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Alice Onboarding Web SDK allows the automatic capture of documents and video selfie of the user in real time from the camera of your device. It also simplifies the communication with the onboarding API to facilitate rapid integration and development.

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1. Import the library

Warning

As this SDK uses getUserMedia for accessing the webcam a secure context is required when using it.

Alice Onboarding can be used as a NPM module (1.1) or with a regular script tag on your page (1.2). In production environment we strongly recommend use the last stable version. For development environment we recommend use the "latest" version.

1.1 NPM installation & import

The NPM module can be installed as follows:

npm install aliceonboarding@8.0.0

npm install aliceonboarding

Import the NPM package

import { Onboarding, OnboardingConfig, DocumentType } from "aliceonboarding";
import "aliceonboarding/dist/aliceonboarding.css";

1.2 HTML script tag include

The HTML tag can be integrated as follows:

<script src='https://unpkg.com/aliceonboarding@8.0.0/dist/aliceonboarding.min.js'></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://unpkg.com/aliceonboarding@8.0.0/dist/aliceonboarding.css" />

<script src='https://unpkg.com/aliceonboarding/dist/aliceonboarding.min.js'></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://unpkg.com/aliceonboarding/dist/aliceonboarding.css" />

Warning

  • When using the HTML script you will need to use the aliceonboarding namespace (like the examples below).
  • The NPM module requires ES9.

1.3 HTML integration

Add a div element with onboarding tag inside in your page to load the Alice Onboarding component. An identifier must be set for this div, for example alice-onboarding-mount:

<div id="alice-onboarding-mount"/>

2. Authentication

For production environments is mandatory to use your backend to obtain the required USER_TOKEN. You should obtain it from your backend (see Authentication)

You can implement the Authenticator protocol available in the AliceOnboarding framework.

class MyBackendAuthenticator extends aliceonboarding.Authenticator {
  constructor() {
    super();
  }
  execute() {
    return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
      // Add here your code to retrieve the user token from your backend

      let userToken = "fakeUserToken";
      resolve(userToken);
    });
  }
}

Once you obtain the USER_TOKEN you can configure the environment to use and run de Onboarding Process. Also, you need to configure the environment you want to use (you can choose between production or sandbox, so you need to check the API KEY related to each environment).

let authenticator = MyBackendAuthenticator();

authenticator
  .execute()
  .then((userToken) => {
    // Configure Alice Onboarding with the OnboardingConfig
    // Then, run the Alice Onboarding Flow
  })
  .catch((error) => {
    // Inform the user about authentication errors
  });

// The following line setups the environment for run the SDK
// It is necessary to specify the environment ("production or sandbox") before initialising the SDK.
aliceonboarding.Onboarding.setEnvironment("sandbox");

3. Onboarding Flow

You can configure the onboarding flow with the following code:

let userToken = "<ADD-YOUR-USER-TOKEN-HERE>";
let config = new aliceonboarding.OnboardingConfig()
  .withUserToken(userToken)
  .withAddSelfieStage({})
  .withAddDocumentStage({ documentType: aliceonboarding.DocumentType.IDCARD })
  .withAddDocumentStage({ documentType: aliceonboarding.DocumentType.DRIVERLICENSE })
  .withAddOtherTrustedDocumentStage({ title: aliceonboarding.otd.title });

let userToken = "<ADD-YOUR-USER-TOKEN-HERE>";
let config = new aliceonboarding.OnboardingConfig()
  .withUserToken(userToken)
  .withAddSelfieStage()
  .withAddDocumentStage(aliceonboarding.DocumentType.IDCARD)
  .withAddDocumentStage(aliceonboarding.DocumentType.DRIVERLICENSE)
  .withAddOtherTrustedDocumentStage(aliceonboarding.otd.title);

Where userToken is used to secure requests made by the users on their mobile devices or web clients. You should obtain it from your backend.

3.1 Selfie stage configuration parameters

withAddSelfieStage can be configured the optional parameter SelfieStageConfig.

SelfieStageConfig constructor has the following parameters names in version greater than 8.0.0 (in versions lower than 8.0.0 parameters must be passed in order):

  • capturerType: type of capturer to use. The enum aliceonboarding.SelfieCapturerType can be used to indicate the capturer. Default value is SelfieCapturerType.CAMERA meaning that the selfie will be recorded using the camera. You can set it to SelfieCapturerType.FILE to use the file upload or set it to SelfieCapturerType.ALL to allow both options to the user.

