---
title: "POST /v23/customers/{customersId}:startIdentityVerification"
method: POST
path: "/v23/customers/{customersId}:startIdentityVerification"
tags: ["customers"]
---

# POST /v23/customers/{customersId}:startIdentityVerification

`POST /v23/customers/{customersId}:startIdentityVerification`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://searchads360.googleapis.com`
- URL: `https://searchads360.googleapis.com/v23/customers/{customersId}:startIdentityVerification`
- Auth: OAuth 2 and OAuth 2
  - Implicit: `https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth`
  - Scopes: `https://www.googleapis.com/auth/doubleclicksearch`
  - Authorization code: `https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth`
  - Token URL: `https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token` scopes: `https://www.googleapis.com/auth/doubleclicksearch`
- TypeScript: <https://skmtc.dev/google/apis/searchads360/docs/v23/customers/:customersId:startIdentityVerification/post.ts> (a function with typed inputs; its response is checked against the schema)

Starts Identity Verification for a given verification program type. Statuses are returned. List of thrown errors: [AuthenticationError]() [AuthorizationError]() [HeaderError]() [InternalError]() [QuotaError]() [RequestError]()

## Path parameters

- `customersId` string, required

## Request body

- GoogleAdsSearchads360V23ServicesStartIdentityVerificationRequest: Request message for StartIdentityVerification.
  - `verificationProgram` 'UNSPECIFIED' | 'UNKNOWN' | 'ADVERTISER_IDENTITY_VERIFICATION': Required. The verification program type for which we want to start the verification.

## Response `200`

Successful response

- GoogleProtobufEmpty: A generic empty message that you can re-use to avoid defining duplicated empty messages in your APIs. A typical example is to use it as the request or the response type of an API method. For instance: service Foo { rpc Bar(google.protobuf.Empty) returns (google.protobuf.Empty); }

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