Flash Start Identity Verification – Worldwide

The Flash Start Identity Verification API allows you to confirm users' identities remotely in a fast, secure, and cost-effective way, offering global coverage. It verifies the authenticity of documents and extracts and validates their data with maximum accuracy and reliability.

The service is available 24/7 and supports over 3,000 types of documents from more than 190 countries. Document authenticity verification includes checking the ID date and consistency, detecting potential copies, and verifying all Optical Variable Elements (OVE). It also evaluates the document’s physical aspects, adherence to specific security features, and production method. Examples of checks include reading VIZ and MRZ, document validity, analysis of black-and-white images, verification of holograms, watermarks and ILV, examination of color, plasticity and impressions, as well as checks on embossing, perforations, micro-impressions, and guilloches.

To combat counterfeiting, artificial intelligence analyzes the document’s movement and angle via video, verifying the holographic elements characteristic of authentic documents. The identification process is completed in seconds, providing a detailed analysis of authenticity, data consistency, and verification results: the high accuracy of data extraction minimizes errors and accelerates identity validation.

Based on video verification, the service is twice as fast and effective as traditional photo-based methods and, thanks to continuous learning on thousands of video samples, constantly improves its ability to detect even sophisticated fraud attempts. Only in cases where AI cannot complete the verification does a specialized operator intervene manually, ensuring the procedure is completed within 3 minutes.

With identification APIs, you can deliver legally compliant services and products in reduced timeframes, without requiring the customer’s physical presence at your offices, while drastically reducing the risk of fraud.

Three levels of global video identification are available on Openapi:

The identification platform is available in 19 different languages and is completely “neutral” (no company logos will be displayed).

With the Flash Start mode, users can independently carry out the entire video identification process at any time of the day, without scheduling constraints. 

The identification procedure is primarily based on five steps:

The Flash service, compared to the other two services, does not include liveness detection.

The service is identified by the endpoint https://trust.openapi.com/idv-flash-start

START THE IDENTITY VERIFICATION PROCESS

REQUEST EXAMPLE

POST /idv-flash-start

The only mandatory fields to include in the payload when making the request are:

{
  "email": "[email protected]",
  "name": "Mario Openapi",
  "redirectUrl": "https://openapi.com",
  "callback": {
    "url": "https://your-server.site/idv-callback",
    "custom": {
      "orderId": "idv-check-123"
    }
  }
}

It is also possible to set the callback to receive updates when a status change occurs.

RESPONSE EXAMPLE

POST /idv-flash-start

The response will include data on:

{
  "success": true,
  "message": "Success", 
  "error": null, 
  "data": {
    "id": "691df14809a1848428063cc4",  
    "state": "NEW",
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "name": "Mario Openapi",
    "redirectUrl": "https://openapi.com",
    "verificationUrl": "https://openapi.com",
    "status": "pending_redirection",
    "details": "",
    "riskLabels": ["multiple_faces_detected",
    ],
    "documents": [
        {
        "type": "ID",
        "number": "CA12345AA",
        "issuingCountry": "IT",
        "issueDate": "2019-10-30",
        "expiryDate": "2030-08-24",
        "mrz": "XXXXXX",
        "birthDate": "2003-08-24",
        "firstName": "MARIO",
        "lastName": "OPENAPI",
        "fullName": "MARIO OPENAPI"
    }
  ],
  "age": 22,
  "createdAt": "2025-11-19T16:33:12+00:00",
  "updatedAt": "2025-11-19T16:33:12+00:00", 
  }
}

The desktop link will lead to a QR code that must be scanned using a smartphone to start the identification process. The video identification process is highly flexible and can be structured according to the integrator’s needs. During the identification phase, remind the user not to refresh the page or close the browser window. Otherwise, the procedure will restart from the beginning. The same applies in case of an internet connection interruption.

RETRY AN IDENTITY VERIFICATION

If the verification attempt is not completed (for example, if the connection is lost or the verification is unintentionally interrupted), it is possible to update the session and obtain a new verificationUrl. To do so, simply provide the ID of the incomplete request and use the GET /idv-retry/{id} endpoint.

