BrightChecks is designed to help firms manage identity verification in a compliant, inspection-ready workflow, particularly for UK accountants, company secretarial teams and ACSPs working with Companies House and ECCTA requirements . It provides centralised tracking, real-time status visibility, secure record storage and audit-ready reporting, making it especially well suited to regulated identity verification processes .

Although BrightChecks is clearly built to support ECCTA-related identity verification, it is not limited to that use alone. BrightChecks uses Credas to carry out the underlying identity checks, including biometric checks of identity documents, comparison against a live image of the individual, cryptographic document checks, optional address checks and downloadable PDF results for recordkeeping. 

That means BrightChecks can also be useful in other situations where a business needs a biometric identity check as part of a professional process. For example, it may support wider client onboarding, internal compliance procedures, due diligence checks or other regulated workflows where confirming that a person matches their identity document is important. 

In short, BrightChecks is built with ECCTA in mind, but its combination of biometric verification, secure tracking and audit-ready records means it can be used more widely wherever a reliable biometric identity check is needed