The release notes for September 2022 are organized as follows:
- Release Overview
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What’s New (9)
- Expose All Splits Page in Admins Tab/Module (CRM-I-685)
- Added Sponsor Account Authorization System
- Added a Contact History Log Entry Feature
- Added Data Solutions Settings & Integrations
- Added Debt Status as a System Field on Debt Object (CRM-I-709)
- Added Duplicate Management Settings (CTX-I-29)
- Added Tags for Remaining Debits and Enrolled Debts Not Yet Settled
- Added Payment Subtype to Enrollment Plans
- New Monevo Access Lender Integration Generally Available
- What’s Improved (1)
- API Updates (2)
Release Overview
2022-09 provides several new features and significant improvements to DebtPayPro. Note that the acknowledgment of releases that originated as requests via the Forth Aha IdeaBoard are assigned an Aha Number in the following format - "CRM-I-XXX".
What's New
Expose All Splits Page in Admins Tab/Module (CRM-I-685)
Formerly, our “all splits” page was not accessible via the UI. This new feature created a path to this in the Admins tab, as well as set permission to allow users to view this page. The purpose of the "all splits" page is to see what compensation templates exist, company by company, and lets you view all compensation templates for all companies in one place.
Added Sponsor Account Authorization System
This new feature allows a DRSP Agent to send an account authorization form to a client’s program sponsor for electronic signature via a pre-populated ClixSign document and have it come back into the system to be shared with DPG. This entailed:
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Creating a new doc tag for the attached Forth Account Holder HTML file - DPG_SPONSOR_AUTH
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Creating new tags as shown below. These tags will be replaced during document generation and will be sent to the Sponsor identified in the program via ClixSign.
- {DPG_CLIENT_FULLNAME}- Forth Client Name
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{DPG_CLIENT_CUSTOMERID}- Forth Client ID
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{DPG_CLIENT_RELATIONSHIP}- Relationship to Forth Client
Added a Contact History Log Entry Feature
This feature added a Contact History Log entry for Bluerock phone system changes to a Contact's status, to make the event visible to users.
Added Data Solutions Settings & Integrations
This new feature created a new integration using MISMO 2.3.1 (duplicates the Avantus/MCL integration). Accessible via https://login.forthcrm.com/index.php?module=administration&page=integrationscredentials&service=119. This feature also updates the credit pull on the Contact Dashboard to go through the proper credit provider depending on the MISMO settings. It established a Settings Page to accept several MISMO credentials, including:
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User ID
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Password
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Receiving party name
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requesting party identifier
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Client ID
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Endpoint
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Provider Name
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Pull from Experian option
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Pull from TransUnion
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Pull from Equifax
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Access control settings
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Added Debt Status as a System Field on Debt Object (CRM-I-709)
This new feature added a “status” attribute to the “debt” object bringing it in line with other similar objects. It simplified and standardized management of system debt statuses, and enhanced reporting and user interface (UI) functions tying into debt statuses.
Added Duplicate Management Settings (CTX-I-29)
This new feature added Duplicate Management Settings. This feature was deployed as a Beta version to help identify any issues before general availability. However, clients can turn on and off the feature as they wish. We added the ability to reduce duplicate contacts and to increase awareness for CRM users when a duplicate contact is identified. Duplicate search scans across all companies within your CRM instance.
To allow your clients to use this feature, go to “Admin > Roles”, scroll down to the “Admin” section, and click on the Edit Duplicate Settings checkbox.
We created a new UI/settings page for implementing this feature, including selecting a company, enabling or disabling the feature, and selecting key fields to identify duplicate contacts. Accessed from the Duplicate Management page (Admin tab > Settings > Duplicate Management), the benefits of this feature are:
- Allowing multiple affiliates in the same account to enter a contact with the same email, but not multiple entries within that same affiliate company.
- Invoking established rules for denying entry of a new contact based on a pre-existing record that matches key criteria.
- A new user interface to make it easy to enable or disable this new feature by company.
- Providing a "Key Field Selector" dropdown to determine the fields to search for duplicate entries.
Added Tags for Remaining Debits and Enrolled Debts Not Yet Settled
This new feature added the capability for a client to show how many debits are left on a payment plan and enrolled creditors not yet settled in the program via a tag. Possible tags: {DEBITS_REMAINING} & {DEBTS_NOT_SETTLED} For the debits remaining, a schedule was added with not only the number amount but also the dates and amounts included; as for the debts not settled, it shows the debts enrolled but not settled in a list form.
Added Payment Subtype to Enrollment Plans
This new feature added an "Auth Via" input for Forth enrollment, allowing access to the following subtypes (eSign, Text, Telephone) for ACH debit to Enrollment Plans. On the dialog box, a new “Auth Via” input now appears on the left side of the "Edit Enrollment Plan" page, with recently expanded options for web or electronic approval/authorization, giving an agent extra options to select the method best suited for the consumer.
New Monevo Access Lender Integration Generally Available
Monevo Access Lender Integration is now generally available. This new feature replicates Monevo integration settings and is intended to help develop a frictionless customer experience for both CRM users and consumers; as well as reduce overall maintenance on Monevo by offering an alternative to a hosted page.
This functionality creates and maintains a unique stand-alone page via the generation of a URL with a unique identifier, to which the customer is sent to submit loan data to Monevo. It also allows a consumer to submit via that stand-alone page, review returned offers, and select the offer they would like to proceed with. To learn more, Click Here.
What's Improved
Update to Settlement Scheduler
This modification involved deprecating the current version (v3) of our Settlement Scheduler and moving everyone to the next version (v4). To learn more, Click Here.
API Updates
Deleted Document Templates and Packages Endpoint
This modification involved updating our API endpoints for docs and packages to support the DELETE HTTP method. This now allows users to delete docs and packages via the API. Additionally, we updated our docs page to support deletion via this method when clicking the trashcan icon on the documents tab.
Update to Allowing file URLs to be passed into Doc Upload Endpoint
We made this improvement to the document upload endpoint to address an issue with the "created by" field not populating based on the API key. With this fix, the "created by" field shows the name of the user based on the API key used to send post requests.
By adding a new parameter to the document upload endpoint (which now ingests a link to a file), this improvement relieves clients from having to decode inbound paper mail, which added processing time. In addition, it displays the file in the uploaded documents section of the Contact Dashboard.