Income verification

Verify applicant income from sources, not screenshots.

Applicants log in to their payroll, bank, or gig platform once, inside the screening flow. Your team gets verified income and rent-to-income status against your criteria, not a pile of pay stubs.

No pay stubs. No uploads. No PII.

Burnt applicant mobile flow connecting payroll, bank, and identity sources step by step

How income verification works.

Income verification runs inside the screening package you already send. Set the income rule once; each applicant connects a source; results come back in minutes for your team to review.

Why sources beat pay stubs.

Document-AI tools inspect the pay stub after the applicant submits it. Burnt removes the document from the process entirely: income is verified where it lives, at the payroll, bank, or platform source.

A login is not a file

A pay stub is an editable file the applicant controls, and fraud-detection tools can only judge it after submission. A payroll login is not a file, so there is nothing to doctor and nothing to detect.

Verified at the source

Income is confirmed inside the payroll, bank, or gig platform itself, not estimated from credit data or read off an uploaded PDF. The applicant connects once; the verified result flows back to your dashboard.

Gig-economy native

W-2 payroll, 1099 platforms, and self-employment deposits verify in one flow. Applicants that pay-stub screening quietly excludes can qualify on real income.

No PII on your desk

Your team sees the verified result, never the applicant's credentials, bank statements, or stubs. Nothing sensitive lands in your inbox, and nothing sits in your files to breach.

84%

of rental operators saw falsified pay stubs or income documents in the past 12 months

NMHC Pulse Survey, 2024
500%

reported increase in AI-generated fraudulent documents, April to December 2025

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38%

of property managers discovered application fraud only after the tenant moved in

TransUnion, 2023

Pay 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.

Burnt screening dashboard showing applicant packages in one queue

Short answer

What is tenant income verification?

Tenant income verification confirms whether a rental applicant has enough qualifying income for a property. The modern approach connects the applicant directly to their payroll, bank, or gig platform instead of collecting pay stubs that are easy to edit. Burnt runs that source connection inside the screening flow: the applicant logs in once, and your team sees verified income and rent-to-income status against the criteria you set, with no pay stub to inspect.

Frequently asked questions.

Tenant income verification is the process of confirming that a rental applicant has enough income to afford rent. Burnt verifies income directly from payroll, bank, and gig-platform sources instead of relying on pay stubs the applicant uploads. The result is compared against the rent-to-income rule you set for the property.

Send the link.
Guide the renter.
Review one package.

Launch with screening links or talk through a portfolio workflow with the Burnt team.

Invite renters to apply modal with direct invite and copy link options.