Where Smile ID is strong
- Deep experience in fast-digitising African markets, where it has completed hundreds of millions of checks.
- AML screening against a large set of global and local lists, with ongoing monitoring.
- References among large Nigerian banks and South African buy-now-pay-later lenders.
Where Konnect ID is different
- Regional documents read properly: the Tunisian national ID card in Arabic, front and back, with no machine-readable zone, plus the photo page of any ICAO passport. Other national cards are added per deployment.
- A self-hosted edition: a compiled image on your own servers, with your database and storage, for data that must stay in the country.
- Arabic, French and English on every screen, right-to-left included.
- Every decision explained: each check reports what it found, and automatic decisions record the rule that fired.
- Built with regional rules in mind, such as BCT Circular 2025-06, and a team in Tunis, in your time zone.
Which one to choose
Choose Smile ID when your customers are mostly in English-speaking sub-Saharan Africa. Choose Konnect ID when your market is in North Africa, the Middle East or French-speaking West Africa, when you need Arabic and French end to end, or when data must stay on your own servers.
Whatever you pick, ask the same questions: which of your customers' documents are read today, where data is processed and stored, whether a reviewer can see why a case was flagged, and what evidence you get for your regulator.