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AppraisalPort Order Intake and GSE Submission Control
Your lender places an order in AppraisalPort and the whole order arrives in Appraisal Host, ready to work. Property, fee, due date and the contact it belongs to all come in the same message. And you decide, lender by lender, whether AppraisalPort or Appraisal Host submits the finished report to UCDP and EAD.
How an AppraisalPort Order Reaches Appraisal Host
Key Takeaway
AppraisalPort sends the whole order, not a notification. When a lender places an appraisal order, the complete record posts to Appraisal Host in one message and the order is workable the moment it lands.
AppraisalPort posts each new order to an endpoint on the Appraisal Host side. The message carries the order itself rather than a pointer to it: property address and zip, appraisal type, fee, due date, the lender it belongs to and the individual contact who placed it. Appraisal Host reads that message, matches it to your lender record, runs its intake checks and creates the order in your queue. There's no second call back to AppraisalPort to collect the details, because the details already arrived.
Integration Workflow
The order arrives complete. Nothing has to be fetched back.
Who Submits to UCDP and EAD Is a Setting, Not an Assumption
Every conventional loan that ends up with Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac has to reach UCDP, and FHA work has to reach EAD. On any AppraisalPort account there's a question sitting underneath that: who actually does the submitting.
Appraisal Host answers it per lender, on screen. Two controls sit on the AppraisalPort settings for each lender you serve:
- Appraisal Port handles UCDP submission for this Lender? Answering Yes stops Appraisal Host from submitting.
- Appraisal Port handles EAD submission for this Lender? Answering Yes stops Appraisal Host from submitting.
Set them to Yes and Appraisal Host stands down on that lender's portal work. Set them to No and Appraisal Host submits. One lender can run one way and the lender next to it the other, because the setting lives on the lender record rather than on your account.
That on screen control is specific to the AppraisalPort connection. If you serve a mix of lenders who submit their own and lenders who expect you to do it, this is the setting that keeps you from doing it twice or not at all.
What Appraisal Host Checks Before the Order Goes Live
Not every order arrives clean. Before an AppraisalPort order is released into your workflow, Appraisal Host runs six checks on it:
- The lender rep on the order maps to a rep in your system
- The appraisal type maps to one of your order types
- The fee on the order matches what your fee schedule expects
- A due date is present
- A property address is present
- A property zip is present
Anything that fails raises a warning on the order rather than being accepted quietly. The operator who picks it up sees the problem before an appraiser does, which is considerably cheaper than finding it after the inspection is booked.
Orders Land With the Right Person, Not Just the Right Lender
A lender with six branches and a dozen loan officers doesn't want every AppraisalPort order dropping into one shared inbox.
The connection matches the individual contact on the order first and falls back to the lender's default contact only when there's no match. You maintain that map yourself. The AppraisalPort settings for each lender carry a Manage Lender Reps screen where you pair a user in Appraisal Host with that person's AppraisalPort client ID, and add users as the lender's team changes.
The AppraisalPort Order Number Stays With the Order
Once the order exists in Appraisal Host it keeps its AppraisalPort identity. The order view shows the vendor's own number in a field labelled Appraisal Port #. When a lender rings up quoting a number they can see on their screen, your team searches for that number rather than translating between two systems.
In Production Since 2018
The AppraisalPort connection has been running in production since February 2018 and is still actively maintained. Its most recent change shipped in July 2026.
AppraisalPort Integration FAQ
How does the AppraisalPort integration work?
AppraisalPort posts each new order to Appraisal Host as a complete record. Appraisal Host matches it to your lender, matches the contact who placed it, checks it for missing or mismatched fields, and opens it in your queue. Status and the completed report go back the other way.
Does AppraisalPort or Appraisal Host submit to UCDP and EAD?
Whichever you choose, per lender. Two settings on each lender's AppraisalPort configuration control it: "Appraisal Port handles UCDP submission for this Lender?" and "Appraisal Port handles EAD submission for this Lender?" Answering Yes to either stops Appraisal Host submitting for that lender.
Can AppraisalPort orders route to a specific person at the lender?
Yes. Pair each of your users with that person's AppraisalPort client ID on the Manage Lender Reps screen, and orders route to the individual rather than to the lender's default contact.
What happens if an AppraisalPort order arrives incomplete?
It raises a warning instead of being accepted quietly. Appraisal Host checks six things on arrival: lender rep mapping, appraisal type mapping, fee against your schedule, due date, property address and property zip.
How long does the AppraisalPort integration take to set up?
3 to 5 business days from the initial consultation.