The verified badge and the trust score
Two separate things appear on an accountant’s profile, and they answer different questions. The verified badge says a credential is real. The trust score says how the work has gone since. This page covers what each one is, and how each is arrived at.
What the check confirms
Three outcomes, all read from official records rather than from anything the accountant types in. All three must pass.
- Membership active
- The ICAI membership behind the profile is real and currently active. A lapsed or inactive record does not pass.
- Identity confirmed
- The person operating the account matches the official identity attached to that membership. A borrowed membership number fails here.
- Records verified
- The membership is claimed once. It cannot be verified against a second Accmeet account, so two profiles can never carry the same credential.
What the badge covers
The badge is a factual claim about a credential at the time it was checked. It says the person is who they say they are and holds the qualification they say they hold.
Judgements about the work itself come from the rating and the trust score below, which are built from completed engagements rather than from paperwork.
Not every profile carries it
Accountants can create a profile and appear in the network before they verify. The network genuinely contains both verified and unverified professionals, and the badge is what separates them. A platform claiming every single person on it is verified is describing a marketing promise rather than a check.
Businesses carry a badge too. A Verified business pill means the company behind the account has had its registration details confirmed, so an accountant taking on the work knows who they are contracting with.
How the trust score is built
A score out of 100, shown on the profile and used to order search and browse results. It is calculated from activity on the platform and cannot be edited by hand.
- Jobs completed
- Engagements taken through to a confirmed finish.
- Client ratings
- The average rating, weighted for how many ratings it is based on, so one glowing review does not outrank a long record.
- Response to invitations
- How reliably invitations from businesses are answered rather than left sitting.
- Verification
- Whether the credential check has been passed.
A newly verified accountant with no completed jobs will show a modest score, and that is honest: the badge says the credential is real, the score says the track record is still short. Both sit on the profile so you can weigh them yourself.
Getting verified
Verification happens during onboarding and takes a couple of minutes. Submit your membership details and the check runs against official records.
If it passes, the badge appears on your profile, in search results, in the network, and in chat. If it does not, you are told which of the three outcomes failed so you can correct it and submit again.
The specific records checked and the order they are checked in are not published. That is deliberate: describing the mechanics in public is a guide to defeating them.