Field Reference

Verification Reasons

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The verification reasons provide additional insight into why a verification was either, pending, failed or approved. You can see a list of reasons below.

Reason

Description

expired

The end user never completed the verification process within the 72 hour window and so the verification failed.

prescreened

Returned if a user is pre-approved by the client and so verification is not performed.

order_canceled

Returned in the order placed by the end user (on an ecommerce store for example) is cancelled. This will fail the verification as it is no longer necessary.

spam_email

Only returned if automated spam detection is active. Returned if the email address is triggers spam detection causing the verification to fail.

recognized_photos

Only returned if automated spam detection is active. Returned if the photos submitted by the end user are similar to photos used previously causing the verification to fail.

other

Returned for edge case photo id verifications that were manually rejected for a reason other than the ones listed here.

edited_images

The verification failed because the images uploaded by the end user were edited or manipulated.

male

Returned when a verification fails the female only gender detection.

matched_flagged_id_document

Returned when a verification was failed because the ID document used by the end user matched a flagged id document in our system.

invalid_id

Returned when a verification is set to pending because the ID photo submitted by the user was unusable. Only returned when the automated ID detection is active.

invalid_selfie_and_id

Returned when a verification is set to pending because both the ID photo and selfie photo submitted by the user were unusable. Only returned when the automated ID detection is active.

manual_verification

Returned when a verification is successfully completed manually.