Direct Fleet Insurance is an online trading platform which connects brokers with insurers to transact fleet and commercial insurance.
I joined the company as the Technical Manager in March 2009 (promoted to Director in October 2010) and since then have substantially extended the functionality of the site, including the design and implementation of:
- Full cycle accounts system which automatically produces invoices when a transaction is processed on the site, as well as logging all incoming payments and handling credit control.
- Claims system which auto-completes the majority of details required by insurers, speeding up the claims process and reducing the potential for errors by eliminating unnecessary re-keying of data.
- Functionality to produce PDF versions of pages, re-using the same base templates.
- Automated generation of reports in a variety of formats, including Excel spreadsheets and CSV files.
- Commercial insurance quotation platform, with a dynamic question set based on level of cover required.
- Full cycle breakdown cover system, from automated quotation to invoicing and handling of mid-term adjustments.
- Data importing from a variety of external sources, including Excel spreadsheets uploaded to the site.
I have also taken underwriting criteria from several insurers and turned them into web services which take information about a risk (vehicle type, driver’s licence, No Claims Bonus etc.) and produce an automated quotation. These web services are used for providing the insurance component of a leased private car scheme used by a number of large UK companies, and have produced in excess of 100,000 quotation responses.
On the business side, I instigated and oversaw the transfer of the site from one hosting provider to another, which resulted in a 25% reduction in monthly hosting costs.