TESS Core is the modern escrow platform built for California escrow teams. A clean, simple interface your officers will actually enjoy using — with compliance, trust accounting, and document handling baked in from day one.
TESS works with every kind of escrow operation in California — click through to see how TESS Core fits your business.
Independent escrow companies regulated by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation. TESS Core fits into your existing file-opening, trust accounting, and closing workflow — no rip-and-replace required.
California brokers running broker-owned, in-house escrow divisions under the broker exemption. TESS Core helps your team handle purchase contracts, preliminary reports, and closing statements without drowning in data entry.
Mortgage brokers and lenders handling loan escrows. TESS Core reads lender instructions, payoff demands, and closing disclosures so your processors spend less time retyping and more time closing loans on time.
We’re escrow people who believe in straightforward pricing. Reasonable, transparent, and tailored to fit whether you’re a solo broker or a firm closing dozens of files a month.
TESS was created by escrow professionals who spent years closing files and dealing with the same repetitive document handling and reconciliation headaches that eat up your team’s day. Every feature in TESS Core exists because someone who’s actually done escrow knew it was needed.
That’s what makes TESS different — it’s not software built by engineers guessing at what escrow officers need. It’s software built by the people who’ve been in the chair.
TESS was designed by escrow officers, for escrow officers. Here’s what the professionals using it every day have to say.
Accuracy is the real win. Catching a transposed loan number before it hits the closing statement has saved us from at least one painful fix.
We’d been talking about bringing escrow in-house for years. TESS made the operational side simple enough that the numbers finally penciled out.
Before TESS, I’d spend the first hour of every file retyping the purchase contract into the system. Now the file is half-built when I open it — I get to actually work the file.
The document intake alone is a game-changer. I used to retype everything from the purchase contract — now it just shows up in my order, correctly.
The orders that come from TESS-powered escrow officers are the cleanest I receive. Parties, legal descriptions, vesting — accurate from the start. It saves me hours every week.
What I like most is that TESS doesn’t try to replace my team. It just takes the annoying parts off their plate so they can focus on closing the deal.
TESS Escrow Software is based in Arcadia. Because TESS Core runs in the browser, onboarding and support work the same whether you’re down the street or across the state.
Elsewhere in California? TESS Core supports escrow teams statewide — let’s talk.
Tell us a bit about your escrow operation and we’ll follow up with the right information — no pressure, just a conversation. Prefer to see it live? We’ll set up a walkthrough tailored to how you actually work.