Businesses
Besides verifying the identity of users, Footprint supports KYB (Know Your Business), verifying the legitimacy of businesses. Footprint treats a business much like a user, but verifies it with a different set of business verification vendors.
You onboard a business in one of two ways:
- The business onboards through Footprint's interactive business onboarding product using a playbook configured in the Footprint dashboard.
- Your backend creates the business directly with the POST /businesses API below.
A business has its own identifier in Footprint, the fp_bid. We recommend storing the fp_bid in your database alongside the fp_id of each owner of the business. One user can own several businesses. The user and business detail pages of the Footprint dashboard show the relationships between owners and businesses.