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Employers and Loan Products

Configure what applicants can apply for — pre-verified employers, loan amount and term limits, application gates with custom messages, and the fee structures each loan carries.

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Two settings areas shape every application before it's even started: the Employers registry, and Supported Applications — where you set loan limits, fees, and which application flows are open.

The Employers Registry#

Go to Settings → Employers. This is your list of pre-seeded employer records, used to verify and pre-populate the Employer step of loan applications. Each employer carries a name, registration number, contact person, salary day, structured address, and an Active toggle.

Select Add employer to create one — only the employer name and salary date are required.

Requiring Pre-Verified Employers#

The Employer verification card at the top controls how strict the application wizard is:

  • Toggle on — applicants must pick their employer from your active list; manual employer entry is disabled. The wizard shows a "Select your employer" search, and the employer fields lock once chosen.
  • Toggle off — applicants type their own employer details.

Employer verification is a strong control against fabricated employment details, and pairs naturally with payroll-deduction lending where you only lend to employees of companies you have agreements with.

Supported Applications#

Go to Settings → Supported Applications to control the application flows themselves.

Application Gates#

Four flows each have their own gate: Personal loans, Business loans, Claims, and Insurances. The personal-loan gate drives the live application wizard — disable it and applicants see your disabled message instead of the wizard (for example, "New applications are paused over the December break — back on 5 January.").

Loan Amount and Term Limits#

Set the boundaries the wizard enforces:

  • Minimum / maximum loan amount (ZAR) — leave the maximum blank for no cap.
  • Minimum / maximum repayment term with a term unit of days, months, or years.

These translate directly into what applicants see: the amount field validates against your limits with exact messages, and the repayment-term dropdown offers only the range you allow.

Fees#

Fees are how the cost of your loans is expressed — there is no separate interest-rate field. Each fee has a name, a when charged moment, optional notes, and a pricing model:

Pricing modelHow it works
Flat feeA fixed rand amount.
PercentageA percentage of the principal, reducing balance, or monthly instalment — charged once-off, per month, or per instalment.
Base fee + % above thresholdA tiered structure like "R165 + 10% of the amount above R1,000, capped at R1,050" — with optional floor and cap.

When charged options: once-off on disbursement, once-off on first instalment, monthly, per instalment, or on settlement.

Applicants see each fee described in plain language on their application detail page, so name your fees clearly — "Initiation fee" beats "Fee 1".

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