Creating Product

Creating Product

What You’ll Learn:

  • Build a new product: displays all active products in your system

  • General tab: define general information of your product

  • Lookup tab: define factor values that are used for tariff calculation

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  • FAQ: frequency questions around product builders

To create a new product, you must have Manage Products permission

How to build a new product

  1. Enter Product Details

    1. Product Name – Any language, spaces allowed.

    2. Logo – Click "Select another logo", choose an icon, and confirm.

    3. Click "Save" to create the product. It will open in a new tab.

  2. Create the First Version

    1. You must set up the first product version. See Add Product Version for details.

  3. Add to Sales Channels

    1. After publishing and activating, add the product to Sales Channels so it can be quoted. See Sales Channels for details.

General tab

This guide explains how to set up general information for a product version. The General tab includes settings for:

  1. Product Reference: A unique ID for each product version—make sure it’s different from others.

  2. Product Description: A summary of what the product version is about.

  3. Currency:

    1. Auto-set based on tenant settings for new products.

    2. Copied from the original version if cloned.

  4. Product Commission (%): Use to define MGA commission, default commission rate for the product (adjustable when quoting).

    1. Refer to https://seamlessinsure.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SHC/pages/8293959 for more information

  5. Sales Commission (%): Use to define Intermediary commission, default sales commission rate (also adjustable in quotes).

    1. Refer to https://seamlessinsure.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SHC/pages/8293959 for more information

  6. Line of Business: Identifies the business category your product belongs to (e.g., Health, Auto, Property).

    1. You can select from predefined options or add a custom one.

  7. Policy Period: Set how renewals work:

    1. Annual – Renews a year after the last end date.

    2. Renewal Date Alignment – Set a fixed renewal date/month.

    3. Monthly – Renews after a set number of months.

    4. Annual Previous Month End – Always renews on the 1st of the start month.

  8. Policy Period Rules

    • Minimum period is based on user permissions (Basic, Advanced, Admin).

    • Maximum period applies to all users.

Note: Make sure your tenant configured the corresponding features for the payment option

  • Ensure your tenant is configured for the selected payment options.

  • Define up to 30 payment options per product version.

  • Each payment option must have a payment discount (set to 0 if not applicable).

  • Use "Add" and "Remove" buttons to modify options.

Set the maximum coverage limit:

  1. Limit Type: Per claim event or insured period.

  2. Value Type:

    1. Fixed value – A predefined amount.

    2. Input – Value obtained from a question tag.

  3. Limit Amount (for fixed values).

  4. Source Question (for input values).

  5. Limit (Free Text) – Additional information.

Deductible Type: Choose between:

  1. Amount

  2. % of damage

 

If Deductible Type = % of Damage

  1. Deductible % Question – Captures the deductible percentage.

  2. Minimum Deductible Amount Question – Captures the minimum deductible.

  3. Maximum Deductible Amount Question – Captures the maximum deductible.

  4. Deductible Time From Question – Captures the deductible time.

 

If Deductible Type = Amount

  1. Value Type:

    1. Fixed value – Predefined deductible.

    2. Input – Obtained from a question tag.

  2. Limit (Free Text) – Additional deductible details.

Lookup tab

The Lookups tab contains factor values used for tariff calculation. These values are stored in an Excel file and applied to pricing based on specific conditions.

The lookup file is an Excel file containing factor values:

  • Each sheet in the file represents a lookup sheet for a specific factor.

  • A lookup sheet matches answers from the product with corresponding factor values.

  • A product must have at least one lookup sheet

    • You can upload a new file to replace the existing one. But must ensure the file includes all necessary lookup sheets.

The Lookup Sheet Structure

Column

Description

Column

Description

From

Effective date when the factor value applies. Policies starting after this date will use this factor.

Context

Defines the partner using the factor value (e.g., different values for different partners).

Name

The risk question and its possible answers driving tariff calculation.

List of Covers

Columns defining factor values for each cover (one column per cover).

