What is an onboarding / Authentication flow?
In Facephi IDV Suite, a Flow is the structured definition of an identity verification process.
Simply put:
A Flow indicates what a user has to do, in what order, and under what rules, to complete onboarding or authentication.
Each Flow is made up of:
Asset Capture These are the actions the user must perform and the checks carried out by the platform. For example:
Identity document capture.
Biometric capture (selfie, liveness check).
NFC capture of document data.
Fingerprint Capture.
Extractions and validations Different validation options within Facephi's portfolio:
Facial Matching
Passive Liveness
Document morphology
IAD validation
OCR extraction
Civil registries
From the client's perspective, the Flow is the basic configuration unit.
Flow types: onboarding vs. authentication
Although the design mechanics are the same, we distinguish two main types:
Onboarding flows
Objective: new user registration.
They usually include document capture + biometrics + additional validations.
They are normally executed only once per user (or at very specific moments: country change, data update, etc.).
Authentication flows
Objective: confirm that the user is who they claim to be before a sensitive action.
They can reuse the biometric template generated during onboarding.
They are more frequent (recurring logins, high-risk operations, account recovery, etc.).
Both types are managed homogeneously in IDV Suite, which allows:
Reuse components (capture modules, screens, rules).
Maintain a consistent experience for the user between onboarding and subsequent accesses.
Simplify the maintenance and governance of the identity model.
Flow lifecycle
Every Flow in IDV Suite goes through a controlled lifecycle, aligned with the idea of “design, test, and publish”:
Create new Flow
Select between web or mobile
Choose a template or start from scratch
Onboarding use case
Authentication use case
Design
Once the Flow is defined, extra features are added if necessary
Flow configuration
Each component of the Flow has its configuration
Save Flow
Name the Flow and save it.
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