🇨🇲 Cameroon eKYB

Earlier in our docs is an overview of our Know Your Business here. Now, this page is focused specifically on eKYB in the France (FR). eKYB in GB leverages the government sources of truth to validate the legitimacy of businesses, including their taxID (either Vat No or Reg No), business name, business address, along with UBOs.

Note: only available in Incode demo environment today, not available in production. If interested, please contact Incode's customer support.

Integration

User input flow

eKYB module configuration

eKYB user input flow example

Module Configuration

Module configuration gives various options to specify different KYB criteria you would like to check (eg. Business name, Business Address, and Business taxID).

eKYB module configuration

KYB module configuration

Direct API Approach

All module configurations and user data can be forwarded directly in the request for performing an KYB search. This will override existing configuration and data collected about the user.

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API Authentication

All endpoints require authentication headers to be specified as stated in Incode API Documentation

POST /omni/externalVerification/ekyb

This endpoint performs an KYB check for the business specified. Note: Endpoint can have empty body {} and in that case information will be pulled from module configuration and session details.

  • plugins: must be["ekyb"]: (mandatory)
  • businessName:: (mandatory) String. Name of the business.
  • street: (optional) String. Street name of the business.
  • houseNo: (optional) String. Building or house number on the street.
  • addressLine2: (optional) String. Address line 2 of the business. (eg. apartment or unit number)
  • city: (optional) String. City of the business of the business address.
  • country: (mandatory) String. Two letter Alpha-2 country code. (Must be CM)
  • taxId: (mandatory) String. Tax ID of the business (VatNo or RegNo) - NIF – Numéro d’Identification Fiscale, Typically alphanumeric

Note: The country parameter is used to limit business validation to that specific region. We will only validate a business established in the country selected in the eKYB request.

REQUEST FORMAT EXAMPLE
{
  "plugins" : ["ekyb"], //required field
  "businessName" : "Equatorial Beverages Ltd.", //required field
  "street" : "Rue de la République, Bonanjo",
  "houseNo" : "",
  "addressLine2" : "",
  "city" : "Douala",
  "country" : "CM", //required field
  "taxId" : "CM0000087219", //required field
    
}

Response

All module configurations and user data can be forwarded directly in the request for performing an eKYB search. This will override existing configuration and data collected about the user.

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API Authentication

All endpoints require authentication headers to be specified as stated in Incode API Documentation

RESPONSE EXAMPLE

"kyb": [
    {
      "key": "name",
      "sub_label": "Verified"
    },
    {
      "key": "tin",
      "sub_label": "Verified",
      "reasonCodes": [
      	"REGNO"
      ]
    },
    {
      "key": "address_verification",
      "sub_label": "Verified"
    },
    {
      "key": "cityMatch",
      "sub_label": "Verified"
    },
    {
      "key": "registrationStatus",
      "sub_label": "Active"
    },
		{
      "key": "entityType",
      "sub_label": "Société à Responsabilité Limitée (SARL)"
    }
}

Cameroon API Key

Status

Definition

name

Verified, Approximate Match, Unverified

Submitted business name is verified, approximate match, or unverified against the business name associated with the business Tax ID in the government database.

tin

Found, Not Found

Submitted Tax ID is found or not found in the government database.

address_verification

Verified, Approximate Match, Unverified

Submitted address is verified, approximate match, or unverified against the address associated with the business Tax ID in the government database.

cityMatch

Verified, Approximate Match, Unverified

Submitted city is verified, approximate match, or unverified against the address associated with the business taxID in the government database.

postalCodeMatch

Verified, Unverified

Submitted postal code is verified, approximate match, or unverified against the address associated with the business taxID in the government database.

registrationStatus

Active, Inactive, Unknown

Active: This occurs if the registration status of the business is active.

Inactive: This occurs if the registration status of the business is suspended or inactive or if the business no longer exists.

Unknown: This occurs if the registration status of the business is not available.

entityType

Legal entity type of the business

This displays the legal entity type of the company, if available, from an official source. If not available, “Unknown” is displayed.

ubo_name_match

Verified, Approximate Match, Unverified

Submitted UBO is an exact match against the UBO associated with the business Tax ID in the government database.

In situations where user has submitted multiple ubo names to be verified against the government source of truth, you will see additional fields called ubo_name_match.

You can distinguish ubo_name_match when looking at uboName_input

directors_name_match

Verified, Approximate Match, Unverified

Submitted Directors is an exact match against the Directors associated with the business Tax ID in the government database.

In situations where user has submitted multiple ubo names to be verified against the government source of truth, you will see additional fields called directors_name_match.

You can distinguish directors_name_match when looking at directorsName_input

Learning more about Approximate Match : Approximate Match is generated through Incode's proprietary fuzzy matching algorithm. If approximate match is returned, the algorithm has identified a similar match with the string submitted in relation to the string stored in the government source of truth for a particular field. Approximate Match is returned when exact matches are not possible due to misspellings, typographical errors, or slight variations in input data.

Please refer to error response to see conventional HTTP response codes to indicate the success or failure of an API request.

Custom 400 error messages if businessName, taxId, or country is “ “ or null:

message: businessName, taxId, and country are minimum required fields.

Single Session Dashboard Results

They are available on Single Session view under Business tab

eKYB single session dashboard results

eKYB results