Authentication Updates: One-time Passcodes V2

Despite many ardent revisions, our link authorization still confounds a very small but nonetheless important group of Applicants

. The links were much quicker but it was the switching between tabs that some folks couldn’t get their heads around. So after a great deal of effort and expense, we are reverting to traditional one-time passcodes for email and SMS authentication.

However, we are always improving! The new version incorporates:

• Lovely UI improvements
• Resend – Applicants can resend email and SMS codes themselves
• Remember my device – For seven days, the applicant can skip email verification if logging in from the same device.
• Alternative phone authentication – Applicants can still authenticate by calling or sending us a text originating from the phone number on file

Social Security Field

A new encrypted Social Security Field

will be available to household members. The primary driver for this

Field

is the increased number of organizations integrating with Credit Checker.

A few notes on security:

• Public House never queries the full social security number. In the event that a bad actor gains access to the application through applicant negligence, only the last 4 digits are of the social security nubmer are visible in the application.
• Editing the social security number requires entering the whole number.
• Permission to edit social security numbers must be granted via a permission set.
• Only the Credit Checker app will have permission to view the full social security number.

Public House App Updates

PH Setup

Cloud Storage

• AWS – Support for new IAMs key authentication
• Stripe  – Stripe connection parameters for processing application fees

(New)

PH Programs

Setup

• Program Type  – Specify your application program type, future functionality may be customized for the different types of application programs.

(New)

• Digital Signatures  – Enable signatures and configure who should sign the application.

(New)

• Imputed Income & Passbook Rate%  – Enable and customize the Imputed Income functionality.

(New)

Branding

• Logos  – Upload your logos for light and dark backgrounds

(New)

Application Fees (New)

• Enable Application Fees, Configure Fee Amounts and descriptions

Terms (New)

• Initial Agreement (Can these boxes expand with more content?)
• Terms (Confirmation of Completion)

Fixes

• Ineligibility Reason Updates – Invitation Expired corrected
• Screening Forms: Improved HTML support in warning messages
• Application UI: Google address lookup on household member’s physical address
• Application UI: Google address lookup on household member’s physical address
• Screening Forms: Google address lookup on employer address, new fields for geolocation on Income Source records
• Restrict Google Address Lookup for US Addresses only
• Required Documents: Description link fix in Firefox
• Application: Application Reset: Submission Stage reset for Applicants updating application
• Program Configuration: Email Template Translations: When a client edits the Custom Text section, we can now re-run all translations for that email/SMS template individually to reduce API calls.
• Application PDF are now sent regardless of if application signatures are used.
• Cloud Storage: Updates built to support AWS S3’s new tokenization protocols.
• Cloud Storage: Authorization: New success message upon authorization update
• Required Documents: Req Docs: If an upload isn’t successful it is automatically deleted
• Translations: Preferred Language