After listening to feedback from clients and users, Hound has added a new feature to its solution to help brokers retain existing customers. The innovative new component has recently been implemented and is ready for use.
Hound already equips brokers to be trusted advisers to their customers by:
- Creating and maintaining an up-to-date customer database
- Using proprietary smart systems to interrogate that database to identify customers with unmet servicing needs
- Building a track record to support the sale of their brokerage when they’re ready to exit.
Now, we have added a new feature to boost broker efficiency:
- Doing some of that servicing work on the broker’s behalf.
This latest enhancement means that Hound is now able to help brokers apply for their customers’ existing loans to be repriced. And they can do that from within the Hound platform, creating a more productive and cost-efficient flow.
Hound’s repricing feature is specifically designed for brokers to approach the existing lender so they can apply for a discount. It isn’t designed to fully automate the function, but rather to assist brokers to make the request.
The repricing feature works differently depending on which method the lender uses to receive repricing applications from brokers:
1. Where a lender requests brokers to use an online portal:
o Hound redirects the broker to the lender’s login page, and makes available all the data required to complete a repricing application.
o Hound does not sign the broker into the portal, nor do we ask the broker to disclose their confidential password or login details.
2. Where a lender requests brokers to submit applications via email:
o Hound creates an email in the form to the lender’s address, and populates it with the required information, ready for the broker to send.
o The broker can alter the email before sending.
3. Where a lender requires a phone call from the broker:
o Hound displays the phone number to be called and makes available all the data required to complete a repricing application, ready for the broker to make the call.
All repricing applications are recorded by Hound against the loan involved. Once a response is received from the lender, the broker can update the interest rate on the loan and archive the repricing record.
Should a broker approach a different lender, this transaction would need to be done separately from Hound by following their current business process.
To see repricing in action, watch our training video here:
https://houndgroup.io/knowledged-base/7-reprice-a-loan/
For more details on our repricing feature or information on how Hound can help you retain your customers please contact us.
