We have added several new columns to the Book of Business report table; their purpose is to provide information related to the previously introduced Commission functionality.
The number and titles of the new columns available to you vary depending on the company you work for: an agency, MGA (see an example in the following figure), or carrier.
We have introduced an address lookup for the questionnaire on the Q&A tab and in the Q&A editor of the Forms tab to help you reduce keystrokes. When you start typing something in one of the address fields, Appulate gives you a list of suggested options based on your current location. The addresses which match exactly the characters you’ve entered are displayed at the top of the list and the matching parts are highlighted. When you choose an address from the list, dependent fields are automatically populated with the respective values. For example, as shown in the figure below, if you choose “Linkous Drive” as the Street Address, Appulate will set the value of City to “Florissant”, the value of State to “MO”, and the value of Zip code to “63031”.
We have fine-tuned the preliminary steps of the request to bind process: now you can have your agents sign more than one form. Your company defines the list of forms that have to be signed before the request to bind can be sent to you. Also, you can indicate signers for each form (the agent, the applicant or both) and provide a list of documents that have to be uploaded.
We have updated the system of Appulate statuses introduced earlier and added two new Record statuses: “Quote Prepared” and “Quote Released”.
The users of a market
The users of an agency
Note: “Quote Released” is not available to agency users. “Quoted” is no longer used in Appulate.
The “Mark-all-No” function, which many Appulate users find useful, is now represented as a button.
When you or your partners are filling out a questionnaire on the Q&A tab, in the Q&A editor of the Forms tab, or in any other form, the new Mark all “No” button can be used to answer “No” to all shown Yes/No questions at a time. You will find this button either on the toolbar if the open tab (section) has no subsections or in the upper-right corner of the open subsection. And thus it will affect all the Yes/No questions of this section or subsection, respectively.