August 14, 2012
Jessica Thompson
Did you know that if you have a Myers or eMagic account your website will be discontinued on September 1, 2012? If you have an account with these companies Calyx has the perfect solution for you!
With 85% of first time home borrowers shopping the web, you may only get one chance at that prospect, so don’t put off changing your provider. Creating a better online customer experience is the best way to capture that lead. By using a smart, consumer direct platform, like WebCaster, to pre-qualify mortgage leads, you can be sure that the leads are followed up immediately. Additionally, WebCaster offers a many features you may not have had with Myers or eMagic such as:
- Online 1003 applications that download into Point
- Electronic document exchange to and from document management
- Loan officer selection and routing
- Loan application tracking
- Online payment feature for borrower fees
- eDisclosures through Point
- Google analytics
- Mortgage calculators
- Customizable templates
WebCaster offers all those features and more for only $24.99 a month! Make sure you are seen by today’s internet savvy borrower who begins the origination process online. Get started with WebCaster today! Visit our WebCaster page for details, view a live demonstration of WebCaster or contact us at 800.362.2599 for more information.
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Posted by Jessica Thompson
April 3, 2012
Jessica Thompson
The April Interface Update took place yesterday, April 2nd. As a result, you’ll see a new service within your Point® software.
MGIC located under Mortgage Insurance in the Interfaces menu is now available in Point version 7.4 and higher. MGIC, the founder of the industry, is the largest private mortgage insurer, serving more than 3,300 lenders with locations across the country and Puerto Rico. MGIC provides a critical component of our country’s residential mortgage finance system, protecting mortgage investors from credit losses. Mortgage insurance from MGIC also benefits consumers by helping them achieve homeownership sooner with low-down-payment loans. Their latest integration with Point shows their commitment to providing customers with quality, efficient technology.
Find MGIC under Mortgage Insurance in the Interfaces menu. Visit http://www.mgic.com/origination/los_miorderinterface.html for more information.
Remember, every month we add new service providers to our software. This enables you to have the tools you need to succeed right at your fingertips. Be on the lookout for our monthly blog about new Interfaces in Point!
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Posted by Jessica Thompson
February 22, 2012
Jessica Thompson
Home ownership, for some it is the investment of a lifetime, however without proper knowledge of the industry it can be a confusing, frustrating and down right scary time. Many customers need mortgage experts and financial professionals that leave them feeling confident about mortgage options – eager and unafraid to begin their dream of home ownership.
Taking your mortgage business online allows for both customers and your business to have smoother application process. However, while online applications and technology are the wave of the future, it’s also important to make sure your customers are receiving the best customer service and relationship experience possible. Calyx® WebCaster® allows for a great customer service experience for those customers weary about filling out their first applications alone and for customers who want a loan center 24/7.
WebCaster secure online loan center provides a seamless integration with Point® and PointCentral® so you can make sure your customers are receiving the best customer service and relationship experience possible. WebCaster also includes real-time loan status reports, pre-qualification for visitors to your site with a single form, loan calculators that calculate optimal down payment and interest rate all while offering you a flexible and expandable website that is easily customizable and user friendly.
Don’t leave your customers trapped in technology in one of the most important purchase of their life. Instead, help them with great customer service online, with WebCaster, and offline. Request a demonstration and see what WebCaster can do for you by clicking here.
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Posted by Jessica Thompson
January 18, 2012
Jessica Thompson
It has been said that it takes months to find a customer and only seconds to lose one. In a time where the market is shrinking, the relationship with your customers can be the key to retention and success of your business growth. You need a technology solution that makes it easy to take mortgage applications without sacrificing customer service and quality.
Calyx® WebCaster® will not only allow your customers access to 24/7 online mortgage applications, but with a secure online loan center it provides a seamless integration with Point® and PointCentral®, so you can make sure your customers are receiving the best customer service and relationship experience possible. WebCaster also includes real-time loan status reports, pre-qualification for visitors to your site with a single form, loan calculators that calculate optimal down payment and interest rate all while offering you a flexible and expandable website that is easily customizable and user friendly.
Online applications and technology are the wave of the future, but it’s important to make sure your customers are receiving the best customer service and relationship experience possible without trapping them to technology. With WebCaster you can give your customers the best experience offline and online during one of the most important purchases of their lives.
Click here to request a free demo of WebCaster today!
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Posted by Jessica Thompson
December 2, 2011
Jessica Thompson
The December Interface Update took place yesterday, December 1. As a result, you’ll see a change to interfaces within your Point® software.
BuildFax has been added to the Services menu under Verifications in Point. BuildFax™, a division of BUILDERadius, is the creator of the first and only national database of historical building permit data. Co-headquartered in Austin, Texas and Asheville, North Carolina, BuildFax™ has created a proprietary property intelligence engine that contains building and permitting information from 4,000+ cities and counties throughout the country. Local building departments in each of these towns across the country inspect construction to make sure it meets quality and safety standards; as such it is an absolutely critical part of the public safety infrastructure. BuildFax™ is then able to consolidate this information into the dataset, which is a tremendous asset to professionals in the insurance, financial services, inspection, and appraisal industries, as well as buyers and sellers of property. As the best and only source of a structure’s “life story,” the BuildFax™ database continues to grow, currently covering over 72 million residential and commercial properties in the United States, with over 6 billion data points.
Remember, every month we add new service providers to our software. This enables you to have the tools you need to success right at your fingertips. Be on the lookout of our monthly blog about new Interfaces in Point!
