Margill Loan Manager – Detailed Features
Getting started
- Import your Borrowers in seconds directly from an Excel spreadsheet
- Import your regular and irregular loans and payments from an Excel spreadsheet
- System configuration and data import services
Basics
- PC: Windows based / Citrix / Remote Desktop
- PC: Mac running Parallels Desktop
- Available as network installed (your infrastructure) or in the Cloud (SAAS)
- Uses its own database (Hyperfile)(database is encrypted)
- Database can be located at any desired location on a local area network (LAN)
- Can easily be installed and accessed in the Cloud
- Network (multi-user) or Single User
- Manage from 10 to 40,000+ loans
- Search tool in the Main window (Multiple field search)
- Large database quick data refresh
- Ultra high resolution (4K) and small very high resolution screen (>1080p) optimization
Security and Privacy
- Login by User name and Password
- “Strong” (versus simple) password may be set as mandatory
- Multifactor authentication (MFA)
- 5 attempts to enter software before being locked out
- Users: Administrator, Power, Regular, Draft, Read-only
- Multiple other rights can be provided or removed
- New 5.6– Compulsory (or not) Template for Main window and Payment schedule data displayed
- ADMIN user only can activate additional security and confidentiality measures including:
- 6 activity logs saved as JSON files
- “Strong” password
- And many more…
- Social Insurance Number and bank account Privacy
The Math
- Simple Interest
- Simple Interest Capitalized
- Compound Interest
- Multiple Compounding Periods (no need to match payment frequency)
- Multiple Payment Frequencies and Irregular
- Regular or Irregular First Payment Date
- Multiple Day Counts (Actual/Actual, Actual/365, Actual/360, 30/360)
- Short & Long Periods
- Mix of Compound and Simple interest in one schedule (pretty advanced stuff!!)
- Add-on (precomputed) Interest
Origination
- Accept / Reject applications (bulk import via Excel and JSON)
- Create payment schedules
- Create loan documents
- Store documents
Interest Rates
- Fixed Interest Rate
- Variable Interest Rates
- Create your own Rate tables (Prime, LIBOR, etc.)
- Variable rates + or – x% (Spread)
- New 5.6– Step-up/down spread
- Update interest rates in bulk (for multiple selected loans at once)
- Change interest rates for all future payments or for a specific time period only
- Payment schedule automatically updated when the Rate table is updated or updated at regular frequencies
- Update Rate tables in bulk via Excel sheet
- Recompute payments (optional) when new rate is applied
- Rates up to 6 decimal places
Borrowers – Guarantors – Creditors
- Client (Borrower/Guarantor) Database
- Creditor Database
- Borrower and Creditor databases independent from the loan itself
- Number of borrowers that can be entered in the system is triple (3x) the number of loans purchased with the license
- Multi-lender, Syndicated loans (Can include dozens/hundreds of Creditors / Reports participation of each)
- Co-Borrower(s) for a loan
- Guarantor(s) for a loan
- Employer Database
- Maximum Credit for all of a Borrower’s Loans
- Unlimited custom fields for Borrower, Creditor and Loan
- Multiple Loan Officers for a Creditor
- Metro 2 Credit reporting fields
- Add Notes or Attach files to a Borrower
- Import new Borrower data in bulk via spreadsheet
- Automatic import and update in near real-time of Borrower’s data via a JSON or Excel file through a Windows Service (API)
- Automatic Import/Export from/to Salesforce (CRM) of Borrower data (API)
International and Standards
- Multi-Currency / Convert to one currency
- Truth-in-Lending Act (USA)
- Canadian Regulations
- European Regulations
- Standard Interest Calculation Methodology (for most jurisdictions in the world)
- English & French Versions
Amortization Table
- Custom Payment Plans (Regular, Irregular, Principal and Interest, Interest-only, Fixed Principal, Lump Sum, Combination of these, Rate-Adjusted Payments, Recomputation of Payments, Interest Rate Changes)
- Additional Principal (Waterfall advances) to an existing Loan (Phased disbursements)
- Fees, Penalties, Insurance, Taxes (Add others and name as desired)
- Interest or No Interest on Added Principal, Fees, Penalties, Insurance and Taxes
- Custom Payment Types (over 90) (Adapt the payment types to your exact needs) (Example: Paid Visa, Paid Check, Admin Fees, etc.)
