Introducing Floify Closing Accelerator and Floify Customer Capture
Increasingly, today's mortgage origination professional faces two key challenges: changing borrower expectations and customer retention.
Changing Borrower Expectations
The mortgage industry has lagged behind traditional banking and other financial services in its transition to digitally-enabled experiences. Meanwhile, consumers, particularly younger first-time homebuyers, have already adjusted their expectations. 67% of Millennials and GenZ expect a digital borrower portal.
Why is a digital experience important to borrowers? Time. Borrowers expect digital-first experiences that respect their time. 73% of consumers say that valuing their time is the most important thing companies can do to provide them with good customer service.
This means accelerating application-to-close time is not only important for business optimization, it is crucial for driving customer satisfaction.
The tech stack the LO chooses is a key component in driving exceptional borrower experiences.
Customer Retention and Recapture
Loan originators also face a difficult time reactivating former clients, even though they represent a highly-profitable source of pipeline. The average borrower holds a mortgage for 8-10 years before refinancing or selling the home, which makes recapture challenging. Historically, LOs have not had the tools or time to truly engage borrowers throughout their homeownership journey post-close. After all, the LO's job is getting and closing the loan, right?
Nonetheless, consumer expectations for speed, transparency, and follow-up still fall on the LO. To help mortgage lenders, brokers, and origination teams meet and exceed these shifting expectations, Floify is launching two programs: Closing Accelerator and Customer Capture.
31% of borrowers abandon their applications. 25% of those didn’t finish because the process took too long.
Every mortgage pro knows that loan origination is a minefield of potential roadblocks and delays, even with the most qualified borrower. From document gathering, LOEs, and disclosures to appraisal, insurance, and inspection there are many tasks that mortgage borrowers need to complete quickly in order to keep their closing on track. That's where the Floify Closing Accelerator comes in.
Floify offers an enhanced Point of Sale (POS) platform with smart communication modules, proactive checklists, embedded offers to reduce delays, and advanced document collection prompts that help LOs close more loans, faster.
Automated Loan Processes
The Floify Closing Accelerator package includes some of the platform's most valued functionality, such as:
- Automated communications via email/SMS
- Rules-based automatic document collection
- Smart task management
- Single Sign On
and other productivity enhancements to help complete requirements promptly.
Keep Borrowers in the Loan Application With Embedded Insurance Options
Accelerating the application-to-close time by simplifying the borrower's tasks is a significant factor in driving growth, exceeding customer expectations, and scaling a mortgage business sustainably. With this technology at their disposal, LOs can take another step toward providing the one-stop home buying service desired by their borrowers.
Only 18% of borrowers return to their lender when it’s time to refinance, access home equity, or purchase a new property. (US National Average)
Top lenders and loan originators understand the value of long-term customer recapture and retention. The average person in the US will own as many as three different homes during their life (and move 11 times).
Given the low borrower retention rate (18%), this means that most LOs currently miss out on many low acquisition cost loans (since these loans come from returning customers). To get those loans, LOs need to invest in tools or programs that continue their relationships post-close. This is where Floify Customer Capture comes into play.
Pre-Move Home Concierge Services for Borrowers
After engaging with Floify's embedded homeowners insurance module, borrowers will be contacted by their personal home concierge. Does the borrower need help getting utilities set up? Or making sure their internet is ready to go on day one? Do they need professional movers to help get their things from point A to point B? Or getting their address and voter registration updated? Think of this concierge service as corporate relocation for the rest of us.
These are just some of the ways that borrowers can offload their task list to their home concierge, at no cost, so they can focus solely on making sure their loan closes on time and their life never misses a beat.
The LO's borrowers will have access to the following services, for free:
- A dedicated Porch Home Concierge agent for high-touch support throughout the move:
- Close loans faster with insurance
- Find movers
- Set up utilities
- Set up TV & Internet
- Install home security
- Book a handyman or cleaning service
- Web dashboard to manage key move-related tasks, including changing Address & Voter Registration
Post-Move Home Concierge Services
Once the borrower moves into their new home, LOs can empower their borrowers to manage their entire home journey. The post-move home concierge services include a digital experience (website and app) where borrowers can:
- Upload their home inspection report
- Interact and manage information from their home inspection report in one place
- Create To-Do Lists from automatically extracted Inspection Findings
- Access repair estimates
- Get a Free RecallChek report for appliances on inspection upload
- Save home pictures
- Get automatic reminders based on inspection findings
- Set custom reminders
- Access up to $500 in home gifts and offers from national and local vendors*
And that's just the beginning. In the future, the Floify Customer Capture service will automatically add the LO contact information directly into the borrower's Home Concierge App, so that LOs stay in front of their borrower even post close.
We are excited about the future of Customer Capture and delivering a true differentiator for our LO community. For the first time, LOs will have a powerful offering that enables them to stay in front of borrowers for years to come as a trusted partner in their continued homeownership journey.
*Amount varies based on location and available offers
