How can I add a loan product?

This article explains how you can easily create a new loan product.

1. Log in to the Wakandi Admin Panel.

2. Go to Settings.
3. Select Policies from the dropdown list..
4. ..from the menu bar click on Credit product policy.

Credit product policy.

5. Click on Add New button on the top right side of the page to create a loan product.

If the New button is not there, you have to approve or reject existing policies before you can add a new one.


6. From here you will be able to view the fields for creating a new loan policy, Fill in the details of the loan this will be the name, description and loan type.

Add the name, description and loan type of the loan product. You can also choose the Active state.

7. Next on the details we have to fill in the Terms of the loan.
In this case, the loan terms will be the minimum and maximum amount that member can loan, the tenure period which is the amount of time the a member can take a loan, and you can also add grace period and the savings and share multiplier.

Loarn terms.

8. Add the loan interest details. You can define the interest rate in percentages; you can also set the interest rate period and the calculation method of the interest rate.

Interest rate.

9. Next, you can set the loan charges, From here you can select the payment type, enter the name of the charge and select the type of the charge and finally the value of the charge, after filling in all the fields an Add button will appear which allows you to add more charges.

Setting up Loan charges.

10. Add the approval stages that the loan will go through and you can even select the default approver of the specific stage, you can more stages by clicking the Add stages button.

Loan stages fields.

11. Wakandi offers an insurance service that is fully automated with loan disbursement, you can enable the Insurance by checking the box. 

Insurance set up.

12. Next, add the gaurantors and collateral required for loan, you can set the minimum numbe of gaurantors and who the guarantors will be.

Loan guarantors and collateral.

13. Finally you will have to connect the ledgers in the Chart of Accounts with the credit policy, the ledgers connected will be specific to the loan product.
14. After filling in the all information click on Submit to save the credit product policy.

Linking the accounting ledgers.

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