What is the best way to collect the application fee?

[Brentin Trent]

I see a lot of folks talking about services that can collect the application fee AND do the screening, such as cozy.co. I have not looked deeply into these options.

That being said, I plan to submit my own screening via RentPrep, but I want to collect the fee and submit the background check myself. What are people using to actually collect the application fee that is not baked into the actual screening?

Thanks,

-Brian

[Jennifer Rysdam]

I just use SmartMove. They send the tenant an email, tenant clicks, pays online, and the info comes to me. I don't have to deal with any of the fees.