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Here is what our affiliates are saying...

Instascreen has become a competitive advantage for our firm. I start my marketing presentations with a demonstration of Instascreen's client interface. In several instances, the client has been so wowed by "our" system's ease of use as compared to other systems that they've immediately asked "Where do I sign?" We strive to deliver superior quality and customer service to our clients and Instascreen reinforces that client experience.

Coffey- Imperative Research

I wanted to share this feedback with you from our customers. We quite often sign up new customers for Screening because the system they use is too complicated. After we show them how TazWorks operates and how quickly we get the information back they are really pleased and excited about signing up with us. A couple of years ago I purchased a small company and the majority of the customers, especially one large company, stayed with us because of TazWorks and how easy it is to use. Your customer service is the BEST and we appreciate the upgrades you are always performing and the efforts your team takes in keeping my customers happy and my business growing.

Debbie - Advanced Screening Research

If your current applicant screening system is so cumbersome it discourages end-users from using it, you owe it to yourself to choose a system your customers will actually use. Imagine receiving more orders and saving your processors valuable time by getting your clients to enter the orders for you.

Flexible and Powerful Features

• Simple and powerful, InstaScreen Premiere 2.0™ is intuitive, easy-to-use, and flexible to accommodate your clients specialized needs.
• Create unlimited pricing and ordering packages for each client. For example, you can create a specific ordering package for each position for which the client hires, or create custom ordering menus from which the client can order a la carte as needed, or create combination package sets with a la carte add on products.
• Ordering packages can be configured with package pricing that includes a set number of included searches. Any searches beyond that limit are charged the configured per search rate. Additionally, packages can be configured to limit the total number of searches that can be added, helping to maintain budgets.
• Customize any ordering menu to each client's needs. Make searches required, suggested, or completely optional.
• Create unlimited report layouts with our drag-and-drop layout editor, to satisfy your most demanding clients.
• Create unlimited custom screening product templates to accommodate any specialized and proprietary search you desire.
• Create unlimited question sets for verification products, to address the requirements of each client and the positions for which they hire.
• System access is controlled by user and client permissions, allowing you to assign only the permissions necessary to facilitate a user's specific responsibilities and duties. Trusted users can be assigned broad administrative permissions while others users can be restricted to only a few specific actions and access.
• Makes supplementing a report with updates and additions easy, even after completion.
• Allows client hierarchy and ala carte user permissions for the highest degree of flexibility, security and collaboration. Allow only authorized personal to see and review sensitive search results.
• Options for automatic email notification with a report link to alert your clients that reports are completed and easily accessible.
• Conduct all your Tenant Background Screening, Employment Background Screening and Volunteer Background Screening on a single platform.
• Customizable order entry required fields per client to ensure you are capturing the data you need for each particular client's situation.
• You will enjoy working with our flexible and customizable features allowing you to meet the diverse needs of your various clients.

Efficient Processing and Automation

• Search centric data model allows like work to be processed in batches from multiple views.
• Process groups of similar searches at the same time (e.g. by applicant, by search type/jurisdiction).
• You're just a few clicks away from narrowing and sorting the data you need.
• Make mass assignments to your in house processors and dispatch requests for research in batches to your suppliers.
• Mass clear Court House searches when no records are found.
• Client messaging for efficiently communicating search progress/status/delays to your client.
• Quickly review report accuracy with on demand and automated Quality Control.
• Audit logs and system design simplify legal compliance.
• Populated verification-request, call-sheets, and letters streamline the verification process.

