Preferental Screenings

Preferental Technologies

About this app

The Preferental Screenings App is a fully digital, AI-powered tenant screening solution designed to help landlords and agents make smarter rental decisions with speed and confidence. Built for the South African rental market, the platform streamlines the entire screening process by combining identity verification, affordability assessments, credit checks, fraud prevention, and risk analysis into one easy-to-use digital experience.

The solution helps reduce the risk of tenant defaults, fraudulent applications, and time-consuming manual administration by delivering accurate, real-time screening reports that support informed placement decisions. With automated workflows and intelligent risk evaluation, landlords and agents can identify reliable tenants faster while improving operational efficiency and reducing vacancy periods.

The platform offers a modern, mobile-friendly experience for both agents and tenants, allowing applications, document uploads, verification checks, and reporting to be completed digitally from anywhere, anytime. Tenants can also reuse their screening reports for multiple property applications, making the process more convenient and efficient.

Key features include:

• AI-powered tenant risk assessments
• Real-time identity and affordability verification
• Fraud detection and document validation
• Automated credit and background checks
• Digital application and document submission
• Centralised dashboard with real-time updates
• POPIA and GDPR compliant data protection
• Faster processing and reduced manual administration

The Preferental Screenings App forms part of Preferental's smarter, safer, and more digital approach to property management, helping landlords and agents secure reliable tenants while protecting rental income and reducing risk. Package dependant.

What’s new

- Introduced biometric lock functionality with a user interface for enabling/disabling biometric authentication.
- Enhanced deep link utilities to support logout callback detection.
- Refactored storage utilities to manage logout state persistence.