P2P lending software: full specification
A lending marketplace where borrowers raise funds and investors build portfolios, with ratings, automatic payouts and a secondary market.
- 53
- features
- 9
- sections
- 35+
- ready integrations listed
1. Sign-up
| No. | Feature | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| 1.1 | Borrower and investor sign-up | Separate flows for borrowers and investors, for people and companies. |
| 1.2 | Phone, email and address checks | One-time codes and address data checks. |
| 1.3 | Identity and investor checks | ID, liveness and investor suitability questions.JumioOndato |
| 1.4 | Behaviour data and fraud rules | Device and behaviour checks for both sides. |
2. Portal
| No. | Feature | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| 2.1 | Documents | Loan, assignment and investor agreements generated and signed online.PandaDocOne-time SMS code |
| 2.2 | Profile and history | Personal data, applications, investments and payments. |
| 2.3 | Repayments and transfers | Borrowers repay, investors top up and withdraw in the portal.GoCardlessVoPaySquareVoltWise |
| 2.4 | Early and partial repayment | Investors get their share of early repayments automatically. |
| 2.5 | Ratings | Each borrower gets a rating from your model; it sets the rate investors see. |
| 2.6 | Notifications | SMS and email for funding progress, repayments and payouts.TwilioSendGridWhatsApp Business |
| 2.7 | Promo codes and rewards | Bonuses for referrals and first investments. |
3. Marketplace
| No. | Feature | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | Loan listings | Approved loans are listed with rating, term and rate. |
| 3.2 | Auto-invest | Investors set rules and money is spread across loans automatically. |
| 3.3 | Loan bundles | Investors fund bundles of loans in one step. |
| 3.4 | Secondary market | Investors sell loan parts to each other, with your price and fee rules. |
| 3.5 | Investor and borrower statistics | Returns, defaults and cash flow for each side. |
4. Money flows
| No. | Feature | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| 4.1 | Segregated accounts | Investor money is held on segregated accounts and matched to each loan. |
| 4.2 | Automatic payouts | Repayments are split between investors and paid out on schedule.VoPayWiseVoltForm3VolanteThreddPaymentology |
| 4.3 | Tax statements | Yearly statements for investors. |
5. Data sources and integrations
| No. | Feature | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| 5.1 | Credit bureaus | Pull credit reports and scores, and report loan data back to the bureaus on a schedule.ExperianEquifaxTransUnionCreditinfo |
| 5.2 | Identity and liveness | ID document check, selfie and liveness test.JumioOndato |
| 5.3 | Open banking | Income, spending and account ownership from the borrower's bank data, with consent.PlaidFlinksillionSalt Edge |
| 5.4 | Sanctions and PEP screening | Checks at onboarding and again on a schedule you set.OFACUNEUUK HMTPEP lists |
| 5.5 | Fraud signals | Device, email, phone and behaviour checks feed your fraud rules. |
| 5.6 | Your own scoring | Ready connection to your in-house or third-party scoring models. |
| 5.7 | Other data sources | Any provider can be added through the API; 1,700+ connectors are ready in 172 markets. |
6. Settings
| No. | Feature | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| 6.1 | Products | Create loan products with amounts, terms, schedules, fees and penalties in the admin panel. Existing loans keep their terms. |
| 6.2 | Decision strategy | Rules, scorecards and limits in a visual editor, with versions and test runs. |
| 6.3 | Reference lists | Edit reference lists such as branches, reasons and document types. |
| 6.4 | Message templates | Edit every SMS, email and portal message, in several languages. |
| 6.5 | Verification questions | Set the questions verifiers ask, per product. |
| 6.6 | Loyalty and promo codes | Points for on-time payments, levels and promo codes. |
| 6.7 | Users | Create staff users and give them roles. |
| 6.8 | Marketplace rules | Minimum ticket, maximum exposure per investor and secondary market fees. |
7. Back office
| No. | Feature | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| 7.1 | Client and loan view | Staff see applications, loans, payments and borrowers, limited by their role. |
| 7.2 | Edit borrower data | Change details entered by the borrower or staff; every change is logged. |
| 7.3 | Applications by staff | Create an application from the back office, for example at a branch or over the phone. |
| 7.4 | Tasks and queues | Underwriter decisions, verification questions, payment errors and collection calls land in queues by role. |
| 7.5 | Decision override | An authorised person can change an automatic decision, with the reason saved. |
| 7.6 | Status changes | Cancel, freeze or close a loan, for example on a dispute or a court case. |
| 7.7 | Collections | Soft and hard collection queues, collector and supervisor workspaces, hand-over lists for agencies. |
| 7.8 | Messages | Send SMS and email to one borrower or a segment.TwilioSendGridWhatsApp Business |
| 7.9 | Local time | Staff see the borrower's local time before calling. |
| 7.10 | Blocklist | Block a borrower's portal or add them to an internal blocklist. |
| 7.11 | Reports | Standard management reports and statistics. |
| 7.12 | Roles and permissions | Roles with field-level access, a four-eyes rule for sensitive actions and an audit log. |
8. Accounting and analytics
| No. | Feature | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| 8.1 | Accounting | Entries for every operation go to your general ledger.QuickBooksXeroNetSuite |
| 8.2 | Regulatory reporting | Data for regulator reports in your market's format. |
| 8.3 | BI and data warehouse | Documented database and exports to your BI tools.Power BITableauLooker |
9. Other
| No. | Feature | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| 9.1 | Data migration | Move clients, active loans and payment history from your current system; every balance is checked after the move. |
| 9.2 | Blocklist without a profile | Block a phone, ID or device even if the person has never applied. |
| 9.3 | Declined traffic | Send declined applicants to partner lenders automatically, if you choose to. |
| 9.4 | Deployment | Our cloud, your private cloud or your own servers, with the same features everywhere. |
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