A verified-visit badge on review and booking platforms.
Planned
A review shows "visited, March 2027", and the platform checks the proof. UK and EU rules push platforms to show how they check reviews, and a verified visit could be one way to do that.
The Hereby network
Visits that other services can check.
The idea
Reviews, bookings, events and rewards all work better when they can tell a real visit from someone's say-so. Many of them have no easy way to do that today.
Hereby's proof says a phone tapped here. It doesn't say who you are, and each place and each app gets a different private ID for the same person.
What one proof can do
None of these exists today.
Event attendance.
Planned
A festival, a market or a class can count the people who tapped.
Tourism challenge or town trail.
Idea
A trail across wineries or a passport for a whole town, with taps that are hard to play from home.
Continuing-education proof.
Idea
A workshop or a conference could confirm attendance without collecting a list of names.
A link to the point of sale.
Planned
A visit matched to a sale through your point-of-sale system, so an owner sees visits and sales together. No integration exists today.
Pay per visitor.
Idea
Brands, tourism boards and malls could pay for a verified new visit instead of an ad impression. It isn't a plan.
How a platform uses it
- A visitor taps at a place.
- Hereby issues a signed proof: this place, a rounded time window, and a different private ID for each place and each app.
- With the visitor's permission, a platform asks Hereby to check it.
- The platform learns that a phone tapped this place around then, but not whose phone it was.
A platform you approve can see the visits you approve.
Planned For developers
The independent audit trail
Planned We plan to publish a fingerprint of every proof to a public record, so anyone can check that our record wasn't changed. We haven't chosen which public record yet. The details are on /how-it-works.
Rules for platforms and apps
Planned Sensitive places, such as clinics and places of worship, are excluded. Our terms will forbid reselling visits and re-identifying visitors. A proof is never a name, an email, a phone number, a device ID or a location.
Who this is for
Review platforms, booking sites, brands, tourism boards, event organisers and developers. We plan to open to platforms in Phase 2, from mid-2027. That's a target, not a promise.