Overview

Phone check is a merit you can add to your metamap that confirms the user owns a phone number and verifies the risk of fraud associated with that phone number.

Availability

🌎 Available globally

Features

Checks

• Phone validation

  We will send your users a 4-digit code via SMS that they will have to enter during their verification so you can be sure the user owns the phone number. You can customize this SMS by adding your company name.

• Risk analysis

  MetaMap will check the phone number's transactional risk by looking at network behavior to calculate a risk score for that phone number. You can set whether you want to accept a low, medium, high or custom threshold for risk scores. Based on your configuration, MetaMap helps to flag verifications with phone numbers that are above the risk threshold you specify.

User Flow

Here's what your users will see if you use Metamap's prebuilt UX:

Setup

There are 3 main steps to set up the Phone Check merit:

1. Setup your metamap on the dashboard
2. Integrate or use MetaMap's Direct Link
3. Process verification results

Step 1: Setup a Metamap

The first step to setting up an Phone Check merit is to create a new metamap in the Dashboard. Once you've created a new metamap, add the Phone Check product to the user flow.

You can make the following choices:

• Make Phone Check optional
• Add your company name to the SMS sent to your user
• Enable Risk Analysis and choose a risk level

Step 2: Integrate

Currently you can use Metamap's Phone Check in one of three ways:

1. Direct Link
2. Metamap Button — Integrate our MetaMap Button SDK into your application to use our prebuilt UX
3. API — Integrate our API into your application and build your own UX

Integrate our MetaMap Button via SDK

Use our SDK integration if you want to use Metamap's verification tools but design your own experience for your users.

To implement this:

1. Setup the metamap for Phone Check in the dashboard
2. Install and implement an SDK framework

Integrate via API

Use our API Integration if you want to use MetaMap's Phone Check endpoints but design your own experience for your users.

• Phone Ownership
• Phone Risk

Step 3: Process Verification Results

Webhook verification results

You will need to configure your webhooks, then handle the webhook responses that will be sent to your webhook URL.

• Phone Ownership Webhooks
• Phone Risk Webhooks