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Botswana

Southern Africa · BWP (P) · dial code +267 · English, Setswana

Local currency

BWP

Phone numbers

+26771234567

National ID

Omang: coming

Available in Botswana

• ✓Phone verification (SMS OTP)
• ✓SMS and bulk SMS
• ✓Document OCR and verification
• ✓Liveness detection
• ✓Face match
• ✓Address verification
• ✓Verification Suite (applicant links and embed)
• ✓Website audit
• ✓Domain verification
• ✓AI content detection
• ✓Video and voice calls
• ✓Live streaming
• ✓Chat
• ✓WhatsApp assistant and platform
• ✓File tools (PDF, images, audio)
• ✓Short links
• ✓QR codes
• ✓Video meetings

Nigeria only

These read Nigerian identity, banking and utility records, so they do not work for Botswana. Calling them for another country returns 403 not_available_in_country:

• ●BVN verification
• ●NIN verification
• ●Driver's licence (FRSC)
• ●Bank account name check
• ●BVN to account match
• ●CAC business registry check
• ●Credit bureau score
• ●Bills (airtime, data, electricity, TV)
• ●Business payment gateway (collections)

{
  "error": {
    "code": "not_available_in_country",
    "message": "BVN verification is only available for Nigeria. ...",
    "status": 403
  }
}

Coming: Omang verification

A Botswana-specific identity check against the Omang (Department of Civil and National Registration) is planned. Until it launches, you can verify people in Botswana with document OCR, liveness and face match, which work with any passport, national ID or driver's licence photo.

Prices in BWP

Your balance is held in naira. Prices below are converted at ₦95.0583 per BWP, rounded up. Top-ups in BWP are credited at the same rate.

Phone number format

Botswana mobile numbers are written locally as 71 234 567 and internationally as +26771234567. There is no national 0 prefix to remove; we add +267 in front of what you send.

curl -X POST https://api.identifyorg.com/v1/phone/verify/start \
  -H "X-IdentifyOrg-Key: io_live_xxxx" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "phone": "+26771234567" }'

# The same number in local format needs the country:
curl -X POST https://api.identifyorg.com/v1/phone/verify/start \
  -H "X-IdentifyOrg-Key: io_live_xxxx" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "phone": "71234567", "country": "BW" }'

const res = await fetch("https://api.identifyorg.com/v1/phone/verify/start", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { "X-IdentifyOrg-Key": process.env.IDENTIFYORG_KEY, "Content-Type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({ phone: "71234567", country: "BW" }), // or phone: "+26771234567"
});
const { id } = await res.json(); // then POST /v1/phone/verify/check with { id, code }

import os, requests

r = requests.post(
    "https://api.identifyorg.com/v1/phone/verify/start",
    headers={"X-IdentifyOrg-Key": os.environ["IDENTIFYORG_KEY"]},
    json={"phone": "+26771234567"},
)
verification_id = r.json()["id"]

Topping up your balance

Card payments and mobile money (Orange Money) in BWP, converted to your naira balance at the rate shown when you pay. Provider availability is set per country, and cards in US dollars are the fallback where a local-currency option is not open yet.

Data protection

Personal data in Botswana is governed by the Data Protection Act, 2018. Phone verification stores only a salted hash of each code; check your own obligations as the data controller.