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Whether you're hiring a new employee, accepting a tenant, or partnering with a business, these checks provide essential insights. They help ensure safety, reliability, and trust by revealing a person's history, criminal records, financial stability, and more.

Please review our extensive catalog of available background screening checks below!

Here are the articles in this section:

Address Reference Check

Phone reference check

A phone reference check includes manually calling your candidate's supplied reference to answer a list of questions and the summary of the reference call is included in your Certn report. Certn has a standard list of questions or the customer can provide their own.

Digital reference check

A digital reference check includes submitting employment reference questionnaires using our standard questions or allows you to supply a customized list of questions to verify the best applicant.

Availability

Parameters

Request flag

Include one of these flags in the body of your request:

Email: request_address_references

Phone: request_address_phone_references

Invite parameters

To invite an applicant to complete a screen, include this parameter in the body of your request:

email

See all available Application parameters

Quickscreen parameters

To complete a quickscreen, include these parameters in the body of your request:

information
- first_name
- last_name
- addresses (min 1)
  - address_reference
    Email: email
    or
    Phone: phone_number
position_or_property_location

Make sure to obtain the proof of consent from your applicant before running the quickscreen.

Example request

{
    "email": "test@certn.co",
    "request_address_references": true,
    "request_address_phone_references": true,
    "address_questionaire_id": "a123b4cd-1a23-1a23-12a3-a123456b7890",
}

Report

Report field: reference_result

Australia Right To Work Check

Parameters

Request flag

Include this flag in the body of your request:

Invite parameters

To invite an applicant to complete a screen, include this parameter in the body of your request:

email

The candidate will be asked to disclose their Australian citizenship status and to provide supporting documentation (proof of citizenship or visa).

Example request

The following example contains fields for someone applying for a license.

Report

Test data

Clear results

Records found

Basic Disclosure And Barring Service Check

Availability

Parameters

Request flag

Include this flag in the body of your request:

Invite parameters

To invite an applicant to complete a screen, include this parameter in the body of your request:

email

You also need to provide the employment sector to indicate the purpose of the check and the position. Use the following fields:

employment_sector
role_or_position_title

Example request

The following example contains fields for someone applying for employment.

Report

Test data

Clear results

Records found

Errors

400 Bad Request

‌You may receive a 400 Bad Request if:‌

A Basic DBS Check invite is sent without specifying employment_sector or role_or_position_title.

How to fix this issue

Add the appropriate fields with valid values before sending your request.

Address Reference Check

Phone reference check

Digital reference check

A digital reference check includes submitting employment reference questionnaires using our standard questions or allows you to supply a customized list of questions to verify the best applicant.

Availability

This check is available in Canada and the US

This check is available for a quickscreen

Industry

Availability

Endpoints

Industry

Availability

Endpoints

Parameters

Request flag

Include one of these flags in the body of your request:

Email: request_address_references

Phone: request_address_phone_references

Invite parameters

To invite an applicant to complete a screen, include this parameter in the body of your request:

email

See all available Application parameters

Quickscreen parameters

To complete a quickscreen, include these parameters in the body of your request:

information
- first_name
- last_name
- addresses (min 1)
  - address_reference
    Email: email
    or
    Phone: phone_number
position_or_property_location

Make sure to obtain the proof of consent from your applicant before running the quickscreen.

Example request

{
    "email": "test@certn.co",
    "request_address_references": true,
    "request_address_phone_references": true,
    "address_questionaire_id": "a123b4cd-1a23-1a23-12a3-a123456b7890",
}

Report

Report field: reference_result

Basic Disclosure And Barring Service Check

A Basic Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check is a United Kingdom (UK) criminal record check and can be obtained for a person living or working in England and Wales. The Basic DBS Check includes a digital identity verification service. Reported results will contain details of convictions and conditional cautions considered to be unspent under the terms of the .

Availability

The check is available in the United Kingdom

The check is not available for . ❌

Industry

Availability

Endpoints

Parameters

Request flag

Include this flag in the body of your request:

Invite parameters

To invite an applicant to complete a screen, include this parameter in the body of your request:

email

You also need to provide the employment sector to indicate the purpose of the check and the position. Use the following fields:

employment_sector
role_or_position_title

Applicants must go through identity verification to complete a Basic DBS Check. Make sure to add an before sending your request.

See all available .

Example request

The following example contains fields for someone applying for employment.

Report

Report field:

Test data

Send Basic DS Check requests with the following sets of data on our to retrieve our pre-filled reports.

Clear results

First name

Last name

Records found

First name

Last name

Errors

400 Bad Request

‌You may receive a 400 Bad Request if:‌

A Basic DBS Check invite is sent without specifying employment_sector or role_or_position_title.
The employment_sector value is not a valid value from the list provided in the .

How to fix this issue

Add the appropriate fields with valid values before sending your request.