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Digital identity for retail

Trusted digital identity for retail

One verified identity for every customer, in your web shop, app, loyalty programme and stores. Get reliable customer data and fewer double accounts, while your customers enjoy faster, smoother and securer checkouts, online and in-store.

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The challenge

The challenges retail is facing

Reduce customer frustration with itsme. Ensure fast, effortless and user-friendly processes across the insurance journey, from onboarding to claims.

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Duplicate and unverfied accounts

One shopper ends up with several accounts, and some accounts have no real person behind them.

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Promotion abuse

Welcome discounts get claimed again under new email addresses, and bots buy up limited releases.

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Unreliable customer data

Typos, outdated addresses and made-up names – but the cost of onboarding remains the same.

 

Time

Friction at sign-up and login

Long forms lose customers before the first order. Forgotten passwords lose them at checkout and fill the support queue.

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Age checks that are easy to dodge

A tick box doesn’t stop a 15-year-old, and heavier checks slow down every adult.

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Higher expectations in every channel

Shoppers expect the app, the web shop and the store to know them. Having to maintain multiple accounts and resetting passwords increases the drop-off rate.

Why retailers choose itsme

itsme is the digital identity platform at eIDAS Level of Assurance High that Belgian banks and government services already rely on. For retailers, it does three things.

Digitise services, boost customer experience

When customers register or join with itsme, they share data from their official ID document with a single confirmation. Names and details arrive complete and correct, and each verified customer holds one account. Welcome offers reach new customers once, and a real-person check keeps bots and fake accounts out of limited releases.

Checkmark 2 Customer records your marketing, service and compliance teams can rely on

Checkmark 2 Fewer duplicate and fake accounts, and less promotion abuse

 

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No password to create, forget or steal

Shoppers remember what they came to buy and forget the password. With itsme, customers create an account and log in by confirming in the itsme app. Return visits take seconds, there are no password-reset emails, and fewer carts are abandonned at the login screen.

Checkmark 2 Faster sign-up and return visits

Checkmark 2 Fewer password resets and support contacts

 

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Age checks in seconds, online and in store 

In the Netherlands, the Alcohol Act requires online sellers to check age before the purchase and again at delivery. And under the Digital Service Act, large online platforms need to implement security measures for minors. With itsme, the customer confirms their age without sharing a birthdate or documents. The same check can run in the web shop, at a pickup point or at a self-checkout.

Checkmark 2 Age-restricted products and services, online and in store

Checkmark 2 No birthdate exposed and nothing retained after the check

 

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Online and in store

It’s the same customer, from the web shop to the shop floor 

itsme is the digital identity platform at eIDAS Level of Assurance High that Belgian banks and government services already rely on. For retailers, it does three things.

Web shop and app

Account creation, login, loyalty and confirmation of high-value orders, all with one identity.

Click and collect

Customers open the locker holding their order by confirming on their phone, through partners such as locker specialist Telloport. Every handover leaves a record of who collected what, and when.

Self-checkout

Age checks on the customer’s own phone, so an age-restricted item doesn’t hold up the queue. 

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Store entry

Unstaffed and after-hours stores can let verified customers in, with a record of every entry.

Service desk

Loyalty sign-up with verified details, and a quick ID check before a high-value rental leaves the store.

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Built for how your sector sells 

Reduce customer frustration with itsme. Ensure fast, effortless and user-friendly processes across the insurance journey, from onboarding to claims.

Shopping

Grocery and supermarkets

Age checks on alcohol orders before payment, loyalty accounts tied to one verified person, and verified collection at pickup points.

Sports

Sports and outdoor

Rent out bikes, skis and gear to verified customers around the clock, with the rental terms confirmed in the same step.

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Consumer electronics

A verified confirmation before a high-value order ships or a delivery address changes, and a verified seller behind every trade-in.

 

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Fashion and luxury

Exclusive drops limited to real, verified people and one item per person, which shuts out bots and makes bulk reselling far harder.

 

Offering buy now, pay later?

See how itsme supports BNPL providers ArrowRight

Proven at national scale

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Years of expertise

in digital identity solutions in Europe

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EU countries

with supported ID documents

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organisations 

trust itsme in the public and private sector across Europe

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million users

trust itsme as their secure digital identity

Compliance

Security and compliance backed by certification

Security and privacy are paramount to a trusted relationship. That’s why itsme is compliant and certified to the highest industry standards and committed to protecting you and your customers' privacy.

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