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Hire people you can trust.
Keep them compliant.

Pre-employment screening and workforce compliance, run by your own team. Screen every role to the standard it needs, then keep every licence and right to work in date.

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Security officerBS7858 screening
✓ Cleared
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Security & manned guarding
Stadium & event staff
Data centres
Cash handling
Critical national infrastructure
Cleaning & facilities
Hospitality
Logistics & warehousing
Recruitment agencies
Aviation ground services
Public sector contractors
Telecoms field engineering
Security & manned guarding
Stadium & event staff
Data centres
Cash handling
Critical national infrastructure
Cleaning & facilities
Hospitality
Logistics & warehousing
Recruitment agencies
Aviation ground services
Public sector contractors
Telecoms field engineering
How it works

Three steps. The platform does the heavy lifting.

You invite, the platform collects and chases, your team signs off. Nobody waits in a bureau queue for a quote.

01

Invite your candidate

From your portal, invite a candidate — name, email and the screening type the role needs. The platform sends the link and starts the workflow automatically. No queue, no quote.

02

The platform runs the checks

Identity, right to work, address and work history, references and a convictions declaration, plus credit and AML for BS7858 — collected, chased and gap-checked automatically. You just review what's flagged.

03

Sign off and issue the certificate

Your team applies the final review — with optional four-eyes sign-off — and issues an audit-ready, branded PDF certificate with a public verification ID an auditor can check in seconds.

The platform

From first invite to the day a licence expires.

Screening is where it starts. Yezda also verifies who people are, hands them to payroll, and keeps your whole workforce compliant for as long as they work for you.

Screen every role to the standard it needs

Verify identity and right to work

Know what needs you today

Certificates anyone can check

Starters go straight to payroll

Stay compliant after day one

Once someone is cleared, Yezda watches their licences, right to work, certificates and re-screening dates, and tells you who to contact before anything lapses.

What we screen

Screening that fits
the role.

BS7858, BPSS, event staff, right to work and ID, and standard pre-employment screening are all ready to run, with IDV and references already wired in. Each is built from the same checks, so you screen every role to the standard it needs.

Standard · BSI 2019
Security industry

BS7858

The British Standard for screening individuals working where the safety of people, goods or property is paramount.

What’s included
✓
Identity verification (IDV)
✓
5-year address history with gap reconciliation
✓
5-year employment + education history
✓
Two character references + two employment references
✓
Credit & AML check (CreditSafe)
✓
Self-declaration of unspent convictions
✓
Optional four-eyes (two-person) sign-off
Built for

The sectors that depend on who they hire.

Wherever the safety of people, goods or property is on the line, screening matters — and Yezda is built to run it, to the standard each role needs.

SG
Security & manned guarding
SIA-licensed officers, mobile patrols and control rooms.
DC
Data centres & colocation
Anyone with physical access to critical hardware.
CIT
Cash-in-transit & cash management
Crews and vault staff handling high-value assets.
CNI
Critical national infrastructure
Energy, water, utilities and secure facilities.
EV
Stadium, events & crowd safety
Stewards and event security at scale, at speed.
AV
Aviation & airport services
Airside and ground-handling roles with restricted access.
FM
Facilities & corporate security
Concierge, FM and security at high-trust workplaces.
TEL
Telecoms & field engineering
Engineers with access to networks and customer premises.
CL
Cleaning & facilities services
Cleaners and operatives across offices, schools and public buildings.
HE
Hospitality & events staffing
Seasonal, venue and event teams that need to start fast.
LW
Logistics & warehousing
Warehouse, driving and depot roles handling high-value goods.
RS
Recruitment & staffing agencies
Agencies placing temporary and permanent staff with clients.
See all industries →
For your team

One portal. Every case, every candidate, full control.

Heads of Security and Compliance leads run the whole pipeline themselves — invite candidates, watch every check progress live, and issue certificates without waiting on anyone else.

portal.yezda.co.uk/dashboard

Good morning, Priya

Here's who needs you today.

