Common technical pitfalls
Over the years of our integrations with multiple businesses, we have come to realize some of the common mistakes developers make during our integration.
Location
A user's location is needed all the time during verification and it is important that this is true before and after a user's address. "Always" for iOS and "Allow all the time" for Android.
Multiple Addresses
A user should not be able to create multiple addresses. You can use the OkHi Address Book logic to be able to ensure to not create duplicates for the same location for a user. Address creation should be one at a time, and ideally, controlled by your server so a user is only allowed to create another address if the previous address status comes back as unknown or not at address.
Priming
Priming a user simply means you show the user the necessary information before requesting their sensitive location permission and user data. It is important you do this for transparency and also required by the Application stores because of the first reason. Follow this link to learn more.
Status
You should always make sure your user sees an update of their address somewhere in your dashboard when they log into your app as the image below shows.
Notification for opt-out
In order to comply with data privacy requirements, by law we need to (a) notify a user that we are using their location data and (b) provide the option for users to opt out of this data tracking. We do this by notifying users via email, SMS or WhatsApp with a link to their profile on www.okhi.me where they can manage these permissions. It can be useful (and is required in cases where we do not send notifications to users) to provide this link in your user profiles for them to manage their address permissions & use.
What happens to data if users opt out?
When a user "opts out" via their Okhi.me profile, we immediately stop collecting further data on that user. We retain all data that has been provided by or collected from the user up to that point for the required legal limits and customers have access to this data as well.
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