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Free TCPA compliance checker
Complidar's free TCPA compliance checker crawls up to 120 pages of your site with a real browser and inspects every form that collects a phone number for the consent language a marketing text or call legally requires. You get the count of at-risk forms, the specific consent defects, and an estimated exposure range in minutes, no account and no card. Enter a domain you own or are authorized to test and the scan starts.
Why your SMS consent lives on your website
TCPA cases are won and lost on consent records, and the consent is captured on your site: the checkout checkbox, the 'get text updates' field, the appointment-reminder opt-in. Marketing texts require prior express written consent, which is a specific thing: a clear disclosure that the person agrees to receive automated marketing messages, language stating that consent is not a condition of any purchase, and an affirmative act tied to that disclosure. A pre-checked box does not count, and a bare phone field with no disclosure at all is the gap suits walk straight through.
The checker reads that consent capture the way a plaintiff's firm screenshots it, form by form, because the form is what gets entered into evidence. It flags the missing disclosure, the pre-checked opt-in, the marketing consent bundled into checkout without the 'not a condition of purchase' line, and the texting program advertised without its program name, message frequency, 'msg & data rates', or STOP and HELP instructions. Those are the mechanical defects that repeat on every templated page, so a scan finds them at a scale manual review can't match.
Why the per-text math makes this urgent
The TCPA prices statutory damages at $500 per violation, up to $1,500 for a willful one, with no cap, and every message counts as its own violation. That is why exposure scales with list size rather than with intent: a single defective opt-in form feeding a list of any real size turns into six figures of theoretical liability the moment a campaign goes out, before anyone proves harm. Texting programs reach class size fast because each send is another violation candidate.
Running the checker yourself means you see the same forms a serial plaintiff would see first, and can fix the cheapest, most-cited defects, the missing disclosure and the pre-checked box, before they are captured against you. Complidar reports what is mechanically detectable on the form and marks what needs a person, so a clean automated pass never reads as full compliance, and the report is a diagnostic you hand to counsel, not legal advice.
What this checker looks for
- Every form that collects a phone number, across up to 120 pages
- Presence of the express-written-consent disclosure and its proximity to the SMS opt-in
- Pre-checked SMS opt-in boxes (a dark pattern and a consent defect at once)
- 'Consent is not a condition of purchase' language where the opt-in is bundled into checkout
- Program name, message frequency, and 'msg & data rates' disclosures on advertised texting programs
- STOP and HELP opt-out and help instructions where SMS programs are offered
Common questions
Is a checkbox enough for SMS marketing consent?
An unchecked-by-default box tied to a clear disclosure is the standard pattern: it has to say the person agrees to automated marketing texts, that consent is not a condition of purchase, and note message frequency and that msg & data rates may apply. A pre-checked box or a bare phone field is not valid consent under the written-consent rule. The checker reads the box state and the disclosure text together.
What does a TCPA violation actually cost?
Statutory damages are $500 to $1,500 per text or call with no cap, so exposure scales with list size rather than with any single mistake. A defective opt-in form feeding a sizable list becomes six figures of theoretical liability per campaign, which is why these cases settle on the cost asymmetry. The checker shows which of your forms create that exposure.
Does the checker replace a lawyer?
No. It finds the mechanical consent defects on your forms and prices them against the per-text statutory range, which is exactly what makes it useful to hand to counsel: the legal conversation starts from evidence instead of fear. It cannot see your texting platform's send logs, your consent database, or whether opt-outs are honored downstream. The report is a diagnostic, not legal advice.
Last updated 2026-06-28 · Informational, not legal advice: how to read this