Search⌘K
Invite candidate
At a glance · trends vs previous 30 days
Screening credits
18 / 25
Renews 1 Dec
Active
24↑ 12%
Completed
9↑ 8%
Certified
41↑ 5%
Awaiting candidate
6No change
Awaiting sign-off
2No change
Expiring soon
3No change
ScreeningMonitoring
TODAY

5 candidates need you

Plus 4 people to chase. Work top to bottom — the list is in the order things should be done.

On you 5To chase 4
Ready to sign offWaiting for the second sign-off2
Needs your decisionA check came back and needs your call
Ready to screenCandidate has supplied everything2
Chase refereesNo reply in 5+ days3
Chase candidatesNo progress in 3+ days1

Ready to sign off 2

Screening is complete. A second person needs to review and sign off before the certificate is issued.

DO
Daniel Okafor · Security Officer

Screening complete. Needs a second sign-off.

Today
Sign off
GL
Grace Liu · Door Supervisor

Screening complete. Needs a second sign-off.

1d waiting
Sign off
portal.yezda.co.uk
TODAY

5 candidates need you

Plus 4 people to chase. Work top to bottom — the list is in the order things should be done.

On you 5To chase 4
Ready to sign offWaiting for the second sign-off2
Needs your decisionA check came back and needs your call
Ready to screenCandidate has supplied everything2
Chase refereesNo reply in 5+ days3
Chase candidatesNo progress in 3+ days1

Ready to sign off 2

Screening is complete. A second person needs to review and sign off before the certificate is issued.

DO
Daniel Okafor · Security Officer

Screening complete. Needs a second sign-off.

Today
Sign off
GL
Grace Liu · Door Supervisor

Screening complete. Needs a second sign-off.

1d waiting
Sign off
01

Live pipeline status

Every case visible — Submitted → ID → History → References → Sign-off → Issued. Filter by region, role, screener, or SLA risk.

02

Branded reports and ID cards

Download PDF certificates and full screening reports — your logo, your colours, worded to the standard you screened to. Every cleared person gets a digital ID card, checked live by QR.

03

Team & region management

Invite recruiters, regional managers and viewers. Region-scoped access keeps Liverpool out of London's pipeline.

04

API + webhooks

A signed webhook on every screening change, so outcomes reach your ATS or HR system without polling, and a REST API to invite candidates and read results. On our top plan.

Read the API docs →
Tour the org portal →
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Hi, Amira!
Things you need to do
Complete all steps below to submit your application for further screening
You're 67% there4/6
ConsentsCheck and sign the consent form
DisclosureDeclare any convictions
Screening ProfileEnter your personal information
Identity CheckVerify your identity via Credas
Right to WorkPassport check or share codeStart ›
Background HistoryAdd address, work, and education history
For candidates

They're nervous.
The app shouldn't be.

Most candidates do this once, often before the biggest job of their career. The Yezda mobile app is built around clarity — what we need, why we need it, and how far through they are.

01
A checklist that shows what's left
Consents, identity, right to work and history, in order, with how far through they are.
02
ID and selfie check on their phone
Identity verification with Credas, right inside the app.
03
Address & work history with gap detection
We tell them what's missing — they don't have to guess what 5 years means.
04
Real-time chat with the hiring team
Three-state delivery (sent / seen / read), file attachments, push fallback.
05
A digital ID card once they're cleared
Its QR changes every 30 seconds and is checked live on site, so a screenshot won't pass. Works without signal.
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Integrations

Plugs into the tools you already run.

Payroll connectors and import files out of the box, and a REST API with signed webhooks for your own systems.

Yezda
  • XeroPayroll connector
  • IRIS StaffologyPayroll connector
  • BrightPayImport file
  • Sage 50 PayrollImport file
  • IRIS PayrollImport file
  • MoneysoftImport file
  • REST APIInvite + read results
  • WebhooksEvery screening change
  • SIA registerLicence checks
  • Home OfficeRight to work share codes
Read the API docs →
What’s new

New in the portal.

The latest additions to the portal, live for every team on Yezda today.

⌘K search

Find anything in a keystroke.

