Built on the SDT Engine.

ID Verify

Real-time driver's license and identity verification. Built into Connect and Lite. Available as a standalone feature in the dealer workflow.

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What it is.

ID Verify is the real-time identity feature in the SecureMyDealer family. The customer captures their government-issued ID, typically a driver's license, from the same secure session they were already using to upload other documents. ID Verify checks the information against the issuing agency in real time, not a stale database, and the verified result lands in the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) or Dealer Management System (DMS) alongside the document image.

ID Verify runs inside Connect and Lite by default. It also stands on its own as a feature the dealership can use whenever an identity check is part of the workflow, whether that is a test-drive intake, a credit application, or a Finance and Insurance (F&I) document package.

The point is to eliminate the gap between "we have an image of a driver's license" and "we know the driver's license is valid." Before ID Verify, that gap was a human in the F&I office squinting at a screenshot. Now it is a real-time check at the point of capture.

Why this was hard to do before SDT.

Identity verification at a dealership has always been a three-step problem. First, the customer has to send their ID through a channel that is encrypted in transit (the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Safeguards Rule requirement). Second, the dealership has to verify the ID is legitimate against an authoritative source. Third, the verified record has to land in the CRM or DMS so the F&I office can use it.

The traditional stitch-together used three vendors and a manual hand-off in the middle. The customer sent a photo. Someone in F&I uploaded it to a verification tool. Someone else re-entered the verified data into the CRM. Each step was friction. Each step was a place the deal could slow down or fall apart.

The SDT Engine made it possible to compress all three steps into one flow. The customer's ID capture, the issuing-agency verification, and the CRM or DMS write-back happen inside the same secure session, with the same audit trail. The F&I office stops doing data entry. The deal moves at the pace the customer expects.

What the SDT Engine made possible.

Real-time issuing-agency verification: Driver's license and government ID information verified instantly against the issuing agency, not a third-party database that may be days or weeks out of date.
Government ID image capture: The customer captures their driver's license or other government-issued ID directly from their phone, through the same secure session they were already using to send other documents.
Encrypted in-transit by default: Every ID image and every verification result rides through the patented SDT Engine. No unencrypted hop. No "we used a verification vendor but the image got emailed first."
CRM and DMS write-back: The verified ID record lands in the dealership's CRM or DMS automatically. The F&I office stops re-entering data from a screenshot.
Audit trail on every check: Every verification is logged with the timestamp, the source, and the outcome. The dealership can produce the compliance record without digging through three vendors' dashboards.
Standalone or embedded: Use ID Verify inside the Connect and Lite workflows, or fire it standalone whenever an identity check is the only thing you need.

Compliance posture.

The FTC Safeguards Rule (16 CFR Part 314) puts the dealership on the hook for in-transit encryption of customer financial data, and driver's license images sit squarely inside that requirement. ID Verify is built so the encryption and the verification happen inside the same SDT Engine flow, with the same audit trail.

The transport is the compliance. Every ID image is encrypted in motion. Every verification check is logged. No customer credentials in the dealership environment. No vendor hand-offs that create an unaudited gap. The compliance review is faster because the chain of custody is one system, not three.

Part of the SecureMyDealer family.

ID Verify is one of three production products under the SecureMyDealer umbrella. Connect is the full CRM and DMS-integrated workflow. Lite is the on-demand secure messaging layer for smaller dealers. ID Verify ships inside both of them and is also available as a standalone feature.