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When a customer signs up with nothing but a phone number, you can still create a tracked, scored entity in Youverify immediately. The platform runs an automatic AML screen at creation and returns an entity record you can enrich over the customer’s lifecycle — no duplicate records, no orphaned checks. This guide covers three creation paths depending on the market and data you hold, plus how to add identity verification once more data becomes available.
Phone-based entities follow the standard entity lifecycle. You never need to create a new entity when the customer later provides a name, government ID, or other details — simply run subsequent verifications against the same ent_… ID.

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Prerequisites

  • A Youverify account at cowork.youverify.co
  • Your API secret key from the dashboard under Settings → API Keys
  • Webhooks configured for entity.created and entity.risk_score_updated events (recommended)

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Steps

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Phone-based entity: quick reference

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What’s next