Alkami vs. Blend

If you are looking for a high-quality online banking product and you don’t want/need to customize it too much, Alkami is a great choice- it has a lot out of the box and the people are great. If you need a lot of customization, and you don’t have the internal resources to help you do that, Alkami may be a challenge to satisfy your needs.

Incentivized

I have not experienced any other system that can do what Blend does as easily as Blend. It's very well suited for the mortgage industry and its ability to communicate with Encompass. I don't think it would be a great CRM tool for a company that doesn't need multiple touch points to a client, for instance, if you simply need a name, phone number, and email address Blend would be overkill. Blend is designed specifically to capture a lot of specific details about a client's financial position.

Incentivized

• Mobile-first design is great on both iOS and Android.
• Broad array of retail banking capabilities.
• A large array of integrated partner products to enhance the core functionality of the base product.
• SDK and API-centric architecture are helping to design for the future of banking applications.

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• Easy to use
• Transfers between Blend to Encompass easily
• Runs employment verification

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• SDK and APIs are not fully mature - while they are functional and have a bright future, the support infrastructure is not fully developed.
• Custom development can take a long time.
• They may be focused on sales over support given their recent public offering.

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• Adding non occupant co-borrowers can be challenging
• I wish we could mirror the client's screen in real-time so we can see where they are in the application
• The user side can be a little challenging, some fields are required to be filled out even though they are not important to the application

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• Enabled a solid mobile first.
• Ember experience.
• Allowed flexibility via the SDK.
• Allowed us to focus on the business needs over the technology infrastructure.

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• Blend allows me to manage my pipeline easily without having to resort to Excel
• Captures things like birthdays allowing me to have a reason to call clients
• Clients love that it's a secure portal, no more replying to emails with sensitive documents

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