Coverage by country ›

Sierra Leone

West Africa · SLE (Le) · dial code +232 · English, Krio

Local currency

SLE

Phone numbers

+23276123456

National ID

National ID (NIN): coming

Available in Sierra Leone

• ✓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 Sierra Leone. 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: National ID (NIN) verification

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

Prices in SLE

Your balance is held in naira. Prices below are converted at ₦54.699 per SLE, rounded up. Top-ups in SLE are credited at the same rate.

Phone number format

Sierra Leone mobile numbers are written locally as 076 123456 and internationally as +23276123456. The leading 0 is a national prefix: we drop it when we add +232, so local-format numbers work if you also send 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": "+23276123456" }'

# 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": "076123456", "country": "SL" }'

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: "076123456", country: "SL" }), // or phone: "+23276123456"
});
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": "+23276123456"},
)
verification_id = r.json()["id"]

Topping up your balance

Card payments and mobile money (Orange Money, Afrimoney) in SLE, 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.