GoCardless, the financial institution cost firm, has introduced a partnership with Acre, an all-in-one platform for mortgage and safety brokers, to assist them accumulate service charges from their purchasers in a extra seamless and cost-effective means.
As the one platform brokers have to handle a shopper’s mortgage journey from begin to end, Acre is altering the way in which folks purchase properties. It’s designed to make the mortgage and safety course of extra streamlined, with straightforward case administration capabilities and sensible dashboards multi functional place, so brokers can spend much less time on admin and extra time rising their enterprise.
The GoCardless integration accelerates the cost course of. Beforehand, brokers needed to lookup how a lot the shopper owed in Acre, accumulate the charges off-platform, after which return to Acre to reconcile the cost. By integrating Direct Debit for recurring funds and Immediate Financial institution Pay, GoCardless’ open banking cost function for one-off funds, straight into the Acre platform, this three-step course of is shortened to 1 — enabling brokers to handle, accumulate and reconcile their funds with ease.
This may also remove costly card funds, whereas making a smoother cost expertise for the shopper.
Justus Brown, CEO at Acre, stated: “By partnering with GoCardless, we’re making it simpler, safer and extra dependable than ever for brokers to take cost for his or her providers. Most of the time we see brokers counting on outdated, handbook processes to gather charges, receiving emails with bank card numbers that get typed into clunky card terminals in a bodily workplace. From as we speak, brokers can immediately ship purchasers a web based cost hyperlink or arrange Direct Debits by way of our Buyer Portal, making the entire course of frictionless, safer and simpler for all concerned.”
Pat Phelan, MD of UK & Eire and Chief Buyer Officer at GoCardless, stated: “Brokers as we speak have sufficient on their plate; they don’t have time to cope with hours of handbook admin or late funds. That’s why we’re excited to supply financial institution funds with Acre, serving to brokers save money and time, stress much less and receives a commission on time.”
The announcement provides one other main title to GoCardless’ roster of greater than 350 companions. These partnerships see companies seamlessly integrating GoCardless into the software program they already use, managing cost and different enterprise actions in a single place.