Sub-Category

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.

27 businesses

Health Street

Kings, New York, United States

Health street's integrated, nationwide drug testing and background check services are ideal for companies who want to mitigate…

5.0 1 reviews

Choice Screening

Englewood, Colorado, United States

Choice screening delivers fully integrated, diverse background screening solutions. As a committed partner, choice screening…

4.9 6 reviews

Certn

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Certn isn’t a background check provider with a tech department, it’s a tech-first leader innovating every part of the background…

4.8 63 reviews

SpringVerify

Bengaluru, Karnataka

Springverify, a product by springworks Reliable background verifications. Purpose-built for high-growth companies. From agile…

4.7 39 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

Checkr

San Francisco, California, United States

Checkr is the data platform that powers safe and fair decisions. We’re a technology company that helps our customers assess risk…

4.5 186 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

OneSource

Omaha, Nebraska, United States

At one source, we believe success for any organization begins with the right people. We provide timely, comprehensive, and…

4.5 2 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

Occuscreen

Vancouver, Washington, United States

We simplify your drug and background screening by offering online access and providing comprehensive results you can rely on to…

4.3 4 reviews

Securitec is 100% wholesale court data as a service (cdaas) provider that offers powerful and cost effective technology and…

4.3 10 reviews

Shield Screening

Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States

Shield screening provides better background checks while alleviating the risk and stress associated with the screening process…

4.3 3 reviews

ClearStar

Alpharetta, Georgia, United States

Clearstar, inc. Is a leading human resources (HR) technology company specializing in background, drug, and health screening…

4.2 6 reviews

FRS Software

Monroe, North Carolina, United States

As the background screening industry's most widely used technology, frs™ offers our B2B clients a foundation of rock solid…

4.0 1 reviews

Global Verification Network

Palatine, Illinois, United States

Global verification network (gvn) provides custom screening solutions which helps organizations mitigate risk. While focused on…

4.0 5 reviews

iCrederity

Karnataka, India

Icrederity provides fast and highly reliable employee verification, pre employment screening solutions, credential verification…

4.0 1 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

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

Core Screening

Kennewick, Washington, United States

With over a decade of experience in the industry, corescreening provides high quality background screening tools and solutions to…

3.7 3 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
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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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