Accreditation tells you an investor qualifies. Onboarding tells you who they are and that they are clear to fund. AccreditedNow adds automated identity verification and sanctions/PEP screening to your accreditation flow, included for every investor you cover.
For sponsors, identity verification and sanctions/PEP screening are included for every investor you cover — at no extra charge, applied to every seat, with results on your dashboard. Individual investors verifying on their own can include an identity check in their flow at no charge.
Every AccreditedNow letter already confirms accredited status under Rule 506(c). The onboarding add-on layers two more checks onto the same case.
The investor scans a government-issued ID and takes a short selfie. The result is a verified identity, not just an uploaded photo.
The investor's name is screened against global watchlists and politically-exposed-person databases, with the result on the CPA's desk before signing.
Both results are placed in front of the licensed CPA before the letter is signed. A potential match flags the case for review — it never automatically declines anyone.
Onboarding closes the gap between "accredited" and "cleared to fund."
OFAC sanctions apply to all US persons, whether or not you are a regulated financial institution. A name screen is simple hygiene no issuer should skip.
Fund administrators, banks, and the platforms you raise on increasingly want identity and AML checks on investors — and some of them must document it.
Onboarding rides the verification your investors already complete. They never leave the branded AccreditedNow experience to get checked.
On by default for you; one minute for your investor.
Screening runs on the investors you cover automatically, at no extra charge. Only need accreditation? Turn it off for your firm in your dashboard.
Inside their normal verification flow, with an explicit consent step, each covered investor does the one-minute identity check.
The identity result and the sanctions/PEP screen land on the CPA's work paper alongside the accreditation documents.
Any flag routes to the CPA to clear first. The finished letter and its public certificate both show the mark.
On the letter and certificate: Identity & AML — Government ID verified · Sanctions & PEP screened — no matches. Status and date only, never any underlying data. See a sample certificate →
Onboarding is a check on each investor, not a compliance program, and not legal advice.
Included on any sponsor seat pack at no extra charge. No subscription, no minimum. It is on by default for the investors you cover; turn it off for your firm anytime in your dashboard.
Rule 506(c) requires the issuer to take reasonable steps to verify that each investor is accredited; it does not, by itself, require identity or AML screening. But OFAC sanctions apply to all US persons regardless, and many fund administrators, banks, and platforms expect identity and sanctions checks on investors. The onboarding add-on adds both to the accreditation letter so a sponsor can satisfy those expectations in one place.
A government-issued ID scan, a document-authentication check, a passive liveness check, and a face match between the selfie and the ID.
Global sanctions and watchlists — including OFAC's SDN list and international sanctions lists — and politically-exposed-person (PEP) databases. Adverse-media screening is available but off by default.
The licensed CPA. A potential match flags the case for review before the letter is signed; nothing is auto-declined. The screening is advisory.
On the signed letter and on the public certificate at accreditednow.org/verify-certificate, as a status-and-date line — "Identity & AML: Government ID verified · Sanctions & PEP screened — no matches" — never any underlying document or personal data.
It is included for every investor you cover on a sponsor seat pack, at no extra charge — no subscription, no minimum. On by default; turn it off for your firm anytime in your dashboard.
The sponsor's seat covers it — screening is included in the seat at no extra charge, so the investor pays nothing extra and completes the identity check as part of the normal verification.
About a minute. The investor scans a government-issued ID and takes a short selfie on their phone or computer during verification — it replaces uploading a photo of their ID.
The case is routed to the licensed CPA to review before any letter is signed. Nothing is auto-declined — a failed check or a potential sanctions or PEP match is a flag for a human to resolve, not an automatic rejection.
No. The facial image is processed by our identity-verification provider and is not retained by AccreditedNow; we keep only the pass or fail result as a compliance record, and it is never sold. Full detail is in our Privacy Policy.
Give your investors a CPA-signed letter that also confirms their identity and clears them against sanctions and PEP lists — without adding a second vendor or a second flow.