Utility bill verification for address checks that stand up to review.

VOVE ID accepts a wide range of utility bills and proof of address documents including: electricity bills, water bills, gas bills, internet/broadband bills, landline telephone bills, mobile phone bills (postpaid), bank statements, credit card statements, tax statements, and government-issued documents with address. Our system automatically detects the document type and extracts the address information. The document must be recent (typically within the last 3-6 months depending on your compliance requirements) and clearly show the user's name and residential address matching their identity document.

VOVE ID uses advanced document verification techniques to detect forged or manipulated utility bills: image forensics analysis to detect photoshop edits, screenshots, or re-photographed documents, document format validation checking fonts, layouts, and formatting against known utility bill templates, data consistency checks ensuring the bill details (dates, amounts, formatting) are logical and consistent, metadata analysis examining file properties to detect manipulation, and optical character recognition (OCR) to extract and validate text quality and alignment. Our AI models are trained on millions of authentic utility bills from 190+ countries to identify anomalies. Suspicious documents are flagged for manual review or automatic rejection based on your risk threshold settings.

Yes, VOVE ID supports utility bill verification for 190+ countries and territories worldwide. Our system is trained to recognize utility bill formats from major providers in: all EU countries, North America (USA, Canada, Mexico), Middle East and North Africa (UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt, etc.), Asia-Pacific (India, Australia, Singapore, etc.), Latin America, and Africa. For countries with less standardized bill formats, our OCR engine can still extract address information, and our manual review team can assist with edge cases. You can configure which countries and document types to accept based on your business needs and target markets.

VOVE ID verifies utility bills in an average of 60 seconds for automated verification. The process includes: document upload and image quality check (5-10 seconds), OCR extraction of name, address, and document details (15-20 seconds), authenticity verification and fraud detection (20-30 seconds), and address validation and formatting (5-10 seconds). For 85-90% of submissions, verification is fully automated and instant. Documents that require manual review (unclear images, unusual formats, or fraud flags) may take 1-4 hours depending on your service level agreement. You can configure auto-reject thresholds for poor quality submissions to maintain fast processing times.

Yes, VOVE ID offers optional address validation and geocoding services beyond just reading the bill. Our address validation includes: address parsing and standardization to correct formatting, geocoding to convert addresses to latitude/longitude coordinates, validation against postal databases to confirm the address exists, deliverability checks to ensure mail can be delivered there, and risk scoring for high-risk addresses (PO boxes, virtual offices, or known fraud locations). This helps you not only verify that the utility bill is authentic, but also that the residential address is real, deliverable, and matches your compliance requirements. You can enable or disable address validation based on your use case.

Absolutely. VOVE ID's cross-document verification feature automatically compares addresses across multiple documents: extracts address from the utility bill using OCR, extracts address from the user's ID document (passport, driver's license, national ID), normalizes both addresses to a standard format, and calculates a match score (exact match, partial match, or no match). This is critical for KYC compliance where you need to verify both the user's identity and their residential address. You can set matching thresholds (e.g., require 90% match for approval) and flag discrepancies for manual review. This feature works across all 190+ countries we support.

VOVE ID's OCR engine supports multi-language and multi-script document reading including: Latin scripts (English, French, Spanish, German, etc.), Arabic script (Arabic, Urdu, Persian), Cyrillic script (Russian, Ukrainian, etc.), Asian scripts (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, etc.), and mixed-language documents with multiple scripts. Our system automatically detects the document language and applies the appropriate OCR model. Extracted data is transliterated or translated as needed for your compliance team to review. Address information is normalized to a standard format regardless of the source language, making it easy to validate and match across documents from different countries.

Yes, VOVE ID offers batch utility bill verification for re-verification or periodic address updates: bulk upload via CSV with customer IDs and document URLs, API batch endpoint to submit multiple verification requests at once, scheduled re-verification to automatically request updated proof of address from customers after X months, and dashboard-based batch management to track verification status and download results. This is useful for annual KYC refresh, compliance audits, or when you need to re-verify addresses for existing customers due to regulatory changes. Batch processing maintains the same quality and fraud detection as real-time verification.

VOVE ID treats utility bills as sensitive personal data with strict privacy protections: encrypted storage using AES-256 encryption for all document images and extracted data, data minimization where we only extract and store the fields you need (name, address, date), automatic data deletion after your configured retention period (e.g., 30 days, 90 days, or 7 years for compliance), GDPR compliance with user rights to access, rectify, and delete their data, and role-based access control so only authorized compliance team members can view documents. We never share, sell, or use customer utility bills for purposes other than verification. You maintain full ownership and control of all data processed through our platform.

Yes, VOVE ID provides flexible field extraction configuration: standard fields automatically extracted include full address, city, postal/ZIP code, country, user name, document date, and document issuer. Optional fields you can enable include account number, bill amount, usage period, property type, and custom fields using our configurable OCR templates. You can specify which fields are required vs. optional for a verification to pass, set validation rules for each field (e.g., address must include postal code), and map extracted data to your existing customer database schema. This flexibility allows you to tailor address verification to your specific compliance requirements, user experience goals, and regional variations in utility bill formats.