VerifyNowVerify every beneficiary, grantee and vendor
Identity, sanctions, payout-account and CIPC checks for South African government agencies, NGOs, donor organisations and grant administrators — POPIA and PFMA-aligned, available over API or dashboard.
Services built for public-benefit programmes
Five real services that map to beneficiary onboarding, grant approval, vendor due diligence and annual audit cycles.
SA ID Verification
Confirm each beneficiary is a valid, living South African ID holder — and surface duplicates across your programme.
Bank Account Verification (AVS)
Check that the payout bank account is held by the beneficiary before a stipend, grant or payroll run leaves the fund.
AML / PEP / Sanctions
Screen grantees, vendors and executives against international sanctions lists (UN, OFAC, EU, UK) plus PEP and adverse-media sources.
CIPC Company Match
Confirm a vendor is a registered South African company and pull its directors for supply-chain due diligence.
Consumer Trace
Re-establish contact with a beneficiary whose address or phone number is out of date during field audits.
How agencies and NGOs use VerifyNow
Four concrete flows that public-sector and donor-funded programmes run against our API every day.
Beneficiary onboarding
- Field team or online form captures the beneficiary’s ID and payout bank account.
- SA ID Verification confirms the ID is valid and living, and flags duplicates across the programme.
- Bank AVS confirms the account is held by that same ID number and branch.
- Beneficiary is activated; evidence is stored against their record.
Grant approval and funder due diligence
- Grant application is received from an individual or organisation.
- SA ID Verification on the applicant and named principals.
- AML / PEP / Sanctions screening against UN, OFAC, EU and UK lists.
- Hits are routed to a reviewer; clear candidates move straight to approval.
Vendor and supplier due diligence
- Supply-chain team captures a prospective vendor’s registration number.
- CIPC Company Match confirms the company exists and returns its directors.
- AML / PEP / Sanctions screens the company and each director.
- Cleared vendors enter the approved-supplier list under PFMA SCM rules.
Annual beneficiary audit
- Batch-submit the beneficiary roll via the API at the start of the audit cycle.
- SA ID Verification flags deceased, duplicate or invalid records.
- Bank AVS re-confirms payout accounts still belong to the beneficiary.
- Exceptions are routed to caseworkers; the rest pass through without manual effort.
Public-sector frameworks we help with
POPIA governs how you process beneficiary, grantee and vendor personal information. Our verification services are built to return only the fields required for a decision (valid / invalid, matched / unmatched, on / off a sanctions list) and every lookup is logged against a transaction ID for your audit trail.
Public entities are bound by the Public Finance Management Act (PFMA), its supply-chain management regulations and related National Treasury instructions, which require documented vendor due diligence and prevention of irregular expenditure. CIPC Company Match plus AML / PEP / Sanctions give you a defensible vendor-vetting file for each award on record.
For donor-funded and sanctions-sensitive programmes, our AML / PEP / Sanctions screening covers UN, OFAC, EU and UK lists — which is what most international funding bodies require before disbursement. NGOs that fall within FICA Schedule 1 (for example trust-property handlers) can use the same tooling to satisfy their FICA customer due-diligence obligations.
Government and NGO questions
Can I screen beneficiaries and grantees against sanctions lists?
Yes. Our AML / PEP / Sanctions service screens individuals and entities against international sanctions lists (including UN, OFAC, EU and UK) as well as politically exposed persons and adverse-media data. Donor and funding bodies commonly require this check before grant disbursement, and it can be run at onboarding and on a recurring rescreen schedule.
How do I prevent duplicate or ghost-beneficiary payroll fraud?
The most effective combination is SA ID Verification plus Bank Account Verification. SA ID confirms the beneficiary is a real, living person with a valid 13-digit ID, and surfaces duplicates across your programme when you run a batch. Bank AVS confirms the payout account is held in that same ID’s name — which catches the classic ghost-beneficiary pattern where one account receives payments for many identities.
Does this integrate with our grant-management or case-management system?
Yes. Every verification is available over a REST API, so your grant-management, beneficiary-registration or case-management platform can call SA ID, Bank AVS, AML/PEP and CIPC checks in-flow and store the reference in the beneficiary record. There is also a dashboard if some of your caseworkers prefer a manual lookup.
Can you handle bulk beneficiary onboarding and annual audits?
Yes — the API accepts batch submissions, which is how most NGOs and grant administrators run annual audits, stipend-cycle rescreens, and large onboarding drives. You can submit a list of ID numbers and bank accounts and get back a structured result set for each, with a transaction reference for your audit trail.
Which frameworks are relevant to government and NGO verification?
Public entities are bound by the Public Finance Management Act (PFMA) and its supply-chain regulations, and everyone processing personal information is bound by POPIA. NGOs that fall within FICA Schedule 1 (for example as accountable institutions handling trust property) also inherit FICA obligations. Donor-funded programmes typically inherit sanctions-screening obligations from the funder.
Harden every disbursement
Stand up beneficiary, grantee and vendor verification in days — with POPIA, PFMA and sanctions obligations baked in.