No. The applicant completes the government ID and liveness check with Burnt's identity partner inside a session only they control. Your dashboard shows match status, consistency signals, and any review flags. The ID image never lands in your inbox or your files.
Identity verification
Know who is behind the application.
Applicants confirm their identity with a government ID and liveness check inside the same consented screening session. Your team gets the match result and review flags, never a folder of license photos.
Real person. Matching identity. Less PII to store.
How identity verification works.
Identity runs at the start of the screening session, so every check that follows attaches to a confirmed person. The applicant does the work once; your team reviews one result.
Verify the person, not the paperwork.
Leasing-desk identity review usually means judging an emailed license photo. Burnt moves the check into the applicant's own session, where a live person has to complete it.
Live check, not photocopy
Edited license photos are cheap to make and hard to judge by eye. A government ID matched to a liveness check confirms a real person is present, not just a convincing file.
The result, never the image
Your team receives match status and review flags, not a folder of ID scans and selfies. Less PII in your files means less to secure and less to lose in a breach.
One session anchors every check
Income, credit, and background run in the same consented session as the identity step, so payroll logins and partner reports attach to the person who passed the live check.
Minutes, not a review queue
Results return within minutes of the applicant finishing the step, so high-demand units keep moving and fraud review focuses on flagged files instead of every application.
93%
of rental operators experienced application fraud in the past 12 months
NMHC Pulse Survey, 2024
38%
of property managers found fraud only after the applicant moved in
TransUnion, 2023
~500%
increase in AI-generated fraudulent documents from April to December 2025
InscribePay per screening, not per seat.
One full package covers source-verified income and employment, identity, and partner credit, background, and eviction: $39.99 per applicant, $20 during beta. Sending applications is free, and portfolio terms are custom.
Short answer
What is tenant identity verification?
Tenant identity verification confirms that a rental applicant is a real person and that the name, date of birth, and contact details on the application belong to that person. It runs before income, credit, and background checks so the rest of the screening package describes the right applicant. Burnt runs the step through a specialized identity partner in the applicant's consented session, pairing a government ID and liveness check with cross-source consistency signals, and returns the match result, never the ID image.
Frequently asked questions.
Send the link.
Guide the renter.
Review one package.
Launch with screening links or talk through a portfolio workflow with the Burnt team.