One search across candidates, your team, employers, referees, licences and documents. Tags narrow it to one kind of record.

Chat

Groups, bulk messages and photo albums.

Message one candidate, a group, or a whole intake at once. Send several photos as an album, or a PDF.

Live status

See who's online, everywhere.

One live status for candidates and staff, the same in every list, profile and chat.

Safe uploads

Every file checked before it opens.

Uploads are held until their real file type and size have been checked. Anything that fails is deleted.

Dashboard

Start the day with what needs you.

The dashboard leads with your action queue: sign-offs, references, gaps to chase. Work it top to bottom.

Security

Two-factor for the whole organisation.

Require 2FA for every member of staff, with 12-character passwords and automatic lockout after repeated failed sign-ins.

Beta · available to selected customers

Yezda AI, right inside your dashboard.

It reads a candidate's documents against what they declared, answers questions with the page it found the answer on, and drafts the paperwork. Your screener decides.

Join the beta →Explore Yezda AI

Reviews the whole file

Answers from the file, with the page

Drafts the report summary

Advisory onlyIt never changes readiness, the screening decision or the certificate. Your screener decides.
Shows its sourcesEvery finding and answer points to the document and page it came from.
On the recordAI reviews are logged on the candidate's activity, so the file stays audit-ready.
Included in your planMetered in AI credits that come with your plan each month. Top up only if you choose to.
Privacy layer · on every AI request

The AI reads the evidence. Never the person.

Candidates upload passports, payslips and bank statements. Before Yezda AI looks at any of it, we read the document ourselves and swap every name, address and ID number for a placeholder. The real details are put back only inside your account.

Inside Yezda · London
P60End of year certificate
EmployeeAaliyah Mensah[PERSON_1]
Address14 Elm Road, Leeds LS6 2AB[ADDRESS_1]
NI numberQQ 12 34 56 C[NI_NUMBER_1]
EmployerKestrel Facilities Ltd
Tax yearto 5 April 2023
Put back for youThis request only · never sent, never stored
[PERSON_1]Aaliyah Mensah
[ADDRESS_1]14 Elm Road, Leeds LS6 2AB
[NI_NUMBER_1]QQ 12 34 56 C
Answer, back in your account

Aaliyah Mensah's[PERSON_1]'s2023 P60 is from Kestrel Facilities Ltd, but the declared employer for that year is Acme Security. Ask Aaliyah[PERSON_1_GIVEN]whether they also worked for Kestrel.

AI provider
The AI only ever sees

[PERSON_1]'s 2023 P60 is from Kestrel Facilities Ltd, but the declared employer for that year is Acme Security. Ask [PERSON_1_GIVEN] whether they also worked for Kestrel.

Files never leave YezdaDocuments are read by OCR in our own AWS account in London. Images and PDFs are never sent to the AI.
Personal details swapped outNames, addresses, dates of birth, emails, phone numbers, NI, passport, licence and bank numbers become placeholders before anything is sent.
Put back only for youThe link between a placeholder and the real value exists only for that one request, inside Yezda. It is never stored or sent.
Fails closedIf a document can't be read and screened, nothing is sent to the AI and no AI credits are used.
Never used for trainingOur AI provider doesn't train its models on your data.

What stays: dates and employer names, because the review needs them to check a candidate's history. Every AI request records how many details were swapped, never the details themselves.

Security & data handling

Personal data,
handled like it matters.

Passports, credit files, criminal disclosure, references — the most sensitive evidence a candidate has. We treat every byte like it could be ours.

01
UK-only data residency
All evidence stored in eu-west-2 (London). No cross-border transfer without explicit consent.
02
Encryption at rest + in transit
AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.3 in transit, document-level keys rotated every 30 days.
03
Per-check consent + revocation
Every check is opt-in, revocable, and logged in an immutable audit trail.
04
Redaction-aware reporting
Org reports show outcomes, not source documents. Auditors see what they need — nothing more.
05
Retention with purpose
Evidence purged 7 years after certificate issuance, per BS7858 retention guidance.
06
AI that never sees personal details
Documents are read on our side and every name, address and ID number is swapped for a placeholder before Yezda AI sees anything. Files never reach the AI.
07
Penetration tested
External pentest annually. Bug bounty in place via HackerOne (private).
Compliance & accreditationsThe standards we hold ourselves to.See the compliance pack →
BS 7858BS7858:2019British Standard for security screening
GDPRGDPRUK GDPR + Data Protection Act 2018
ICOICORegistered ZC147640 · since 2021
Public verification

Auditors paste an ID.
They get an answer in a second.

