Dynamic Flow is Persona’s product for securely collecting PII (personally identifiable information), such as IDs, passports, selfies, SSNs, birthdays, and phone numbers.

You can use Dynamic Flow to build Flows that maximize conversion for real users, while stepping up friction to keep bad actors out.

What can you do with Dynamic Flow?

Collect information securely across platforms

Dynamic Flow lets you securely collect a wide array of user information—such as IDs, documents, and more—and choose which data to verify.

Dynamic Flow provides a customizable UI that you provide for users to upload their information. Persona provides the UI to ensure that information is handled securely and minimize user error via built-in live guidance, auto-capture, and seamless device hand-offs. You can present this UI to your end users on web or on mobile. It can be embedded in your app, or be shared as a simple URL.

Deter fraud dynamically without hurting conversion

Behind the scenes, you can configure the logic of your collection flow. You can set the template to dynamically adjust friction—helping good users convert faster, while requiring riskier users to provide more information and flagging bad actors for review. Learn more →

Create custom flows without custom code

You can customize your entire collection flow with a visual no-code editor—from the branding and copy of each screen to the decision logic that powers the user experience.

What role Dynamic Flow actually play in identity management?

As the first step in most Persona solutions, Dynamic Flow can perform two important functions:

1. You can use Dynamic Flow to configure conditional, rule-based logic which will automatically adjust end-user friction to force riskier users to share more information.
2. Although it can be strictly used for collecting info, Dynamic Flow can prompt Persona to run Verifications, Persona’s product for authenticating user information.
3. By default, Dynamic Flow generates a Persona Account for every end user who starts the flow to track their verification attempts over time, support user reverification, and improve your chances of detecting fraud.

Key terms for Dynamic Flow

To understand Dynamic Flow, you need to know its core vocabulary:

Inquiry

Because it requests information from users, every individual instance of Dynamic Flow is called an Inquiry.

You can think of an Inquiry as “a single instance of an individual undergoing identity verification,” since this is the role that the Inquiry plays in the identity management process.

Flow

A Flow is the actual collection UI that your end users see in your product.

Learn more about Flows →

Dynamic Flow Template (formerly Inquiry template)

A (Dynamic Flow) Template is the sum of everything a user sees while going through an Inquiry. While it includes the Flow, it also encompasses its visual theme, required Verifications, additional configurations, and built-in logic.

Flow Editor

Flow Editor is the no-code tool in the dashboard that you can use to quickly build, style, and launch an Inquiry Flow to serve your users a smooth, branded experience.

You can find the Flow Editor by clicking into any Templates listed under Dynamic Flow in your Dashboard.

Check your understanding of Dynamic Flow

Now that you’ve learned all the terms, let’s put them together.

What Dynamic Flow isn’t

Dynamic Flow is not Verifications

Dynamic Flow is not identity verification. Together, Dynamic Flow and Verifications can make up a basic KYC process—you can think of Dynamic Flow and Verifications as two acts of a play. Inquiries and Verifications require each other to work, but are not the same thing: Inquiries collect PII, while Verifications authenticates that information. More on Verifications →

How Dynamic Flow works

People often ask, “What’s dynamic about Dynamic Flow?” Dynamic Flow refers to the ability to set conditional logic that adjusts an Inquiry’s level of friction. This essentially means that you can design Inquiries to force riskier users to submit more information. All inquiries use Dynamic Flow by default, but conditional logic used to be an enhanced feature—when this was the case, this entire product was simply called “Inquiries.”

(Dynamic Flow) Templates

In your dashboard, Inquiries are organized into Dynamic Flow Templates. As explained above, Dynamic Flow Templates dictate the entire end-user experience of an Inquiry, from the structure of the Flow to its appearance, Verification types, and underlying logic.

You can create Dynamic Flow Templates from scratch or find and build upon preconfigured Dynamic Flow Templates, which have been designed for specific use cases and verification types.

To see Dynamic Flow Templates in your Sandbox or Production dashboard, navigate to your sidebar and click Dynamic Flow → Templates.

Dynamic Flow integration methods

You can choose from several options for integrating Dynamic Flow into your user journey, depending on your engineering capacity and preferences for UX.

• Hosted (no-code) - Send users a link to your Flow (hosted by Persona).
• Embedded - Seamlessly verify individuals via a fully embedded Flow within your website.
• Mobile SDK - Implement Persona directly within your native Android or iOS app.

Dynamic Flow Basic vs. Dynamic Flow Enhanced

Dynamic Flow has two pricing tiers: Basic and Enhanced. Dynamic Flow Enhanced is designed to handle the more intricate PII collection and identity verification scenarios that your organization may encounter.

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