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Help Center
Answers for realtors, settlement providers, sellers, buyers, and consumers.
Who to contact: start with the agent or brokerage that sent your invitation or payment request for transaction questions and new links. Contact support for a funding or technical problem.
What is an earnest money deposit?
An earnest money deposit shows a buyer's commitment after signing a purchase agreement. It is often held in escrow while the transaction moves toward closing. At closing, it is generally credited toward the buyer's down payment or closing costs.
Your purchase agreement identifies the amount, deadline, and who holds the deposit. Refunds and forfeiture depend on that agreement and applicable rules. Confirm the instructions with your settlement provider before sending funds.
A due diligence fee can have different payment and refund terms. Check the agreement to see which payment is requested.
What happens when my company signs a new MSA?
Your company administrator completes registration and the master service agreement, supplies the requested business and ownership information, and completes account verification and billing setup. The agreement alone does not activate every payment feature.
Ask your administrator to check setup status in the portal. If a signed agreement or a setup step is missing, contact support with your settlement provider, your name, your role, your phone number, and a short description. Keep your existing registration reference.
Can I change a payment or its delivery method?
Open the saved transaction and check the actions available for its current status. Available delivery choices depend on the product and your permissions. The receiving bank must support the selected method.
Once recipient submission or payment processing has started, changes may require review. If an edit is unavailable, contact support with the transaction reference so the team can check the existing request before you create another one.
Use the recipient and payment terms in the offer to purchase. Choose only a method the recipient can receive and has agreed to use.
My access code is locked, expired, or did not arrive
Each one-time code works for 15 minutes. After five incorrect codes, the link locks for 30 minutes; wait, then request a new code from the same page. You can ask for another code one minute after the last one.
Codes go only to the original email address or mobile number on the invitation. After ten codes, wait one hour before requesting another. If the contact details are wrong, ask the agent or brokerage that invited you to correct them and send a new secure link.
My invitation or status link expired or stopped working
Private links expire after seven days. When the agent sends a new secure link, the previous link stops working, so always use the newest message.
Ask the agent or brokerage that invited you to send a new secure link. If you already submitted your information, ask for a new status link instead: your submitted details and verification are kept. Never send bank details by email.
My seller verification is pending or could not be completed
Pending verification needs no action from you. You can close the page and check your status link later.
If verification could not be completed, the agent or brokerage that invited you can see that it needs attention and will tell you the next step, such as a correction link. Do not email bank details or start a new invitation. If the status page shows an error or does not load, contact support with the reference shown on the page.
My funding request expired or my payment failed
An expired funding request cannot accept bank or payment details. Ask the agent or brokerage that requested the funds to send a new request.
If you submitted a payment and it failed, was returned, or shows an unexpected status, contact support with the request reference before starting another payment.
For agents: my seller or buyer cannot use their invitation
Open the transaction and check its activity history. Invitation delivery failed or Invitation delivery bounced means the message did not reach the recipient. Confirm the contact details, correct them if needed, and use Send a new secure link; the previous link is revoked.
For a seller who already submitted and lost their status link, use Send seller a new status link. Contact support for a funding or technical problem and include the transaction reference. Never forward a private link or access code.
How do I follow up on a support request?
Keep your support reference and reply to the same email. You can include redacted screenshots and a description of what happened. We will get back to you shortly.
Glossary of terms
Plain-language explanations of the terms you'll see around the portal.
- Disbursement
- A payment instruction that moves funds from one of your accounts to one or more recipients. The money that comes in to fund it (the pay-in) always matches the total that goes out (the pay-outs).
- Pay-in / Pay-out
- A pay-in is money coming in to fund a disbursement; a pay-out is money going out to a recipient.
- Payment rail
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The payment network used to move a pay-out. Which rails are available depends on your account configuration.
- ACH — a bank-to-bank transfer over the Automated Clearing House network, processed in batches and typically settling in one or more business days.
- Same Day ACH — an ACH transfer submitted for same-business-day processing.
- RTP (Real-Time Payment) — an instant payment that clears in real time and is available around the clock.
- FedNow — the U.S. Federal Reserve's instant-payment service.
- Wire — a wire transfer.
- Zelle — a payment sent over the Zelle network.
- Verification
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Before a pay-out is sent, our payment platform checks that the recipient and their bank details match the party you intend to pay. The outcome is shown as one of:
- Verified — the recipient's details were confirmed.
- Unverified — the check has not yet been completed.
- Inconclusive — there wasn't enough information to confirm the recipient. Review the account and sanctions evidence; an administrator can consider an account override only when sanctions has independently cleared and the destination has been confirmed.
- Failed — a potential issue was detected, so the request is stopped and your account administrators and our team are notified.
- Not Required — verification wasn't required for this pay-out.
- Override
- For an eligible Inconclusive account result, an authorized administrator can document independent destination confirmation and accept the account-verification risk. This does not clear missing, indeterminate, or adverse sanctions screening.
- Disbursement status
- Where a disbursement sits in its lifecycle. Common statuses include Pending Approval (waiting for an approver), Processing (funds are being moved), Processed (completed), Rejected (an approver declined it) and Failed (it could not be completed).
- Funds to Close
- Also called Consumer Funds to Close. A request that asks a payer (the consumer) to pay in money — for example ahead of a closing — depositing it into your branch's escrow (source-of-funds) account.
- KYC / KYB
- Know Your Customer (KYC) verifies the identities of the individuals behind a business; Know Your Business (KYB) verifies the business entity. Banks require these checks before accounts can be activated.
- Beneficial owner
- Any individual who holds at least 25% ownership of the business entity.