KYC (Know Your Customer) document collection and verification

Purpose

1.1. Automate KYC document collection, extraction, and verification to streamline customer onboarding for renewable energy contracts.
1.2. Ensure regulatory compliance, fraud prevention, automated KYC records management, and seamless contract finalization.
1.3. Replace manual uploading, email follow-up, data entry, and validation with automated workflows across platforms and endpoints.
1.4. Facilitate fast, secure, and scalable onboarding as required in professional services for green energy suppliers.

Trigger Conditions

2.1. New customer registration on the supplier’s website or CRM.
2.2. Contract intent submission via webform, mobile app, or partner portal.
2.3. Scheduled onboarding campaigns or compliance requirement update.
2.4. Request for KYC documentation due to expiring verifications.

Platform Variants

3.1. DocuSign
• Feature/Setting: Automate signature and document request via eSignature API.
• Sample: POST /envelopes – Configure envelope with KYC templates, enable email routing.
3.2. Dropbox Business
• Feature/Setting: Automated file request, storage API.
• Sample: Use /file_requests/create for unique KYC submission links.
3.3. Box
• Feature/Setting: Automate KYC storage, use webhook for upload detection.
• Sample: POST /files/content – Specify folder for KYC docs.
3.4. Microsoft Teams
• Feature/Setting: Adaptive card bot for KYC reminders.
• Sample: Send proactive message with file upload action via Graph API.
3.5. Slack
• Feature/Setting: Automated SlackBot reminders to submit KYC documents.
• Sample: chat.postMessage to trigger upload notification.
3.6. Twilio SMS
• Feature/Setting: Automated SMS document requests with unique submission link.
• Sample: POST /Messages with deep-link to upload page.
3.7. Google Drive
• Feature/Setting: Automate folder creation per customer; scan uploads via Apps Script.
• Sample: Drive API to create customer KYC folder and upload monitor trigger.
3.8. Salesforce
• Feature/Setting: Automated case creation, KYC status tracking in CRM.
• Sample: REST API to custom object for KYC status, Workflow rule to trigger reminders.
3.9. OneSpan Sign
• Feature/Setting: Automate digital e-signature and document retrieval.
• Sample: Create and manage eSign packages via REST API.
3.10. Onfido
• Feature/Setting: Automated document verification API for KYC compliance.
• Sample: /v3/checks endpoint for automated KYC and AML screening.
3.11. Jumio
• Feature/Setting: Automate identity document verification and liveness check API.
• Sample: Initiate Netverify API flow on customer registration.
3.12. Plaid
• Feature/Setting: Automated KYC bank verification for payment onboarding.
• Sample: POST /identity/get for bank-linked identities.
3.13. Adobe Acrobat Sign
• Feature/Setting: Automated document request, eSign, and return via API.
• Sample: POST /agreements with custom KYC templates.
3.14. Zapier
• Feature/Setting: Automate multi-app KYC flows (trigger on form submission, then file upload, then CRM update).
• Sample: “New Submission in Typeform” to “Upload File to Google Drive” to “Update Salesforce”.
3.15. Formstack
• Feature/Setting: Automate KYC collection via encrypted forms, webhook on submit.
• Sample: POST submission to verify endpoint, send auto-receipt to customer.
3.16. Typeform
• Feature/Setting: Custom KYC data capture and auto-integration with cloud storage/CRM.
• Sample: Webhook on completion to downstream automator for document analysis.
3.17. SharePoint
• Feature/Setting: Automated document collection and workflow for internal KYC review.
• Sample: Automate file creation, approval process via Power Automate.
3.18. AWS S3
• Feature/Setting: Automate secure customer KYC uploads to isolated S3 buckets, auto-tagging for status.
• Sample: S3 event trigger for arrival of KYC document, lambda verifies and routes.
3.19. Azure Logic Apps
• Feature/Setting: Automated multi-step orchestration for KYC collection/verification.
• Sample: Logic App triggers on form submit, routes docs to verification API, posts update to CRM.
3.20. Google Cloud Vision
• Feature/Setting: Automate text extraction/verification from uploaded KYC images.
• Sample: AnalyzeDocument API to parse IDs, passports, proof-of-address and match against submissions.
3.21. HelloSign
• Feature/Setting: Automate signature request in KYC onboarding, track completion.
• Sample: Create embedded requestSign API flow on registration.
3.22. AirTable
• Feature/Setting: Automate registry and status of KYC onboarding steps for each account.
• Sample: Automated sync of document status using Webhook+Table update.

Benefits

4.1. Automatedly reduces compliance risk and human error in customer onboarding.
4.2. Accelerates KYC verification turnaround, automating document intake and review.
4.3. Frees staff from manual follow-up tasks by automating all notifications and status tracking.
4.4. Automates multi-channel collection, using SMS, email, and portals to maximize customer completion rates.
4.5. Aggregates KYC data into compliance dashboards for automated reporting and audit preparation.
4.6. Provides scalable, automatable flows ready for global green energy supplier expansion.