- Custom Additional Principal Types (Name as you wish)
- Payment Principal only
- Pay interest only and “in advance”
- Custom Paid Principal and Paid Interest (can be “In Advance”) types (name as you wish)
- Irregular Payments Management (Unpaid, Partial, Late)
- Automatic recomputation of payments after upstream changes (interest rate change, missed payments, balloon payments, etc.):
- Interest-only payments
- Fixed principal payments
- Principal, interest and fee payments in order for the loan to be fully repaid (or with a residual value)
- Payment order/sequence
- Regular method: Fees > Interest > Principal
- You can manually alter this order
- New 5.6– Special method (upon request): Interest > Expected Principal > Fees > Principal
- New 5.6– “Expected Principal” concept
- New 5.6– Interest payment can pay capitalized interest before current accrued interest (Advanced feature)
- End-of-month payments or on the 28, 29, 30, 31
- Custom interest regular “capitalization” date
Easy User Customization
- Custom Fields (Unlimited)
- Custom Scroll Menus
- Import and update scroll menus via spreadsheet
- Customization of names and multiple standard fields
- Custom Record statuses
- Custom Dashboard (Main Window):
- Set data displayed by user
- Custom Display Record filters
- Rename fields names shown in Main window
- see portfolio trends and interesting data with Widgets
- Custom Transaction and Payment types (over 100 types)(Paid Cash, Paid EFT, Extra Pmt, etc.)
- Set special attributes to these transaction types (must be >0.00, <0.00 or =0.00)
- Custom Reports with hundreds of fields
- Custom columns (3 monetary, 3 numerical, 3 text) to enter extra loan information
Tools
- Post payment tool that allows batch posting
- Post paid, unpaid, partial and late payments, add Fees, add Comments, etc. “Unpay” paid payments in batch.
- Post/Update payments via an Excel sheet (Unique line ID for each payment or exact date and amount)
- Import regular and irregular payments (or extra Principal) in bulk from a simple Excel sheet. Add multiple other data for each payment (Comment, Note, etc.)
- API: Automatic data Import and Update (in real time) from third-party information systems by JSON or Excel sheet
- Borrowers
- Borrowers and Loans
- Transactions
- Electronic signature with Xodo Sign (formerly Eversign)
- Change future transaction data in bulk (with an Excel sheet)
- Send emails in bulk with templates
- Send SMS (text messages) in bulk with templates
- Record Sorting and Search
- Sort by multiple criteria
- Full database Search tool
- Record Sorting and Search
- Sort by multiple criteria
- Record Display Filter
- Record Notes (unlimited length)
- Notes timestamped by user and cannot be changed after 24 hours
- Record Notes on Individual Payment Lines
- History (Log) of Changes
- Document management – attach files to Loans / Borrowers
- New 5.6– add standardized document/file Types (tags)
- New 5.6– log of attached file activity
- Returned checks module
- Global import/changes in the database manually or via Excel sheet
- Bulk import and change data and fees in payment schedule (via Excel sheet)
- New 5.6– Mass change data in Payment schedule
- Quick Irregular payments entry
- Backup (automatic or one-click when needed)
- Sandbox (test environment) before updating to latest version
Alerts
- System Alerts, Line status Alerts, Record Alerts, Payment Line-specific Alerts, Conditional Alerts
- Send automatic reminders to Borrowers by Email (upcoming payments, unpaid payments, etc.). Create your own templates.
- Alerts can be sent via email or SMS internally (to other key personnel)
- Show and change Notes directly from Alerts
- Add Alerts from the Alerts module
- Send Emails and SMS automatically from the Alerts module to Borrowers
- Maximum credit for a Borrower for all his Active loans in the system
- Send invoices/statements (Document Merge) via Alerts window
Reporting – Invoices – Statements
- Custom Reports using over 1000 fields + Custom fields+ Equations you create
- Sorting and subtotals according to the chosen fields in the Record list.
