Identity verification
built for Botswana 
Botswana Omang National ID and Passport on one session, screened against NBFIRA, BoB, and global AML watchlists, $0.33 full KYC, 500 free every month.
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How identity verification works in Botswana.
- Fraud landscape
- Three pressures shape Botswana identity fraud: synthetic-ID and deepfake attacks targeting the growing digital-banking and mobile-money sector, Omang card forgery at border crossings, and cross-border AML risk on the South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Zambia corridors. Didit scores 200+ real-time fraud signals on every session, face morph, replay, injection, document tampering, device intelligence, IP geolocation.
- Compliance frameworks
- Financial Intelligence Act 2009
- Corruption and Economic Crime Act 1994
- Data Protection Act 2018
- National Payments Systems Act 2018
- ESAAMLG Mutual Evaluation recommendations
- FATF 40 recommendations
Who supervises identity verification in Botswana.
BoB
Bank of Botswana, central bank and prudential supervisor for commercial banks, payment service providers, and foreign-exchange dealers.
NBFIRA
Non-Bank Financial Institutions Regulatory Authority, supervises insurers, pension funds, securities firms, and microlenders. NBFIRA-supervised entities must comply with AML/CFT obligations under the Financial Intelligence Act 2009.
FIA
Financial Intelligence Agency, Botswana's Financial Intelligence Unit. Administers the Financial Intelligence Act 2009 and receives Suspicious Transaction Reports (STRs).
DCEC
Directorate on Corruption and Economic Crime, investigates and prosecutes corruption and financial-crime offences under the Corruption and Economic Crime Act 1994.
BOCRA
Botswana Communications Regulatory Authority, oversees electronic communications and data-protection standards that apply to digital identity services operating in Botswana.
Four modules. One verification.
Capture and read the ID.
Captured on any phone, auto-classified, OCR-parsed, and template-verified.
- Omang National Identity Card, Passport (MRZ parsed), driving licence, and residence permit for foreign residents.
- Returns: full name, date of birth, document number, expiry, nationality.
- Omang National Identity Card
- Passport, MRZ parsed
- Driving Licence · Residence Permit
Match the face. Prove it's a real person..
Selfie confirmed live and matched against the ID portrait.
- Duplicate check: 1:N face search across existing users. Free.
- Active liveness ($0.15) for elevated-risk flows, user turns or blinks.
- Selfie on any phone or laptop camera
- Mobile-handoff QR when the user starts on desktop
Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media.
1,300+ global sanctions, PEP, and adverse-media lists, plus Botswana watchlists:
- Botswana National Assembly, Members of Parliament (PEP Level 2) and senior executive officials.
- High Commission of Botswana in New Delhi, diplomatic officials (PEP Level 1) in Botswana's foreign-service network.
- Botswana Defense Force, senior military officers (PEP Level 2).
- Ministry of Finance, Botswana, senior ministry officials (PEP Level 2) with financial oversight.
- Ministry of Health, Botswana, senior ministry officials (PEP Level 2).
- NBFIRA, enforcement warnings, Non-Bank Financial Institutions Regulatory Authority supervisory actions.
- UN Security Council Consolidated Sanctions, active multilateral designations covering Botswana-linked entities.
- OFAC SDN List, US Treasury Specially Designated Nationals with Botswana nexus.
- ESAAMLG, Eastern and Southern Africa Anti-Money Laundering Group regional risk signals.
- Interpol Southern Africa, wanted-persons and fugitive notices relevant to Southern Africa.
- Basel AML Index, country risk score and associated risk signals.
Severity-scored. Ongoing monitoring ($0.07/user/yr) re-checks daily and fires a webhook on new hits.
Screen for sanctions, PEPs, and adverse media , see the docs for the full module surface.
Database validation.
- There is no public government database validation API for Botswana currently exposed as a standalone Didit service, the Department of Civil and National Registration does not currently offer a public consumer API open to third-party integrators.
Database validation , see the docs for the full module surface.
Every Botswana document Didit accepts.
Civil-registry and AML coverage for Botswana.
Open a new country in one click. We do the hard work.
Common questions about Botswana.
What does Didit ship?
Didit is the infrastructure layer for identity and fraud. One Application Programming Interface (API), 25+ composable modules across four product lines:
- User Verification (KYC, know your customer), Identity Document Verification, liveness, face match, Anti-Money Laundering (AML) screening, Internet Protocol (IP) analysis. $0.33 per full bundle.
- Business Verification (KYB, know your business), registry, Ultimate Beneficial Owner (UBO), officers, entity AML, plus a linked KYC session per UBO.
- Transaction Monitoring, real-time rule engine, case management, Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) workflow.