Warning

The parameter automaticCapture will disappear from version 8.0.0.

  • automaticCapture: a boolean parameter to indicate if the selfie capture should be triggered manually by clicking a button or automatically when a face is detected. Its default value is true.
  • cameraType: type of camera to use. The enum aliceonboarding.CameraType can be used to indicate the camera. Default value is CameraType.FACE meaning that the camera facing the user will be used. You can set it to CameraType.BACK to use rear camera. This argument is only used when there are available different cameras on the device.

3.2 Document stage configuration parameters

withAddDocumentStage constructor has the following parameters names in version greater than 8.0.0 (in versions lower than 8.0.0 parameters must be passed in order):

  • documentType: type of document to capture. The enum aliceonboarding.DocumentType can be used to indicate the type (id card, driver license, residence permit, passport).
  • issuingCountry: country ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code. Don't set it to allow the user to choose the country.
  • documentStageConfig: (optional) capture configuration parameters.

DocumentStageConfig encapsulates different capture configuration parameters. Its constructor has the following parameters names in version greater than 8.0.0 (in versions lower than 8.0.0 parameters must be passed in order):

  • capturerType: type of capturer to use. The enum aliceonboarding.DocumentCapturerType can be used to indicate the capturer. Default value is DocumentCapturerType.CAMERA meaning that the document capture will be recorded with the camera. You can set it to DocumentCapturerType.FILE to allow just the file upload or set it to DocumentCapturerType.ALL to allow both options to the user.
  • automaticCapture: boolean parameter to indicate if the document capture should be triggered manually by clicking a button or automatically when a document is detected. Default value is false.
  • cameraType: type of camera to use. The enum aliceonboarding.CameraType can be used to indicate the camera. Default value is CameraType.BACK meaning that the rear camera will be used. You can set it to CameraType.FACE to use the frontal camera. This argument is only used when there are available different cameras on the device.
  • manualCaptureTimeout: timeout for showing an alert giving the user the option to start a manual capture when the automatic capture fails to start. Default value is 11000 (ms).
  • attemptsToShowManualAlert: number of attempts of automatic capture before showing an alert giving the user the option to start a manual capture. Default value is 2.

The following example initializes a document capture of Spanish driving licenses only with file upload

let userToken = "<ADD-YOUR-USER-TOKEN-HERE>";
let issuing_country = "ESP";

// Initialise the documentStageConfig classs with your custom config

let documentStageConfig = new aliceonboarding.DocumentStageConfig({
  capturerType: aliceonboarding.DocumentCapturerType.FILE,
  automaticCapture: true,
  cameraType: aliceonboarding.CameraType.BACK
});

let config = new aliceonboarding.OnboardingConfig()
  .withUserToken(userToken)
  .withAddDocumentStage({
    documentType: aliceonboarding.DocumentType.DRIVERLICENSE,
    issuingCountry: issuing_country,
    documentStageConfig
  });

let userToken = "<ADD-YOUR-USER-TOKEN-HERE>";
let issuing_country = "ESP";

// Initialise the documentStageConfig classs with your custom config

let documentStageConfig = new aliceonboarding.DocumentStageConfig(
  aliceonboarding.DocumentCapturerType.FILE,
  true,
  aliceonboarding.CameraType.BACK
);

let config = new aliceonboarding.OnboardingConfig()
  .withUserToken(userToken)
  .withAddDocumentStage(
    aliceonboarding.DocumentType.DRIVERLICENSE,
    issuing_country,
    documentStageConfig
  );

The following example initializes a document capture allowing the user to update the document as a file or capture them with the camera. The example also allows the user to select the country for that document

let userToken = "<ADD-YOUR-USER-TOKEN-HERE>";

// Initialise the documentStageConfig classs with your custom config

let documentStageConfig = new aliceonboarding.DocumentStageConfig({
  capturerType: aliceonboarding.DocumentCapturerType.ALL,
});

let config = new aliceonboarding.OnboardingConfig()
  .withUserToken(userToken)
  .withAddDocumentStage({
    documentType: aliceonboarding.DocumentType.DRIVERLICENSE,
    issuingCountry: "SELECT",
    documentStageConfig
  });

let userToken = "<ADD-YOUR-USER-TOKEN-HERE>";

