You've sent out an important agreement. The recipient digitally signs it. Done and dusted, right? Not quite. Digital signatures are secure and impenetrable, but how do you verify if the person who signed is actually who they claim to be?
That's the gap that signer identity verification fills. With Zoho Sign's integrations with Didit and Stripe, that gap has never been easier to close.
Why does signer identity verification matter?
Every business agreement carries risk, and the first step to prevent it starts with knowing who's behind signatures. Lack of fraud detection and recipient identity verification can directly cost companies their reputation and customer trust, and create financial liabilities. With growing digitization and AI-forward business transactions, especially in regulated industries like finance, legal, healthcare, and real estate, verifying signer identity isn't just good practice; it's a no-compromise requirement.
Zoho Sign offers multiple signer authentication options, from SMS OTPs, email OTPs, and offline codes, to knowledge-based authentication. Didit and Stripe Identity take it a step further with government-grade identity verification with wide global coverage, multi-step authentication, data redaction post-verification, and auditable methods.
What is Didit?
Didit is an all-in-one identity verification platform that verifies identities, detects fraud, and ensures global compliance across 200+ countries and over 10,000 document types. It supports government-issued ID documents, facial recognition, liveliness checks, biometric verification, simple KYC, anti-money laundering checks, and geolocation mapping in a single, seamless flow. In short, it's the identity layer to additionally safeguard your Zoho Sign workflow.
What is Stripe Identity?
Stripe Identity is Stripe's identity verification tool. It captures and cross-references data from government-issued IDs, like passports, driver's licenses, and national IDs, and pairs that with facial recognition via a selfie match, and liveliness tracking to verify user identity. Built on the same infrastructure that powers Stripe's fraud detection across millions of payment transactions, Stripe Identity is particularly well-suited for businesses that prioritize a clean, low-friction verification experience that sits well on top of existing systems like e-signature workflows.
What makes Didit and Stripe Identity stand apart?
Verifying a signer's identity globally comes with its own challenges. Different countries have different identity standards, methods, and markers. An NFC chip in a European passport works differently from a holographic mark on an Aadhaar card in India, which is different again from address and social security number-based checks in the US.
Signer verification for businesses with signers across regions often means having to stitch together multiple vendors—one for document scanning, one for facial recognition, a third for AML screening, and so on. Vendors like Didit and Stripe solve this by handling identity requirements of almost all countries across the globe in a single, multi-step, and unified flow.
Identity verification + Zoho Sign: The fail-safe combination for secure e-transactions
Global coverage with AI-trained fraud detection
Both Didit and Stripe allow Zoho Sign users to verify signers using government-issued IDs from over 200 countries. Before viewing and signing a document, signers are walked through a seamless verification process: scanning their government-issued ID, completing a passive liveliness check, and confirming their face matches the document on record. Didit and Stripe are built on AI models trained on global identity data to detect forged documents, fake holograms, reprints, deepfakes, and pre-recorded videos. Only once every step clears are they granted access to sign, ensuring that only intended recipients have access to sensitive paperwork. So whether your signer is in Chennai or Chicago, Buenos Aires or Berlin, Zoho Sign has got them covered with secure signatures backed with compliant ID verification.
Bring-your-own key for added security
Zoho Sign lets you bring your own Didit or Stripe Identity API keys (BYOK) to configure identity verification at no additional cost on your Zoho Sign account. All you need is a paid account on Zoho Sign and a Didit or Stripe license. Simply connect your API key to get started.
Audit-ready completion certificates
Once signed, Zoho Sign's completion certificates capture signer and verification details, including the method of verification and documents uploaded. Every step is logged, mapped to a person(s), location, and time, and ready for review, making your signing workflows fully audit-ready from draft to finalization.
Is user data safe when using Didit or Stripe Identity?
The short answer? Yes.
Didit is ISO 27001 certified, GDPR compliant, and iBeta Level 1 certified for biometric presentation attack detection. All data is encrypted in transit using TLS 1.3 and at rest using AES-256. Additionally, Didit meets KYC/AML requirements in the EU, US, LATAM, and APAC, with country-specific rules applied automatically and full data retention controls in place.
Stripe Identity is also GDPR and CCPA compliant, and all identity data is encrypted both in transit and rest. There are further controls to manage data retention and deletion, including the ability to redact collected identity information as soon as verification is complete.
Which should you choose?
Both Didit and Stripe Identity integrate seamlessly with Zoho Sign, but they're optimized for different needs. Didit is a stronger fit for businesses with a global signer base, regulated industries with strict KYC/AML requirements, or workflows that demand multi-layered biometric verification. Stripe Identity shines for businesses that want a quicker, lightweight, and developer-friendly verification experience with minimal setup. Zoho Sign offers you the flexibility to choose one that best fits your workflow.
Don't lose another moment to potential threats! Step up your signature security with Zoho Sign's identity verification integrations. Close agreements confidently—all within the Zoho Sign experience you already know.
Have questions or feedback? Reach out at support@zohosign.com or leave a comment below. Happy signing!
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