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Verifiable credentials

Verify your customers' and citizens' identities and rights

Figuring out whether a customer or a citizen should have access to your services means a lengthy and error-prone process, involving paper-scans and many e-mails? You need to hand-out paper documents for people to prove membership or other rights?

Digital verifiable credentials by SwissSign allow you to

  • Identify customers and citizens by verifying official Swiss or European eIDs, digitally, instantly and securely

  • Authenticate users by requesting only the credentials you need, such as residency, membership, work permit, and more

  • Enable digital services by accepting trusted credentials, automate your processes – all while customers remain digital self-sovereign

And all of this compliant with the Swiss Trust Framework and EUDI Wallet specifications.

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Digitise your identification and authentication processes with our Swiss QTSP signed digital credentials – accelerate your business or administration while increasing your customers or citizens' digital sovereignty

How verifiable credentials work

Following the concept of a self-sovereign identity, digital credentials

  • Contain any possible attribute of a person, from name or citizenship via contact details to school degrees or memberships and are based on digital certificates

  • Are stored de-centrally in an individual's phone in a wallet app like the SwissSign Wallet, can be presented anywhere via a QR code

  • Form the basis for digital interactions between individuals and organisations, allowing both parties to exchange only the needed data

  • Are regulated in Switzerland and the EU under the Swiss Trust Framework and EUDI Wallet specifications

Issue or verify credentials

 

Our Swiss cloud-based platform is designed to plug seamlessly into your existing architecture, based on a clean API.

  • SwissSign Credentials Issuer: Issue Verifiable Credentials to users, secure, tamper-proof, and instantly wallet-ready

  • SwissSign Credentials Verifier: Verify credentials on demand to streamline identity checks, automate service access, and reduce fraud

Professional Services & Integration Support

 

We know adopting new digital identity infrastructure can be complex – that’s why we partner with you on the journey.
We help you succeed with:

  • Credential Schema Design: Tailored to your industry or administrative needs, aligned with relevant regulatory or domain standards

  • Seamless Process Integration: We help embed issuance and verification into your existing services—fully digital, efficient, and user-friendly

Our APIs are being backed by growing documentation and real-world examples (coming soon!), but our team is here now to guide your rollout with expert support.

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Seamless Digital Trust Across Industries

SwissSign Credentials as a Service helps businesses and institutions move from paper-based, manual workflows to secure, automated, and verifiable digital interactions – with zero compromise on trust or compliance.

Pharmacy: Secure, Frictionless Prescription Fulfillment

 

As a pharmacist, you want to dispense medication quickly, protect patient safety, and ensure timely reimbursement.

With SwissSign Credentials as a Service: 

  • Ask for a prescription credential issued by a certified medical professional 

  • Combine it with the patient’s Health Insurance credential 

  • Instantly verify both, fulfill the prescription, and be confident you’ll get paid

No printed prescriptions, no insurance paperwork, no manual checks  just fast, trusted transactions.

Municipality: Smarter Citizen Services, No Paper Trail

 

As a municipality, you issue a Residency Certificate credential to your citizens’ digital wallets. That one credential unlocks access to:

  • Municipal, cantonal, and federal services

  • Online tax filing

  • Request for criminal records

  • Health insurance subsidy applications (when combined with a Health Insurance credentials and Revenue Statement credential)

  • And many more

No more mailing scanned ID cards. No more form errors. No more media breaks.

And when a citizen moves away? Simply revoke the credentials – access is instantly removed.

Enterprise: Instant Employee Onboarding and Secure Access

 

Issue an Employee credential to your staff at onboarding, and use it to:

  • Grant physical access to office buildings 

  • Authenticate employees to internal IT systems 

  • Control access rights dynamically, across departments or locations

Forget printing badges and managing multiple logins, do it once, and do it right.

Retail: Responsible, Compliant Age-Restricted Sales

 

You run a trendy liquor store and want to:

  • Confirm your customer is over 18

  • Get paid immediately, without risk

  • At the POS, request two credentials:

    • Over 18 credentials (privacy-preserving proof of age)

    • Payment Information credential

  • Tap. Verify. Done.

No physical ID scanning. No disputes. Just seamless, compliant sales.

About SwissSign

 

  • Recognised Trust Service Provider – everything 100% Swiss made: commitment to the highest security standards and regulatory compliance means maximum security and trust for you and your end customers

  • Everything from a single source: services ranging from PKI and digital signatures to electronic identities, so that you can focus on your core business

  • Fully self-managed, geo-redundant infrastructure in Switzerland: protecting and securing your sensitive customer data

  • Over 20 years of experience: supporting your growth and business success with in-depth expertise and an understanding of individual customer requirements 

  • Personal and professional advice: being close to you means that you can take informed decisions in the interests of your company and your customers at all times

Let's build the future of trust together

These use cases all have one thing in common:

No friction. No faxes. No fraud. Just trusted digital interactions, backed by cryptography and governed by real-world regulations.

  • Build once, reuse everywhere

  • Serve users securely and instantly

  • Lower costs, increase speed, and reduce errors

Your users are ready for a digital-first experience. Are you?

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