// Initialise the documentStageConfig classs with your custom config

let documentStageConfig = new aliceonboarding.DocumentStageConfig(aliceonboarding.DocumentCapturerType.ALL);

let config = new aliceonboarding.OnboardingConfig()
  .withUserToken(userToken)
  .withAddDocumentStage(
    aliceonboarding.DocumentType.DRIVERLICENSE,
    "SELECT",
    documentStageConfig
  );

3.3 Other Trusted Document stage configuration parameters

This functionality is an easy way to have a document that is not necessarily identification (e. g. proof of address, bill...).

There are two ways to use this feature:

  • Uploading a file: It must be a PDF file and less than 10 MB in size.
  • Capturing your document: You can add the sheets that are needed from your document. After each capture you can check if the image is correct and to finish you will press the send button that joins all the captures made and will generate a PDF.

withAddOtherTrustedDocumentStage has three arguments:

  • title: a title for this section during the onboarding process.
  • category: this argument is required if your flow requires multiple documents. You must use this argument to tag each document, for example if your flow requires an invoice and a payslip you could use "invoice" and "payslip" as categories. Note: this argument is case-insensitive.
  • description: optional argument. Allows you to display a description of the document (e.g. given extra information about how the document should be captured) during the onboarding process.
  • capturerType: type of capture to use. The enum aliceonboarding.DocumentCapturerType can be used to indicate the capturer. Default value is DocumentCapturerType.CAMERA meaning that the other trusted document capturer will be recorded with the camera. You can set it to DocumentCapturerType.FILE to allow just the file upload or set it to DocumentCapturerType.ALLto allow both options to the user.

An example of several Other Trusted Documents could be this:

    let userToken = "<ADD-YOUR-USER-TOKEN-HERE>"
    let config = new aliceonboarding.OnboardingConfig()
        .withUserToken(userToken)
        .withAddOtherTrustedDocumentStage({
          title, // required
          category // optional
        })
        .withAddOtherTrustedDocumentStage({
          title: title2, // required
          category: category2 // optional
        })

    let userToken = "<ADD-YOUR-USER-TOKEN-HERE>"
    let config = new aliceonboarding.OnboardingConfig()
        .withUserToken(userToken)
        .withAddOtherTrustedDocumentStage(
          title, // required
          category // optional
        )
        .withAddOtherTrustedDocumentStage(
          title2, // required
          category2 // optional
        )

3.4 Complete Timeout

This functionality allows you to set a timeout on the last part of the process. Once the user has completed all the steps you can complete the process without clicking the "Continue" button.

Completed Process

let completeTimeout = 1; // in ms and always completeTimeout > 0
let userToken = "<ADD-YOUR-USER-TOKEN-HERE>";
let config = new aliceonboarding.OnboardingConfig()
  .withUserToken(userToken)
  .withAddSelfieStage({})
  .withAddDocumentStage({ documentType: aliceonboarding.DocumentType.IDCARD })
  .withCustomParameters(completeTimeout);

let completeTimeout = 1; // in ms and always completeTimeout > 0
let userToken = "<ADD-YOUR-USER-TOKEN-HERE>";
let config = new aliceonboarding.OnboardingConfig()
  .withUserToken(userToken)
  .withAddSelfieStage()
  .withAddDocumentStage(documentType: aliceonboarding.DocumentType.IDCARD)
  .withCustomParameters(completeTimeout);

3.5 QR Redirection feature

This feature allows users who start the onboarding process on desktop to be redirected to their cell phones.

Note

Available since v6.6.4

withQRURL allows you to indicate the URL to which the user will be redirected. This parameter should be the same URL where the user is at the time of starting the onboarding in Alice.

