Submit Employment History Verification

Please note that you are required to have a webhook set for employment verification requests to be successful. If they are not set, you will not get notified when the verification has been completed.

Submit Employment History for Verification

POST https://vapi.verifyme.ng/v1/verifications/employments

This endpoint allows you to create employment verification requests

Headers

Name	Type	Description
Authentication	string	Authentication Token

Request Body

Name	Type	Description
jobTitle	string	Job title held by the applicant
contactPersonName	string	Company's Contact person name
currentlyEmployed	array	Boolean that represents if the applicant still works there
employerName	string	Name of company/employer
employerEmail	string	Email of company/employer
employerPhone	string	Phone Number of company/employer
startDate	string	Employment start date
endDate	string	Employment end date
applicant.firstname	string	Applicants first name
applicant.lastname	string	Applicants last name
applicant.dob	string	Applicants date of birth ( DD-MM-YYYY )
applicants.phone	string	Applicants phone number
applicant.idType	string	Applicants Id type ( "BVN" ,"NIN", "KYC" )
applicant.idNumber	string	Applicants Identity Number ("BVN", "NIN", "Phone No")

201 Guarantor verification created.

{
    "status": "success",
    "data": {
        "id": 2455,
        "employerName": "verifyme",
        "employerPhone": "08128730170",
        "employerEmail": "[email protected]",
        "startDate": "5/6/2020",
        "endDate": "10/12/2020",
        "title": "software engineer",
        "applicant": {
            "firstname": "John",
            "lastname": "Doe",
            "middlename": " ",
            "phone": "[phone]",
            "gender": "Male",
            "photo": "<base64 image>"
        },
        "status": {
            "status": "PENDING",
            "subStatus": "PENDING",
            "state": "PENDING"
        },
        "currentlyEmployed": true
    }
}

401 Unauthorized

{
    "status": "error",
    "message": "string",
    "code": "ACCESS_DENIED"
}

Sample Request

JSON

{
    "applicant": {
        "idType": "NIN",
        "idNumber": "10000000001",
        "firstname": "john",
        "lastname": "doe",
        "dob":"04-04-1944",
        "phone": "08121234567"
    },
    "employerName":"verifyme",
    "employerEmail":"[email protected]",
    "employerPhone":"0812345678",
    "startDate":"5/6/2020",
    "endDate":"10/12/2020",
    "jobTitle":"plumber",
    "currentlyEmployed":true,
    "contactPersonName":"james bay"
}

CURL

curl --location --request POST 'https://vapi.verifyme.ng/v1/verifications/employment' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <live or test key>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
    "applicant": {
        "idType": "NIN",
        "idNumber": "10000000001",
        "firstname": "john",
        "lastname": "doe",
        "dob":"04-04-1944",
        "phone": "08121234567"
    },
    "employerName":"verifyme",
    "employerEmail":"[email protected]",
    "employerPhone":"0812345678",
    "startDate":"5/6/2020",
    "endDate":"10/12/2020",
    "jobTitle":"plumber",
    "currentlyEmployed":true,
    "contactPersonName":"james bay"
}'