REQUEST EXAMPLE

GET/idv-retry-trail/{id}

This is an example of a request to retry a verification

https://trust.openapi.com/idv-retry/691df14809a1848428063cc4

RESPONSE EXAMPLE

GET/idv-retry-trail/{id}

The response includes information such as the status (in this case, wait), the email, the name and, most importantly, a new link to restart the verification procedure:

{ 
  "data": {
    "createdAt": "2025-11-19T16:33:12+00:00",
    "updatedAt": "2025-11-19T16:33:12+00:00", 
    "state": "WAIT",
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "name": "Mario Openapi",
    "redirectUrl": "https://openapi.com",
    "status": "pending_redirection",
    "verificationUrl": "https://idv.checkout.com/21aef278-e68d-43bf-b12a-d63969dxxxxx",
    "details": null,
    "riskLabels": [],
    "id": "691df14809a1848428063cc4",  
    "documents": [
  ], 
  "success": true,
  "message": "Success", 
  "error": null, 
  }
}

RETRIEVE AN IDENTITY VERIFICATION REQUEST

REQUEST EXAMPLE

GET /idv-flash-start/{id}

Once the verification process has been completed and the request has reached the DONE status, it is possible to access the details of the identity verification request.

https://trust.openapi.com/idv-flash-start/66a8ed9b82cf2ae627012068

RESPONSE EXAMPLE

GET /idv-flash-start/{id}

The response will include the status of the request (NEW or DONE), the verification status, and all the data obtained from the document extraction, including the user's age (AGE).

{
  "success": true,
  "message": "Success", 
  "error": null, 
  "data": {
    "id": "691df14809a1848428063cc4",  
    "state": "NEW",
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "name": "Mario Openapi",
    "redirectUrl": "https://openapi.com",
    "verificationUrl": "https://openapi.com",
    "status": "pending_redirection",
    "details": "",
    "riskLabels": ["multiple_faces_detected",
    ],
    "documents": [
        {
          "type": "ID",
          "number": "CA12345AA",
          "issuingCountry": "IT",
          "issueDate": "2019-10-30",
          "expiryDate": "2030-08-24",
          "mrz": "XXXXXX",
          "birthDate": "2003-08-24",
          "firstName": "MARIO",
          "lastName": "OPENAPI",
          "fullName": "MARIO OPENAPI"
    }
  ],
  "age": 22,
  "createdAt": "2025-11-19T16:33:12+00:00",
  "updatedAt": "2025-11-19T16:33:12+00:00", 
  }
}

It is possible to specify, via the header, the format in which to obtain the request details: JSON, PDF, or HTML.

It is also possible to access the front and back images of the document used during the verification process through the dedicated endpoints: GET /idv-flash-start/{id}/front and GET/idv-flash-start/{id}/back

ACCESS THE AUDIT TRAIL

Once the verification is completed, in addition to the document images and data, it is also possible to download the audit trail, which includes all the information related to the verification procedure.

REQUEST EXAMPLE

GET/idv-audit-trail/{id}

When making the request, it is necessary to provide the ID obtained previously

https://trust.openapi.com/idv-audit-trail/66a8ed9b82cf2ae627012068

RESPONSE EXAMPLE

GET/idv-audit-trail/{id}

The response will include information such as: the date and time the request was created and modified, status, number of attempts, IP address, number of sessions, and user agent.

{
  "success": true,
  "message": "Success", 
  "error": null, 
  "data": {
    "id": "691df14809a1848428063cc4",  
    "state": "NEW",
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "name": "Mario Openapi",
    "redirectUrl": "https://openapi.com",
    "verificationUrl": "https://openapi.com",
    "status": "pending_redirection",
    "details": "",
    "riskLabels": ["multiple_faces_detected",
    ],
    "documents": [
        {
          "type": "ID",
          "number": "CA12345AA",
          "issuingCountry": "IT",
          "issueDate": "2019-10-30",
          "expiryDate": "2030-08-24",
          "mrz": "XXXXXX",
          "birthDate": "2003-08-24",
          "firstName": "MARIO",
          "lastName": "OPENAPI",
          "fullName": "MARIO OPENAPI"
    }
  ],
  "age": 22,
  "attempts": 3,
  "attemptInfo"{
    "createdOn": "2026-08-10T13:39:54.480325Z",
    "modifiedOn": "2026-08-10T13:48:52.398519Z",
    "status": "completed",
    "clientInformation": string,
    "applicantSessionInformation": {
      "ip_address": "81.127.114.165",
      "number_of_sessions": 2,
      "user_agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; 2312DRA50G) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/151.0.0.0 Mobile Safari/537.36",
      "initial_device": "desktop",
      "selected_documents": [
          {
            "country": "IT",
            "document_type": "ID"
          }
        ]
      },
      "responseCodes": [
        {
          "code": 10000,
          "summary": "approved"
        }
      ],
      "verificationUrl": "https://idv.checkout.com/e745d3f2-ad4d-4a9c-acd1-e830f7da8e6a"
    },
    
    
  "createdAt": "2025-11-19T16:33:12+00:00",
  "updatedAt": "2025-11-19T16:33:12+00:00", 
  }
}

The video identification service is the ideal solution for all regulated and non-regulated activities that require user verification, such as: