Biometric
Biometrics for pawnshops

Issue loans to the real customer, not to someone with another person’s passport

The customer shows a document and takes one selfie — no camera commands. Biometric.Vision verifies identity at the counter or in the app so a mismatch is visible before money is issued, and an honest customer does not stall in a queue because of a manual check.

Sound familiar?

Tighten the check — without stopping the queue

At the counter the cashier needs to see quickly who is standing there. Someone else’s or a forged passport, a stand-in customer — a mistake turns into a dispute with the item’s owner and police attention. In the app and Webview those risks add deepfakes and substituted video.

But turning every loan into a long manual review is not an option either. While staff eyeball the face and ask the customer to repeat camera motions, the queue grows. An honest customer may simply walk to the pawnshop next door.

How the check runs

From document to verdict — in one counter flow

One standard for a loan, a return visit and a redeem: document, liveness and face in one scenario. The queue keeps moving, someone else’s identity is not a pass to a loan, and a returning customer has an easier path back.

01

Document

The customer shows a passport or another supported document.

02

Recognition

The system extracts the data and checks the document.

03

One selfie

Passive liveness and face match run as one action.

04

Verdict

The result returns to the staff UI before the loan is issued. If the check fails, staff follow the pawnshop’s rules.

No extra motions

One selfie instead of commands in front of the camera

Passive liveness works from one selfie — no ask to turn the head, blink or smile. For an honest customer it is a normal loan step. For an attempt to show a screen, a mask or substituted video it is a separate spoofing check.

Passive liveness is certified to ISO 30107-3 Level 2.

Identity under control

Someone else’s document will not become grounds for a loan

The system reads the document, checks liveness and matches the customer’s face to the photo. In the verdict staff see separate statuses for document, liveness and face match — so someone else’s passport, a stand-in or a deepfake is caught before the pledge is booked.

Match accuracy is 99.9997%. The algorithm is independently tested in NIST FRVT.

For a return visit

The customer comes back for the pledge — you recognize them by face

The pledge goes back to the person who left it: on a return visit staff confirm identity by face instead of another manual check of the document and contract. A returning customer does not redo the full document path, and the pawnshop has fewer redeem disputes.

After the first full check the biometric profile can be reused. The pawnshop decides where to keep a full check and where to allow entry or redeem by face.

For developers

Classic integration

If your team prefers to assemble the architecture itself, connect ready SDKs and APIs.

JS · Webview

Web SDK / Flow Widget

A ready JS camera component for web registration or an in-app Webview. The check runs inside your onboarding; the design follows your brand book.

JavaScriptCustom designWebview
iOS · Android

Mobile SDK

A native verification flow in the mobile app: camera access and biometric micropacket transfer even on a weak connection.

SwiftKotlinOffline-ready
Backend

REST API

Layer results and the final verdict arrive in your backend logic: risk rules and the decision stay on your side. Auth via X-API-KEY.

RESTX-API-KEYServer-side
AI · AGENTS

MCP server for AI agents

Connect checks to agent scenarios without writing glue code. Works with Claude, GPT and any MCP client.

MCPClaudeAI-agents
pawnshop_loan — REST API
# Pawnshop loan / pawnshop_loan
POST /v1/verification/check/
Host: api.biometric.vision
X-API-KEY: sk_live_••••••••••••••
Content-Type: application/json
{ "scenario": "pawnshop_loan", "checks": ["document", "liveness", "face_match"] }
# → 200 OK
{ "status": "completed", "live": true, "face_match": "match", "document": "valid" }
37 / 570+NIST FRVT rank
99.9997%match accuracy
ISO 30107-3Level 2 — liveness
ISO 27001No. 760281

Questions and answers

The customer takes one selfie. Passive liveness does not ask them to turn their head or follow a command sequence, and the result returns into the staff workflow.

500 checks a month free

Issue loans to customers, not to people with someone else’s documents

Connect document, liveness and face checks to the counter, the app or your internal system. Keep the familiar path for an honest customer and add an objective verdict before money is issued.

Numbers and facts

433+
Document typesSupport for passports and hundreds of other document types worldwide
180+
Supported countriesGlobal coverage for checks across jurisdictions
40 sec
Onboarding timeUser registration and verification in under a minute
99%
Technology accuracyHigh-accuracy AI document recognition and verification