Appointment Tab

Use the Appointment tab to submit an electronic appointment request for the producer, to view appointment requests that already have been submitted, and to view state responses to appointment requests.

 

Appointment requests are submitted through Compliance Express, Sircon's electronic licensing and appointment service. Producer information from Producer Express is copied over automatically to Compliance Express, saving you from having to re-key data.

The Appointment tab contains the following sections:

Select Appt Profile

The Select Appt Profile section shows you the state(s) in which the producer has requested to be appointed and whether the state(s) require the producer to be “pre-appointed” before he or she can sell policies there.

Fields and controls include the following:

  • State: Displays the state(s) in which the producer has requested to be appointed.
  • Licensed in State: A symbol indicates that the producer holds an active license in the state. A symbol indicates that the producer is not currently licensed in the state.
  • Pre-Appoint State: A symbol indicates that the state requires the producer to be “pre-appointed” before he or she can write business there. (Producer Express AutoPilot automatically submits appointment requests to pre-appointment states.) A symbol indicates that the state does not require pre-appointment.
  • Select to Appoint: Click to checkmark for each state displaying in the State field to which you want to submit an appointment request.
  • Select Profile(s): Click to select one or multiple pre-defined appointment profiles. To select multiple, press CTRL and click to highlight profile names. Profiles define appointment details, such as lines of authority, entity type, transmission type, cost center, and others.
  • Apply Profile: Click to apply the selected appointment profile(s) to the appointment requests and navigate to the Review Generated Appts section.

Review Generated Appts

On the Review Generated Appts section, you can review the lines you have selected for the producer based on the appointment profile you chose in the Select Appt Profile section.

Fields and controls include the following:

  • State: Displays the name of the state to which the appointment request is being submitted.
  • Appt Type: Displays the type of appointment being requested.
  • Company: Displays the name of the company requesting the appointment.
  • NAIC ID: Displays the requesting company's NAIC ID.
  • Effective Date: Select from the dropdown menu the date on which the appointment will be effective. Depending on your company's business rules, the dropdown menu may default to a date earlier than today for backdating purposes. (Some states allow appointments to be backdated, many up to 30 days.) You can change the date by either overwriting the mmddyyyy date or clicking the Calendar  button to select a date.
  • Cost Center: Select a cost center in your company to which to apply the fees for the appointment request.
  • Trans Type: Select a transmission type, either Electronic (to submit the appointment request to the state electronically) or Record Only (the producer already is appointed in the state or the state does not require an appointment, and the system needs only to record the appointment request electronically in Producer Manager, the Sircon Platform's producer maintenance component).
  • Submit: Click to checkmark to load the appointment request for submission.
  • Change Profiles & States: Click to open the Select Appt Profile section, where you can update the appointment request.
  • Submit to State: Click to submit selected appointment request(s) to the state(s) and open the Appointment Results section.

Appointment Results

View the status of your appointment request and the state response to the request in the Appointment Results section.

Fields and controls include the following:

  • State: Displays the name of the state to which the appointment request was submitted.
  • Appt Type: Displays the type of appointment requested.
  • Company: Displays the name of the company that requested the appointment.
  • NAIC ID: Displays the requesting company's NAIC ID.
  • Status: Displays the current disposition of the appointment request.
  • Status Date: Displays the date on which the status of an appointment request was last updated.
  • Cost Center: Displays the cost center in your company to which fees for the appointment request have been applied.
  • Trans Type: Displays the transmission type, either Electronic (the appointment request to the state was submitted electronically) or RecordOnly (the producer already is appointed in the state, and the system has recorded the appointment request electronically in Producer Manager, the Sircon Platform’s producer maintenance component.).
  • Action: Click the control to expand the record row to show all field information of a truncated record.
  • : Click to expand all record rows to show field information of all truncated records.
  • Sircon Request ID: Displays the internal appointment request ID number. Click the link to open the Appointment Activity Inquiry page in Sircon Compliance Express, where you can view more detailed information about an appointment request. (For additional information, see Sircon Compliance Express online help.)
  • Error Description: Displays information about errors or conditions that caused an appointment request to fail or be denied.
  • Mark Error/Denied as Reviewed: Click to remove the symbol for this record in the Work Queue section of the Workspace.