Yanolja Cloud Solution is a UIDAI-registered verifier, and its Indian hotels can stop taking ID photocopies

Yanolja Cloud Solution, the company behind eZee, says it has been registered by the Unique Identification Authority of India as an Offline Verification Seeking Entity under the Aadhaar Act, 2016. In practice that means YCS can now verify a guest's Aadhaar the way UIDAI approves it, with the guest's consent, inside the PMS. For hotels in India, the point is simple: the ID check no longer has to end with a photocopy in a drawer.

YCS says it is the first hotel PMS provider in India to get the registration, though it qualifies that with "to the best of our knowledge".

Two ways in, and only one of them is live

The online route works today. Guests verify their Aadhaar through DigiLocker in the YCS AI Concierge guest portal as part of pre-arrival check-in, so the ID check is finished before they reach the desk. YCS says more than 100,000 check-ins have already gone through this way.

The front desk route is what the registration unlocks, and it is not generally available. The guest scans a QR code with the Aadhaar App, confirms with a face check on their phone and chooses what to share. YCS is pointing hotels that want it to a demo booking for early access. The announcement gives no general availability date, no plan or tier, and no pricing.

So if you run a property in India and read this as something you can switch on this week, check which half you mean.

What "offline verification" actually means

The wording is confusing and worth getting straight. Offline does not mean the guest has to be offline. It means the check does not call UIDAI's central database. The guest's details are already digitally signed by UIDAI, and the hotel's system verifies that signature on the spot.

Consent is required every time. And with the Aadhaar App route, the hotel never receives the full Aadhaar number at all, which is a meaningful difference from the status quo of keeping a legible photocopy of a national ID in a filing cabinet or a shared drive.

DigiLocker is the Government of India's document wallet, run by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. Under Rule 9A of the Digital Locker rules, documents shared through it are treated as equivalent to the original.

The regulatory run-up

This did not come out of nowhere. On 30 April 2026 UIDAI recognised Aadhaar Verifiable Credentials shared through the Aadhaar App as a legally valid way to establish identity. On 12 June 2026 the FHRAI advised member hotels to adopt app-based Aadhaar verification at check-in. By August the Aadhaar App had passed 5 crore downloads and more than 200 organisations had registered as OVSEs.

Aeijaz Sodawala, CEO of YCS, framed it around the arrival moment: "Check-in is the first real moment of a stay, and in India it is still slowed down by photocopies of ID cards. Being registered by UIDAI lets us work on a faster and more private way to do it, inside the tools our hotels already use every day."

What it changes for operators

The obligation does not go away. Hotels still have to verify every guest. What changes is the evidence trail. A consent-based digital check leaves you with a verified result rather than a stack of ID copies you are responsible for storing, securing and eventually destroying. For a busy property that is less typing at the desk, fewer transcription errors, and one less category of sensitive paper to worry about.

The competitive angle is worth watching. Being a registered OVSE is a regulatory status, not a feature release, and it is not something a rival PMS can ship in a sprint. If YCS really is first among Indian hotel PMS vendors, that is a gap that stays open for a while.

YCS says it serves more than 40,000 hospitality businesses across 170 countries and territories.