Deis automates FICA KYC onboarding for South African lenders, banks and insurers: DocuFii verifies a person against Home Affairs with liveness and a 1:1 face match, checks companies and directors against CIPC, and keeps every result in one audit trail. It runs in Deis cloud (Azure South Africa North), on Deis infrastructure or in your own environment.
A person opens the ID and the bank statement, re-types the numbers, calls a bureau, checks a name against a list and files the evidence in a folder no auditor will find.
Onboarding a business means proving the company exists, is in good standing and who stands behind it, one bureau site at a time.
A sanctions screen at onboarding says nothing about a designation added six months later, yet FICA expects ongoing scrutiny.
How DocuFii solves it
One API, one portal, one audit trail
Home Affairs verification with the official photo, liveness and a 1:1 face match.
Packaged KYC bundles (Essential, Plus and Advanced), or build your own journey from single checks.
KYB for companies: CIPC report and status, directors, deeds, trace and credit assembled into a summary with a risk view.
AML, PEP and sanctions screening, with monitoring by webhook as lists change.
What you get back
A verdict, with the evidence behind it
Each verification returns a single result with confidence, plus the evidence bundle for your audit file.
Verified identity fields and status from Home Affairs
The Home Affairs photo and a 1:1 face-match score against the live selfie
A liveness result that defeats a photo of a photo or a replayed video
A KYB summary with a risk view for companies and their directors
A record of which path answered each verification, snapshot or live
Illustrative visual. Figures are not from a real applicant.
Illustrative example of DocuFii reading a bank statement and returning decision-ready data, with Home Affairs, face match, tamper and sanctions checks passed.
Home Affairs ✓Face match 0.98Tamper: nonePEP / sanctions: clear
Illustrative · sample data
How it works
From ID capture to verdict in four steps
1 · Capture
The ID is captured or keyed, and the customer takes a liveness selfie.
2 · Home Affairs
Every verification checks a Home Affairs snapshot first. A live call is placed only on a miss.
3 · Face match
The selfie is matched 1:1 against the Home Affairs photo, and a single verdict is returned.
4 · Screen and file
Add KYB, AML, PEP and sanctions checks, then keep the evidence in the audit trail.
Integration and hosting
Integrate it, or just sign in and use it
One REST API behind Azure API Management with a subscription key, or a browser portal with Microsoft sign-in and role-based access. You get a sandbox key and a Postman collection on day one.
Routing is cache-first by default; you may route every verification direct to Home Affairs instead. No data stored by default; retention is your choice. Runs in Deis cloud (Azure South Africa North), on Deis infrastructure, or in your own environment. Live checks still call the official sources.
Pricing
Priced to your journeys and volumes
DocuFii is priced to the checks and documents you use, your monthly volumes and where it is deployed. Tell us which journeys you run and we will confirm a quote after a short scoping call.
Practical checks that catch edited statements, forged payslips and borrowed identities.
FAQ
Questions about customer onboarding and kyc
What does FICA KYC onboarding with DocuFii include?
Document verification, Home Affairs ID verification, liveness and face match, plus optional proof of address, bank-account verification and an audit-ready report pack, depending on the bundle you choose: Essential, Plus or Advanced.
Does it verify IDs against Home Affairs?
Yes. Every verification is checked against a Home Affairs snapshot first, with a live Home Affairs call only on a miss. You can route every verification direct to the Department instead.
Can it verify companies as well as people?
Yes. KYB assembles the CIPC company report and status, director enquiries, deeds, trace and credit data into a KYB summary with a risk view. KYB comes in Lite, Standard and Enhanced levels.
How does liveness and face match work?
The customer takes a selfie with liveness detection, which defeats a photo of a photo or a replayed video, and the selfie is matched 1:1 against the Home Affairs photo.
Do you store our customers’ documents?
No data stored by default. Retention is your choice: DocuFii keeps files and extracted data only if you switch history storage on.
See an ID verified end to end
Bring a sample journey to a demo and see the verdict, the face-match score and the audit trail behind them.