Self employed applicants can now upload documents directly during their journey, with support for all file types and responsive design.

Applicants can now have their completed reference sent directly to their email as a PDF attachment.

Phone numbers can now be entered with or without a leading zero, with automatic formatting to ensure they are processed and validated correctly.

The sign up form now shows a countdown when CAPTCHA verification is about to expire, helping users re-verify in time without losing any entered information.

We resolved an issue whereby, for some generated PDFs, avaialble transaction data was not properly rendering

A new Respond Myself option allows applicants to request a reference for themselves and send it directly to their chosen recipient.

If data hasn't been received from HMRC after the applicant returns from the Government Gateway flow, we will count down a timer and check again after 15 seconds to maximise chance of fetching data, rather than assuming data isn't available from HMRC.

Applicants who have connected HMRC can now trigger a fresh data fetch immediately, improving the reliability of retrieving their information.

The Respond request form now includes a dynamic link to help users navigate to the correct page when creating a request for themselves.

The new employer name field in Konsole now includes autocomplete, making it quicker and easier to select the correct employer.

We’ve been returning Undeclared Employments for some time already, but we’ll now alert you to these more prominently.  This means you could issue a reference request for those undeclared employments that were potentially concealed to avoid a new employer receiving adverse information in a reference.

Previously, the downloadable PDF report was only available when the verification was completed. Now, you can access and download the PDF at any stage during the verification.

We've rolled out a new insight, helping you to Identify mismatches between applicant-declared data and company trading date data from our Employer Database.

This insight checks 100% of your employments, regardless of verification journey conversion: it does not require the user to interact with Konfir because data is checked against information from sources including Companies House

When we identify a mismatch between the employer name declared by the applicant and what has been verified by Konfir, you will now be alerted to this via the Konsole.

A 'minor discrepancy' is typically returned when the two employer names are similar, and a 'major discrepancy' is typically returned when the two employer names are completely different.

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When applicants return to Konfir from Government Gateway after connecting to HMRC, it can sometimes take a few seconds for us to receive the HMRC data. We've now added a countdown to the loading screen to make this process better known by applicants and to ensure they know that nothing has gone wrong.

When we identify a mismatch between the start or the end date declared by the applicant and what has been verified by Konfir, you will now be alerted to this via the Konsole.

A 'minor discrepancy' is returned for any difference of 28 days or less, and a 'major discrepancy' is returned for any difference of over 28 days.

We've released a new Gap in Employment Insight, informing you when someone is likely to be in Education. This is possible through automated idnetification of student loan paymentsreceived by the applicant.

We're starting to roll out the first version of our Self Employment verification solution. Now, you can send a new activity type 'Self Employment'. When a period of self employment is sent, we'll ask the applicant which accounting platform they use to manage their finances and if they can connect it.

To initiate the connection with HMRC, we need to first check the applicant is a UK taxpayer. We do this by sending information such as the National Insurance Number and Date of Birth to HMRC.

If we cannot find the applicant with the details provided, they will now be able to re-enter their NI Number and DOB in the Konfir UX.

When Open Banking is used as one of the data sources to verify an Employment on the Timeline, we now return the Latest Payment Date for that employment, alongside the Start Date and the End Date.