Introduction
The use case is about implementing a better, cheaper and an effective alternative to sms based OTP and Captcha for customer verification and transaction authorization.
Over the time, we have seen evolution of several mechanisms for authenticating user identity ( the sole purpose was to build a cleaner and trusted user-base ). Solutions such as SMS OTP and Captcha do work well but are either costlier for businesses of fail to provide full proof security.
Using the code
Dial2verify provides whole lot of features with their API ( Check here ) but here, we are mainly focusing on the Quick Integration plugin developed on top of D2V API.
The plugin is hosted at Dial2verify server and can be integrated into any of the websites with just 1 line of code.
<script>
var formid='<Replace_id_FormID>';
var fieldname ='<Replace_name_TelNumberField>';
var alertVerify=1;
var pubKey='<Public Key generated for your account> '
</script>
<script src="http://plugins.dial2verify.com/PlugNPlay/Lib/PlugNPlay.dvf?"></script>
To get started you would require to obtain an API key from here.
Once you obtain API key, you can login to admin console and generate a plugin public key here.
All the missed call logs are stored in your usage panel as well as can be forwarded to remote URL / email using plugins manager settings.
Read more here.
Reference:
Dial2Verify Universal Plug-N-Play Plugin ( original Article )
http://kb.dial2verify.in/questions/30/Dial2Verify+Universal+Plug-N-Play+Plugin
Points of Interest
An interesting thing about using D2V API was, it has numerous application areas apart from Customer verification. We created a snippet which triggers our production jobs on an event of a missed call. We also have provided snippets to our customers, who wish to be a missed call away from their customers. With missed call forwarding over email, Your customers can reach you with just a missed call.
Some of the implementation cases which are listed on forum and Dial2verify mailers are,
1. Signup Verification: For Building a clean, trusted & authentic user base by validating their telephone numbers.
2. Lead Generation: For Optimizing sales leads by maintaining accurate telephone data. Thereby maximizing ROI.
3. Transaction Authorization: By using Dial2Veriy as an alternative to OTP based transaction authorization. Thereby significant reduction in the upfront costs.
4. E-commerce Cash On Delivery: For Validating user identity before dispatching / accepting cash on delivery shipments. Thereby saving significant supply chain cost involved in fake order processing.
History
- This is initial version of the document
