Our Canadian Screening feature is designed to help you thoroughly assess tenant applications and make informed decisions. With this new addition, you'll have access to a wide range of Canadian-specific tenant screening tools, ensuring you select the best possible tenants for your properties. This includes credit checks with Equifax (returning a FICO 9 score), bank connect, and identity verification.
Canadian Screening
- Canadian screening supports only Credit.
- Canadian credit screening uses Equifax.
- Canadian bank and ID screening will default to Canadian organizations
- Fees charged by Aptly in this mode may be dynamic:
- If your account is set up to Auto-debit Aptly fees from applicant payments, THEN we settle the fee in Canadian dollars
- If your account has any other billing setting, it will settle to US dollars based on the current exchange rate.
How to Set Up Your Account for Canadian Screening
You’ll first need to switch the Screening and Verification Country to Canada. The default is USA.
To switch to Canada, head to Settings > Screening Management.
- Switch to Organization Settings and expand the Applications Options section.
- Select Canada.
Once you switch to Canada, it will adjust a few parts of Screening:
- You’ll be charged in Canadian Dollars (CAD).
- The applicant will be charged in Canadian Dollars (CAD).
- Changes what addresses are required for the Applicant (i.e. the applicant will have to enter at least 1 address from the selected country)
- Canadian banking and identity institutions will be shown first
- Changes verbiage in the rental application (SSI for CAN)