Perfect AMS for a Producer on the Move
September 04, 2020
Perfect AMS for a Producer on the Move
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with BindHQ
I can only speak to my use of BHQ as a Producer/Underwriter, but it’s been a game-changer as our book continues to grow (switched from AMS360/ImageRight). All departments (production, claims, accounting, etc.) seem to collaborate and work through the platform without issues. In my experience, BHQ has been a great solution for challenges my team and I have faced surrounding reliability and "portal fatigue" when multiple systems are meshed together (e.g. Salesforce and AMS360). It's been convenient having all the essential features I use in a variety of different programs and applications in one central platform. I have yet to experience any serious system outages or debilitating issues that knock our teams offline for hours at a time (*Knock on wood*).
- Reliability: Over the past two years, my team and I have only run into a few small issues (commission wasn’t automatically populating on the submission file for our products, etc.)
- User-friendly: we have several Lloyd’s products we underwrite and issue through the system and it normally takes me less than 10 minutes to create the submission file, underwrite, select forms, and issue a formal quote for an account. This turnaround speed has turned into a serious competitive advantage for my team and me and has been an asset getting us in the door with new agency partners.
- Flexibility: I travel a lot either visiting agencies or taking full advantage of the freedom of working remotely. Being able to access BHQ from nearly any device makes it easy to use between devices, whether it be at my home office, on the road, or on a chairlift (I'm an avid skier).
- The system is relatively young and accommodates basic reporting features at the moment. For example, currently, I'm not able to produce agency-level and account level data using reporting tool, which makes reviewing an individual agency partners performance a little more challenging. However, the support desk willl send me custom reports if I communicate what I need.
- In the past, the support team has been less than responsive but they have improved over the last 6 months.
- Overall, moving to BHQ has been a positive experience and has reduced a fair amount of overhead associated with the maintenance and operation of several systems we used to used.
- As with any system migration, there were some integration pains, but it freed up our producer to focus on producing and support staff to focus on improving our operations instead of cleaning data and organizing account files between systems.
- The system has also made underwriting inhouse programs much more simple and efficient, allowing me the flexibility to customize forms and add a large variety of coverages to standard products with ease.
- It’s allowed our producers the flexibility to access the system anywhere on any device, which has allowed many in our company to relocate and travel with relative ease.
Do you think BindHQ delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with BindHQ's feature set?
Yes
Did BindHQ live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of BindHQ go as expected?
I wasn't involved with the implementation phase
Would you buy BindHQ again?
Yes