Customer website settings
Learn how to configure your customer-facing website settings.
A customer-facing website isn't an absolute requirement for every lending operation, but many borrowers will expect modern companies to have a website or application where they can see their balance, make payments, and manage their loan. For mid-size lenders who don’t have the resources to build out their own website, our customer portal is a simple tool that can serve as a customer-facing website in lieu of your own website integration.
his article will explain how to set up a customer portal, including information about site-wide settings and individual pages. It will also walk through extending access to borrowers, and what the site looks like from their side.
Setting up a customer portal will involve a few steps:
- Company contact information. Choose a subdomain for your website URL and communicate that change with LoanPro.
- Page settings. Decide which pages to include and what they'll say.
- Site management. Set the theme and colors.
- Access settings. Govern what customers will be able to see and do.
You can always go back and change the settings, content, or look of your website, even when it's published.
Company Contact Information
The first thing you'll want to do is set up your URL. The legacy website uses .loanpro.software as the domain, so whatever subdomain you choose will come before that. If your company is Blue Tree Lending, for example, we could set up a domain of bluetreelending.loanpro.software.
Once you've decided on a subdomain, reach out to your normal LoanPro contact, and they'll be able to set it up for you.
To get a domain that is more custom, you can register one yourself and then forward it to the URL configured in this step.
Page Settings
Page Settings are where you'll create the actual content for your website. Each page of the website has its own editor page in Center LMS. You can decide which pages to turn on, and create content for them. To access, navigate to Settings > Website > Page Settings. The following pages are customizable.
Logo & links
This is where you can add your logo and links to some of your social media pages.
To upload a company logo, either drag and drop the file over the existing image, or click the image to browse for the file. You also have the option to have your company name (as entered in your company info) appear next to the logo. Use the checkbox labeled ‘Display company next to logo’ to make this selection. Your choice will be saved automatically.
The links section on the right lets you add links to your social media pages. To update links, click on them or click on ‘Empty’. Enter the links to your pages in the fields provided. Choose whether a particular link should be enabled using the toggle switches. Click the check-mark to save your changes.
Home page
The home page section lets you create the content you'd like to be visible on your website's home page.
There are three things you can change about the home page.
- You can add a company title/slogan in the title/slogan field.
- You can add text content for the home page in the content field. You can format this content using the formatting options.
- You can add images and captions for those images to the home page. To do so, click the ‘Images’ tab.
- To add a new image click ‘Add’.
- To upload an image, either click the drop zone to browse for the file, or drag and drop the file on the drop zone.
- Enter a caption into the caption field and a sub-caption into the sub-caption field. You can decide whether you'd like for the captions to display on the website. Once you're satisfied with your settings, click ‘Save’.
Company
The company page is intended as a place for your customers to learn about your company. To enable this page, click ‘Edit’, and switch the enabled setting to ‘Yes’. If the page is enabled, you'll see a ‘Company’ tab for it appear on your website.
To add or edit text content, use the formatting options in the text field. When you're ready, click 'Save'.
Privacy
The privacy page of the customer portal is a place where you can publish your company’s privacy policy for your customers. To enable this page, click ‘Edit’, and switch the enabled setting to ‘Yes’. When enabled, the privacy page link is located in the bottom right corner of the customer portal.
You can add or edit text with the word processor, or you can use HTML to further customize the content. Once you have the page content entered and formatted the way you want, click ‘Save’ to save your changes.
Legal
The legal page of the customer website lets you publish any legal information, disclaimers, etc. that you want or need to, depending on the requirements of your state. To enable the Legal page, click ‘Edit’, and switch the Enabled setting to Yes. When enabled, you'll see a ‘Legal’ tab for it appear on your portal.
To add or edit text content, use the formatting options in the text field. Once you have the page content entered and formatted the way you want, click ‘Save’ to save your changes.
FAQs
Use the FAQs page on your portal to show questions that you are often asked by customers and the answers to those questions. To enable the FAQs page, click ‘Edit’, and switch the enabled setting to ‘Yes’. When enabled, you’ll see an ‘FAQs’ tab for it appear on your portal.
To add a question select ‘Add Question’. Enter the question in the question field and the answer in the answer field, then click ‘Save’. From there, you can click the pencil icon to edit any questions and the trash icon to delete them.
Testimonials
The testimonials page of the customer portal is a place where you can publish testimonials about your company's products and services. To enable the testimonials page, click ‘Edit’, and switch the enabled setting to ‘Yes’. When it is enabled, you will see a ‘Testimonials’ tab appear on your portal.
Click the grey pencil icon to edit an existing testimonial or click the gray trash can icon to delete it. To add a new testimonial, click the blue ‘Add Testimonial’ button. Enter the name of the person giving the testimonial in the from field. Enter the person’s location into the location field. Enter the text of the testimonial itself into the testimonial field. Click the blue “Save” button to save the testimonial.
Contact us
The contact us page lets borrowers send messages to you. To enable the contact us page, click ‘Edit’, and switch the enabled setting to ‘Yes’. When it is enabled, you will see a ‘Contact Us’ tab appear on your portal. You can also enable or disable the contact form on this page. The contact form gives your customers a simple way to email you a message directly from the customer website.
Enter the email address where the contact form messages will be sent into the contact email field. You can add or edit text content by using the formatting options provided within the text box. Once you have the page content entered and formatted the way you want, click the ‘Save’ button to make those changes on the live website.
New loan application
LoanPro offers a customizable application as a way to create new loans in the system. To enable the application on the customer portal, click ‘Edit’, and switch the enabled setting to ‘Yes’. If you choose to enable the application on the customer-facing website, an ‘Application’ tab will be shown on the website. Active applications will be displayed for the customer to access.
You can change the display order of the application by clicking the arrows to the right of each application. Click ‘Save’. The magnifying glass icon lets you preview the application form.
Site management
The site management area lets you set basic information for the theme and colors of your customer portal. You can select a main background, alternate, and text color by either dragging your cursor on a color palette or entering a specific shade's hex code, letting you perfectly match the color scheme to your brand. For more detailed information, see our Customer Portal Customization and Styling article.
Access settings
The settings area lets you control what your customers can see and do. There are eight different tabs you can navigate through to change your customer access: loan summary, payments, payment profiles, AutoPays, transactions, documents, insurance, and general. For more detailed information, see our Customer Portal Security article.
Customer login
Borrowers can log in to this site by clicking the login link on the main page. Their login credentials can be added in the web access information section of the customer's contact and personal information. This is found in Customer Manager. Web access can be enrolled in the customer links and access section of Customer Manager.
When the customer logs in for the first time, they will be asked to change their password. Once they confirm their new password, they will be able to access their loans.
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