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Enhancing Transparency: ProTech ID Checker at OwnDays Contact

In a significant stride towards improving verification processes in the contact lens subscription service, Showcase, Inc. has partnered with OwnDays Contact to implement the online identity verification tool, ProTech ID Checker. This initiative aims to streamline age verification and identification processes, enhancing user convenience and preventing fraudulent activities during membership registration.

Addressing Background Issues: The Need for Stronger Age Verification

The OwnDays Contact service, which offers discounted plans based on age, such as the U25 discount, faces challenges with some users providing inaccurate age information. This discrepancy presents a severe issue as it directly undermines the integrity of their discount programs. As a response, a robust mechanism ensuring accurate identity verification has become crucial, particularly one that can prevent impersonation through advanced face recognition and other security measures.

Choosing ProTech ID Checker: The Solution

To tackle this challenge, OwnDays Contact has adopted the ProTech ID Checker, an eKYC solution that allows for thorough online identity verification. The tool safeguards against identity fraud and improper discount use by comparing identity documents, such as My Number cards and driver’s licenses, with facial recognition (selfie verification).

The ProTech ID Checker leverages advanced image processing technologies, minimizing issues caused by reflections or hand vibrations, and utilizes high-precision OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology to accurately read text on documents. Its AI-OCR age determination feature calculates users' ages based on their birth dates from the identification documents and checks them against pre-set age criteria (e.g., under 25). This enables immediate verification whether applicants meet the age requirements for discounts and displays errors if they do not, effectively preventing fraudulent claims.

Furthermore, the results from the identity verification process can be automatically integrated into OwnDays Contact’s management system via Webhook, facilitating seamless operations and improving overall efficiency while maintaining user convenience. This capability was a decisive factor in the adoption of ProTech ID Checker.

Benefits of Implementing ProTech ID Checker

Prevention of Fraudulent Use of U25 Discounts

By employing stringent verification processes using identity documents and facial recognition with the AI-OCR age determination feature, OwnDays Contact can effectively manage discounts based on age criteria. This integration helps eliminate impersonation and false declarations.

Streamlining Operations Through Automation

The high-precision AI-OCR technology automates data extraction from submitted identification documents. This system-based verification means that the merging of applicant data with verification outcomes occurs smoothly, significantly reducing time and labor costs associated with manual processes.

Smooth Integration with Internal Management Systems

The identity verification results can easily connect to OwnDays Contact’s management framework through Webhook. This reduces administrative burdens and human error, enhancing operational efficiency.

Going forward, Showcase, Inc. aims to support compliance with regulatory requirements and operational efficiency through the ProTech ID Checker, contributing to a safe and secure digital environment.

About OwnDays Contact

OwnDays Contact, a service provided by OwnDays, epitomizes the values of freedom and flexibility in contact lens usage. It aims to eliminate common user frustrations regarding high charges and purchase complexities by maintaining strict control over the manufacturing and sales process. This approach ensures optimized costs, allowing for a straightforward subscription model of monthly ¥3,980 (tax included) with free nationwide shipping.

The subscription service also accommodates various lifestyles, offering custom delivery cycles, thus ensuring flexibility for users who primarily wear glasses but occasionally use contact lenses. This comprehensive service caters to both casual and daily wearers, meeting a broad spectrum of consumer needs.

About OwnDays Contact, Inc.

OwnDays Contact operates as a wholly-owned subsidiary of OwnDays, providing contact lens subscription services in Japan. They strive to revolutionize the purchasing experience for contact lenses because they believe every daily essential should be seamlessly accessible. The company is committed to fostering innovative purchasing experiences that reflect limitless imagination.

Introducing ProTech ID Checker

The ProTech ID Checker, provided by Showcase, is an online identity verification tool designed as a SaaS solution that fulfills identity checks for bank accounts, mobile contracts, and service registrations easily online. It integrates public personal authentication using My Number card IC chips and facial recognition, facilitating a smooth verification process via smartphones and the web. By combining biometric authentication, AI assessments, and OCR technology, the service has achieved over 95% completion rates, minimizing user drop-off due to complex processes.

This service is compliant with various legal frameworks, including the Act on Prevention of Transfer of Criminal Proceeds and is currently utilized by over 300 companies in diverse sectors, such as finance and e-commerce (as of September 2025).

Learn More

• - Online identification/eKYC: ProTech ID Checker
• - Public Identification Super App: Public app
• - Automated Document Assessment: ProTech AI-OCR

For inquiries, visit: Support

About Showcase, Inc.

Showcase, Inc. was founded with a commitment to enhance human happiness through technology that removes inconveniences. With a mission to exceed expectations and deliver satisfaction, we aim to create solutions that increase the number of people leading happy lives.

• - Founded: February 1, 1996
• - CEO: Junichi Hirano-i
• - Address: Roppongi First Building, 14F, 1-9-9 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo
• - Stock Code: 3909
• - Official Website: Showcase