On the left panel, you'll find a list of all lookup factors loaded from the file. Click on a factor to view its settings in the right panel.

Key Lookup Fields

Field

Description

Field

Description

Lookup ID

Unique identifier for the lookup.

Lookup Name

Name of the lookup (matches sheet name in the Excel file).

Lookup Type

Defines how values are retrieved

  1. SingleRow: Looks up for questions with one fixed answer. Mainly used for base premium.

    • E.g. Factor for "Alpha" answer: Cover UnableToTravel1001 = 200, Cover Luggage1002 = 50.

  2. SingleKey: Looks up for single-answer questions like Yes/No question

    • E.g. User can select one excess (deductible) option, and with corresponding answer, the factor would be looked up correctly based on covers (Cover Luggage1002 = 1.80, Cover UnableToTravel1001 = 1, etc.)

  3. LowerBoundRange: Uses the lowest matching range.

    1. E.g. Score from 0-30 → cover UnableToTravel1001 = 5.0, score from 30-40 → cover UnableToTravel1001 = 4.0

  4. HigherBoundRange:

  5. used when looking up a value in the higher bound range.

    • If lookup Score = 25 for cover Luggage1002, result = 5.00
      If lookup Score = 35 for cover Luggage1002, result = 4.50
      If lookup Score = 45 for cover Luggage1002, result = 4.00
      If lookup Score = 105 for cover Luggage1002, result = Default value if defined.

CompositeKey

Used when there is a combination of multiple question answers that are used as one key to lookup a value.

DependentRanges

<TBD>

ClosedDoubleRange

<TBD>

Does the lookup have a default value?

  • Yes: set to Yes if you want the lookup to return the default value if the key is not found.

  • No: set to No if you don’t want the lookup to return the default value if the key is not found.

Default value

Define the default value for the lookup if the key is not found.

Type of the identity key in lookup

Define the type of lookup identity key. It can be string, int, decimal, or long.

  • Default: string if not defined.

Type of the value in lookup

Define the type of value in the lookup. It can be string, int, decimal, long.

  • Default: decimal if not defined.

Does the lookup have a single cover column?

  • True: set to True if you want to get the value from a single column that is the only column in the lookup sheet.

  • False: set to False if you want to get values corresponding to the covers specified in the field “Covers Column In the lookup” below.

    • If this question is empty, this means lookup values correspond to the available covers in the product.

Covers column in the lookup

If this question is empty, this means lookup values correspond to the available covers in the product.

  • If there are some covers selected, this means the lookup values correspond to the selected covers in the lookup sheet.

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The Shared Lookup is linked to the Agency Lookup file, an Excel file containing common factor values used across all products in the same tenant. This lookup is typically used for shared data like country, customer risk, city, postcode, or other factors that apply to multiple products.

Refer to Product Settings for more details

Documents tab

This tab allows you to configure email and document templates for the current product version. When generating emails or documents for quotes or policies, the selected templates will be used.

  1. Open Product versionDocuments tab

  2. Choose Select Document Template

  3. Select the document template for generating quotes or policy documents.

  4. If there’s a selected template, click image-20250314-043127.png on the template to remove it, and reselect another template

Note: Only one document template can be assigned per product.

The template is used for sending quote or policy documents to both the seller and the policyholder to inform them about their quote or policy.

  1. Open Product versionDocuments tab

  2. Choose Select Email Template

  3. Select the document template for generating quotes or policy documents.

  4. If there’s a selected template, click image-20250314-043127.png on the template to remove it, and reselect another template

Select a document template or email template for generating a termination letter to the previous insurer.

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Refer to https://seamlessinsure.atlassian.net/wiki/x/K8J_/ for more information

Seamless will attach T&C document to the policy email sent to the customer when it’s available.

When you have more than 1 T&C document, then you can use this documents to capture other documents

FAQ

  1. Modify factor values directly in the current lookup.

  2. If you upload an Excel file with an empty sheet, go to Lookup Details to remove it.

  3. Ensure all factor values are numeric. If a field is text, convert it to a number before uploading.

 

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