an identity verification solution that helps companies onboard users from over 190 countries and screen 6,000 government IDs. It can be integrated with no code at all or natively on web, mobile and in check out flows in a matter of seconds.
Hi everyone!
CPO of Passbase here. We started Passbase because we want to build the trust layer for the internet which is important for the next wave of online products and society at large.
We spent the last 8 months reimagining how to make secure and trusted identity verification more accessible and we’re very proud to share this with you today. We want to say a big thank you to the awesome companies and teams that supported us from day one and whose feedback and feature requests made us stronger.
Some of the features that we're most proud of to highlight are:
- No code verification via a web link
- UI customizations
- Built in Anti Money Laundering
- Native support with APIs and mobile SDKs
- Verification automations
Give it a try - we'd love to hear your feedback. My cofounders - Mathias and Dave - and I will be responding all day and look forward to hearing your thoughts!
Thank you,
Felix
💙Enjoy the free trial when you sign up and the 3 months subscription fee waiver will be automatically applied once you upgrade at any time in the future.
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@felixgerlach Felix does the 3-month subscription fee waiver apply today?
Wow, that is an easy and slick way to verify customers. In travel we have issues with fraud i am looking forward to verify future bookings with you guys. How long does it take to get online? Is there any long waiting approval needed?
Thank you @phenrysay!
Once you as a company sign up you'll be able to start verifying users by integrating natively (we've got SDKs for iOS and Android or on web) or via a weblink. Users go through 3 quick steps including document upload and then you can approve or reject the results from your dashboard.
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We have been using Passbase for almost a year now and could not be happier with how well it works, the seamless integration and the levels of security it provides our customers with.
@felixgerlach@dave_mcgibbon1 and @mathias_kl have done a fantastic job. I could not recommend it more highly!
@felixgerlach@dave_mcgibbon1@olliemcquitty Thanks Oliver. We love working with you guys together! Thanks for all the great feedback over the last months and the trust you put into us early!
Hi @mikemahlkow! It's quite powerful for financial services or any business that needs to comply with AML regulations. We extract name and birthday from the identity document. We run this name and birthday against a large set of databases including Watchlist, PEP, Sactions, and Adverse Media and flag to you if there are any issues that should be reviewed prior to the individual onboarding!
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@mikemahlkow@dave_mcgibbon1 I'm sitting here watching the "Processing" of my own ID (which is a genius way to get someone started btw). And my brain starts thinking - this is taking a while. It didn't even occur to me that the processing delay is all of the AML that's happening. I wonder if the "Processing" button could say "AML Checking". Then I'd be like "wow - they are doing a really thorough job"... it's a chance for you to show off all of the AML work. You know how SkyScanner check your travel plans against airline companies and they flash up on-screen all the different airlines and associations they are checking against. I think that could help with the credibility factor... blow some minds of people who don't really know what they are looking at currently... that's if its possible/relevant in your eyes...
When Xero was released (first cloud-based accounting platform in 2007) it actually expanded the market and people (my sister for one) were telling me I should sign up even though I didn't have a business at the time. Passbase reminds me of that. I came on here from Dave McGibbon's LinkedIN post, read all these amazing comments, tested it out and I'm like "I can use this". I'm not even in the market. But I need to vet people who work with me. I got stung by a scammer who I engaged and my business partner said, "well did you vet the guy?" - no. I think it is a brilliantly executed solution.
From a product and onboarding process, it's made AML easy and sexy. I enjoyed the process. Every screen that stepped you through the collection of the identity was "next level" - subtle stuff that I can't quite recall, but I think you guys have really nailed something. I'm in...
Hi @simon_small - It's an honor to be compared to Xero. We hope to expand the market for verified identities, especially as more important/sensitive interactions move online. We have a project planned for P2P verifications coming soon that will be a great fit for the type of interaction you described :)
@simon_small thank you so much for that! We actually internally once said our ambition is „we want to make identity verification sexy“, so your comment definitely made me smile. We are happy that you enjoyed it! Thanks :)
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@dave_mcgibbon1 great - I'm not up with the extent of the core AML /KYC / identity check market, but from what I'm reading from the users here and your team's response, you've ripped it all apart and built something fantastic. When you pay for a "background check" it covers police, criminal and other stuff. Will you expand to that? Do you have any of that baked into this.
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@mathias_kl yeah - it's not something you can splash across the frontpage of the website - I thought as I typed it, "I wonder what these guys will make of the word 'sexy' " - glad I didn't hold back...
Hey @jakob_bodenmuller2, as part of the ID document check, we look at the expiry date of the document. Hence you will receive in the API result if the identity document of the person is still valid.
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@mathias_kl Great - thanks for the quick answer =)
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Awesome product. Very much looking forward both from a consumer side by not being angry about long waiting times and a stupid process like most of companies still have, but also from a founder perspective since this is a very interesting feature to integrate. So just to be 100% sure (still hard to believe): With a nearly „plug and play“ process I integrate ID check that employs state of the art money laundering regulations into my products and thats it for me?
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@daniel_kilger1 That's right. You can follow our documentation and integrate AML compliant identity verification + sanctions screening into your product. The current record for integrating a Passbase solution live is about 30 minutes. Under 5AMLD you will still need to monitor transactions on your platform but we take care of the user KYC part.
The reason we built this is because we were founders looking for a solution to the problem much like yourself. Other providers were hard to work with, clunky, and expensive! If you don't quite believe it yet try it out for yourself: app.passbase.com/signup
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