KYC scopes & subscriptions

What identity data RDCPASS returns, how your organization and application are entitled to it, and how each request can ask for less.

Every verified identity comes back with basic KYC. Anything beyond it — documents, addresses, contact details, biometrics — is an additional scope. Scopes let each business receive exactly the data it has a lawful need for, and nothing more: RDCPASS is the national digital identity, and data minimization is built into how it is shared.

Basic KYC

Basic KYC is returned on every successful identity match, at no extra subscription. It is what you need to know that a real, certified person stands behind an identifier: who they are, and the state of their RDCPASS account.

Its field set is configured by RDCPASS in the back office as platform-wide policy — the same for every organization — and applies to all identity services. The default set is:

In API responses the account fields appear in the account block and the personal fields in kyc.basic. Basic KYC is always listed in scopes_applied as kyc.basic.

Scope catalogue

Each additional scope adds one block to the kyc object. Scopes fall into three tiers:

• Standard Identity and contact data. Available after standard due diligence.
• Sensitive Special-category personal data. Requires enhanced due diligence.
• Biometric Biometric data. Requires enhanced due diligence and the strictest handling.

Document images and biometric files are delivered as file objects — see Documents & biometrics.

The three-layer model

Access to a scope is decided in three layers. Each layer can only narrow what the layer above allows — never widen it.

Worked example

An organization subscribes to five scopes, its onboarding application selects four, and one request asks for two:

scopes_applied and scopes_withheld

Every response lists exactly which scopes were honoured, so you never have to infer it from which blocks are present.

Narrowing scopes on a request

This application is granted four scopes, but for this call only needs the customer’s address and profession:

{
  "reference": "cust-0412",
  "identifier": { "type": "rdcpass_id", "value": "COD-1908-0521-7730" },
  "purpose": "customer_onboarding",
  "scopes": ["kyc.addresses", "kyc.professions"]
}

{
  "id": "kyc_3f7c0b92e5",
  "object": "kyc_validation",
  "livemode": true,
  "reference": "cust-0412",
  "status": "completed",
  "result": "verified",
  "certified_account": true,
  "identifier": { "type": "rdcpass_id", "value": "COD-1908-0521-7730" },
  "match": {
    "full_name": "not_provided",
    "date_of_birth": "not_provided",
    "age": "not_provided",
    "score": null
  },
  "account": {
    "rdcpass_id": "COD-1908-0521-7730",
    "status": "active",
    "certified": true,
    "created_at": "2024-11-02T13:08:19Z",
    "level_of_assurance": "LOA3"
  },
  "kyc": {
    "basic": {
      "full_name": "Mbuyi Ilunga Nsimba",
      "first_name": "Mbuyi",
      "last_name": "Nsimba",
      "date_of_birth": "1992-11-03",
      "age": 33,
      "gender": "female",
      "nationality": "COD"
    },
    "addresses": [
      {
        "type": "residential",
        "province": "Nord-Kivu",
        "city": "Goma",
        "commune": "Karisimbi",
        "quartier": "Katindo",
        "avenue": "Avenue du Lac",
        "number": "17",
        "is_primary": true,
        "verified_at": "2024-11-02T13:30:44Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "scopes_applied": ["kyc.basic", "kyc.addresses"],
  "scopes_withheld": ["kyc.professions"],
  "purpose": "customer_onboarding",
  "created_at": "2026-09-26T11:02:37Z"
}

Pricing

Each call is billed at the service’s base price. Every additional scope returned adds a per-scope surcharge per returned record — a withheld scope costs nothing, and basic KYC is always included. In a batch, each item is billed individually. See Billing.

Which services scopes apply to

KYB scopes

Businesses have their own scope family, used by KYB Verification. Every KYB result includes the business’s basic record — legal name, trade name, RCCM, ID NAT, NIF, legal form, status, registration date and country — and the following additional scopes follow the same three-layer model:

Frequently asked questions

Next steps

• KYC Validation — the full response with every scope block.
• Documents & biometrics — handle file objects safely.
• Applications — select scopes when creating an application.
• Going to production — scope justifications and enhanced due diligence.