New Year / New Herald

Herald Set a Testing Period for High Impact Changes

From January 17th until February 14th new features we built will be in our Sandbox Enviornment for clients to test and troubleshoot. On February 14th we will release these new changes to Production. Details about the changes we made are below

1. We deprecated redundant quote key value pairs. We wrote a detailed summary here.
2. We made Cyber Quotes Faster by processing files separately from quotes. For Cyber products only active quotes will contain files whose status is processing. Eventually all of our products will follow this pattern but Cyber is the first.
3. Two of our products have expanded appetite and feature availability. These products will offer coverage to more businesses but will also ask more questions. Starting January 17th you can access the new questions by using our application endpoint or checking the appendix.

Quotes Got More Dynamic

Some of our quotes can now advance from the referral or referred quote status to active (read more about status types here). We have consumed more carrier webhooks, which allows us to give more quotes status updates.

New Cyber Products

This week we launched 2 new Cyber Products (bringing our total supported Cyber Products to 16)

We Made Date Validation Easier

We launched min and max dates across our API allowing you only to accept valid dates on your front-end. Here’s an example of a our new min max dates:

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{
    "coverage_parameter_id": "cvg_48oo_gl_effective_date",
    "value": null,
    "section": "Coverages",
    "parameter_text": {
        "applicant_facing_text": "General Liability Effective Date",
        "agent_facing_text": "General Liability Effective Date"
    },
    "input_type": "date",
    "schema": {
        "type": "string",
        "format": "date",
        "title": "General Liability Effective Date",
        "min_date": "2023-11-11",
        "max_date": "2024-06-10"
    }
}
 

Bug Fixes

• Early exit quotes now return a full set of parameters (perviously they were returning blank values). Learn more about quote exits here.
• We did some new year’s housecleaning on our applications and changed a question from required to optional to stay in sync with our carriers.