- Automatic report creation (overnight or anytime) and import to third-party software (report generation with Windows Task scheduler)
- Reports can be saved or sent via email automatically
- New 5.6– Reports can be sent to FTP or secure FTP directory
- Create Advanced queries (include or exclude part of portfolio)
- Include loans (for invoicing) only if payments are expected
- Executive Dashboard (Portfolio overview – number of records, amounts, averages and graphics)
- Transactions Report
- Financial Projections
- Contracts, Letters, Invoices, Statements (Custom Merges with your Word (DOCX or RTF) Documents)
- Produce DOCX, RTF or PDF documents
- Send Invoices / Statements in bulk by Email, attach to Record, save and print with one click
- Creditor/investor statements (including participation loans)
- Mathematical Equations: Add, subtract, multiply, divide… fields together
- Advanced Mathematical Equations including IF / IF NOT conditions
- Data fields classified by theme
- Standard Reports
- Detailed payment schedules (Including Quarterly, Yearly, Fiscal Year-end Totals)
- Monthly, Quarterly, Yearly Reports (or Between any Dates)
- Current Balances
- Escrow reporting
- Repayment Ratio
- Detailed Accounting Data (see below)
- Ageing report (current, 30, 60, 90… days late)
- Credit reporting (Metro 2) (with Credit Manager 5 by The Service Bureau)(USA and Canada)
APR Module
- Very sophisticated calculation for multiple APR scenarios
- Fees can be Paid up-front, Financed or Paid subsequently
- Paid Financed fees distribution by type
Accounting
- Accounting automatic refund order:
- Fees, Interest, Principal
- Order may me modified
- Great flexibility for irregular orders
- Export Debits and Credits to your General Ledger (QuickBooks, Sage 50/300, Acomba, CSV, TXT, Excel)
- Over 350 accounting fields for reporting:
- Interest Accrued and Paid, Paid Principal, Outstanding Amounts, Principal Balance, Due Interest, Payment source, etc.
- Export to your GL as Lender or as Borrower
- Accounting entries according to creditor participation
- Total Debits and Credits by account
Electronic Funds Transfer
- ACH with NACHA file for the United States
- New 5.6– VoPay International payment processor now available in the US
- Automatic debit from bank account – Canada via Perceptech or VoPay International including e-Transfer (credit) to Borrowers
- Automatic update of Affiliate Records when Master Records are updated
- Automatic payment returns (NSF)
- New 5.6– Cannot submit payments requests if more than x previous bounced payments
- New 5.6– Europe: SEPA EFT files (pain008.001.02 and pain008.001.08)
- Other countries – development based on your needs
Fees, Insurance and Taxes
- Include fees, insurance or taxes with automatic recomputation based on:
- Percent of loan balance
- Percent of interest accrued
- Percent of principal balance and days (same calculation as Simple interest)
- Simply an amount set by user that can be changed as needed
- Fees can be added as columns (6 personalized columns) or as lines
- Column fees automatically generated according to the rules established by the Administrator
- Column Sales Taxes automatically eliminated for unpaid payments
- Escrow module
- Easily change Fees refund order
- Automatic fees based on number of days late
- Automatic fees according to the Record Type or a Custom field.
- Column fees paid automatically according to a preset refund order that can be modified
Web Features
- Bulk import loan applications and accept or decline (via JSON or Excel file). Keep history of all applications
- Automatic and real-time import of approved loans from your loan approval system via JSON or Excel
- Web Portal for your borrowers and investors to consult various data pertaining to their loan(s)(you decide on which data can be seen)
- Salesforce data exchange via our API
- Gmail and Microsoft family “OAut 2.0” protocol for sending emails
- New 5.6– On-line web application form (customized for each customer)(web – separate module from MLM)
- New 5.6– On-line loan approval tool (web – separate module from MLM)
Cool Features
- Customize your Dashboard (Main window) – important data for your needs
- Add Color to identify problem loans / Sort and Display by color
- Change Color Name (Loan Labels)
- Add Color to payment lines
- Compulsory Fields
- Background tasks: automatic backups, current balance recomputation, alerts etc.
- Scan files directly in the software (then attach documents)
- Increase or decrease font size in the Dashboard, Payment schedule, Post payment window
- Spreadsheets directly in most reports
- 35+ shortcuts – view with F2
- Unique Identifiers for Borrowers, Creditors and Loans (to tie in to third-party software)
- Loan balance and Ageing report based on date – updated daily on Dashboard
- Obtain the amount payable by borrower at any date to get his payment schedule back on track
- Remembers last report dates
- Email mass sending test tool
- Multiple customizable field names
- New 5.6– Add system Notes
Investor Module (Participation / Syndicated Loans)(as an add-on module only)
- Manage complex multi-creditor (investor) investment scenarios including investments and divestments at various dates, pro-rated interest calculations and payment of interest and principal based on investment amounts and dates
Help
- Quick Tutorial directly in Margill
- Take a Quick Tour with one of our Experts
- Download a 30-day Trial
- Quick Start User Guide
- Short video guides
- Detailed User Guide (over 950 pages)(available upon request only)
- Knowledge Base: margill.com/en/knowledge-base/
- Questions or having problems? Call or email. We are there for you…