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What is Onfido?
Onfido, an Entrust company, meets your unique identity verification needs with an end-to-end, AI-powered platform.
Navigate global compliance requirements and set your business apart from the competition with secure, fast, and scalable identity verification.
Address AML and KYC regulations while minimizing fraud exposure with PEPs, sanctions, and adverse media solutions.
Our Real Identity Platform helps 1,000+ businesses seamlessly onboard customers at scale while stopping fraud and navigating regulations.
Who Uses Onfido?
Financial services (including traditional and neobanks, remittance services, lending, and cryptocurrency), gaming/gambling, transportation/mobility, telecommunication, retail, and sharing economy.
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very helpful and flexible tool to answer our daily bases.
Comments:
great tool by a great company. very nice and helpful employees that always assist you with a smile
great working methodologies to understand user needs
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great customer support and sales fair negotiations tool function with no downtime
Cons:
support from onfido finance team is slow
My Experience With Onfido
Pros:
It comes with great authentication solution It is the best for identity management
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With Onfido, it has been amazing. Never experienced issues.
Do not expect customer support after implementation
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Great KYC checks and user friendly maintenance portal.
Cons:
Do not expect any customer support: from the beginning Onfido sent us incorrect invoices. We informed their billing department several times by email, however never received a response. Also tried to call them, they do not have a phone number. In February they switched off their application without prior notice. After we left negative feedback on another platform, they suddenly replied and promised they would solve the issue. In the mean time we had several sessions with their customer support and technical team. They discovered an issue in their software that caused the incorrect invoices. They promised to solve this and correct the invoices. This is not three weeks ago. Again I sent numerous reminders to continue and solve the issue, so we could restart using the tool but complete silence on their behalve. I am really shocked after all the time we spent to solve the issues together with their team, this is the result. Complete waist of time. Now we switched to Sumsub that actually gives customer support.
Good facial verification
Comments: Helps businesses to ensure good verification
Pros:
Good facial recognition. This helps to prevent scam
Cons:
It delays when identifying. This makes it very tedious
UNDERWRITING MANAGER
Comments: Easy to use the system and it has added more tools for us to detect fraud.
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Easy to use the system and it has added more tools for us to detect fraud.
Cons:
The set-up process took longer than expected.
Modern, fast, secure ID verifications
Comments: We've looked into and tried a number of vendors for ID verifications, and Onfido has far and away been the easiest to work with, with a fast, modern, flexible, and relatively affordable system that supports a very wide range of ID verification documents worldwide. They're support team is also excellent, very responsive and helpful.
Pros:
Onfido's user-facing and back-office/admin tools provide an excellent UI with a modern, intuitive interface. It's easy for customers and staff to use, and the platforms delivers results incredibly fast, usually within seconds. The API also integrates well with our other systems.
Cons:
I'd like to see more filtering, display, and reporting options in the back-office dashboard -- specifically, being able to more easily drill down on sub-status results (e.g., being able to see at a top level how many IDs are are getting flagged for problems and for what reasons; which IDs received general "caution" flags vs. potentially more serious "rejected" and "suspected" results; innocently expired IDs vs. potentially fake or stolen IDs, etc.). Onfido does a great job of catching a wide range of data and analysis on IDs, but it can sometimes require some digging to figure out what exactly triggered a consideration flag on an ID, or to determine big-picture trends. (That said, Onfido's system is far more clear around all of this than most of their competitors.)
Great team!
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The team at Onfido are really helpful and responsive, with a genuine desire to help you get the best from their products. This is helps what sets them apart from other eKYC providers.
Cons:
The recent move to deleting customer data could have been handled better, with more notice, however this is a minor point.
One of the best in the market!
Pros:
We rely on Onfido to capture customer ID as part of our onboarding process. Onfido's data validation and document integrity services allow us to determine customer document authenticity and detect potential fraudulent customers.
Cons:
No issues so far. Overall, we have had a great experience in the last 3 years we've had Onfido.
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Onfido excels in user-friendly interfaces and responsive customer support.
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Common challenges or concerns with identity verification services in general can include potential false positives, integration complexities, or the evolving nature of fraud tactics
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I like how Onfido's team prepare our monthly meetings, in order to see all the relevant aspects of the last month and see how they can improve the product. In addition to that, is a product that is constantly improving, and thats what i like the most.
Cons:
An aspect that i think Onfido can improve is the quantity of accepted documents in several countries, because there are some countries that doesn't have much accepted documents.
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Pros:
The ease of use of the portal. Decisioning speed.
