really need to get this info from api. The owner's mail is needed to verify if someone who says that is owner of place is really owner (not the person who wants to do bad things to his competitor business) !@

Getting the verified status would be a huge value add for our organization.  Would chose places API over 4SQ any time based on the quality of the data, but having this attribute is important enough in the business process that we're on the fence b/c 4SQ does return similar data for venues/places.  

We're not intending to make owner details available from the API, as that would be a honeypot for spammers. However would it be sufficient to allow you to verify that one of your users who claims to be the owner of a place, is the owner of the place? For example a flow like this:

a) your user triggers a places search and selects a specific place in the result
b) your user selects an option in your app to claim they are the owner of your place
c) your user is redirected into an OAuth flow to Google Places where they login with their Google credentials
d) once authenticated, your app is provided with an OAuth token for the user 
e) your app submits that token along with a Place reference to a Places API owner verification service
e) the Places API returns a yes/no as to whether the user concerned is the verified owner of the Place

That seems sufficient, yeah. We could then offer the option for the user to contact us as the verified owner of the business, but that would be their option (i.e., they don't have to reveal that to us).

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I just want to show whether the business is verified business or not for a given search.
Is this possible with GOOGLE PLACES API.

A simple isVerified boolean would be great!!!

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Is this feature available in the API response as of today?

This feature would help increase the number of owner claimed listings!

Still looking out for a param something like IsVerified , being available with api

I'm adding my voice to this request. Showing a client that his listing is not verified would incite him to complete the process.

This is precisely what we need.  Google has a process for verifying business claims (send a PIN in postal mail or other form of verification).  Let the API users benefit from that process, because the small API users don't have the  might or money to implement their own verification process and the business owners don't have the patience to go through the process again and again.  This feature will significantly increase the value of the Places API.  It'll also allow coupon aggregators and other place-app developers to associate businesses with Google Places DB (gid or something).  

Oh, one more thing.  Once this feature is available, the GID will become as popular as the SSN -- GID is for a business as SSN is for a person.  

When I said "This is precisely what we need", I meant the feature as described by a project member in comment #3.

I'm adding my voice as well -- we really need this.

Yeah, we'd really like some way to verify / authenticate a particular owner wrt Places -- it would simplify so many potential workflows and allow for some really neat applications.

I´m a Google Trusted Photographer and would like to develop an app that will show wheter a business is verified or not. It will be very helpfull for me to have that available in this API 

I need to be able to tell if a business if verified or not on Google Places. Is this feature implemented yet or not?

Yeah, this feature would allow me to for example sell ads space in places-api-backed app for clients, who are real, verified owners..

We would really like the flow as described in #3. This way we could enhance our application to help end user setup their google business page. Since our application relies on the data from the Places API this is a very important feature request for us!

agreed, even the solution in #6 and #22 would be sufficient. Just the ability to tell if it is a verified listing, hence worth showing would be a great enhancement. No owner data needs to be involved.

Another company throwing in their vote, we really need this feature as well please.

We want to push our customer to claim there business page. This would really help !

Wow, coming up on a full year after this issue was acknowledged.  Granted a brand new places dashboard was rolled out in April, but still - it's been 5 months since that.

Regarding: Comment #3
In our application we have a requirement to validate business details provided by the customer.
We could go with the approach in comment #3 or have the following approach:
We intend to accomplish this by having the customer register with Google Places and providing us with the credentials.
We would then programmatically retrieve the business details from Google Places and compare them with the details provided in our application.
For this we need an API(s) to retrieve business details given the Google Places credentials.
Does such an API exist now? If not, is there a plan to add such an API?

isVerified Boolean would be great!

Any news about it? Is there any "workaround" for it ... Like checking a value only available for verified places?

I´m in need of this feature too, someone has already figured out how can this be done?

More than 2 years and nothing. Moving to 4square is the only solution?

A simple Boolean would be great. Are there any indicators that can be used?

It would be more than appreciated, if there could be a value indicates a merchant is verified. 

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Four years, and no word on this bitty bit.

Allow me to add that adding this feature would inevitably lead to more merchants claiming their businesses and engaging with updated and relevant content.