Streamlined Vendor Outsourcing

• Powerful vendor management features to manage, dispatch, and retrieve searches from your data providers and vendor network.
• Customizable, rules-based knowledge base to manage which vendor receives which orders, based upon jurisdiction and many other options. [probably need to enumerate a couple more options here than just the one]
• Choose the method of dispatching orders to your vendors: by web vendor interface, embedded interface, letter, email, fax, phone, or in-house instructions to processor.
• Automatic- or review-first dispatching options - Set system option to automatically dispatch new search-requests to vendors, or change option to review new search-requests first, before sending to a vendor.
• Batch groups of research to your data suppliers.
• XML interfaces completed for numerous vendors; ask for the most recent list.
• Customizable, context-sensitive knowledge base for special processing instructions, required forms and jurisdictional notes.
• Vendor load-balancing
• Stay on top of your researchers with 2-way messaging and automatic outstanding order reminders.
• Maximize outsourcing efficiency with management reports.
• Software Developer Kit (SDK) enables your suppliers to quickly integrate to the Standardized XML Gateway.
• Interact quickly and efficiently with your vendor network and data suppliers to compile applicant data.
• Get the Data you need from the vendor you want every time.
• Web vendor interface allows your researchers to login and enter search results directly in the system, saving you time and reducing transcription errors.

Standardized Data Exchange Gateway

• Powerful Electronic Data Interchange gateway supports XML and other communication standards.
• Through the Gateway, background screening companies are able to send and receive screening requests from third-party Applicant Tracking and Property Management systems (ATS/PMS).
• Request and receive search data from third-party data suppliers electronically through the gateway.
• Supply screening results in various formats including XML and HTML through the gateway.
• Support clients that wish to request and receive search results via XML into their own application.
• Support clients that wish to upload batch orders with a spreadsheet (CSV file).
• Integrate with ancillary service providers such as form I-9 verifications, substance abuse screening, assessment testing and other service providers.

Intuitive Background Ordering

InstaScreen's hallmark achievement is its ease of ordering. InstaScreen Premiere 2.0™ takes it one step further with:

• Options like our jurisdiction selection tool that allow you and your clients to look up jurisdictions for order inclusion from known addresses and review suggested jurisdictions from developed address history.
• Header-data filtering tools, which suggest jurisdictions and aliases based on applicant's identity and address history developed by an SSN Trace or Credit Report.
• Simple alias-handling feature allows you to select which jurisdictions apply to each given alias.
• Ordering options that allow you to control how simple or empowered you want your clients' ordering authorization to be.
• Streamlined ordering with InstaScreen Premiere 2.0™ that is fast and easy.
• Duplicate order checking.
• Dynamic ordering wizard based upon requirements of searches selected in package.
• Ordering wizard includes an order summary for final approval with optional view price permission.

Custom Report Presentation

• Concise, easy-to-read reports stand alone as the industry best.
• Provide 2 or 3 Bureau merged credit reports with the most powerful credit report merging and de-duping logic in the industry.
• Credit Reports are presented in a single easy-to-read format from all 3-credit bureaus
• Create unlimited report layouts with our drag-and-drop layout editor, to satisfy your most demanding clients.
• Create unlimited custom screening product templates to accommodate any specialized and proprietary search you desire.
• Create unlimited question sets for verification products, to address the requirements of each client and the positions for which they hire.
• Custom Scoring/Adjudication for analyzing report data and generating pass/fail/conditional results based on your client's screening criteria.

Reliable and Secure

InstaScreen Premiere 2.0™ is faster, more reliable, and more secure. The enterprise grade application architecture ensures that your screening data is safe and accessible 24/7. The new platform architecture incorporates leading edge technology that provides for SSL acceleration, server load balancing and server clustering. SSL acceleration is achieved by offloading the processor intensive operations of encryption and decryption of SSL communications onto specialized hardware, thus freeing up the servers to process your work requests for the fastest possible page loads and transitions. Load Balancing provides for the routing of your work requests to the server that will process your work request the quickest. Server clustering means that in the unlikely event of a hardware failure, user requests will be seamlessly and transparently routed to another server.

Furthermore, InstaScreen Premiere 2.0™ is audited and certified by a third-party, which includes quarterly external risk assessment scans, as well as annual onsite inspections to maintain its rigorous Cybertrust certification status. TazWorks, with its InstaScreen Premiere 2.0™ software platform has gained approval from all three national credit bureaus to deliver credit report data over the Internet. Rest assured that you are in full compliance with your credit bureau agreements when delivering Credit and SSN searches to your clients through InstaScreen Premiere 2.0™.

