Business verification ideas

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this is a work platform, people place appointments with companies for specific day service,

how do i ensure that an individual does not register as a company or verify that the company is indeed an existing company

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I am not 100% sure what your context is, but ideas to verify that a company is existing:

  1. Ask the user to confirm from an email address that ends with the company domain, ex:
    user claims to be from company ‘Wappler’. Then user has to be able to receive a confirmation code on user@wappler.com

  2. Depending on country, you might have an API available for the chamber of commerce registry (we have it here in the NL) where we can search by company name / address and see if it’s registered

  3. You can ask the user to make a payment from a bank account on the name of the company

  4. You can ask the user to upload documents proving the company exists (see for example what Meta (facebook) does for business verification. I tihnk they ask for utility bills / chamber of commerce registration or other official documents that can prove the company really exists

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Within Europe you could use something like VIES:

Do a lookup on their VAT number and get a response and go from there. We have not implemented it (so can not offer any advice on set-up) but have looked at it for a Project we are in the bidding for.

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