Verify customers faster with one global identity verification API

Data Zoo's seamless KYC solution combines authoritative global identity data with smart sequencing to streamline your compliance workflows. By reducing friction and increasing match rates, we help you verify faster and more efficiently — with data you can trust.

Contact sales
Airwallex
Alloy
eToro
Daon
Experian
Sumsub
FXCM
Ping Identity
Mitrade
Personr
MoneyGram
Airwallex
Alloy
eToro
Daon
Experian
Sumsub
FXCM
Ping Identity
Mitrade
Personr
MoneyGram

Why Data Zoo

Verify identities with certainty

Our KYC solution delivers fast, accurate, and secure identity verification backed by trusted, high-integrity data. That means fewer errors, faster checks, and more confident decisions.

150+
Authoritative sources

Trusted data

2s
Response time

Faster verification

24/7
Global Support

Enterprise support available

Global KYC coverage in 40+ countries

With Data Zoo, you can expand into new markets with one integration. Data Zoo’s standardized API gives you access to 150+ authoritative data sources across 40+ countries, including hard-to-reach APAC and emerging markets. As you scale into new markets, you simply add coverage without rebuilding, negotiating new contracts, or ramping up engineering.

Live coverage

Check a market

AustraliaAPAC
Very high

23authoritative sources

  • Government
  • Semi-Government
  • Credit
  • Commercial
  • Consumer

Accepted documents

  • Birth Certificate
  • Centrelink Concession Card
  • Change of Name Certificate
  • Citizenship Certificate
  • Driver Licence
Contact sales

Trusted data for scalable identity verification

Electronic identity verification (eIDV) is only as strong as the data behind it. We connect directly to government databases, credit bureaus, and other primary sources wherever possible and rigorously vet every source. Because we prioritize source quality, independence, and freshness, you get faster response times, lower third-party risk, and easier compliance across markets — the same authoritative data layer that powers every Data Zoo verification.
Government
Residential
Utilities
Credit Bureaus
Proprietary
More

Smart sequencing for better results

Our intelligent data-source sequencing powers adaptive, risk-based onboarding or verification by routing each eIDV check to the right sources in the right order. Set decisioning rules to maximize match rates while staying within your risk appetite and compliance obligations.

Developer-First

KYC API built for developers

Data Zoo connects you to a global network of authoritative identity data through a single, flexible API — so verification stays consistent across every market you operate in.

POSThttps://idu-test.datazoo.com/api/v2/verify
  • One integration for 40+ countries
  • Name one source or several in a single call
  • Per-source match scores returned
  • Safe-harbour scoring built in
  • Full audit trail with reporting references
Explore API docs

One named source, one call — no sequencing logic applied. A single source can confirm a 1+1 match.

Australia · Direct

You send

name · DOB · driver licence

1 service — Australia Driver Licence

You get back

Full Match 1+1

1 source checked

  • Verified:Australia Government Identity Documents 1
Show raw request & JSON
Request
curl --location 'https://idu-test.datazoo.com/api/v2/verify' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN' \
--data '{
    "countryCode": "AU",
    "service": [
        "Australia Driver Licence"
    ],
    "clientReference": "Test_0001",
    "firstName": "Aloysius", 
    "middleName": "Jefferson", 
    "lastName": "Pasco", 
    "dateOfBirth": "1946-11-01", 
    "identityVariables": {
        "driversLicenceNo": "XXX9879", 
        "driversLicenceStateOfIssue": "WA", 
        "driversLicenceCardNo" : "XXXXXX9591" 
    },
    "consentObtained": {
        "Australia Driver Licence": true
    }
}'
Success200
{
    "countryCode": "Australia",
    "clientReference": "Test_0001",
    "reportingReference": "DZ-de37fd64-44d7-495a-9217-64727550cd8b",
    "matchStatus": "Full Match 1+1 Verification",
    "safeHarbour": false,
    "searchStatus": "Successful",
    "serviceResponses": {
        "Australia Government Identity Documents 1": {
            "status": 0,
            "sourceStatus": "Successful",
            "identityVerified": true,
            "safeHarbourScore": "L2",
            "nameMatchScore": "1.000",
            // … 5 more elements verified
            "returnedData": {}
        }
    }
}
Not Found404
{
  "message": "No matching identity found"
}

Where we fit

KYC for all lifecycle stages

Data Zoo seamlessly fits into the most important stages of the customer lifecycle, ensuring speed, efficiency, security, and compliance.

B2C Account Opening

Streamline customer onboarding with automated identity verification, reducing friction and improving conversion rates for new account registrations.

Explore use case — B2C Account Opening

Loan & Credit Applications

Verify applicant identities quickly and accurately to expedite loan processing while maintaining compliance with lending regulations.

Cross-Border Payments

Ensure secure money transfers with robust identity verification for both senders and recipients across global corridors.

Explore use case — Cross-Border Payments

Customer Due Diligence

Perform comprehensive identity checks and risk assessments to meet regulatory requirements and prevent financial crimes.

