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Background Check Software

Software and services for running criminal, employment, education and drug checks on candidates or tenants, so hiring and leasing decisions rest on verified fact rather than a CV.

25 businesses

EasyHire.io

Seattle, Washington, United States

Proudly developed in the USA, easyhire is the leading HR all-in-one solution to find, interview & background check job seekers…

5.0 1 reviews

Global Background Screening

Marietta, Georgia, United States

The #1 global online screening platform for easy ordering of employment background check services. In just a few clicks, order…

5.0 6 reviews

Intelius

Seattle, Washington, United States

Since 2003, intelius has been an industry leader for the information of people. Our focus is to empower decision-making and…

5.0 3 reviews

Payroll Masters

Napa, California, United States

Payroll masters is the leading, green certified, payroll provider for the bay area. We promise you that we will understand your…

5.0 1 reviews

AccuSourceHR

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Accusourcehr™ workforce solutions is a pbsa-accredited employment screening organization, with fast, affordable…

4.8 110 reviews

Intelifi Background Check Software

Beverly Hills, California, United States

Intelifi ® is an accredited employment background screening company providing recruiters and staffing agencies quality background…

4.7 12 reviews

VICTIG Background Checks

Bluffdale, Utah, United States

Our mission is to provide you the best screening in the world. We do this by working proactively with our customers regarding…

4.7 317 reviews

IntelliCorp

Easton, Maryland, United States

Intellicorp, a cisive company, is committed to providing small to mid-size organizations employment screening solutions that help…

4.6 76 reviews

Global HR Research

Fort Myers, Florida, United States

Better by every measure. Get to know the only employment screening experts with unmatched compliance expertise, advanced…

4.5 63 reviews

InCheck

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Incheck offers a full suite of background screening solutions for employers and volunteer organizations. With 20 years of…

4.5 1 reviews

Data Facts

Cordova, Tennessee, United States

Data facts provides clients with national and international background screening solutions to make sound hiring decisions. We…

4.3 2 reviews

Genesis Background Screening

Santa Ana, California, United States

Genesis is a full service consumer reporting agency dedicated to helping our clients make the best hiring decisions based on all…

4.3 3 reviews

Intelligo

New York, New York, United States

Intelligo is the world’s leading risk intelligence platform, blending artificial intelligence and human expert analysis to…

4.3 3 reviews

Intelligo Group

New York, New York, United States

Intelligo is the world’s leading risk intelligence platform, blending artificial intelligence and human expert analysis to…

4.3 3 reviews

InfoMart

Marietta, Georgia, United States

Infomart is a wbenc-certified and pbsa-accredited industry leader in background screening services. Our services include criminal…

4.0 2 reviews

Safe Hiring Solutions

Crawfordsville, Indiana, United States

Safe hiring solutions is one of the industry’s most thorough background checks, employment screening, investigation and…

4.0 3 reviews

Verified First

Meridian, Idaho, United States

At verified first, we believe great companies start with great people. Since 2013, we’ve helped organizations transform their…

4.0 19 reviews

Accurate Background

Irvine, California, United States

In a category of inflexible giants and ill-equipped startups, accurate background stands alone. We bring the expertise and tools…

3.8 15 reviews

HireSafe

Rancho Murieta, California, United States

All employment background checks are not the same! Hiresafe provides fcra and state compliant background screening services along…

3.7 12 reviews

HireRight

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Hireright delivers global background checks, drug testing, and employment verification services through an innovative platform…

3.4 117 reviews

HireRight

Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Hireright delivers global background checks, drug testing, and employment verification services through an innovative platform…

3.4 117 reviews

Sterling Talent Solutions

Independence, Ohio, United States

Sterling was acquired by first advantage on October 31st, 2024. First advantage (nasdaq: fa) is a leading provider of employment…

3.3 52 reviews
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These providers run the checks that sit between an offer and a start date: criminal record searches at county, state and federal level, employment and education verification, drug and health screening, motor vehicle records, credit checks, and in some cases tenant screening for landlords. A customer submits a candidate's consent and identifying details, the vendor pulls from court records, databases, past employers and schools, and returns a report — usually through a portal or an API into the applicant tracking system — with results flagged against what the employer has decided counts as a pass, a fail, or something needing a second look.

People end up looking for this because they've been burned, or they're worried they will be. A reference that didn't check out after the hire, a degree that was never awarded, a driver with a licence that had already been suspended — any of these turns into a liability question fast, especially in regulated industries like healthcare, transport, education, or finance. Hiring at any real volume also exposes how slow and inconsistent manual checks are: someone in HR calling old employers and typing county court websites, results varying by who did the digging, and offers stalling while everyone waits. Add FCRA, EEOC guidance, and a patchwork of state and local ban-the-box and salary-history-style rules, and doing this by hand becomes a compliance risk as much as an efficiency one.

The products differ mainly in how they source data and how much of the compliance workflow they automate. Some run direct county-level court research themselves, which is slower but more accurate in jurisdictions with poor digital records; others lean on national database aggregation, which is fast but can carry more false positives or gaps that need manual confirmation. Turnaround time varies a lot in practice — same-day versus several days — and matters more the higher your hiring volume. Coverage is another real divide: international checks, gig-economy or high-volume retail screening, and tenant screening are handled well by some vendors and not offered at all by others. Worth comparing directly: adverse-action and dispute workflow automation (does it handle FCRA notices for you or leave that to your legal team), depth of integration with your ATS or HRIS, candidate-facing experience for consent and status tracking, and whether pricing is per-check or bundled, since a la carte pricing gets expensive fast once you add drug testing and education verification on top of a basic criminal check.

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