AgencyConnect

Be agents' first choice for doing business—hands down.

It comes down to common sense and human nature: if something saves time, minimizes the chances for error and is easy to operate, it's good for business and will get used. In an agent's typing- and paper-heavy world, the ease with which he or she can transact business with you makes all the difference.

AgencyPort's AgencyConnect product is the leading agent interface solution in the marketplace. It provides agents with an easy-to-use, streamlined workflow for uploading data from their vendor systems to carriers' web portals. AgencyConnect supports virtually all agency systems in the market today and makes enabling transactions such as Inquiry, New Business, Quoting, and Endorsements easier than ever before. By deploying AgencyConnect, carriers speed implementation and ease the ongoing maintenance of interfacing with agency vendor systems. AgencyConnect also simplifies issues associated with connecting with various vendors and interpreting varied inbound requests.

Whether purchased as a stand-alone product to extend your existing agency web offering or bundled with AgencyPortal, AgencyConnect is simple to deploy, easy to maintain and straightforward to use. Just plug it into your environment. It handles the rest.

A Single Transaction Gateway

Whether you want to implement policy inquiry or real-time bridge transactions, AgencyConnect acts as a single entry point or "gateway" to any interface transaction. The software is built to receive each request (and/or data stream) and to rationalize it to one common request format to interact with a carrier's target system.

Straight To Quote

Simply "bridging" isn't enough today. Connect 3.0 takes agents to the next level with Data Correction and Interview capabilities. Carriers can now dramatically improve the user experience by bridging agents straight to a quote. Connect's automatic fix of common data issues lets agents fly past typical data gotchas and get on with their job.

Enterprise Extender

With significant investment in their existing websites, many carriers are not interested in a complete system replacement. Because AgencyPort's goal is to augment and maximize existing policy administration systems—not replace them—our products are architected to extend or integrate with custom or vendor downstream systems. AgencyConnect Interview gives carriers a streamlined web-based experience that presents agents with a succinct overview of the data between their agency systems and yours. It gives them the ability to make selections quickly and efficiently—the kind of incentive they need to make you their first choice for doing business.

A Comparative Rating Must

Implementing comparative rating? AgencyConnect makes it simple. Rather than spending the time and money to have each comparative rating vendor customize its application to ensure an accurate data stream, Connect allows carriers to centralize company-specific requirements into one internally hosted component. Employ your data "edits" within AgencyConnect and avoid building out logic in multiple comparative rating systems.

Pre-built Adapters

AgencyConnect has pre-built adapters that allow carriers to seamlessly plug into vendor transport services such as Transformation Station, TransactNOW and SISWeblink. By providing a pre-built interface infrastructure, AgencyConnect enables carriers to minimize the time and cost required to integrate directly with each agency vendor system. Our proven experience with ACORD standards (in both commercial and personal) and transaction types makes interfacing easy, and enables your team to focus on rollout strategies and marketing-not on plugging into a disparate agency vendor system universe.

A Supported Vendor Solution

AgencyConnect supports the proprietary export service provided by each of the agency vendor systems (TransactNow, Transformation Station, etc.). Our software speeds implementation and simplifies ongoing maintenance of any interface transaction made available by the vendor systems. As the vendors and interface with agents evolve, you have a strategic gateway that keeps you ahead of your competitors. The software sits behind your company's firewall and does not require any "client" footprint at the agency other than the "export service" required by the agency vendor system.

Going Further

Managing exported data from different homegrown systems or disparate agency vendor systems? Regardless of the data structure coming from your agents, AgencyConnect's architecture can transform and normalize it, giving you ultimate flexibility.