Australia Death Check (BDM) - Didit Documentation

curl -X POST "https://verification.didit.me/v3/database-validation/" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -F "issuing_state=AUS" \
  -F "services=aus_death_check" \
  -F "vendor_data=user-1234" \
  -F "first_name=John" \
  -F "last_name=Doe" \
  -F "date_of_birth=1990-01-01"

{
  "request_id": "req_01H…",
  "status": "Approved",
  "issuing_state": "AUS",
  "match_type": "full_match",
  "validations": [
    {
      "outcome_code": "MATCH",
      "service_id": "aus_death_check",
      "service_name": "Australia Death Check (BDM)",
      "source_data": {
        "date_of_birth": "1990-01-01",
        "first_name": "John",
        "full_name": "John Doe",
        "last_name": "Doe",
        "name_match_score": "1.000",
        "verifications": {
          "date_of_birth": true,
          "full_name": true
        }
      },
      "validation": {
        "date_of_birth": "full_match",
        "full_name": "full_match"
      }
    }
  ]
}

{
  "request_id": "req_01H…",
  "status": "In Review",
  "issuing_state": "AUS",
  "match_type": "partial_match",
  "validations": [
    {
      "outcome_code": "PARTIAL_MATCH",
      "service_id": "aus_death_check",
      "service_name": "Australia Death Check (BDM)",
      "source_data": {
        "date_of_birth": "1990-01-01",
        "first_name": "John",
        "full_name": "John Doe",
        "last_name": "Doe",
        "name_match_score": "1.000",
        "verifications": {
          "date_of_birth": true,
          "full_name": false
        }
      },
      "validation": {
        "date_of_birth": "full_match",
        "full_name": "no_match"
      }
    }
  ]
}

{
  "request_id": "req_01H…",
  "status": "Declined",
  "issuing_state": "AUS",
  "match_type": "no_match",
  "validations": [
    {
      "outcome_code": "NO_MATCH",
      "service_id": "aus_death_check",
      "service_name": "Australia Death Check (BDM)",
      "source_data": {
        "date_of_birth": "NO_MATCH",
        "full_name": "NO_MATCH"
      },
      "validation": {
        "date_of_birth": "no_match",
        "full_name": "no_match"
      }
    }
  ]
}

POST

database-validation

curl -X POST "https://verification.didit.me/v3/database-validation/" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -F "issuing_state=AUS" \
  -F "services=aus_death_check" \
  -F "vendor_data=user-1234" \
  -F "first_name=John" \
  -F "last_name=Doe" \
  -F "date_of_birth=1990-01-01"

{
  "request_id": "req_01H…",
  "status": "Approved",
  "issuing_state": "AUS",
  "match_type": "full_match",
  "validations": [
    {
      "outcome_code": "MATCH",
      "service_id": "aus_death_check",
      "service_name": "Australia Death Check (BDM)",
      "source_data": {
        "date_of_birth": "1990-01-01",
        "first_name": "John",
        "full_name": "John Doe",
        "last_name": "Doe",
        "name_match_score": "1.000",
        "verifications": {
          "date_of_birth": true,
          "full_name": true
        }
      },
      "validation": {
        "date_of_birth": "full_match",
        "full_name": "full_match"
      }
    }
  ]
}

{
  "request_id": "req_01H…",
  "status": "In Review",
  "issuing_state": "AUS",
  "match_type": "partial_match",
  "validations": [
    {
      "outcome_code": "PARTIAL_MATCH",
      "service_id": "aus_death_check",
      "service_name": "Australia Death Check (BDM)",
      "source_data": {
        "date_of_birth": "1990-01-01",
        "first_name": "John",
        "full_name": "John Doe",
        "last_name": "Doe",
        "name_match_score": "1.000",
        "verifications": {
          "date_of_birth": true,
          "full_name": false
        }
      },
      "validation": {
        "date_of_birth": "full_match",
        "full_name": "no_match"
      }
    }
  ]
}

{
  "request_id": "req_01H…",
  "status": "Declined",
  "issuing_state": "AUS",
  "match_type": "no_match",
  "validations": [
    {
      "outcome_code": "NO_MATCH",
      "service_id": "aus_death_check",
      "service_name": "Australia Death Check (BDM)",
      "source_data": {
        "date_of_birth": "NO_MATCH",
        "full_name": "NO_MATCH"
      },
      "validation": {
        "date_of_birth": "no_match",
        "full_name": "no_match"
      }
    }
  ]
}

The official Australian Birth, Deaths, Marriages Register. Didit exposes this service through POST /v3/database-validation/ so you can verify the submitted data against the authoritative source and receive normalized match results.

