MyEmployment vs Smile API

MyEmployment provides employment and income verification while giving employees visibility and control over requests to access their data. Employees can get an alert when a request arrives, approve or deny it, set general preferences, or freeze access to their report. The service covers current and former employees, including people who left an employer years ago. For employers, it handles incoming verification requests and can verify new hires. MyEmployment says it connects with more than 60 payroll and HRIS platforms, including ADP, Paychex, Gusto, Workday, and UKG; verifiers can connect through a REST API. The company says it is SOC 2 certified and complies with the FCRA and major state privacy regulations. It describes encryption, verifier credentialing, permissible-purpose checks, and request monitoring and audits. Employee and employer services are free. Standard verification costs $59, paid once, paid by the verifier. The listed platforms are Android, iOS, web, and API.

Smile API provides real-time, user-authorized access to verified identity, employment, and financial data through an API. It consolidates information from government, HR and payroll systems, gig economy platforms, and documents users submit. Smile Wink links payroll, government, or HR accounts to retrieve employment and income data. Smile Snap extracts and validates information from identity documents, income statements, photographed IDs, PDFs, and scanned records. Smile Signals combines telecom, behavioral, and email signals for screening, while Smile Flip supports identity checks, face matching, document capture, form autofill, and configurable onboarding workflows. The API uses REST, JSON, and HTTPS, with an OpenAPI specification and Postman collection in its developer resources. New accounts can test in a sandbox using mock data; production access requires approval and is billable. Users can revoke data access, and Smile says the information is deleted through its Revoke API. The company says it complies with the Philippines Data Privacy Act of 2012 and supports data portability rights under Section 18. A free sandbox is listed, while production pricing is available on request.