From Zero to Verified in Minutes

Verify your identity, build your reputation, and transact with confidence across all platforms.

Step 1

Verify Your Identity

Complete a secure identity verification process to get your verified badge. We use industry-leading verification partners and never see or store your personal documents. This one-time verification prevents scammers from creating duplicate accounts and gives you a trusted reputation that follows you across all platforms.

What to have ready

  • A government-issued photo ID (driver's license, passport, or state ID)
  • Access to a webcam or phone camera for a live selfie
  • About 5 minutes of your time

What gets checked

  • Your legal name, which must match exactly what you entered at signup
  • Your zip code, which must match exactly what you entered at signup
  • A live selfie to confirm you are the document holder
  • Document authenticity (valid, unexpired, and unaltered)

Your account is not active until this step is complete

Vouched's core value is real, verified identities. Without completing this step, your profile cannot be trusted. An untrusted profile defeats the purpose of the product. This is not optional and cannot be bypassed.

Step 2

Link Your Accounts

Connect your Reddit, Instagram, and Discord accounts via secure OAuth. Your verified status and reputation score will be visible across all linked platforms, making it easy for trading partners to trust you wherever you do business.

Step 3

Share Your Vouch Card

When you're making a deal on any marketplace or forum, simply share your usevouched.app/u/username link. If you're transacting in person (card shows, conventions, etc.) one of you can scan the others QR code to quickly start a transaction pre-filled with essential info.

If your counterparty does not use Vouched yet, you can invite them directly from your dashboard using your personal invite link.

Always verify the profile belongs to who you're talking to

Receiving a Vouched profile link is only meaningful if you confirm the person sharing it actually owns it. Check that the username shown on the profile matches the username you are chatting with on the platform where you met. If the person you are speaking with has not claimed that username on their Vouched profile, the link could belong to someone else entirely and you may be dealing with a scammer.

Step 4

Build Your Reputation

After each successful trade, log the transaction on Vouched. Both parties confirm and leave feedback, building your verified reputation over time. Your growing transaction history proves your reliability to future trading partners. Because every member is tied to a single verified identity, no one can delete their profile to escape bad feedback or create a second account to start fresh. Your reputation is permanent, and that's exactly what makes it trustworthy.

Shipped items must include tracking, no exceptions

Any transaction involving a shipped item requires a tracking number to count toward your reputation. This is a core anti-fraud requirement and cannot be waived. Tracking provides objective proof that a shipment was sent and received, protecting both parties in the event of a dispute. Transactions without tracking will not be credited to your record.

Privacy First

Your Data, Protected

We take privacy seriously. You are trusting us with identity-related information, and that responsibility is not taken lightly. Here is exactly what we store, what we receive, and what we never touch.

What we store

  • Your name, retained solely to match against your verified ID result
  • Your zip code, used for shipping fraud checks

That's it. Those are the only two pieces of personally identifiable information Vouched ever holds.

What we never see

  • Your ID documents, scans, or photos
  • Your date of birth or full address
  • Any biometric or facial recognition data
  • Any other PII beyond name and zip code

The entire verification process is handled by Stripe Identity, a dedicated, SOC 2 certified identity verification product. All document capture, biometric checks, and data processing occur entirely within Stripe's secure infrastructure. Vouched receives only a pass/fail result, your confirmed name, and your confirmed zip code. Nothing else is ever transmitted to us.

Buy and sell with confidence!