ID document recognition
Read driver’s licenses and ID cards to confirm age or identity at checkout.
Retail & E-Commerce
Identity Verification for Retail & E-Commerce
Age-restricted sales, account-fraud prevention, and returns abuse all come back to the same question: is this really the person they claim to be? FacePlugin verifies that with face matching, liveness, and ID document recognition running on infrastructure you control.
Age-restricted sale supportAccount-fraud defenseNo per-check fees
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Face match
Confirm the buyer matches the photo on the ID they submitted.
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Liveness detection
Prevent a static photo of someone else’s ID from passing verification.
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Overview
Verifying Customers Without Adding a Cloud Dependency
Retailers and e-commerce platforms run into identity questions more often than they might expect: confirming a buyer is old enough for an age-restricted product, catching account-creation fraud on buy-now-pay-later or high-value orders, and verifying identity on a returns or chargeback dispute. Each of these can be handled with the same core building blocks – read the ID, match the face, confirm liveness.
Running that on FacePlugin’s on-premises SDKs means a high-volume retailer isn’t paying a per-verification cloud fee at checkout scale, and isn’t sending customer ID photos to a third-party API for every order that needs a check.
How FacePlugin Fits
Identity Verification Building Blocks for Retail & E-Commerce
Combine these SDKs — licensed once, run on infrastructure you control — to fit your existing workflow.
ID document recognition
Read driver’s licenses and ID cards to confirm age or identity at checkout.
Face match
Confirm the buyer matches the photo on the ID they submitted.
Liveness detection
Prevent a static photo of someone else’s ID from passing verification.
Account-fraud defense
Flag deepfake or synthetic-identity signals on new high-risk account creation.
Fast checkout flow
Sub-second matching keeps an identity check from slowing down conversion.
Runs on your infrastructure
No per-verification API fee at checkout or account-creation scale.
Use Cases
Where Retail & E-Commerce Teams Put This to Work
Age-restricted purchases
Verify a buyer’s age against their ID for alcohol, tobacco, vaping, or similar restricted products.
Buy-now-pay-later & credit onboarding
Add an identity check before approving a new credit or installment account.
High-value order verification
Confirm identity on orders flagged for fraud review before shipment.
Returns & chargeback disputes
Verify the identity of the person initiating a high-value return or dispute.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Can this fully automate age-restricted sales compliance?
FacePlugin verifies that the ID presented is genuine and belongs to the person presenting it, and reads the date of birth from it. Whether that satisfies a specific jurisdiction’s age-verification law is a legal question for your compliance team – FacePlugin provides the identity-verification layer, not legal compliance sign-off.
Does FacePlugin integrate with our existing checkout or fraud platform?
FacePlugin is an SDK you call from your own application code, so it integrates wherever you choose to call it – checkout, account creation, or a fraud-review step – rather than shipping as a drop-in plugin for a specific platform.
Is there a per-transaction fee like a cloud verification API?
No. Once licensed, you run unlimited verifications on your own infrastructure with no per-check metering.
Ready to Deploy Identity Verification in Retail & E-Commerce?
Talk to our team about your compliance requirements and infrastructure — we’ll point you to the right SDK combination.