Loan officers ยท Lesson 7 of 15

Disburse and collect

Asha pays out Amina's approved loan and records her first repayment, Baraka reverses a receipt entered by mistake, and you see the figures Pay off and Top up quote without saving either.

About 20 minutes

Key ideas

1

Pay out

On an Approved loan choose Disburse. Source account is where the money leaves from, Method is how it was paid (check the recipient's number for Mobile Money), and Transaction reference is the mobile money code, so the payment can be traced. Record payout makes the loan Active.

2

Collect from the loan

To collect, open the loan and choose Record repayment; the amount suggests the current instalment. Pick the Payment Method, enter the Reference and choose Record payment: Outstanding, Collected and Next due update straight away. On Repayments, Today's Collections shows what came in today, with the receipt whose number you give the borrower.

3

Mistakes are reversed, never edited

A receipt can't be edited or deleted, so the record stays honest. Instead a branch manager (or an owner or admin) opens the row's menu on the loan's Money tab, chooses Reverse, gives a Reason and chooses Reverse repayment; with an approval rule for reversals, as in our example, a separate checker approves it and the row shows Reversed. If a real payment was entered wrongly, record the correct one afterwards.

4

Payoff and top-up

Pay off shows the Payoff amount that closes the loan today. For a partial prepayment enter a smaller Amount, then choose Shorten the term, which saves the most interest, or Lower the instalments, which keeps the end date. Top up writes a new loan that settles this one: enter the Extra cash for the borrower, then check Cash the borrower receives and Total payable with them.

Practice

Try it in your training organization

  1. 1. On an Approved training loan choose Disburse, pick the Source account (for example Head Office Till), choose Mobile Money as Method, check the recipient's number, enter a Transaction reference such as MP-PAY-0001 and choose Record payout.
  2. 2. Confirm the loan shows Active, then choose Record repayment, keep the suggested amount, choose Mobile Money as Payment Method, enter the Reference and choose Record payment.
  3. 3. Check Outstanding, Collected and Next due on the loan, then open Repayments and find the receipt under Today's Collections.
  4. 4. Record a small test repayment. Signed in as a branch manager, open the loan's Money tab, choose Reverse from that row's menu, enter a Reason and choose Reverse repayment; if it goes for approval, have a different person approve it.
  5. 5. Open Pay off and read the Payoff amount, type a smaller Amount to see Shorten the term and Lower the instalments, then choose Cancel.
  6. 6. Open Top up, enter an amount in Extra cash for the borrower, read Cash the borrower receives and Total payable, and leave without saving.

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