Fast & easy
As simple as it sounds – plug & identify and off you go! Identify is faster and more convenient than the traditional PostIdent procedure.
Identification & signatures
Verify the identity of your clients and customers in minutes
With our plug & play suite, you can verify the identity of your clients / customers quickly, easily and in 100% GwG compliance, and start signing contracts digitally. Faster, easier and worry-free.
Delight your customers with video identification from Identify
100% GwG compliant
Identify is GwG compliant according to current BaFin requirements.
Service-oriented
Schedule an appointment for video identification instead of making your clients wait in a call center queue
Independent
Identify works with any browser, tablet and smartphone.
At a glance
Identification & signatures made easy
Use our AI-powered identity verification to prevent identity fraud, comply with your KYC/KYB regulations and onboard new clients/customers in minutes. Leave the administration to us and focus on what creates value.
Identity verification
How it works
We offer your customers GwG-compliant online identification via video chat. In just a few minutes, we guide your customers through the identification. All your customer needs is a computer, tablet or smartphone with internet access and a camera, plus a valid ID document. Our trained staff verify your customers securely, in compliance with the law and in an innovative way.
Don't want to verify identity via video chat? No problem! Simply choose one of 4 identity verification methods.
4 identity verification methods
- Support for traditional face-to-face / in-person identification
- Storage of the notarized copy of ID/passport documents for identification
- Integration of AutoIdent procedures into the digital onboarding process, so customers can conveniently identify themselves
- Integration of VideoIdent procedures – including support for qualified electronic signatures (QES)
Benefits
- Convenient and digital if you wish
- Identity verification in just a few minutes
- Let customers identify themselves
Automatic reading of ID documents
How it works
Using the latest technologies, data from international identity documents such as passports or ID cards is read fully automatically and simply presented to you for review.
Benefits
- Identity verification in just a few minutes
- 100% digital and easy
Analog and digital signatures
How it works
With BetterCo, you speed up your legally binding (contract) signing processes and make your document management system as efficient as possible!
Simply choose from our ready-made signature processes: wet-ink signature, eSigning via scan, SES, AES or QES.
Signature methods
- Support for traditional handwritten / wet-ink signatures on paper / as hard copy
- Support for simple eSigning via PDF/scan
- Integration of simple electronic signatures (SES) via DocuSign
- Integration of advanced electronic signatures (AES) for legal compliance
- Integration of qualified electronic signatures (QES) combined with identification
Benefits
- All data and documents in your system
- Faster legally binding contract signing processes
- Maximum efficiency in document management
- Our digital procedures provide a secure, traceable method of signature authentication
Contracts, powers of attorney & resolutions
An overview
Browse our huge library of templates for fee agreements, engagement agreements, powers of attorney, resolutions and much more – all reflecting the latest case law.
Create your own templates in just a few clicks and sign conveniently and digitally with our DocuSign integration.
Need something notarized while your company is based in England? Helpful guidance in our templates tells you exactly what to do at the right moment. So both your professionals and your clients can sit back and relax, and we keep manual errors to a minimum.
Benefits
- Fast, digital and legally compliant
- Use templates or quickly tailor them to your needs
- Including versioning and audit-proof documentation
Consents
An overview
We live in a time when we constantly have to obtain consent from our clients / customers. Even the smallest consent usually causes administrative overload and sheer paper chaos. With BetterCo, it's finally simple, hassle-free and digital! Whether you need consent to process master data, agreement to your privacy policy or consent to representation before BaFin or the commercial register – thanks to your BetterCo workspace and the ready-made processes, it's done quickly and easily. Your client / customer is notified by email in real time, and the granted consent lands directly in the right place in your system.
Benefits
- Zero administration and paper chaos
- Fast & easy
- All data & consents directly in YOUR system
Implemented to a high security standard
Data security
Our servers are secured and located in Germany. We comply with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Encryption in transit
All information and data is transmitted to our servers encrypted via the TLS protocol, so no one can intercept it.
Encryption at rest
All data is stored encrypted on our servers using the RSA and AES protocols, so no one can read it without authorization.
Audit-proof, GoBD-compliant archiving
We store all data and documents in an audit-proof, GoBD-compliant manner for complete traceability.
State of the art
Our system architecture follows a "multi-tenancy by design" approach, which makes it much easier to deliver state-of-the-art security for all customers.
Code reviews and secure development
Our development and release processes follow OWASP recommendations, including code security reviews.
Your single source of trust
No more endless siloed solutions that never quite fit together. With BetterCo, you have all relevant identity verification and signature management methods at hand, and the job is done in minutes.
approx. 8 minutes
to successful identity verification
100%
GwG compliant & audit-proof
approx. 60%
less administration
Your benefits from a fully digital identification & signature process
- Time savings
- Cost-efficient acquisition & onboarding
- Minimize manual intervention and error rates
- No paper or email chaos
- Maximum flexibility – for you and your clients/customers
- Highest security standards
- Better compliance & transparency through precise tracking
- More efficient collaboration, internally & externally
- The best user experience for your clients / customers
The benefits for your clients & customers
- Time savings
- Seamless, intuitive onboarding experience
- 100% flexibility
- No need to be physically present
- Real-time collaboration and full transparency at all times
What our customers say
With BetterCo, we save enormous amounts of time and money on KYC onboarding and risk assessment of our clients, signing the engagement agreement and ongoing AML monitoring. Our clients appreciate the short turnaround times, and we no longer have to play email ping-pong.
Helder Schnittker Managing Partner, YPOG Partnership Berlin 
As investment bankers, we are subject to the GwG for our strategy and M&A advisory services. With BetterCo, our teams can collect the required KYC data completely and quickly with ease. BetterCo also actively informs us about changes affecting our clients.
Falk Müller-Veerse Managing Partner, Bryan Garnier & Co, Munich 
Breaches of GwG obligations are strictly penalized by the competent supervisory authorities. With BetterCo's KYC workflows, we can prove at any time that we have met our due diligence obligations and fulfill the record-keeping and retention obligations under the GwG.
Karin Arnold Lawyer and notary, Arnold Anwälte Berlin