Every Yezda certificate carries a public verification ID. Anyone — auditors, hiring teams, third parties — can confirm authenticity in one click, without an account.

No login Mobile-friendly QR-scannable
verify.yezda.co.uk
Public · TLS 1.3

Verify a Yezda certificate

Enter the verification ID and the holder’s surname, both printed on the certificate.

Customers

Teams that stopped chasing paperwork.

Security operations, data centres, cash handling and critical national infrastructure.

We moved 1,400 SIA-licensed officers onto Yezda in a quarter. Our compliance team got their evenings back — and our auditors got cleaner files.
MH
Margaret HollowayHead of Compliance, Northwood Security Group
The first time we rotated a data-centre crew, BS7858 was the bottleneck. Now it isn't. The certificate verification page alone has saved us six audits-worth of phone calls.
DR
Devesh RaghunathDirector of Security Operations, Halcyon DC
Candidates actually finish onboarding now. Whatever they've done with the mobile app, it just works — and the in-app chat with our team is the part everyone mentions.
SD
Síle DonnellyTalent Lead, Cuanairt Stadium Services
From the blog

What’s changing in screening.

News and practical analysis on BS7858, BPSS, SIA licensing and right to work, for teams who screen in-house.

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NewsMartyn's Law

Martyn's Law: SIA planning tools and what to do before 2027 The SIA released Martyn's Law planning tools on 9 November 2026. What they cover, who must notify the SIA and when, and what to do before commencement.11 November 2026 · 4 min read

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FAQ

The questions we get most.

Software. Yezda is a self-serve platform — you screen your own candidates (BS7858, BPSS, event staff, right to work and ID, and standard pre-employment screening) on a self-serve plan. The platform automates the collection, chasing and gap detection, and your team applies the final review. No per-case quotes, no bureau review queue.
No. Yezda runs BS7858, BPSS, event staff screening (BS7858 without the SIA licence), right to work and ID checks, and standard pre-employment screening for roles in cleaning, hospitality, logistics and recruitment. A social media check you can add to any of them is coming soon. Beyond screening, Yezda checks right to work, sends cleared starters to payroll, and keeps every SIA licence, certificate and right-to-work document in date with expiry alerts and weekly SIA licence monitoring.
Yes, on our top plan. Cleared starters go straight onto Xero or IRIS Staffology payroll through a connector, or Yezda builds a new-starter import file for BrightPay, Sage 50 Payroll, IRIS Payroll, IRIS PAYE-Master or Moneysoft Payroll Manager.
For BS7858, typical turnaround is around 2 working days to a full certificate, and candidates can be conditionally cleared within hours of accepting — enough to start work while the rest completes. Reference response times are the main variable; the platform chases referees automatically and shows live SLA risk on every case.
Candidates use the Yezda mobile app — consent per check, ID capture (IDV), address & work history with gap detection, and real-time chat with your team. No printing, no posting, no awkward emails.
Yes. On our top plan, a signed webhook on every screening change and a REST API let your ATS or HR system invite candidates and receive outcomes automatically — see yezda.co.uk/developers. A Yezda app on Zapier and native Workday, Greenhouse and Lever connectors are coming soon, and every certificate and report also downloads as a PDF.
BS7858 includes self-declaration of unspent convictions. DBS, credit and sanctions checks are available as pay-as-you-go add-ons — you add them to a pipeline only when a role requires them, rather than paying for them on every check.
eu-west-2 (London). UK-only residency unless we have explicit consent for cross-border transfer (e.g. an overseas employer reference).
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