Onvett Verify

Onboard a client lawfully, in one link.

Client screening and onboarding: one secure link takes a client through intake, identity, screening and an advisory risk rating, and leaves you a decision-ready file. Pay per client vetted, with no monthly fee.

From R56 per client vettedNo subscription, no minimum
WHAT ONE LINK PRODUCES
Identity verified at sourceVerified
Sanctions and PEP screened3 lists
Beneficial owners traced2 named
Advisory rating vs your RMCPMedium 46
FICA annexure and audit trailReady
Advisory throughout. The attorney records the decision.
Who it is for

Firms whose FICA work arrives with the client.

Verify is for a firm that already has its risk policy in order and wants take-on to stop eating afternoons: conveyancing, estates, commercial work, anywhere a new matter means a new client to vet. If you also carry the firm-level duties that run without a new client, that is Comply.

The duty Verify discharges

FICA’s client due diligence duties bite when a business relationship is established: establish and verify identity, understand the purpose of the relationship, identify beneficial owners, screen for sanctions and politically exposed persons, and keep the record. Verify carries that work and evidences it. Your firm still complies; Onvett does not comply on your behalf.

FIC Act ss21 to 21H · GN 7A
Everything in Verify

Four stages, one link, no gaps.

Intake6 features
Secure one-time intake links

Signed, expiring and single use. No client account, no password, nothing for the client to set up.

Adaptive intake forms

Individuals, companies, trusts and partnerships each get the questions their type requires, and nothing else.

Address capture and verification

Address capture and verification with Google Places lookup, so what the client types resolves to a real place.

Firm-authored intake questions

Add your own questions to the form, in your own words, alongside the statutory ones.

POPIA consent capture

Scrollable statement, explicit checkboxes, and South Africa storage consent on record.

POPIA
Document upload with authenticity validation

Uploaded ID and proof of address are checked against the details entered and validated for authenticity.

Verification and screening7 features
SA ID number validation

The 13-digit number is validated as the client types, with a live read-back of date of birth, gender and citizenship.

Home Affairs ID verification

The identity number verified against the DHA record, not just checked for a valid pattern.

Biometric verification

A live selfie matched to the ID document, so the person onboarding is the person on the document.

CIPC company and director lookup

Registration details, status and directors pulled from the registry rather than typed by hand.

Beneficial ownership mapping

Owners traced through layered entities and drawn as an ownership diagram, so the chain either reaches named people or says it did not.

Sanctions and PEP screening

UN, US OFAC and EU consolidated lists, fuzzy matched, with each list reporting its own status. A failed fetch always reads as not screened, never as clean.

Enhanced due diligence path

Politically exposed clients route into EDD: source of wealth, senior sign-off, and the extra checks your policy sets.

FIC Act ss21F to 21H
Assessment and decision4 features
Your RMCP, uploaded and critiqued

Upload your risk policy, read an automated critique of its wording against a FICA requirement catalogue, then approve and freeze a version.

AI risk assessment against that policy

Every rating traces factor by factor to the frozen policy that produced it. Advisory only, never a decision.

Attorney decision recording

Approve, request more information, decline, or record that CDD is impossible, with the section 29 consideration captured on that path.

FIC Act s29
Case handoff between colleagues

Hand a file to another attorney with a notification, so nothing waits on one inbox.

Record4 features
FICA annexure as a Word document

Generated from the complete client record, on your letterhead, ready for the matter file.

Immutable audit trail

Every action time-stamped, attributable and tamper-evident, for the day the FIC asks.

Finances

One itemised invoice per month, one flat fee per client vetted, no monthly fee. A quiet month costs nothing.

Isolation and residency

Multi-tenant isolation, encryption in transit and at rest, and all data stored in South Africa.

POPIA
What Verify does not cover

Screening at take-on does not discharge the duties that keep running.

Stated plainly, because a firm should know where the line is before it buys. These duties sit in Onvett Comply, which includes everything on this page.

See what Comply adds
Ongoing monitoring: re-screening every client whenever the sanctions lists change
GN 7A para 198
Employee screening and competence records
Directive 8 of 2023
Periodic review of client information and risk ratings
GN 7A paras 46, 47, 127
Cash threshold reports and the Risk and Compliance Return
s28, reg 24(4) · Directive 11 of 2026
Business risk assessment of the firm, and policy governance and training records
GN 7A paras 183B, 181A, 183F
Retention clocks and the off-site storage disclosure pack
GN 7A paras 175, 170
Verify pricing

One flat fee per client vetted.

No monthly fee, no minimum, no per-user charge. Entity fees are banded by how many people in the ownership chain get screened, so a simple company stays cheap.

Per-client rates
Individual (natural person)R56
Entity, 1 to 5 beneficial ownersR171
Entity, 6 to 10 beneficial ownersR298
Entity, 11 to 15 beneficial ownersR518
Entity, 16 or more beneficial ownersR1 090

Rates read live from the firm settings, so this table is always the current price list.

What the fee includes
Every intake, verification and screening feature on this page
The advisory risk rating, scored against your own frozen RMCP
The FICA annexure as a Word document, on your letterhead
Immutable audit trail and POPIA consent capture
One itemised invoice at the end of each month

Verification checks are billed separately, at cost plus a small markup, and only when one actually runs. A firm on Comply pays 15 percent less on every per-client rate above.

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