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Loan management software features

What loan management software does — one job at a time

You arrived with a problem, not a product. Tell us where lending is breaking down — chasing arrears, running groups, closing the books — and we’ll point you to the part of Lendbox that fixes it.

Six core jobsOne shared loan recordNo card required

One record, every job

A repayment posts to the ledger, updates the borrower’s balance and clears the arrears list in a single move — every part runs on the same loan record.

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Six jobs, one platform

Collections, group lending, origination, portfolio, accounting and collateral — each its own page below.

Start with one

Switch on the part costing you the most. Turn on the rest when you’re ready — no re-entering your book.

A loan book isn’t one job. It’s a dozen.

Running a loan book sounds like one thing until you’re inside it. Then it splits into a stack of separate jobs — approving an application, getting the money out, chasing what’s late, making the ledger agree, knowing what you’re actually owed. Each one has its own rhythm, and its own way of going wrong.

And it almost always goes wrong at the same place: the moment a job is done by hand. A repayment that’s missed and nobody notices. A group loan split across members in a notebook that stops adding up. A month-end where the book and the ledger refuse to meet. None of it is dramatic. It just quietly costs you hours, and sometimes the loan.

Lendbox is built around those jobs, not around a feature list. Every part below takes one of them off your hands and runs it on the same loan record — so a repayment posts to the ledger, updates the balance and clears the arrears list in a single move.

Find the job that’s costing you the most. That’s where to start.

Pick the job that sounds like your week

Each one is its own page — naming the moment it goes wrong manually, and what running it on Lendbox does instead.

Where does your time go?

Whichever job eats your week is the one to fix first

You don’t have to move your whole operation at once. Pick the part that’s costing you the most hours — or the most money — switch it on, and feel the difference before you touch the rest.

Questions before you pick a starting point

What can Lendbox automate?
The routine, repeatable parts of running a loan book: arrears tracking and repayment reminders, repayment schedules and interest accrual, double-entry postings to the ledger, and portfolio reporting. You set the rules once — reminder timing, interest method, approval steps — and Lendbox runs them on every loan so you’re not doing the same chase, calculation or reconciliation by hand.
Does it handle the whole loan lifecycle?
Yes — from application and approval through disbursement, repayment, collections, accounting and, for secured lending, collateral. Each stage has its own page in the grid above, but they share one loan record, so a repayment posts to the ledger, updates the borrower’s balance and clears it off the arrears list in the same moment.
Do I have to use every part?
No. Most lenders start with the one job costing them the most — usually chasing arrears or running groups — and switch the rest on as they go. Because everything sits on the same loan record, turning on another part later doesn’t mean re-entering your book; it just starts working with the data that’s already there.
How do I know which part I need first?
Start with the job that’s bleeding the most hours or the most money. If overdue loans surprise you at reconciliation, begin with collections. If you split loans across group members by hand, begin with group lending. The cards above name the painful moment each part fixes — pick the one that sounds like your week.
What kind of lenders use Lendbox?
Money lenders, microfinance institutions, SACCOs, microfinance banks, asset-finance lenders and employers running staff-loan schemes. The jobs are the same whatever the institution — approve, disburse, collect, account — which is why the software is organised around the work rather than the label. You can also browse by lender type on the solutions hub.

Run the job that’s slowing you down

Start a free trial of Lendbox and put the part you need most to work on your loan book this week.

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Rather start from who you are?

These pages are organised by the job. If you’d sooner browse by the kind of lender you are, the solutions hub frames the same software for your institution.