APLYiD Credit Bureau service; Reference is now validated

APLYiD currently does not accept certain characters in the Reference field when sending verification requests. The accepted characters are:

• Upper case and lower case letters
• Numbers
• Space
• Dash (-)
• Underscore (_)
• Full stop (.)
• Ampersand (&)
• "At" symbol (@)

The APLYiD Credit Bureau service now checks the Reference if it is typed in by the user, and shows an error if it contains any characters that are not in the list.

When the Reference is derived from a Client ID, Application ID or Name, any invalid characters are removed from the Reference. For example "Client 1000/A" would become "Client 1000A".