Coverage

Coverage: 100%*
Country: Australia
Service ID: aus_death_check
Data domain: Other
Category: DeathRecord

Inputs

Field	Required	Example
`first_name`	Yes	`John`
`last_name`	Yes	`Doe`
`date_of_birth`	Yes	`1990-01-01`
`vendor_data`	No	`user-1234`

Required inputs: first_name, last_name, date_of_birth
Optional inputs: vendor_data
Consent: Not required
Workflow availability: Available in workflow
Coverage: 100%*
Price: $0.05 per successful query

Body parameters

string

default:"AUS"

required

ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for this database service.Example: AUS

string

default:"aus_death_check"

required

Array containing this service ID. Pinning the service keeps the request scoped to this exact database.Example: aus_death_check

string

default:"John"

required

Given name to validate.Example: John

string

default:"Doe"

required

Family name to validate.Example: Doe

string

default:"1990-01-01"

required

Date of birth in YYYY-MM-DD format.Example: 1990-01-01

string

default:"user-1234"

Your stable user reference for this person, such as your internal user ID. Didit uses it to link standalone checks to the same end user and reduce duplicate-detection noise.Example: user-1234

Input rules & validation notes

Send the fields listed above exactly as captured from the user or document.
Didit validates required fields before calling the database. Requests rejected before source lookup are not charged.

How to call it

curl -X POST "https://verification.didit.me/v3/database-validation/" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -F "issuing_state=AUS" \
  -F "services=aus_death_check" \
  -F "vendor_data=user-1234" \
  -F "first_name=John" \
  -F "last_name=Doe" \
  -F "date_of_birth=1990-01-01"

Every successful call returns HTTP 200. The outcome_code field tells you what actually happened — distinguishing, for example, a real biometric mismatch (BIOMETRIC_NO_MATCH) from a selfie that could not be read (BIOMETRIC_IMAGE_UNUSABLE). The status shown is the default feature status; your configured Partial Match / No Match actions can override it.

MATCH — The registry confirmed the identity and every checked field matched.

{
  "request_id": "req_01H…",
  "status": "Approved",
  "issuing_state": "AUS",
  "match_type": "full_match",
  "validations": [
    {
      "outcome_code": "MATCH",
      "service_id": "aus_death_check",
      "service_name": "Australia Death Check (BDM)",
      "source_data": {
        "date_of_birth": "1990-01-01",
        "first_name": "John",
        "full_name": "John Doe",
        "last_name": "Doe",
        "name_match_score": "1.000",
        "verifications": {
          "date_of_birth": true,
          "full_name": true
        }
      },
      "validation": {
        "date_of_birth": "full_match",
        "full_name": "full_match"
      }
    }
  ]
}

PARTIAL_MATCH — The identification number was found but one or more personal fields (usually name or date of birth) did not fully match.

{
  "request_id": "req_01H…",
  "status": "In Review",
  "issuing_state": "AUS",
  "match_type": "partial_match",
  "validations": [
    {
      "outcome_code": "PARTIAL_MATCH",
      "service_id": "aus_death_check",
      "service_name": "Australia Death Check (BDM)",
      "source_data": {
        "date_of_birth": "1990-01-01",
        "first_name": "John",
        "full_name": "John Doe",
        "last_name": "Doe",
        "name_match_score": "1.000",
        "verifications": {
          "date_of_birth": true,
          "full_name": false
        }
      },
      "validation": {
        "date_of_birth": "full_match",
        "full_name": "no_match"
      }
    }
  ]
}

NO_MATCH — The registry returned no match for the submitted data.

{
  "request_id": "req_01H…",
  "status": "Declined",
  "issuing_state": "AUS",
  "match_type": "no_match",
  "validations": [
    {
      "outcome_code": "NO_MATCH",
      "service_id": "aus_death_check",
      "service_name": "Australia Death Check (BDM)",
      "source_data": {
        "date_of_birth": "NO_MATCH",
        "full_name": "NO_MATCH"
      },
      "validation": {
        "date_of_birth": "no_match",
        "full_name": "no_match"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Returned data

The exact fields surfaced in source_data depend on what the registry returns. The generated example for aus_death_check currently documents this normalized shape:

date_of_birth
first_name
full_name
last_name
name_match_score

Pricing & SLAs

Australia Death Check (BDM) queries are billed only when Didit receives a conclusive result from the validation source.

Per-call price: $0.05 USD.
Billing: per successful query. You are not charged when the registry is unreachable, when required fields are missing, or when the request is rejected before reaching the source.
Latency: typical p95 < 2 s.
Availability: 99.9% per quarter on Didit’s side; downstream source availability varies by country and dataset.

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Coverage

Inputs

Body parameters

Input rules & validation notes

How to call it

Returned data

Pricing & SLAs

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