Onboarding Module
Smarter Onboarding, Safer Credit Limits
Fast-Track Your Customer Onboarding
Time to Value
Move from manual back-and-forth to instant,
source-verified application processes.
Actionable From the Start
Replace “low/medium/high” bureau buckets with a data driven credit limit you can defend.
Scale Without Headcount
Standardise decisions and cut handoffs, even as application volumes surge.
Fewer Documents to Chase
Live retrieval of statutory information reduces documentation overhead.
Move from Application to Approval in Record Time
Customer Vetting and Document Verification
a. Subject-Initiated Credit Application (SICA)
b. Collection of business documents and data
c. Live source-of-truth checks
Verify the entity in real time. Confirm business status and fetch statutory identifiers to reduce document requests and ensure data freshness.
Proactive Credit-Limit Recommendation
Go beyond static scores. Trade Shield blends bureau/statutory signals (e.g., company age, director age) and, where provided, analyses bank/financial statements to recommend a safe, defensible opening limit. Based on monitored payment behaviour of over 200 000 companies and processing over R500 billion in trade credit sales yearly.
How It Works
Applicant Starts Online
The SICA form captures the essentials and kicks off the workflow.
Instant Verification
Trade Shield pulls live data to confirm status and statutory details.
Analyse & Recommend
We evaluate bureau/statutory signals and (optionally) bank/financial statements to generate a benchmark opening limit.
Approve & Trade
Approvers see everything in one pass - application, live checks, and recommendation - to open accounts in minutes.
FAQs
Any Questions?
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No — we enhance decisioning. We use bureau/statutory signals and add structured analysis and guidance to arrive at a benchmark opening limit.
Less than before. Because CIPC/SARS/Court details are pulled live, you avoid chasing certain certificates. Where bank/financial statements are provided, the platform analyses them for you.
That’s covered in our Credit Management module. Onboarding focuses on safe, fast entry decisions; Credit Management handles monitoring, early signals, and right-sizing over time.
Also view our Credit Management Module
Trade Shield’s Credit Management Module blends predictive credit scoring, continuous monitoring, and intelligent trade credit limit recommendations so your team can see risk early, back every decision with data, and extend trade credit effectively.
