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, for $15 per investor.
Individual investors who verify on their own can add identity verification and sanctions screening free. The $15-per-investor rate is for sponsors who want their entire investor list covered and documented in one place — applied to every seat, with results on your dashboard, whether or not each investor would have opted in.
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.
One toggle for you; one minute for your investor.
Enable it when you buy or top up a seat pack — a single toggle, $15 per investor.
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.
Added to any sponsor seat pack. No subscription, no minimum — you only pay it on the investors you choose to onboard.
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.
$15 per investor, added to any sponsor seat pack. It is optional with no minimum — you only pay it on the investors you choose to onboard.
The sponsor. It is a $15-per-seat add-on on the sponsor's seat pack, 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.