Add-On Releases - OnVerify Phone Verification

This plug-in verifies each paid subscription before the actual payment with automated phone calls. The verification is done just before the redirection to the payment processor.

In order to install and setup the plug-in, follow these steps:

1. Download the plug in files, extract them to a folder
2. Move upload directory contents to VB DocumentRoot
3. From VB Admin, import product-onverify_phone_verify.xml from Plugin & Products -> Manage Products -> Add/Import Product
4. Open an account at onverify.com (Setup is free, but in order to use verifications account needs to be in positive balance)
5. Get userid and apipass from My Profile tab at onverify.com
6. Edit or add template according to your needs (you can adjust the wording in the verification)
7. Go back to VB Admin, set options from VBulletin Options -> OnVerify Phone Verification Options

This plug-in works for the Paid Subscriptions.

In options you have option to verify each sale or verify once per user.

Details & Demo are available at http://vb.onverify.com/

Each verification is billed when the call is answered. The complete list of rates is available at http://www.onverify.com/phone-verification-rates

This is the first version of OnVerify.com's contribution to VBulletin community, we are open to suggestions, comments and requests related with Phone & SMS Verification. Fill free to comment or ask.

About OnVerify.com

OnVerify.com provides automated phone verification service to reduce fraud and get tracable phone numbers. Phone Verification helps all types of online business, from multi-million companies to single person web business.

Fraud, Scam, Unauthorized Access, Anonymous Access are the common issues in online business today. All sizes of web business suffer loss due to these reasons, and Phone Verification by OnVerify.com helps to combat and solve these problems.

With a very competitive price structure, OnVerify only bills for the answered calls. All verifications can be customized over web interface, or on the fly when the automatic call is generated. Verification call flow is 100% customizable

OnVerify.com has got multi-language Text to Speech; you don?t have to upload wav files, just you need to enter the text, rest is handled by OnVerify.com. Still you have option to upload your prerecorded wav files.

OnVerify.com supports all types of phone numbers and works worldwide.
Several types of Phone Verifications supported:

Standard Phone Verification: PIN is announced on the phone, entered on the web site
Reverse Phone Verification: PIN is displayed on the web site, entered on the phone
Call in Phone Verification: Customer calls from registered phone number to get the PIN to enter on the web site
Call in Reverse Phone Verification: Customer calls from registered phone number to enter the PIN displayed on web site
SMS Verification. Rather than a phone call, text message is sent to mobile phone
In all phone verifications, OnVerify.com provides phone type information and geolocation to the phone number to further check.

Staff Note: While registration is free, be aware that you will be charged for verification calls.
The Rate list is at http://www.onverify.com/phone-verification-rates

[sassou2009]

it can be used just to verify users phone numbers ? as in our forums we dont sell subscriptions...

[onverify]

Sorry for the silence for a while.

We are working on a new version of this plug-in, in which we will support
1. Verify user's phone numbers
2. Support SMS
3. Auto switch SMS and Phone (send sms for mobiles)

We are at the final tests, current version can be demoed from vb.onverify.com

We will continue to work on the other requested features.

[csingsaas]

Having problems getting it to work for vBulletin 4.1.2 CMS - does it work only for the forms only version of vBulletin or the CMS version as well?

[DaffyDuck]

- Has this been made available for vBulletin 4.1.5?
- can it provide *just* new user registration authentication via SMS?

The above I would pay gladly for.

[onverify]

We are testing a little different version for vb4, please check out vb4.onverify.com

(Also vb.onverify.com for 3.8 tests)

This version is a complete re-write, which verifies the customer at the account activation step.

[Hostboard]

Originally Posted by onverify

We are testing a little different version for vb4, please check out vb4.onverify.com

(Also vb.onverify.com for 3.8 tests)

This version is a complete re-write, which verifies the customer at the account activation step.

This really does not tell me much...

[onverify]

We are sorry for this issue, http://vb4.onverify.com/ demonstration site is corrected.

[nibb]

I like your idea, and Im using SMS and phone verification for other projects.

But I see some limitation in your plugin. It only works for paid subscriptions.

I would like to use SMS verification on forum user sign up.

And or to manually check a user with SMS.

This means, this 2 basic options are missing.

Option 1.
Activate on user sign up. Every user that registers needs to input their SMS pin on sign up.

Option 2. Manually verification. As an admin you can send a SMS manually from the admin control panel, and the user can log into his account and verify his account. Manual verification.

Users verified should go to their own usergroup. Optional.

Also, are you a reseller? Like using Clickatell for SMS and Telesign for the voice verification or do you have your own VoIP service which makes the calls? I mean it would make sense to you to cut out the middle men to lower your phone calling fees using VoIP providers directly and sms gateways.

[onverify]

We have these properties in VB4 version. VB 3.X version will be updated accordingly

[nibb]

Originally Posted by onverify

We have these properties in VB4 version. VB 3.X version will be updated accordingly

Great, I run vb4. If you have them I will give it a try. Thanks