Company Relationships
When a producer is terminated, you can use the Company Relationships page to record
commission payment status and termination vesting period information.
Then, if Producer Manager is integrated with your company's compensation
or commissioning system, you can update the Company
Relationships page to direct residual commission payments to the
producer.
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To open the Company
Relationships page, with a producer record open in the Review/Update
Producer page click the Maintain
Company Relationships link in the Appointments
details section.
The Company Relationships
page consists of the following sections:
Record
Summary
Displays summary information of the producer
record currently open for review and/or updating.
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Fields and controls in the Record
Summary section include the following:
- Search
Producer: Click the link to start a new search for a producer
record. For more information, see Searching
for Records.
- [Producer
Name]: Displays the name
of the individual or firm producer whose record currently is open
in theReview/Update
Producerpage. An icon to
the left of the producer name signifies the producer's entity
type, either individual () or
firm ().Click the producer
name link to refresh the producer record that is currently open
in the Review/Update
Producer page or to re-open the producer's record in
the Review/Update Producer
page from any other page in the system.
- Rating:
If a producer has been assigned a productivity rating (no stars,
meaning “not rated;” one star, “poor;” two stars, “satisfactory;”
three stars, “good;” four stars, “outstanding;” or the
symbol signifying a “Do Not Contract” alert), the display-only
rating will appear to the right of the producer’s name.
- SSN: Individual producers only.
Displays an individual producer's Social Security Number. The
Social Security Number can be set per security role to mask the
first five digits and display only the last four digits. For more
information, see Maintain
Security Role.
- EIN:
Firm producers only.
Displays a firm producer's Federal Employer Identification Number.
- External
System ID: Displays the producer's identifier code in the
external system that has been Vertafore-configured as your company's
"preferred" system. For more information, see External
System IDs, Configuration
Options, and Advanced
Producer Search.
- Active
BU: Displays the short name of the business
units to which a producer is actively assigned (sorted alphabetically).
To expand the field to display all active business units, click
the node ().
- NPN:
Displays a producer's unique National Producer Number, assigned
by the National Insurance Producer Registry (NIPR).
- Resident
State/License: Displays the codes of the states that
a producer claims as a resident
state for licensing purposes (sorted alphabetically) and the
producer's license numbers in those states. Includes active or
inactive licenses. To expand the field to display all resident
states and license numbers, click the node ().
- Additional
States/Licenses: Displays the codes of the states
in which the producer holds non-resident licenses (sorted alphabetically)
and the license numbers in those states. Includes active or inactive
licenses. To expand the field to display all resident states
and license numbers, click the node ().
- Producer
Contracting Workflow: If your company uses the onboarding
and maintenance transaction component of the Sircon Platform,
Producer Express, and a producer currently is associated with
a request record in Producer Express, you can click the number
in the field to launch Producer Express and view or work with
the request record. (For more information, see the Sircon Producer
Express Online Help.)
- Missing
Required Information Alert: Displays an alert that the
producer record lacks information that has been configured to
be required in your company's deployment of the Sircon Platform.
A producer record deficient of required information is considered
"incomplete," and appointment or termination requests
may not be submitted for the producer until the deficiency is
corrected. Review the Quick Links
box to identify and correct the specific details sections in the
record with missing required information. For more information,
see Configuration
Options.
- CE Compliance:
Display-only indication of a producer’s unfulfilled continuing
education requirements. Indication will not appear if producer
is current with continuing education requirements. Available by
Vertafore configuration only; for more information, seeConfiguration
Options.
Appointment Company Relationships
Displays basic information about business
relationships between the selected producer and your carrier group's
appointing companies.
If the producer has never had an appointment,
the following message will display: 'No appointment company relationships
were found."
Fields and controls include the following:
-
NAIC
ID: For each appointment company listed, displays its National
Association of Insurance Commissioners identifier.
-
Company:
For each appointment company listed, displays its name.
-
Status:
For each appointment company listed, displays the current status
of the company's appointment of the selected producer.
-
Status
Date: For each appointment company listed, displays the
date on which the value of the Status
field last was updated.
-
Payment
Status: For each appointment company listed, displays the
terminated producer's commission payment status code (e.g., Hold,
Commission Paid, Commission Due/Not Paid, etc.).
-
Term
Vesting Period: For each appointment company listed, displays
the producer's termination vesting period or the length of time
after termination that the appointed producer will qualify for
residual commissions (e.g., First Year, Full, None, etc.).
-
Action:
For each appointment company relationship listed, offers the following
controls:
-
Edit
(): Click to enable
the Edit Relationship
section, where you can update the producer's appointment company
relationship information.
Edit
Relationship
Offers edit fields in which you can update
information about a selected business relationship between the selected
producer and your carrier group's appointing company.
Fields and controls include the following:
-
NAIC
ID: Displays the National Association of Insurance Commissioners
identifier. of the selected carrier writing company with which
the selected producer has the selected business relationship.
-
Name:
Displays the name of the carrier writing company with which the
selected producer has the selected business relationship.
-
Payment
Status: From the dropdown menu, select the disposition
of commission payments owed the selected producer under the selected
business relationship.
-
Termination
Vesting Period: Select from the dropdown menu the selected
producer's termination vesting period or the length of time after
termination that the appointed producer will qualify for residual
commissions under the selected business relationship.
Page Controls
Fields and controls include the following:
Notes
Note: The values available in the Payment
Status dropdown menu can be customer-configured by users with administrative
permissions on the Maintain
Codes page. Set the value for the Payment
Status dropdown menu using the RC_PRDCR_PAY_CD
code group.
Note: The values available in the Termination
Vesting Period dropdown menu can be customer-configured by users
with administrative permissions on the Maintain
Codes page. Set the value for the Termination
Vesting Period dropdown menu using the TRMN_VEST_TYPE_CD
code group.