We’re officially entering the final stretch of 2026. With four months left in the year, this is a great time to take stock of what you’ve accomplished so far, fine-tune your lending operations, and focus on the priorities that will help you finish the year strong.
At Lendsqr, we’re focused on making sure you have the tools, improvements, and support you need to make these final months count. From a refreshed admin experience to better financial management and more flexible verification tools, we’ve been busy building improvements to help you run your lending business more efficiently.
In this month’s newsletter, we’re sharing what’s new, what’s better, and what’s cooking across the Lendsqr ecosystem.
Let’s dive in! 🚀
What’s New
🎨 Meet the new Lendsqr admin console
The long-awaited refresh of the Lendsqr Admin Console is finally here! We’ve completely overhauled the experience to make managing your lending operations simpler, faster, and more intuitive.
The refreshed console comes with a cleaner interface, improved navigation, and a more modern experience across the platform. Whether you’re managing customers, reviewing loan applications, configuring products, or handling your day-to-day operations, the new design makes it easier to find what you need and get things done.
This is more than just a visual update. We’ve used the opportunity to rethink how you interact with the admin console and make everyday workflows more straightforward for your team.
You can now add and manage a customer’s next of kin directly from the admin console, even when the customer was manually created by your team.
Previously, customers could only add their next of kin themselves through the web or mobile application. While this worked well for digitally active customers, it meant that customers who were manually created or less comfortable using digital platforms could end up with incomplete profiles.
Your team can now add the next-of-kin information on the customer’s behalf after manually creating their profile, ensuring customer records are more complete and your team has the information it needs without requiring the customer to navigate the application themselves.
We’ve integrated QuickBooks to help you connect your Lendsqr operations with your accounting workflow.
This integration makes it easier to keep your financial records in sync and reduces the need for manual work when managing accounting information. By connecting the two systems, your team can spend less time moving information between platforms and more time focusing on your lending operations.
🤝 Build Guarantor verification around your process
Guarantor verification is now more flexible than ever. Previously, the process relied on hardcoded forms with limited customization, making it difficult to adapt to different lending requirements. Support for payment methods was also restricted, limiting how organizations could structure their guarantor workflows.
With the new Forms module and the Guarantor Form Builder, you can design guarantor forms that collect exactly the information your organization requires. Instead of working around fixed templates, you now have the freedom to build forms that align with your internal policies and compliance needs.
You can also configure the payment methods available during guarantor verification, giving you greater flexibility to create a verification experience that fits your products and operational processes. Whether your requirements are simple or highly customized, the platform now adapts to your workflow instead of the other way around.
📈 Understand your application conversion with Google Analytics
You can now integrate Google Analytics with your web application to get better visibility into how customers move through your lending journey.
With this integration, you can track customer activity across your application flow, identify where potential borrowers drop off, and understand how your application is performing from start to finish.
These insights give your team the information needed to identify areas for improvement, optimize the application experience, and ultimately improve conversion rates.
📄 New credit report types for FirstCentral and CRC 🆖
We’ve added new credit report types for FirstCentral and CRC, giving lenders more options when retrieving credit information from Nigeria’s credit bureaus.
This update expands the credit information available through the platform and gives Nigerian lenders greater flexibility when choosing the type of report that best supports their credit assessment and lending decisions.
NIN verification is now more flexible for Nigerian lenders. Previously, the only option was to verify a customer’s NIN during the loan application process. This meant you could incur verification costs for customers who started an application but never completed it or ultimately did not take a loan.
You can now choose to perform NIN verification during loan approval instead. This gives you more control over when verification happens, allowing you to verify customers closer to the point of disbursement and avoid unnecessary verification costs from applications that drop off.
💰 A more flexible way to manage equity contribution
We’ve improved how equity contribution is configured and managed. Previously, equity contribution was treated as a fee, which limited how it could be configured and managed within your lending products.
It is now a product setting, giving you more flexibility to define how equity contribution works for each loan product. This makes the feature easier to configure, more transparent to manage, and better suited to different lending models.
You now have more control over where loan funds are sent when making a bank disbursement.
When a customer has multiple eligible bank accounts, your team can select the specific account that should receive the loan funds. This gives your team greater control over the disbursement process and helps reduce errors by ensuring funds are sent to the account selected for that particular loan.
💰 Savings products are now available on your microsite
Your microsite now displays your savings products, giving customers a way to discover the savings products you offer alongside your loan products.
This creates a more complete digital storefront for your institution and makes it easier for customers visiting your microsite to explore the different financial products available to them.
🔌We are consolidating API management into the admin console
We’re working on consolidating API management directly into the admin console, giving you a central place to manage and monitor everything related to your API usage.
You’ll be able to manage API credentials, access, see your API requests, track activity, review requests that incur charges, and get better visibility into how your APIs are being used, all from within the admin console.
The goal is to give your team a clearer picture of API access, activity and costs without having to switch between different tools or locations. This will make it easier to monitor usage, understand your API spend, and manage your integrations more efficiently.
🔔 In-App notifications for key events
We’re also working on in-app notifications for important events on the admin console.
Instead of relying solely on email or manually checking different areas of the platform, you’ll be able to receive timely notifications directly within the admin console when key events require your attention.
This will make it easier for your team to stay informed, respond faster, and keep track of important activities happening across your lending operations.
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