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Easy Client Invoicing

• Deliver invoices to clients online, email, or standard postal mail, or any combination of the three.
• Option to choose itemized/detailed or summarized charge descriptions.
• Options for to sort billing by name, social security number, requestor, and many others.
• Options to subtotal charges by applicant, requestor or reference.
• Multiple billing cycles to facilitate invoicing for separate divisions or invoicing clients on different billing cycles (e.g. some once a week and others once a month).
• Automate and manage charges with product charges; create and choose from predefined custom charges, charge tables, automatic recurring charges or any combination. [what are on-the-fly charges?]
• Post additional charges or credits to past reports at any time, even after billing, and the next client invoice will automatically be updated.
• Manage billing with client billing fields, such as terms, class, and purchase order.
• Sales tax options.
• Choose from numerous sales and billing reports, including sales commission reports.
• Choose from multiple export formats and accounting system interfaces, including QuickBooks, Peachtree, Business Works, and general purpose comma separated value (CSV) formats.
• Merchant credit card interface allows you to require payment for each order at order time or to charge client upon invoicing.

Advanced Features - QuickApp

With QuickApp, end-user clients avoid order-entry errors and liabilities by having the applicant complete an online application and electronic release online which populates a background check order ready for processing in InstaScreen Premiere 2.0™. The process includes a disclosure, authorization, digital signature, and finally the entering in of the applicant identifying information.

Advantages of the QuickApp online application process include:

• Your clients can avoid collecting sensitive personal identifiers including DOB.
• Your clients can save time avoiding order entry.
• Your clients can collect applications online.

Is a big hit with companies that have a lot of applications to collect and do not have an Applicant Tracking System interface.

The QuickApp online application process can be initiated in three ways:

Email invitation - Allows your client to initiate orders inside InstaScreen™ by entering only the name and email address of an applicant. Applicants will receive an email invitation with a link to securely complete their application and electronic release online.

Online web application - Allows applicant to visit a website and complete their application and electronic release online. Links to QuickApp can be placed on your website and/or your client's website.

XML request - Allows (ATS) Applicant Tracking Systems to request a web page link over our standardized gateway and present it to the applicant to complete their application and electronic release online.

Whichever way your client chooses, there are substantial market opportunities in the Volunteer, Student, Tenant, and Employment screening spaces.

Features

• A "Pass" / "Fail" / "Conditional" recommendation for each report.
• Scoring criteria can be easily customized for each property.
• Credit criteria can be configured based on the "type" and "date" of certain credit elements, as well as income-to-rent ratio, income-to-debt ratio, bankruptcy history, payment history, collections/charge offs, and credit score
• No software to install. Enjoy a seamless integration with our InstaScreen screening system.
• Accurate, automated and objective scoring recommendations reduce exposure to fair housing discrimination.
• Integrated data sources provide virtually instant results.
• Multi-state criminal and eviction database checks are available.
• Instant credit data is available from all three bureaus.
• TruSecure certified system.
• Tenant Scorecard"s low price gives you a competitive edge in the market place.

Behind the Scenes
The InstaScreen Tenant Scorecard is designed to provide maximum flexibility to each property manager. This, coupled with the highly customizable InstaScreen system, allows the manager to tailor each Scorecard to each property. Credit data is seamlessly integrated and available from all three bureaus. Criminal data is available instantly from multi-state databases. Additionally, more in depth, manual searches can be configured with the scorecard to provide the ultimate in assurance. Likewise, both instant and manual eviction data is available for consideration. Future enhancements under development include improved handling for multiple applicants and in-depth management reporting features.

Summary
InstaScreen Tenant Scorecard provides the most powerful and simple means available by which to score applicants. The combination of comprehensive data sources and customizable scoring criteria means property owners can decrease delinquency and increase profitability.