Explore use case — Customer Due Diligence

AML Compliance

Detect and prevent money laundering activities through advanced screening against sanctions lists and PEP databases.

Employee Screening

Verify the identities and backgrounds of potential employees to ensure workplace safety and regulatory compliance.

CUSTOMER RESULTS

Drive more revenue with Data Zoo

Digital businesses using Data Zoo can maximise revenue growth through fast and frictionless onboarding flows that reduce verification failures and onboard more customers.

Read case study
  • 5%

    Increase in approval rates per country

  • $30M

    Additional annual revenue generated

  • 112%

    ROI after switching to Data Zoo

Start verifying identities today

Get started with our identity verification API in minutes. Contact our sales team for a personalized demo.

Contact salesView API docs

Frequently Asked Questions

No. Data Zoo is a data layer, not an orchestration platform, so it embeds into the onboarding flow, UX, and decisioning systems already in place rather than replacing them. A single global API supplies the identity data; your existing rules engine, case management, and document or biometric vendors keep doing their jobs. Adding a market is a configuration change on your account, not a re-platforming project.

Integrating a KYC API takes two authenticated calls: post your credentials to obtain a bearer session token, then post verification requests to a single endpoint. Onboarding comes first — Data Zoo scopes which countries, data sources, and services match your KYC and compliance obligations, and issues sandbox credentials once those services are enabled on your account.

Each request carries the country code, the services to query, the identity attributes you hold, and the customer’s consent where the source requires it. The response returns an outcome per source, with match indicators, returned attributes, and reporting references according to your configuration. Because Data Zoo is a data layer rather than an orchestration platform, sequencing order and match thresholds are configured on our side — your onboarding UX and decisioning logic stay as they are. Full reference documentation is at docs.datazoo.com/api.

Authoritative sources are the primary records an identity was registered against — government registries, credit bureaus, telcos and utilities, electoral and tax rolls — rather than aggregated or resold copies of them. Data Zoo reaches 150+ such sources across 40+ countries and connects directly wherever a jurisdiction allows, which is what makes a result traceable, explainable, and defensible to an auditor. Source availability varies by jurisdiction; see the data layer for how each source is vetted.

Attribute-level verification returns a separate result for each element of an identity — name, address, date of birth, ID number — instead of one pass/fail score for the person. Each element also carries a service-level status, which distinguishes a genuine mismatch from a source error, a partial result, or an unreachable record. That granularity lets you set thresholds per market and risk appetite, so one weak element doesn’t decline an otherwise legitimate customer. For fraud signals beyond identity data — phone, email, location, and watchlist intelligence — see risk signals.

Yes. AML screening — checking a customer against sanctions lists, politically exposed person (PEP) registers, relatives and close associates, and adverse media — runs through the same Data Zoo API as identity verification, so one integration covers the KYC identity check and the AML obligations attached to it. Data Zoo screens across 30,000+ watchlist sources in 45+ languages, including non-Latin scripts, with configurable matching logic. See watchlist screening and risk signals for the full capability.

An electronic identity check returns in seconds, not hours. Data Zoo’s KYC API returns attribute-level results in about two seconds, with many sources answering in under one; the variance comes from the source, the country, and how your sequencing is configured. Results arrive decision-ready — every attribute, its source, and its status in one structured response — so the verification step isn’t what holds an application up.

Data Zoo uses a transaction-based, pay-as-you-go pricing model. You pay for the checks you run, at rates that vary by country and data source. Smart Sequencing keeps the per-verification cost down by stopping as soon as your match rules are satisfied, so you don’t pay for queries you don’t need. Optional volume commitments are also available, unlocking discounted rates for higher-volume customers. For a proposal based on your markets and expected volumes, contact sales.

Yes. Prospects can test before contracting: after an NDA, Data Zoo issues a test account on the sandbox environment (idu-test.datazoo.com) with synthetic test records, so your team can exercise real request and response formats before any commitment. To measure match rates in your target markets, a structured proof of concept runs a sample of real records under a Data Evaluation Agreement, with results analysed alongside our team. Contact sales to scope an evaluation.

Electronic identity verification (eIDV) confirms an identity by matching the attributes a customer submits — name, date of birth, address, ID number — against independent, authoritative records such as government databases, credit bureaus, and utility files. Document verification does something different: it inspects an image of a passport or driver’s licence to judge whether the document itself is genuine. eIDV needs no photo or upload step, so it adds far less friction, and because every match traces back to a named source, it produces evidence an auditor can follow. Data Zoo supplies the eIDV data layer and runs alongside any document or biometric tooling already in place.

A KYC API runs Know Your Customer checks programmatically, inside your onboarding flow rather than in a manual review queue or a hosted portal. You send the identity attributes you hold — name, date of birth, address, document number — in a single request, and the API returns a structured result your own decisioning logic can act on. Data Zoo’s KYC API reaches 150+ authoritative sources across 40+ countries, returning attribute-level match results and a full audit trail in about two seconds.