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What documents do guests need for hotel check-in in India?
Indian guests need a valid government photo ID — Aadhaar, passport, driving licence or voter ID — while foreign nationals must present a passport with a valid visa, and hotels report them via Form C. Rules vary by state, and digital verification (Aadhaar e-KYC, DigiLocker) increasingly replaces photocopies.
Photocopying IDs at the desk is the norm but also the weakest link: copies are easy to forge, painful to store securely, and a privacy liability for the guest. India Stack offers verifiable alternatives — an Aadhaar OTP proves the guest controls the registered mobile, an offline Aadhaar XML file carries a UIDAI digital signature that can be checked cryptographically, and DigiLocker shares government-verified documents with the guest's consent. State rules and police reporting requirements differ, so confirm local obligations with your jurisdiction.
Flocci Hotels ERP builds these rails directly into its check-in wizard: Aadhaar OTP e-KYC, offline XML validation against UIDAI public-key certificates (no per-lookup API cost), DigiLocker OAuth retrieval and Setu identity checks, followed by a front-desk photo-match review — with an immutable audit trail of who verified what, when and how, kept in the property's own isolated workspace.
See this working in the free Flocci Hotels demo