To use it add the parameter withQRURL to the OnboardingConfig()object as follows:

let config = new aliceonboarding.OnboardingConfig()
  .withUserToken(userToken)
  .withAddSelfieStage({})
  .withQRURL({ url: "www.yourcustomurl.com" });

let config = new aliceonboarding.OnboardingConfig()
  .withUserToken(userToken)
  .withAddSelfieStage({})
  .withQRURL("www.yourcustomurl.com");

By default, the SDK will include an option at the bottom for the user to continue in desktop. If you want the user to always be forced to continue on mobile, set the displayPcButton boolean of the withQRURL method to false.

let config = new aliceonboarding.OnboardingConfig()
  .withUserToken(userToken)
  .withAddSelfieStage({})
  .withQRURL({ url: "www.yourcustomurl.com", displayPcButton: false });

let config = new aliceonboarding.OnboardingConfig()
  .withUserToken(userToken)
  .withAddSelfieStage({})
  .withQRURL("www.yourcustomurl.com", false);

3.6 Any Document stage

Note

Available since v8.0.0

This functionality allows the SDK to try to automatically detect the type of document uploaded by the user. It is not necessary to indicate the document type when initializing the SDK.

Any Docs Selector

let userToken = "<ADD-YOUR-USER-TOKEN-HERE>";
let config = new aliceonboarding.OnboardingConfig()
  .withUserToken(userToken)
  .withAddAnyDocumentStage({});

If the user chooses an issuing country where this functionality is not supported, the user will be shown a selector with the available document types.

Any Docs Not supported country

withAddAnyDocumentStage feature has 3 arguments:

  • issuingCountry: country ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code. Don't set it to allow the user to choose the country.
  • allowedTypes: allows you to restrict the type of document accepted in the process.
  • documentStageConfig: see how to setup the document stage configuration parameters

Example restricting the documents to IDCARD and Residence Permit:

let acceptedDocumentTypes = [aliceonboarding.DocumentType.IDCARD, aliceonboarding.DocumentType.RESIDENCEPERMIT];
let userToken = "<ADD-YOUR-USER-TOKEN-HERE>";
let config = new aliceonboarding.OnboardingConfig()
  .withUserToken(userToken)
  .withAddAnyDocumentStage({ allowedTypes: acceptedDocumentTypes });

3.7 Run Alice Onboarding

Once you have configured the Alice Onboarding Flow, you can run the process with:

// Setup your environment between "production" or "sandbox".
aliceonboarding.Onboarding.setEnvironment("sandbox");

function onSuccess(userInfo) {
  console.log("onSuccess: " + userInfo);
}
function onFailure(error) {
  console.log("onFailure: " + error);
}
function onCancel() {
  console.log("onCancel");
}

new aliceonboarding.Onboarding({
  idSelector: "alice-onboarding-mount",
  onboardingConfig: config,
}).run(onSuccess, onFailure, onCancel);

// Setup your environment between "production" or "sandbox".
aliceonboarding.Onboarding.setEnvironment("sandbox");

function onSuccess(userInfo) {
  console.log("onSuccess: " + userInfo);
}
function onFailure(error) {
  console.log("onFailure: " + error);
}
function onCancel() {
  console.log("onCancel");
}

new aliceonboarding.Onboarding("alice-onboarding-mount", config).run(
  onSuccess,
  onFailure,
  onCancel
);

3.8 Removing Alice Onboarding

If you are running the onboarding process inside a SPA, you can call the unmount method to remove the SDK from the current web page. This will reset its state, so you can restart the onboarding process later on:

const onboarding = new aliceonboarding.Onboarding({ idSelector: "alice-onboarding-mount", onboardingConfig: config });
onboarding.run(onSuccess, onFailure, onCancel);
...
onboarding.unmount();

const onboarding = new aliceonboarding.Onboarding("alice-onboarding-mount", config);
onboarding.run(onSuccess, onFailure, onCancel);
...
onboarding.unmount();

4. Customization

The SDK is provided with themes for:

  • Typography ("corporate", "modern", "classic")
  • Icons ("classic", "modern", "minimal")
  • Icons variant ("circle", "square", "shape")

Note

Default values are in bold.

You can choose the themes with the OnboardingConfig method withTheme. That has the following parameters:

  • theme: Typography theme
  • iconTheme: Icon theme (Optional. Default value is "minimal")
  • iconVariant: Icon variant (Optional. Default value is "circle")
  • style: Custom theme parameters. The SDK expects an Object.

