Photo ID and Liveness Capture
The Photo ID and Liveness Capture step requires the requester to capture or upload a valid photo ID and to take a real-time selfie. The two images are compared to confirm the person presenting is the person on the ID.
This step is a lighter alternative to Document and Biometric Verification — it skips the compliance-screening overlays and the document-authentication path. Configure per-step Retry Limit and Failure Outcome the same way as other steps.
For workflows that compare a selfie against an existing directory-sourced anchor image instead of a freshly captured document, see Liveness-Only (Anchor Image) — that step handles the anchor-image variant.
Identifying documents differ greatly from place to place, both in which ones are considered authentic and in composition. To know which documents are accepted by Affirm, see Supported Documents by Location.
Related
- Document and Biometric Verification — fuller version with authentication, motion detection, and compliance checks
- Liveness-Only (Anchor Image) — liveness against a directory-sourced anchor image
- Supported Documents by Location — accepted documents per country
- Configure Verification Steps — table of all verification steps