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Posted by Jessica Thompson
September 29, 2011
BJ Bounds
The concept of being “all things to all people” is not only a lesson in futility; it’s a recipe for mediocrity.
In business, sometimes an “all in one” solution is good for initial revenue but bad for your clients in the long run. How do you excel in your primary mission if you take on additional ones that complement your mission but are best accomplished by others with specific expertise?
The answer is, you don’t. You stop excelling in your original mission and lower your operational standards in order to maintain the various functions of your other business.
Sometimes it’s better to stick with what you do best, and do it as best you can.
Here at Calyx, we develop software solutions for mortgage professionals. That’s what we do and we do it well. That’s why we’re still #1 after 20 years. We let the experts in complementary business do what they do best.
We are proud that so many best-of-breed providers interface with us to give our clients the power to choose among them for the additional services they need.
Get expertise; get choices with Calyx.
To see a list of preferred vendors available through your Point software, visit our Calyx Network page. If you’d like to learn more about what we can do for your business, call our account representatives at 800-362-2599.
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Posted by BJ Bounds
September 28, 2011
BJ Bounds
In less than 2 months, we’re hosting the first Calyx User Conference. This unprecedented event is designed to help you to get what you need out of Calyx and the products you use. Interact with our leadership and learn all about your software, including tips of the trade you might not already know!
Also during this information-packed day, we’re going to share some exciting news about mobile apps, upcoming releases, as well as an entirely new product from Calyx!
Don’t miss this hands-on, down-to-business user conference. After all, it’s all about you, the user! This is your chance to tell us what you need and to impact future Calyx product roadmaps.
Register now to join us at the beautiful Green Valley Resort and Spa in Las Vegas on November 15th! You $99 conference fee is on the house if you also attend the Mastery Business Plan.
All attendees of the Calyx User Conference will be entered into a drawing to win a free iPad 2!
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Posted by BJ Bounds
September 26, 2011
BJ Bounds
Have you ever been so frustrated with finding the perfect pair of dress pants that you had one custom made? You absolutely loved it and wore it everywhere—a perfect black that made coordinating outfits a breeze!
What happened the next year when you found out that you had gained a few pounds and the vision of a fully zipped pair of pants became only a distant memory?
If you took it back to the tailor, you perhaps discovered that in order to enlarge the pants, they would have to take it apart and add more fabric, making it pieced together and unrecognizable as the “go-to” pant-perfection that it was last year.
Like your custom pants, technology can be customized on the front end for your business. But as with your weight gain, your business needs can change from one year to the next, even one month to the next. But if you’ve had your technology custom made for you, making the required changes could leave your system pieced together and unrecognizable—or broken. And what if your customized technology needs regular updates that don’t readily integrate with your current customizations? That leads to more time consuming system manipulation.
While you can’t always find stretchy dress pants, it is easy to find technology for your business that you can easily configure as your needs change. That way you don’t have to depend on upfront, expensive customization.
Give yourself the gift of flexibility with configurable technology that’s good for business.
With PointCentral, you can create, change, or remove business rules to best suit your business. Find out how by calling our account representatives at 800-362-2599.
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Posted by BJ Bounds
September 22, 2011
BJ Bounds
Sometimes new isn’t always better. Innovation seems to be the current buzzword in just about every industry. New companies toast to the latest and greatest inventions or engineering concepts. But are they really worth risking your business for?
Innovations have a 98% failure rate right off the bat. By the time they make to market, they’re past the failure stage in-house, but when they move to market, they move to experimental stage. That makes all of us who try the latest new technology—in essence—guinea pigs. Remember Windows Vista?
I’m not saying that innovation is bad, I’m cautioning against knee-jerk reactions to always get the newest and shiniest technology just because it’s new and shiny. Sometimes technology that works and is easy to use is exactly what you need to be efficient and grow positive ROI.
Improvements can be made internally that do not affect how you see the outside. That’s the beauty of technology. It can be engineered and configured with mind-boggling complexity, but be completely clean and easy-to-use for end users.
At Calyx, we prefer to our software to be complicated for us on the inside, but easy for you on the outside. Innovative? Maybe not. But we’ve been doing it right for 20 years and it works how and when you need it.
If you would like a free demonstration to see for yourself how our experience and engineering know-how can make your life easier, call one of our account representatives at 800-362-2599.
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Posted by BJ Bounds
August 24, 2011
BJ Bounds
Sometimes new isn’t always better. Innovation seems to be the current buzzword in just about every industry. New companies toast to the latest and greatest inventions or engineering concepts. But are they really worth risking your business for?
I’m not saying that innovation is bad, I’m cautioning against knee-jerk reactions to always get the newest and shiniest technology just because it’s new and shiny. Sometimes technology that works and is easy to use is exactly what you need to be efficient and grow positive ROI.
Improvements can be made internally that do not affect how you see the outside. That’s the beauty of technology. It can be engineered and configured with mind-boggling complexity, but be completely clean and easy-to-use for end users.
At Calyx, we made tremendous changes behind the User Interface with greatly enhanced functionality and new screens to accommodate the needs of new customers and expanded roles of current ones.
But even through all the changes and improvements to the back-end, we’ve kept our interface consistent so that it’s easier for you to use and easier for your employees to learn! We prefer our software to be complicated for us on the inside, but easy for you on the outside. Would you see this as Innovative? Maybe not. But we’ve been doing it right for 20 years and it works how and when you need it.
If you would like a free demonstration to see for yourself how our experience and engineering know-how can make your life easier, call one of our account representatives at 800-362-2599.
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Posted by BJ Bounds
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