API Keys

You can generate your API keys by visiting the Berbix Dashboard and navigating to your settings by clicking the gear icon in the top navigation.

Within Settings > API Keys you can create a new API Secret by clicking Add Key. Live API Secrets should be used in production environments and Test API Secrets should be used in testing environments. API secrets are prefixed in the following format: secret_[mode]_ where mode is either live or test.

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Never include your API secret(s) in client-side code

Your API secret(s) are required for requests to create transactions or fetch verification data. They should never be shared in client-side and only used for server-side API requests.

Domains

To prevent misuse of your API credentials, the Allowed Domains list whitelists a specified set of domains from which you expect to serve Berbix Verify. In the event that we see a request for verification from an unspecified domain, we’ll return an API error when opening the verification flow.

To add a domain, simply click Add Domain, provide your domain name and click Submit. Domains are associated with Test or Live environments.

To add wildcards to your domain name, use the * character.

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HTTPS Required in Live Mode

Your domain and the pages hosting Berbix Verify must be being served over HTTPS in live mode. Test mode supports HTTP pages.

Team

Team settings presents the list of all Team Members that have access to the Berbix Dashboard and their respective roles. You can also Invite new team members from this view as an Admin.

There are four roles available with access to Live and Test mode data:

1. Admin: can edit all settings and see analytics.
2. Developer: can edit all settings with the exception of Team and Billing settings.
3. Agent: can only edit manual review actions. This user only has access to all Transactions, including those that have been completed, and Reviews. Agents cannot delete transactions, but can block them.
4. Reviewer: only has access to Transactions that are enqueued for review, and they are able to take action on them (accept/reject/escalate/block). Once a transaction has been actioned upon, the reviewer can no longer access it. Reviewers cannot delete transactions.

You additionally create a Test mode only Agent role who only has access to Test mode Transactions and Reviews.

Webhooks

Webhooks fire to a specified endpoint when a transaction event occurs. There are two types of transaction events:

• Verification status changed: When the verification result status has been updated. This should be used to respond to action changes after manual review.
• Verification finished: When the user completes a verification. This should only be utilized in unique circumstances as your application should typically respond to the client-side completion handler.

Retry attempts: We recommend using webhooks as an alternative to polling our system for transaction status updates. If Berbix receives a non-2xx response upon trying a given webhook, that webhook will be retried up to three times. We use exponential backoff to increasingly space out retries by a few seconds.

Webhooks are associated with Test or Live environments.

To test webhooks locally during development, you can set up a URL that redirects to localhost using ngrok.

Verification status changed event

The Verification status changed event hook can be used to update the verification action after a manual review in the Berbix dashboard.

The example below shows a sample verification finished webhook payload which includes:

• id: webhook event ID.
• transaction_id: ID for associated transaction
• customer_uid: customer UID associated with the transaction. This is omitted if not provided at transaction creation time.
• action: actions associated with the transaction. This is the updated verification action post manual review.
• dashboard_link: a URL to the corresponding transaction in the Berbix dashboard.

{
  "id": 012346547912823,
  "transaction_id": 123456789012,
  "customer_uid": "abc1234567", // Omitted if not provided at transaction creation time
  "action": "reject",
  "dashboard_link": "https://dashboard.berbix.com/transaction?orgId=123456789&transactionId=123456789"
}

Verification finished event

The Verification finished event hook can be used to notify your backend that a verification is complete and ready for data to be fetched via the API. This can be used in lieu of responding to the client-side completion handler in unique circumstances.

This is the recommended way to get notified on that a verification is complete for the Hosted Flow only. Please contact us if you are not using the Hosted Flow but believe that your integration requires consuming this webhook.

The example below shows a sample verification finished webhook payload which includes:

• user_id: deprecated field (please use transaction_id)
• transaction_id: ID for associated transaction
• code: deprecated field used for fetching verification data (use the access token instead returned in transaction creation API response)
• customer_uid: customer UID associated with the transaction. This is omitted if not provided at transaction creation time.
• action: actions associated with the transaction. This is the updated verification action post manual review.
• dashboard_link: a URL to the corresponding transaction in the Berbix dashboard.

{
  "user_id": 123456789012, // Deprecated field (use transaction_id instead)
  "transaction_id": 123456789012,
  "code": "012345678990", // Deprecated field used for fetching verification data (use the access token instead)
  "customer_uid": "abc1234567", // Omitted if not provided at transaction creation time
  "action": "reject",
  "dashboard_link": "https://dashboard.berbix.com/transaction?orgId=123456789&transactionId=123456789"
}

Webhook signatures

Within the webhook configurator, you can also find the Hook Secret to be used for signature validation and Test your endpoint by issuing a sample webhook. Webhooks can be validated using the validateSignature method available in Berbix Server-Side SDKs. This method requires the following parameters:

• secret - This is the secret associated with that webhook available in the webhook settings page.
• body - The full request body from the webhook. This should take the raw request body prior to parsing.
• header - The value in the X-Berbix-Signature header.

Editing Webooks

To edit the webhook Target URL, click the Edit button, change the Target URL, then click Save. You can edit both your test URLs and your live URLs at any time.

Test IDs

Test IDs allow you to specify the list of IDs you intend to use in test mode by providing the Last Name for the IDs used in test mode. Berbix will return sample data for test verifications whose documents are not included in the list of Test IDs. Please read Live & Test Mode for more information on how Berbix handles test mode verifications.

Notifications

Notifications let you configure what Queues should trigger notifications when transactions are added to them. They should be used to notify individuals to visit the Berbix Dashboard to manually review a transaction in a review queue.

Notifications can only be sent over email. Berbix used to support a "Hook" type, which is no longer supported. If you'd like to get a webhook triggered when a transaction is ready for review, you can use Webhooks rather than direct-to-email notifications, and determine whether a review is required based on the action included in the webhook payload.

Notifications are associated with Test or Live environments.

In the example below, Berbix will notify [email protected] via email for new transactions add to the Default queue.