Change Tracking

Accurate’s API offers the ability to track any changes made to information over the course of the background screening process. The tracking is applied to any data originally supplied by your organization in the POST candidate call.

At times, data provided by your candidates may be incorrect and we may catch that in the background screening process. In order for Accurate to accurately process the background check, we have checks and balances in place to catch this but would need to modify the information to get accurate background check results. A good example of this is a person’s government ID like Social Security Number. Candidates will occasionally mistype their information and, after the background check is started, we need to modify it. With this feature activated, we will notify you of the change, as well as when it was made.

This is an optional feature that can be activated by reaching out to [[email protected]] (mailto:[email protected]).

When doing a GET on an order, you can detect that data has changed for that candidate by checking that the property candidateInfoChanged is set to true. You can then make a call for a list of changes by using a GET https://api.accuratebackground.com/v3/order/{orderId}/changes.