You can customize your Onboarding process with the following parameters

{
  alice_color_primary: "#000e8f",
  alice_color_accent: "black",
  alice_color_secondary: "#4d525f",
  alice_color_background: "white",
  alice_color_check: "#28a745"
  alice_font_family: '"Arial",sans-serif',
  alice_title_font_family: '"Arial",sans-serif',
  alice_title_font_size: "1.2rem",
  alice_title_font_size_desktop: "2.2em",
  alice_subtitle_font_size: "1rem",
  alice_subtitle_font_size_desktop: "1.3rem",
  alice_modal_title_font_size: "1.2rem",
  alice_modal_title_font_size_desktop: "1.5rem",
  alice_input_font_size: "1rem",
  alice_input_font_size_desktop: "1.3rem",
  alice_button_font_size: "1rem",
  alice_button_font_size_desktop: "1.3rem",
  alice_button_font_color: "white",
  alice_button_border_radius: "0.4rem",
  alice_button_height: "2.8rem",
  alice_font_bold_weight: "500",
  alice_letter_spacing: "0.25px",
  alice_title_letter_spacing: "0.25px",
  alice_font_extra_bold_weight: "700",
  alice_mobile_height_container: "94vh"
}

Warning

We don't recommend to change the Height of the capturer, due perfomance and user experiencie.

Example:

let config = new aliceonboarding.OnboardingConfig()
  .withUserToken(userToken)
  .withAddSelfieStage({})
  .withAddDocumentStage({ documentType: aliceonboarding.DocumentType.IDCARD })
  .withTheme({
    theme: "corporate",
    iconTheme: "minimal",
    iconVariant: "square",
    style: {
      alice_color_primary: "orange",
      alice_color_secondary: "grey",
      etc,
    }
  });

let config = new aliceonboarding.OnboardingConfig()
  .withUserToken(userToken)
  .withAddSelfieStage()
  .withAddDocumentStage(aliceonboarding.DocumentType.IDCARD)
  .withTheme("corporate", "minimal", "square", {
      alice_color_primary: "orange",
      alice_color_secondary: "grey",
      etc,
  });

Warning

Only supported with Onboarding Flow.

4.2 Localization

The supported languages are:

Locale Code
Arabic arc
Catalan ca
German de
English en
Spanish es
Basque eu
French fra
Italian it
Galician gl
Dutch nl
Japanese ja
Polish pl
Portuguese pt
Russian ru
Turkish tr
Simplified Chinese zh

By default, the SDK uses English, but the language used can be set through withCustomLocalization (using ISO 639-1 codes):

let userToken = "<ADD-YOUR-USER-TOKEN-HERE>";
let language = "es";

let config = new aliceonboarding.OnboardingConfig()
  .withUserToken(userToken)
  .withAddSelfieStage({})
  .withAddDocumentStage({ documentType: aliceonboarding.DocumentType.IDCARD })
  .withAddDocumentStage({ documentType: aliceonboarding.DocumentType.DRIVERLICENSE })
  .withCustomLocalization({ language });

let userToken = "<ADD-YOUR-USER-TOKEN-HERE>";
let language = "es";

let config = new aliceonboarding.OnboardingConfig()
  .withUserToken(userToken)
  .withAddSelfieStage()
  .withAddDocumentStage(aliceonboarding.DocumentType.IDCARD)
  .withAddDocumentStage(aliceonboarding.DocumentType.DRIVERLICENSE)
  .withCustomLocalization(language);

Additionally, messages can be overridden with the second argument of withCustomLocalization. This argument must is an object that maps languages and strings to override:

    let userToken = "<ADD-YOUR-USER-TOKEN-HERE>";
    let language = "es";
    const customMessages = {"en": {"onboarding_stages_title" : "Hello" }, "es": {"onboarding_stages_title" : "Hola" }};
    let  new aliceonboarding.OnboardingConfig()
        .withUserToken(userToken)
        .withAddSelfieStage({})
        .withCustomLocalization({ language, customMessages });

    let userToken = "<ADD-YOUR-USER-TOKEN-HERE>";
    let language = "es";
    const customMessages = {"en": {"onboarding_stages_title" : "Hello" }, "es": {"onboarding_stages_title" : "Hola" }};
    let  new aliceonboarding.OnboardingConfig()
        .withUserToken(userToken)
        .withAddSelfieStage()
        .withCustomLocalization(language, customMessages);

The default messages can be found here.