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Choosing the right Loan Management Software (LMS) is a pivotal decision for small business lenders. A strong LMS streamlines operations, enhances the borrower experience, mitigates risk, and ensures regulatory compliance, all while enabling you to grow sustainably. Whether you're just starting out or upgrading your tech stack, these seven features are essential. Here’s how Looms, our modular loan origination and management system, delivers on each front.
1. Loan Origination Automation
Automating the loan origination process significantly accelerates the borrower journey, reducing friction and enabling scalability. Manual reviews and data entry can create bottlenecks, frustrate applicants, and bog down your team. With automation, lenders can instantly screen applications, verify documents, and route them through decision engines without manual input. Looms handles the entire origination lifecycle, from digital application intake to identity verification and credit checks, allowing your team to focus on high-impact decisions rather than repetitive tasks.
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2. Flexible Loan Product Configuration
No two borrowers are alike, especially in the small business world. A flexible LMS allows you to tailor loan products to different business needs, whether it is microloans with daily repayments or seasonal financing for agriculture. Without this flexibility, you may be stuck with workarounds or disconnected workflows. Looms offers complete configuration options, enabling you to define interest rates, fee structures, repayment terms, and eligibility logic for each loan product. This gives you the ability to adapt your offerings quickly as markets shift or borrower expectations evolve.
Powerful add-on: Looms’ Product Engine allows you to launch new loan products without writing code or relying on IT teams. You can build, test, and deploy product configurations with full control over the entire lifecycle, helping you bring new offers to market in days instead of months.
3. Repayment Scheduling and Tracking
Dynamic repayment capabilities are a cornerstone of effective portfolio management. Small business borrowers often face unpredictable cash flows, so your LMS needs to support flexible scheduling and provide tools for proactive tracking. If a borrower transitions from monthly to bi-weekly payments, for example, your system should update the schedule instantly and adjust reminders accordingly. Looms allows real-time modification of payment plans, issues automated reminders across multiple channels, and displays up-to-date repayment status in an intuitive collections dashboard.
4. Integrated Credit Scoring or Risk Assessment
Accurate risk evaluation is fundamental to sustainable lending. Especially when serving underbanked or first-time borrowers, traditional scoring methods may not suffice. A modern LMS should accommodate both rule-based and machine-learning models that pull insights from alternative data sources like mobile behavior or transaction histories. Looms supports this with a dual approach. Lenders can use its Scorecard Builder for transparent, logic-driven decisions or integrate their custom AI models through the Custom Scoring module, giving teams full control over risk frameworks.
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5. Regulatory Compliance and Audit Trail
Regulatory compliance is not optional. It is mission-critical. Your LMS must enforce workflows that align with local and international regulations while maintaining a transparent audit trail. During an audit or internal review, you should be able to trace every decision and data point in moments. Looms ensures this by logging all user actions, managing access through role-based permissions, and maintaining compliance-aligned documentation protocols. It is built to support standards such as ISO 27001 and GDPR, keeping your business protected and audit-ready at all times.
6. Notifications and Communication Tools
Keeping borrowers informed throughout the loan lifecycle is key to reducing delinquency and fostering trust. Manual follow-ups are inefficient and error-prone. Your LMS should handle communication seamlessly, whether it is application status updates, due date reminders, or payment confirmations. Looms empowers this with omnichannel messaging capabilities, supporting SMS, email, and in-app notifications. You can trigger communications at every milestone, ensuring timely, consistent, and professional borrower interactions without additional workload for your team.
7. Analytics and Reporting
Insightful analytics turn data into strategy. With growing competition and economic uncertainty, lenders need real-time visibility into portfolio health, repayment behavior, and borrower trends. Your LMS should provide customizable dashboards, automated reports, and easy-to-digest insights that drive action. Looms equips you with these tools by offering visual performance tracking, compliance reporting, and deep-dive analytics that help you spot opportunities, manage risks, and make informed decisions at every level.
Extra layer of control: For lenders needing even more agility, Looms includes a Business Process Management (BPM) Engine. This engine gives you full flexibility to automate and customize workflows—whether it's an exception handling loop, dynamic approval process, or loan disbursement logic—through a drag-and-drop visual interface, with zero code required.
Build Smarter Lending from the Ground Up
In today’s rapidly evolving lending environment, small business lenders need more than operational efficiency—they need intelligent, scalable infrastructure. Looms isn’t just a tech upgrade; it’s a strategic foundation built to foster trust, maximize efficiency, and drive sustainable impact. From seamless onboarding to streamlined collections and actionable insights, Looms empowers lenders to deliver faster, more personalized, and fully compliant financing experiences—meeting the expectations of tomorrow’s borrowers, today.
And those seven features? Just the beginning. Looms also includes powerful tools like its modular Product Engine, dynamic BPM Engine, and a suite of integrations designed to help you adapt, scale, and stay ahead in a changing market.
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