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Contractors, Credit Check Your Customers Before Working

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Customer Advantages with Connect

  • Work together on a more ideal payment schedule
  • Your customer will know where their credit stands, by having the ability to review their credit report & score
  • Your customer's birthdate, social social security & account numbers are omitted from the report

Are you a Contractor?

Before you start working on a project, it is important to be informed about your customer’s financial situation. Currently, you may be at an increased risk level if you are not viewing your customer's credit information. Viewing your customer's credit report and score not only helps in mitigating late payments, but it can help you decide if working with the customer will be a good business move, before taking the job.

Experian Connect will let you view the credit report and score of your customers, at no charge, when purchased by your customers. After your customer grants you access to their report and score, you can be sure you are seeing their information directly from the credit bureau and not from a scanned copy or print out.

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Once you create your account on Experian Connect and you have completed authentication, you can start inviting your potential customers as connections. After they complete authentication and accept your invitation, they will be able to:

  • Purchase and view their credit information
  • Grant you access to view their credit report and score within 30 days of purchase.

You will be able to quickly view your potential customer's credit report and score. This may eliminate manual paperwork and save you time – you may be able to make smart decisions faster.

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Experian Credit Report and Score

What is a credit report?

A credit report is a snapshot of your customer's experience with credit-related accounts. Aside from some basic personal information, like their name and address to help identify their report, there are three main types of information on their credit report:

  • Public Records: Court-related information, including bankruptcies, state and county court records, tax liens, monetary judgments and, in some states, overdue child support payments. 
  • Credit Inquiries: Names of businesses or individuals that have obtained a copy of your credit report, including lenders, landlords, and employers.
  • Accounts: Payment history on all your Real Estate, Installment, and Revolving Credit Accounts.

What is a credit score?

A credit score is a number based on the information in your customer's credit report. It is similar to a grade you would have received in school, but instead of right and wrong answers, their credit score is based on positive and negative credit history. Paying bills on time and using credit responsibly builds a positive history while paying bills late and being irresponsible with credit builds a negative history.

There are many different ways to calculate a credit score. Experian Connect uses the VantageScore® calculation with the Experian credit report. VantageScore was developed by the three national credit reporting companies — Experian, TransUnion and Equifax. Unlike other scoring systems, it is the most consistent score using only one model with one set of scoring calculations, resulting in scores that are more uniform and consistent.

How is the score determined?

Developers of credit scoring models review a selection of consumers — often more than one million. The historical credit profiles of these consumers are examined to identify common variables. The developers then build statistical models by selecting the credit variables most predictive of future behavior and assigning appropriate weights to each variable. The score is influenced by the following factors:

Experian VantageScore Credit Score

VantageScore Explained

VantageScore is based on the traditional A, B, C, D and F rating scale. All credit scores are measured in a numeric range — from 501 to 990. When you view your customer's VantageScore, you are able to easily see and understand where your customer stands.

 

VantageScore Credit Score - A - Consumers in this group have credit scores that rank higher than 84 percent of U.S. consumers. Most lenders are likely to provide the best credit terms available to these consumers. B - Consumers in this group have credit scores that rank higher than 59 percent of U.S. consumers. Most lenders are likely to provide good credit terms available to these customers.C - Consumers in this group have credit scores that rank higher than 39 percent of U.S. consumers. Most lenders are likely to provide the reasonable credit terms available to these consumers. Some lenders may wish to review the credit history of consumers in this category in more depth and may require additional documentation in order to extend favorable terms.D - Consumers in this group have credit scores that rank higher than 19 percent of U.S. consumers. Lenders typically view consumers in this category as higher risk. While many lenders still make credit available, they likely will offer somewhat less favorable terms to compensate for higher default rates in this category.F - Consumers in this group have credit scores that rank in the lowest 19 percent of U.S. consumers. Lenders generally view this as a very high-risk group. Many prefer not to extend credit to this group. Some will extend more traditional credit but require much higher interest payments to compensate for the increased risk associated with this category.

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