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Compliance

Comparing VerifyFiltering Plan Tiers

Basic, Pro, Business, and Enterprise all monitor compliance — here's what actually changes between them, beyond just the device count.

Downloading and Sharing a PDF Report

How PDF reports work: the three report types, why they're generated on demand for a specific date, and who can and can't download them.

How the VerifyFiltering Scanner Works

A plain-language walkthrough of what our free scanner checks, how to read your results, and what a pass/fail rating actually means for your compliance.

Reading and Downloading Your Invoices

How to view or download an invoice, why they're proxied through our server instead of linking to Stripe directly, and who can reach this page.

Signing Up and Starting a Subscription

What actually happens between picking a plan and landing on your dashboard: account creation, email verification, and Stripe checkout, in order.

Using the Stripe Customer Portal

What Manage Billing actually opens, what you can do there, and how those changes make their way back into your account.

What Changes When You Downgrade a Plan

Upgrading or downgrading takes effect immediately, not at your next billing cycle — and nothing you configured ever gets deleted, only hidden until you're back on a plan that includes it.

What Each Compliance Standard Actually Checks

CIPA, UK Safer Internet, Friendly WiFi, and Custom scans don't all test the same thing. A breakdown of which categories each standard covers and why.

Filtering & DNS

Category Presets and Custom Overrides: Who They Actually Apply To

Group category profiles are Enterprise-only and don't reach installed-agent devices. Fleet-wide and per-device profiles aren't usable yet, even though the plans that include them are.

What Happens When You Click Scan Now

Scan Now and Scan All Devices don't scan anything by themselves — here's what actually happens between the click and the results showing up.

Network Security

Assigning Devices to Groups

Where to assign devices to a group, what happens when a device is already in a different group, and why there's no direct unassign button.

Checking a Device From the Browser, With No Install

For devices that can't run the agent — phones, TVs, guest laptops — a one-time browser check gets it onto your dashboard without installing anything.

Creating and Organizing Device Groups

Device groups are a Pro-and-above feature. What creating one actually sets, what deleting one does to its devices, and who can do either.

Your First Look at the Dashboard: Dashboard vs Overview

Dashboard and Overview are two separate pages in your nav, both showing fleet data. Here's what actually differs between them.

The Six Alerts VerifyFiltering Sends, and What Triggers Each

Offline, new device, device rejected, plan changed, weekly digest, score threshold — what triggers each, and why they always email the account owner.

Getting Help and Contacting Support

What each link on the Support page actually opens, how the request form works, and the one thing it doesn't do yet: send attachments.

Installing the Monitoring Agent on Windows, macOS, Linux, and Chrome OS

One command per platform installs the agent as a background service. Here's what each install actually sets up, and who on your team can even reach this page.

Inviting Team Members and What the Four Roles Can Do

How to invite a team member, the seat limits by plan, and exactly what Admin, Technician, Viewer, and Billing can each see.

Managing Your Profile and Account Settings

Your Profile page shows billing identity from Stripe; your Security page is where username, password, and email actually get changed. Here's the difference.

Password Login vs. Google Sign-In: Which Account Gets Which

Whether you signed up with a password or with Google changes more than the login button — here's what's actually different about your account.

Re-registering a Device After You Remove It

Removing a device from your dashboard is permanent — here's what --reset actually does, and why the machine comes back as a brand-new device.

Device Details: Reading One Device's Page

The device details page: two different scoring thresholds on one screen, the Type field's fallback, and how to read the scan history table.

Reading Your Account Activity Log

What the activity log shows, what the type badges and date filter actually do, and one filter that doesn't work the way its label suggests.

Reading Your Device List: What Every Status Badge Means

Active, Warning, Stale, Offline, Paused, Browser Check — what each status badge on your device list actually means and when it changes.

Setting Up a Custom Score-Threshold Alert

Where to create a threshold alert, what each field does, and why the frequency option doesn't currently change anything.

Setting Up Two-Factor Authentication

How 2FA setup actually works, what trusted devices remember and for how long, and what clearing them or disabling 2FA actually does.

What Each Alert Email Means and How to Act on It

What each of the six alert emails actually says, what it links to, and the next step it points you toward.

What Group-Scoped Team Members Can See

Inviting a team member with access to only certain device groups restricts more than the device list — here's exactly what it does and doesn't limit.

What the Notification Bell Actually Watches

The bell pools four real sources, not a dedicated notifications feed — what each one shows, and why the badge number and dropdown can disagree.

Why a Device Shows Offline, and What to Check First

Two situations both show Offline, only one ever emails you, and a crash-looping agent can go unnoticed. What to check, in order.

Your License Key and the VerifyFiltering API

The API Keys page doesn't manage keys — it shows your license key, which doubles as your API credential. Here's what it does, who can see it, and how it's used.

Glossary

What "Filtering Detected" Means on Your Scan Results

Your results page shows a single Filtering Detected status: Active, Partially active, or Not filtered. Here's exactly what each one means.

What Your Fleet Protection Score Means

Your dashboard's compliance percentage goes by different names on different pages. Here's how it's actually calculated, from a single device's score up.

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