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Gig platforms and HR teams onboard at a completely different scale and speed than traditional employers — hundreds of new riders, drivers, or agents in a single week, each needing identity and background checks before their first shift.
Veriqos Technologies automates that verification with employee verification APIs: UAN checks (including mobile-number-based lookup) confirm real employment history, while identity and document APIs confirm the person showing up is who they claim to be — quick enough to keep onboarding funnels moving.
Designing verification for high-volume onboarding
When hundreds of riders, drivers or agents join in a week, verification has to run in the background of the sign-up flow rather than as a separate step that holds people up. Check identity first, then employment history through a UAN lookup, and send only mismatches to a reviewer.
Not every worker has a formal employment record, so treat a missing UAN as missing information rather than a reason to reject. Ask for consent before each check, explain why it is needed, and keep only the details the role requires.
For roles that involve vehicles, adding driving licence and vehicle checks to the same flow avoids a second round of document collection later.
Good employee verification APIs make this possible by returning clear, structured results that your onboarding system can act on automatically.
A verification stack for gig and HR onboarding
No single check covers every worker. The most reliable employee verification API setup for gig platforms layers a few checks, each answering one question, and treats a missing record as a reason to try another route rather than to reject.
Employment history: UAN
The UAN Verification API confirms formal, EPF-covered employment. It works for people who have been salaried employees, but many gig workers have no UAN. If a candidate does not know their UAN, the Mobile to UAN API can find it from their mobile number.
Identity: PAN
PAN verification confirms that the name and PAN a worker gives you match official records, and works whether or not they have formal employment history.
Licence: driving licence
For riders and drivers, driving licence verification confirms the licence is genuine and valid for the vehicle class they will use.
Documents: DigiLocker
Documents shared through DigiLocker come from the issuing source, which saves collecting and checking photos of paper documents.
Payouts: bank account
Penny-less bank account verification confirms that the payout account belongs to the worker before their first payment.
Ask for consent before each check, explain why it is needed, and keep only what the role requires.
More about Employee Verification APIs
To learn more about Employee Verification APIs, explore our UAN Verification API and Mobile to UAN API, or talk to our team. For the official source, see the EPFO website.
