User Verification for Marketplace Trust & Safety | Socure
Be a leader in marketplace trust & safety
Inspire confidence and foster a community of trust with
seamless, holistic user verification.
Overview
Your marketplace is a trusted community resource. Protecting its reputation by keeping bad actors out — while ensuring users feel safe to interact and engage on the platform — is critical to your success.
Opportunity
Build trust at every step of the user journey with an integrated suite of identity and fraud risk tools tailored to fit your platform’s needs. Socure’s holistic, hyper-accurate risk assessments enable quick signups for trusted users while blocking bad actors at the front door. With customizable workflows and ongoing protection, you can confidently safeguard your reputation and keep your community thriving.
99%
verification of mainstream populations
96%
verification of Gen Z consumers
91%
overall address verification
HOW WE HELP
Verify new users in seconds
- Instantly determine whether an individual is real and verify that they are who they claim to be, ensuring genuine identities are behind every signup
- Stop fraudsters, bots, collusion, and scams from degrading the integrity of your marketplace by assessing risk factors in real time, including risky behaviors like high velocity or unusual identity-PII linkages
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Streamline the ID verification process
- Seamlessly send users through a fully-automated ID document verification workflow without leaving your platform
- Receive a decision in less than 2 seconds for driver verifications, age-restricted purchases, or reverifications
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Extend trust beyond signup
- Run passive risk checks for key user inputs, such as phone number, email address, and delivery address, to determine their legitimacy and association with the user
- Compare historical behavioral patterns with the current session to pinpoint deviations from trusted user patterns and take action on potential threats
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Consumer onboarding
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Business onboarding
Verify more good businesses for underwriting, tax registration, and credit assessment.
Trust & safety
Keep your community safe and thriving with instant, accurate user verification.
Login & authentication
Deliver frictionless authentication at onboarding, login, multi-factor authentication, high-risk transactions, and account recovery.
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Bank account verification
Convert more users with comprehensive account coverage while effectively stopping fraud and return payments.
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FAQ
What is user verification, and how does it affect gig economy platforms?
User verification is the process of authenticating the identities of individuals participating on a platform to ensure they are who they claim to be. For gig economy marketplaces, implementing robust user verification is a key requirement to establish trust and safety between buyers, sellers, and service providers on the platform.
What are the benefits of verifying buyers, sellers, and gig workers quickly?
Fast, friction-free user verification provides several key benefits for gig economy platforms. A streamlined customer onboarding process means that new users can quickly start transacting on the platform — providing a better user experience for them, and less drop-off/higher conversion rates for the platform.
Why are trust and safety programs instrumental for marketplaces and gig platforms?
Scammers and bad actors are increasingly targeting gig economy platforms. This makes implementing hyper-accurate, instant user verification critical to establishing and maintaining user confidence and trust, while also protecting the platform’s brand reputation.
How does Socure help gig economy platforms verify new users with minimal friction?
Socure offers the best identity coverage on the market so that gig economy platforms can instantly verify more users than any other vendor — including hard-to-verify GenZ and thin-file populations. Additionally, Socure’s risk and decisioning platform ( RiskOS ™) allows teams to build end-to-end, automated workflows that execute in sub-200 milliseconds for elite user experiences.
What sets Socure apart in securing trust and safety for gig economy platforms?
Socure’s flexible and fully integrated platform for fraud detection and risk management ( Risk OS) provides seamless workflows to help organizations verify user identities to enhance trust and safety by matching account information with industry-leading identity verification databases. Our full suite of identity verification and fraud prevention solutions offers market-leading accuracy and coverage so gig economy platforms can scale their business and maintain an elite ecosystem of trust.