Snappt for Small Landlords? Why It Doesn’t Fit — and the $19.99 Alternative

If you’ve looked into catching fake pay stubs, you’ve probably run into Snappt. It’s the best-known name in the space — and it’s genuinely good at what it does. But if you’re an individual landlord or a small owner, two things make it the wrong tool, and there’s a simpler option built for you.

Snappt is built for enterprises, not individual landlords

Snappt is sold to large multifamily property-management companies. It runs on an annual contract, is quoted through a sales demo (reported minimums in the hundreds of dollars a month), and integrates with enterprise systems like Yardi and RealPage. There’s no self-serve, pay-per-check option.

For a company screening hundreds of applications a month, that spreads out to pennies per check. For a landlord who screens a handful of applicants a year, the same annual cost works out to well over $100 per check — far more than any single decision is worth. The pricing model simply isn’t designed for you.

The bigger gap: it checks the document, not the employer

This is the part most people miss. Snappt detects whether a document has been altered — whether someone took a real pay stub and edited the numbers. What it does not do is verify whether the employer on the stub is a real, operating company.

That matters because the most durable fraud isn’t an edited stub — it’s an invented employer with a stub built from scratch to match. A from-scratch fake was never “altered,” so document-only detection has nothing to flag. The numbers are perfect; the company behind them doesn’t exist. (We wrote about exactly this in why a perfect-looking stub can still be fake.)

What individual landlords should use instead

ProofSweep is built for the landlord Snappt won’t sell to. No demo, no annual contract, no software to integrate — you upload a pay stub and get a professional report for $19.99, whenever you need one.

And it goes a step further than document-only tools: alongside the forensics and the pay math, it verifies the employer in the real world — the business registry, the web footprint, a map and street view of the address, and whether the phone matches the real company. So it catches both the edited stub *and* the invented employer.

The short version

• Snappt: enterprise, annual contract, reportedly several hundred dollars a month, detects document alteration only. Great for big portfolios.
• ProofSweep: pay-per-report at $19.99, no contract, checks the document AND whether the employer is real. Built for individual and small landlords.

If you manage thousands of units, a platform like Snappt makes sense. If you’re protecting one lease at a time, you want the check that’s priced per decision and looks past the paper to the company behind it. Check a document with ProofSweep.