- Wallet Screening (KYT, know your transaction), on-chain wallet risk at $0.15 per check, or bring your own screening provider and run it inside Didit.
Compose any module into a workflow with the visual no-code builder, ship in 5 minutes, 500 verifications free every month, forever.
How is Didit different from a single-product Know Your Customer (KYC) vendor?
Most identity vendors sell one slice, a KYC check, an Anti-Money Laundering (AML) list, a wallet screen. Didit ships the infrastructure underneath all of them, and the gap shows up on six axes:
- Pricing. Public price on every module, $0.33 for a full KYC, 500 verifications free every month, no minimums, no contracts. Single-product vendors hide six-figure minimums behind a sales call.
- Access. Sandbox in one click, self-serve from day one, production keys on signup. Single-product vendors gate the sandbox behind a contract, months to evaluate.
- Developer experience. Public docs, a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Claude Code and Cursor, and native Software Development Kits (SDKs) for Web, iOS, Android, React Native, and Flutter. Integrate in 5 minutes with an AI agent or in a working afternoon by hand.
- User experience. Highest pass rates in the market, sub-2-second end-to-end inference, country-specialised capture flows, 48+ languages out of the box.
- Flexibility. One
/v3/Application Programming Interface (API) composes 25+ modules across KYC, Know Your Business (KYB), Transaction Monitoring, and Wallet Screening (KYT, know your transaction). A KYB session spawns a linked KYC for every Ultimate Beneficial Owner (UBO); a flagged transaction spawns a step-up KYC remediation, same session, same webhook contract, same audit trail. Single-product vendors sell one shape of KYC and stop there. - AI-era fraud. 200+ real-time fraud signals scored on every session, deepfake, injection, synthetic-ID, document forgery, face-morph, device intelligence, replay. Single-product vendors treat deepfake and injection detection as roadmap items, not defaults.
Common in fintech and crypto, the same architecture fits marketplaces, iGaming, mobility, and any vertical where you need to know who someone is and what they are doing.
What does it cost? Is anything actually free?
500 verifications free every month, forever, on every account. No credit card. No sales call. No expiry.
Above the free tier, every module has a public per-success price on didit.me/pricing, $0.33 per full KYC bundle, $0.15 per Identity Document Verification, $0.15 per Wallet Screening, $0.20 per Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Screening, $0.10 per liveness, $0.05 per face match, $0.03 per Internet Protocol (IP) analysis.
Pay-as-you-go, no minimums, no overage surprises. Volume discounts kick in automatically as you grow.
Which Botswana regulator covers identity verification on a digital onboarding?
Four bodies govern every Botswana identity-verification flow:
- Bank of Botswana (BoB), central bank and prudential supervisor for commercial banks and payment service providers.
- NBFIRA, Non-Bank Financial Institutions Regulatory Authority, supervising insurers, pension funds, and securities firms under AML/CFT obligations.
- Financial Intelligence Agency (FIA), Botswana's Financial Intelligence Unit. Administers the Financial Intelligence Act 2009 and receives Suspicious Transaction Reports.
- Data Protection Commissioner, enforces the Data Protection Act 2018. Governs how verification data is captured, stored, and disclosed on Botswana residents.
Didit ships the hosted flow + the audit log + the watchlist coverage to satisfy all four at the same time, same POST /v3/session/ workflow, same JSON report, same SOC 2 Type 1 + ISO/IEC 27001 evidence pack.
How long does it take to integrate Didit in Botswana?
5 minutes to a working sandbox, a weekend to a production flow.
- Sign up at
business.didit.me, grab an API key, callPOST /v3/session/with aworkflow_idthat wires ID Verification + Passive Liveness + Face Match + AML, done. - AI-agent path: paste the integration prompt at
docs.didit.me/integration/integration-promptinto Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Devin, Aider, or Replit Agent. - Five SDKs share the same session model: Web, iOS, Android, React Native, Flutter.
The first 500 verifications every month are free, forever, pilot the full Botswana stack at zero cost before flipping production traffic.
What does the Botswana verification cost end-to-end?
Per-module public pricing, pay only for what runs on the session:
- ID Verification,
$0.15per document check. - Passive Liveness,
$0.10. Active Liveness,$0.15. - Face Match 1:1,
$0.05. Face Search 1:N, free. - AML Screening,
$0.20per check. Ongoing AML,$0.07 per user / year.
The full KYC bundle (Identity + Passive Liveness + Face Match + IP Analysis) is `$0.33`, same anchor price worldwide, no Botswana surcharge. 500 verifications free every month, no credit card.
Infrastructure for identity and fraud.
One API for KYC, KYB, Transaction Monitoring, and Wallet Screening. Integrate in 5 minutes.