Cons:
Difficulties when asking for a specific changes. Some changes are impossible as this will require global changes made in the system which will affect all customers
Overall Takes Care of Itself
Comments: Pretty good overall, it would be nice to have more regular contact but mainly just for checking in as we do not tend to experience many headaches
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Ease of use - which means identifying any problems as quicker as possible
Cons:
Loads times can sometimes be a little long but overall no real complaints. We had an issue that was raised a while ago now and sometimes it can take a long while to get to the bottom of it so maybe better regular updates on any issues.
e-KYC Make It Easy
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Onfido is facilitating a seamless customer journey during the onboarding process by leveraging their proprietary electronic Know Your Customer (e-KYC) solution. This solution is enhanced with advanced Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) technologies and the expertise of document specialists to ensure accurate customer identification.
Cons:
Nothing in particular. No negative feedback as of now.
Implementation team
Comments: Very proactive company, however I felt they underestimated how a large complex organisation that I work for takes a long time to go through various delivery gates. I guess it was a big learning curve on both sides.
Pros:
The employees seem to really want to help deliver the product. The Onfido staff seemed to be much more approachable than other staff in other companies which was a key factor
Cons:
Possibly not enough staff although they did listen to our concerns about staffing levels in certain areas and tried to mitigate it as best as they could. I feel the Onfido did always listen.
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Onfido is the best in class for Identity Verification
Comments: Amazing and very positive
Pros:
Technology, quality of UX, Quality of the API, customer support.
Cons:
Nothing to tell really here. I'm not sure I can tell some private stuff here
Great and trusted document validation provider
Comments: Great
Pros:
Trusted processes. Keep an imposing over time.
Cons:
It could support more on fraud detection.
Reviews
Comments: ok
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The service from your people is fantastic
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Slow processing of id documents resulting in some dropoffs
Brilliant product!
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The product offers very user friendly experience.
Cons:
The only "con" we can mention is the somewhat higher pricing.
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Feedback
Comments: Been very satisfied with the customer support all in all
Pros:
The customer support given during implementation as well as on any other additional support required from central bank requirement
Cons:
The data being co-mingled in the database is a concern from central bank; should have an option for that; alongside data only being stored for 3 years.
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Boosted our customer acceptance rates
Comments: We switched from an Experian solution to Onfido, and saw an immediate improvement in acceptance rates. This increased revenue while reducing customer support costs.
Pros:
It was quick and easy to implement, and customer support is great. Loved the SDKs and the great customer experience when switching from desktop/laptop device to mobile to capture identity documents with a camera, or take a selfie.
Cons:
The new Studio workflow product provides the decision-tree that has been missing to date, so there are very few negatives.Might like better accuracy for watchlist screening, as 99% of "consider" results are false negatives, but appreciate this is probably down to the quality of the PEP/Sanctions data available from Government sources.
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Onfido is the best option for starter projects
Comments: Onfido was a key piece in our first electromobility project; we had no previous experience with data and identity validation tools and the sales team clarified all our doubts and put us in contact with specialists who helped us to clarify some doubts of our implementation.
Pros:
I really like the dashboars and the intuitive interface they have for viewing any applicant's information.
Cons:
It seems to me that you should improve a lot the technical support, it usually takes 24 hours to receive an answer by email. Maybe a chat with agents in real-time would be good to incorporate.
Best software
Comments: Best identify verification products ever!!
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I love the identity verification features where it is very helpful for my daily KYC check.
Cons:
Sometimes when there's a part of the customers National ID get blurred by the glaring, eventho we can still see thru a bit, it still shown as "Consider". But overall, I really loved it.
Really nice support from ONFIDO Team
Comments: We needed a solution that could enable a remote identity validation to perform the account opening process on our mobile app. As all the banks worldwide, we had compliance and regulatory issues that should be take in consideration and the partner in that field should be experient doing this kind of job. As we don´t have a lot of banks in Angola offering this kind of solutions, we had to choose a partner that could offer us the possibility to read and validate angolan documents with confidence.
Pros:
The ability to perform remote identity checks in a quick an accurate way. The fact that the development and software updates are always one step forward from our needs.
Cons:
The lack of support to Outsystems framework.
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Pros:
Easy to use and software detect PEP and people under sanctions
Cons:
Discrepencies between the information received and the actual information provided by the client (sometimes). Also, when a customer update his KYC it does not reflect on your platform.
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Comments: Good customer support and good products
Pros:
Easy integration using SDK, fast report result, extensive document type coverage for identity verification
Cons:
others products package i.e. aml report & compliance report need to further enahnced.