Skip Trace Data & Pricing

This guide explains what a Lead Sherpa skip trace returns, what you’re charged for, and how your price per hit goes down as you skip trace more.

The short version

• You only pay for hits: lookups that return an owner phone number, mailing address or email.
• The price starts at $0.15 per hit and goes down to $0.09 as your volume grows.
• Paid plans include free skip trace hits every month. On the Free plan you pay as you go.
• Duplicate rows, records you already have fresh data for, and hits covered by your plan are free.
• Charges come out of your account balance, which is topped up $10 or more at a time.

Resources

→ Skip Trace - Everything you need to know to Get Started

→ How To Use Lead Sherpa’s Integrated Skip Tracing Tool

→ Subscription Pricing

1. What you get back

Each property lookup returns up to 3 owners (people or businesses). For each owner you can get:

• Up to 3 phone numbers
• Up to 2 email addresses
• A verified mailing address (USPS or international)
• Age
• Vacancy, bankruptcy, deceased, foreclosure, liens and judgments flags, with dates where they apply
• A litigator flag
• Up to 3 associated people who aren’t owners (for example, relatives), each with up to 3 phone numbers

For what each column in your results file means, see Skip Trace Data: How to Understand Your New File.

Other features

• Skip trace properties owned by an LLC, trust or other entity in the same batch.
• Upload a file with only property addresses and get the owner name and mailing address added for free.
• Run several files at once. Results are ready to download as soon as each file finishes.
• Export your results by property or by contact.
• Every search includes a free litigator scrub.

• Look up a single property with Single Skip Trace.

   

2. What you’re charged for

You’re charged for each property lookup that returns at least one of these: an owner phone number, an owner mailing address or an owner email. If a lookup returns none of them, it’s free.

Some rows in your file are never charged. The skip trace history table shows them in their own columns:

3. How the tiered price works

Your price per hit depends on how many billable hits you had in the last 13 weeks. The more you skip trace, the lower your price:

The Tier Status bar at the top of the Skip Trace page shows your current tier, how many more hits you need for the next one, and how many hits drop out of your 13-week total this week.

4. Free monthly skip traces

Paid plans include free skip trace hits every month:

The Remaining Monthly Skip Trace Hits box on the Skip Trace page shows how many you have left. See Subscription Pricing for everything each plan includes.

5. Minimum charge and account balance

Skip trace charges come out of your account balance, which you can see at the top of the menu on the left. When your balance doesn’t have enough funds for a skip trace, your card is charged the replenishment amount, which is at least $10. Whatever the skip trace doesn’t use stays in your balance as credit for future skip traces, and your card isn’t charged again until the balance runs low.

For example, if you skip trace one property for $0.15, your card is charged $10 and the remaining $9.85 stays in your balance.

To change the replenishment amount, go to Account Settings > Billing Information > Account Balance Replenishment. You can set any amount from $10 to $500.

All skip trace charges are final and non-refundable. For full details, see our Terms & Conditions.

6. Do Not Call (DNC) scrub

Lead Sherpa can check numbers against the National Do Not Call Registry. You choose whether to use it for each SMS campaign with the Use DNC Scrub setting. See How To Start A New Campaign.

Questions? Email support@leadsherpa.com.