Submitting CVEC Numbers for University Student Verifications in France
In this guide, we’ll go through the necessary steps to maximize instant rates for university student verification in France by submitting CVEC numbers with your requests.
Overview
SheerID recently added a new instant source for French university students which uses CVEC numbers. The CVEC (Contribution Vie Étudiante et de Campus) is a mandatory fee for all university students in France. If provided, the CVEC number will be used for instant verification before initiating Single Sign-On (SSO) or document upload, speeding up the verification process and improving instant verification rates.
For clients using SheerID hosted verification forms, we’ve recently added a new field to student verification forms for French university students, allowing students to optionally provide their CVEC number. Here is an example of a French university student form with a form field for CVEC number:
The English translation of the text for the new form field is
API clients are encouraged to collect CVEC numbers on their verification forms for French university students and submit them with those verifications to take advantage of this new option, which increases instant rates for this community.
Submitting CVEC Numbers
To include a CVEC number with a verification request, simply add a cvecNumber field when posting to /verification/program/{programId}/step/collectStudentPersonalInfo
For example:
{
"firstName": "Verify",
"lastName": "Dubois",
"birthDate": "2007-01-23",
"email": "[email protected]",
"organization": {
"id": 1234,
"name": "French University"
}
“cvecNumber”: “ABC1HIJKL23”
}
As noted in our API reference, CVEC numbers are 12 digit alphanumeric strings. We recommend using form field validation to adhere to this format. If an invalid CVEC number is included in the request the response will include an error:
{
"verificationId": "VERIFICATION\_ID",
"currentStep": "collectStudentPersonalInfo",
"errorIds": \[
"invalidCvecNumber"
\],
…
"submissionUrl": "https://services.sheerid.com/rest/v2/verification/VERIFICATION\_ID/step/collectStudentPersonalInfo"
}