# User Verification

### How does it work?

When User Verification is turned on your users will be messaged privately by Betsy asking them to visit a website to begin verification. This website is a Betsy Bot URL and once navigated to will gather data about the user's session and save that data for you to review. 

We use a service called IP Quality Score to gather this information.

As the Betsy Bot Database grows bigger the protection against alt accounts will improve. 

### Configuration

#### Setting your API Key

To use this feature you must have an IP Quality Score API Key. IPQS is a free service and you can receive an API key for free. Create an account on their website and provide the API key provided on the panel before activating the feature.

#### Verified Role

Select a role that you want the user to receive once a successful verification happens for that user.

#### Channel for Audits

This is the channel that logging events about the verification, including blocks, will be sent.

#### Channel for Verify Button

You can use this configuration item to handle users that have direct messages turned off as Betsy will not be able to message them. A simple message will be sent to this channel that has the URL that would normally be sent to the user via PM.

#### Block Alts

If this setting is toggled on then any time a alternate account is found for a specified user the verification will fail and the user will not receive the role.

#### Require Login

Having this toggled on will force the user to login via Discord to the site which gathers additional information on the user's Discord account.


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