It's an unusual occasion when dozens of mystery shopping companies make a joint announcement ... but it's also an unusually threatening situation that has brought all of us together.

Recent legal pressures from the federal government and 22 states are requiring mystery shopping companies to provide additional proof that their thousands of mystery shoppers are independent contractors (IC's) or face catastrophic penalties for worker misclassification. Although mystery shoppers such as yourself are clearly IC's, these actions severely threaten the entire mystery shopping industry.

How would this affect you? Fewer shops, lower shop fees, increased paperwork, restrictions on which companies you can contract with, the likelihood that state and/or federal taxes would be withheld from your shop fees ... and possibly the loss of your ability to find work in the mystery shopping business.

In response, we have joined the IC Pro Coalition. It's a centralized registration system for mystery shoppers to submit their legally required independent contractor information to multiple mystery shopping companies all at once.

IC PRO is totally FREE and is built by the makers of SASSIE Mystery Shopping Systems and JobSlinger. We rely on their expertise and integrity for our businesses and we have total confidence that they will treat your information with the same confidentiality and respect.

Register for IC Pro (it's FREE) and one of these badges
will ALWAYS appear next to your shop applications
(the more info you provide, the more IC Pro points you'll receive)
 

Every time you apply for a shop you'll be designated as an IC Pro, a huge contributor to you receiving first consideration for that shop from our schedulers! We will know that you (as a registered IC Pro)  are "safer" to contract with than an unregistered mystery shopper. In fact, we anticipate that IC documentation may eventually become a requirement to operate as a shopper in our industry.