We re-check your ID at Home Affairs every month and alert you the moment anything changes.
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Format validation tells you a number could exist. Our reports verify against the Department of Home Affairs, CIPC and official vehicle records — and land in your inbox as a PDF, usually within minutes.
Confirm an ID number is real — verified against the Department of Home Affairs.
The full Home Affairs record: identity, document status, deceased and marital status — in real time.
Verify a refugee or asylum seeker file number against the official identity source.
Confirm whether a person is recorded as alive or deceased.
Confirm a person’s registered marital status.
ID photo verification plus contact and address details — one report.
Locate current contact details and address history for a person.
Find out who a South African phone number is registered to.
Employment records on file for a person.
Pre-employment pack: ID photo verification plus a full person trace.
Verify a company’s registration, status and directors at CIPC.
Every company where a person is or was a director.
Check a vehicle’s technical details by number plate or VIN.
Pick a report and enter the details — an ID number, company registration or number plate. You declare your lawful purpose at checkout, as required by our data providers.
Your request runs against Home Affairs, CIPC and other registered data channels. Most checks complete in seconds.
Your report appears on the order page and in your email as a secure download link. Save it — we delete reports from our servers after 30 days to protect the people in them.
If a report fails to generate, you don’t pay: we re-run it or refund you in full. See the refund policy.
Only with a lawful basis under POPIA — usually their consent. At checkout you confirm you are either the person being checked or that you have their consent (or another lawful basis), and you select the purpose of the check. Requesting a report about someone without authority is unlawful.
No. We do not sell credit reports or credit scores. Our reports cover identity, life status, company and vehicle information from official and registered data sources.
Most reports generate within minutes of payment. Reports marked “Compliance-reviewed” (traces and employment checks) are released after a short manual review, usually within 24 hours.
Generated reports are deleted from our servers after 30 days, and we never warehouse bureau-sourced data. Your consent declarations are kept as required by law. Full details in our privacy policy.
The homepage tool checks the format of a number in your browser — it costs nothing to run and always will be free. These reports query official databases that charge per lookup, so we charge per report.