Efficient Processing of Vehicle Financing Thanks to Retarus Cloud Fax Services
The Challenge
No matter whether it’s a registration form with a legally valid signature, copies of a driver’s license, proof of income or other confidential documents, even in this age of digitization, paper-based documents still play an essential role in the processing of vehicle financing. In order to ensure that the customer’s financing can be approved speedily despite a growing flood of documents, it is essential to optimize key business processes by automating them. At the same time, credit and loan institutions are striving to keep their process costs down to a minimum. In accordance with more stringent data protection and compliance guidelines, companies are also required to safeguard any sensitive data which is exchanged at all times.
The Background
The vast majority of new cars registered for private and business use are brought to the roads by leasing and financing models – and the trend is upwards. In the most cases, car dealers transmit confidential contract documents by means of fax to the responsible credit institution. The fax standard is used because it is tried and tested as well as being highly standardized. It also provides an advantage by serving as a means of proof–thanks to the confirmation message and signature – as opposed to e-mail, for instance. At the credit institution, the contract documents are then manually captured and assigned to the appropriate process. The entry of data is not only work and time intensive due to the high volumes of incoming documents, but also prone to errors. The result is duplicated work, enormous follow-up costs and the associated delays in approving the loan application.
The Solution
With Retarus’ Cloud Fax Services, leasing or financing documents can be sent both securely and efficiently by means of fax and received conveniently in email clients and business applications – from where they can then be processed further without delay. Combined with an innovative barcode recognition, this service helps to fully automate the assignment of documents. No additional investment is needed in hardware, updates, maintenance, licenses and fax lines. To this end, Retarus’ Enterprise Cloud with its well-developed interfaces, global availability and remarkably high levels of fail-safety facilitates the success of communication-based business processes. Finance institutions worldwide profit from the high quality and transaction security offered by the service and quick, error-free fax delivery into their existing systems, including an immediate transmission report. This fax to email service ensures immediate and secure delivery, as well as transparent storage and data recovery in case of loss.
Customer Benefits
- Little manual effort
- Low process costs
- Reduction in the error-rate
- High levels of customer satisfaction and increased customer loyalty
- Compliant fax communication
- Quick execution of processes thanks to smart, automated data capturing and barcode recognition
Benefits at a Glance
Use Case
As soon as the customer has chosen a form of financing or leasing, the dealer fills in an application form which is marked with a barcode and faxes this completed form to the bank providing the loan. If the finance institution requests additional documentation from the dealer, for instance proof of income or copies of the driver’s license, the required papers can then easily and conveniently be compiled in a fax document bearing the same barcode and sent back to the credit institute (Fax Back). Large international banks, in particular, which need to process considerable volumes of documentation, gain significant benefit from this intelligent means of transmission. Thanks to the barcode, all documents and signatures can immediately be assigned to the relevant procedure without any effort for manual data capturing. All information is automatically recognized and processed appropriately in the internal IT system. With the aid of individually configurable splitting, machine capturing of incoming fax documents can be optimized further. Paper-based processes and potential sources of error are reduced substantially.
More information
The services also facilitate the secure archiving of all incoming and outgoing fax documents. Optionally, these archived documents can also be provided as searchable PDFs via email. This means that the messages can be archived conveniently in the user’s own email inbox and are available without delay should any queries arise.
Retarus’ Enterprise Administration Service portal (EAS), moreover, provides loan institutes with maximum transparency and control. In addition to numerous configuration options and real-time monitoring, the portal offers a daily report comprising all fax services used. The savings achieved through introducing the cloud services can then be passed on directly to the customer in the shape of more favorable conditions, resulting in higher levels of customer satisfaction and increased customer loyalty.
Get this Use Case as PDF file now and simplify your financing transactions.
Did You Know?
According to IDC, every second document is still paper-based. With Retarus’ services, organizations can focus on driving the digitization process forward.
We Are Here for You!
Do you have questions about Retarus, our products and services, or wish to receive further information? Your personal sales representative will assist you with any inquiries. Please contact us!