KYC, screening and company checks — from your phone.

Scan a customer's ID at the counter for an instant KYC record, screen the name against sanctions and PEP lists, and check company buyers down to their real owners — all in one tool.

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No install No card Works on your phone

How it works

Three taps, from counter to record.

01
Scan or upload

Photograph an Emirates ID — both sides — or a passport from any country. For a company buyer, upload the trade licence instead.
02
It fills and checks

Karat types the record for you and screens the name against sanctions and PEP lists. Check it, fix anything, add the sale.
03
Keep the PDF

Karat builds a clean PDF — the customer's record with the screening result attached. That PDF is your copy to file and keep.

What Karat does

One tool for every customer at the counter.

Walk-in buyers

ID scan & KYC

Photograph an Emirates ID (front and back) or a passport from any country. Karat reads it and types a clean KYC record — no rewriting the same fields by hand for every customer.

Sanctions & PEP

Screening

Every name is checked against the UN Consolidated List, the UAE Local Terrorist List, and the EU, UK and OFAC lists. A person reviews any possible match — Karat never auto-clears or auto-blocks a customer.

Company buyers

KYB & ownership

Upload a trade licence and the entity details fill themselves. If the licence doesn't show who owns the company, upload the MOA — Karat traces the corporate layers to the real people who own 25% or more, and screens them too.

Why shops switch

Built for a busy counter.

Seconds, not minutes

No more rewriting the same fields by hand for every customer. Scan, confirm, done.

Every ID, any nationality

Emirates ID front and back, and passports from any country. Walk-in tourists included.

Inspection-ready records

The same clean PDF format every time — easy to file, easy to find, ready to show.

Nothing stored on our servers

Karat keeps no copy of the ID or the finished record. The PDF is yours to hold.

How your data is handled

Straight talk on privacy.

We keep it plain about where a customer's details go — no overstated claims.

The ID is read on your phone. A normal Emirates ID or passport scan is processed on the device.
To screen a name or read a company document, those details go to the checking service for that one check only — they aren't kept by them or by us.
Nothing is stored on our servers.
The record is the PDF you keep — we don't hold a copy.

Start scanning today.

Message Karat on WhatsApp and you'll be scanning, screening and filing records at the counter today. No install, no card.