24/7 AI Tenant Qualification
for Your Letting Agency
Stop manually qualifying every tenant enquiry at 9am on Monday. Sift runs Right to Rent eligibility, affordability checks, and property-type questions 24/7 — then scores each applicant before your team gets in. No viewing wasted on an applicant who was never going to pass.
14-day trial · From £149/month · CSV export + outbound webhook on Growth/Scale
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How Sift qualifies your tenant enquiries
Tenant lands on your website
Sift's widget responds instantly to property enquiries — any time of day, including evenings and weekends when most renters are searching.
GDPR consent captured
Before any personal data is collected, the applicant consents. Full ICO audit trail stored automatically — important for any data held as part of Right to Rent records.
AI qualifies the applicant
Right to Rent eligibility, employment and income source, affordability relative to the asking rent, move-in timeline, and property type (whole let, HMO room, or other).
Scored applicants in your dashboard
Ready-to-proceed applicants flagged immediately. Your team starts Monday knowing which enquiries are worth a viewing — and which ones aren't.
Leads land in your Sift dashboard
Export via CSV at any time, or configure an outbound webhook on Growth/Scale plans to forward leads to a URL of your choice. Native integrations with leading UK letting CRMs are on the roadmap.
What Sift captures for each applicant
Plus: full conversation transcript, GDPR consent record, and contact details — stored in the Sift dashboard, exportable via CSV, and forwardable to an outbound webhook (Growth/Scale).
Built for the lettings workflow
Right to Rent built in
Every conversation captures initial Right to Rent eligibility — nationality, residency status, and visa category — before a viewing is booked. Creates an audit trail for each enquiry at no extra step for your team.
HMO-ready
Handles multi-occupant enquiries separately from whole-property lets. Per-room affordability check (30× rule), individual Right to Rent per applicant, and group vs individual application flow — all handled automatically.
Works with your referencing provider
Sift pre-qualifies before referencing, not instead of it. Pass only proceedable applicants to Goodlord, Canopy, Let Alliance, or your referencing provider of choice — cutting the number of failed reference checks you pay for.
Stop sending bad applicants to referencing
The average full tenant reference check costs £20–£40 and takes 3–5 working days. For a letting agency processing 50 applications a month, that's meaningful money — and a significant chunk of those applications will fail on basic eligibility that Sift would have caught in the first conversation.
Sift doesn't replace your referencing provider. It removes the applicants who were never going to pass — so your referencing budget goes on candidates who have a real chance.
Read the full tenant qualification guideWithout Sift
Applicant books a viewing, attends, fills in a form, gets sent to referencing — then fails income or Right to Rent. 2 weeks lost, referencing fee paid, property still empty.
With Sift
Applicant is qualified at website enquiry stage — income, Right to Rent, affordability flagged immediately. Your team only views and references applicants who pass the initial screen.
Also applies to HMO applications — see our guide on qualifying HMO tenants in the UK.
Simple, transparent pricing
All plans include the widget, SMS, email, GDPR consent flow, and CSV export. Outbound webhook on Growth and Scale. No annual lock-in.
- 5,000 message credits/mo
- Unlimited lead qualification
- 1 user
- Web, email & SMS channels
- 15,000 message credits/mo
- Unlimited lead qualification
- 3 users
- Custom email domain (£9/mo add-on)
- Weekly auto-scrape
- Zapier, webhook & REST API
- 45,000 message credits/mo
- Unlimited lead qualification
- 10 users
- Custom email domain included
- Full analytics dashboard (Scale)
Save 2 months with annual billing. Credit top-up from £15 per 1,000 credits.
Frequently asked questions
Does Sift handle Right to Rent checks?
Sift captures initial Right to Rent eligibility in every tenant conversation — asking the applicant's nationality, residency status, and visa category before any personal data is stored. This creates an audit trail for each enquiry and flags potential issues before your team invests time in a full application. Sift does not replace your final documentary Right to Rent check, which must be completed in person or via a certified provider.
Can Sift qualify HMO tenants?
Yes. For HMO applications, Sift qualifies each applicant individually — capturing per-room affordability (the 30× monthly rent rule for annual income), Right to Rent status per occupant, and whether the applicant is joining an existing house share or seeking a group let. Qualified HMO leads are scored individually in the Sift dashboard — exportable via CSV, or forwardable to an outbound webhook on Growth/Scale plans.
Which letting CRMs does Sift integrate with?
Qualified leads land in the Sift dashboard with full conversation transcript, GDPR consent record, lead score, and contact details. Export via CSV at any time. On Growth and Scale plans, leads can also be forwarded to an outbound webhook URL of your choice — your developer or CRM admin can wire this into Alto, Jupix, Dezrez, Loop, Reapit, or any system that accepts webhook payloads. Native integrations with leading UK letting CRMs are on the roadmap.
Will Sift replace my referencing provider?
No. Sift handles pre-qualification — the initial conversation that determines whether a tenant is worth putting through a full reference check. Referencing (credit checks, employer references, landlord references) is carried out by your existing provider after Sift has confirmed the applicant is eligible and proceedable. Sift removes the time your team spends on applicants who were never going to pass referencing.
What does Sift cost for a letting agency?
Sift is priced from £149/month (Starter) to £549/month (Scale), with all plans including the web chat widget, CSV export, and a 14-day free trial — no card required. Growth and Scale add an outbound webhook for forwarding leads. Annual billing saves two months.
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