Role-Based Limits

Role-based limit capabilities allow you to manage limits for different customer types, such as merchants. Using role-based limits, the limit for a customer who is a merchant within several contracts can be configured properly, allowing the customer to take loans until they reach their set limit.

To use role-based limits within your contracts, follow these steps:

1. Define new limit types that are based on roles associated with contract participants specific to your business.
   
   You can use these new limit types throughout Core Banking with all the functionality of any other default limit type. For example, you can configure a Merchant Exposure limit type, to enable the creation of limits for customers who have the Merchant role associated at a customer level.
   

2. Associate the same role to the customer.
   
   You can associate as many roles as you need for a customer to be able to have within contracts, using the Role field added to the Customer page accessible through the Customer Core menu.
   Limits defined for roles at a customer level are treated as system limits and they are affected by contracts where that specific customer plays that role. For example, if the customer has a Merchant role, you can define them a Merchant Exposure type limit.
   

3. Decide whether a customer limit is a mandatory limit or not.
   
   The Is Mandatory field's value within the Customer Limit page configures the limit validation at the contract level. When the existing limit's available amount is smaller than the value of the contract, Core Banking checks the limit's Is Mandatory field. If Is Mandatory = True, then an error is raised that the limit is reached and the contract cannot be approved, otherwise, if Is Mandatory = False, a warning is presented but the contract can be approved. The default value is True.
   
   

4. Configure mandatory roles at the banking products level.
   
   The Mandatory Roles section within the Availability tab at the banking product level allows you to add the roles of the participants that are mandatory to exist at the contract level for contracts based on this banking product. In other words, when creating contracts based on banking products with the Merchant role in this section, you must add a customer with the same Merchant role as a contract participant, otherwise, the contract cannot be approved.
   When Search Limit is selected for a role on a banking product, Core Banking checks if the contract participant with this role has an attached limit configured with a limit type associated with the same role.
   

Role-Based Limits Validations

Role-based limits have all the functionality of any other system limit type. The limits defined for participants at the contract level can be updated according to the contract's value. If a limit is set as revolving, it is replenished with capital repayments.

For contracts based on a banking product with a mandatory role configured at the product level, Core Banking checks whether the contract contains a participant with the same role. For example, for a banking product with Merchant mandatory role, if Core Banking doesn't find a participant with this Merchant role on the contract, then an error message informs you that "Contract participants are blocking disbursement (Merchant)!". In this case, add a participant with the Merchant role to the contract.

If the Search Limit checkbox was selected for the mandatory role at the banking product level, then Core Banking checks whether there is a contract participant whose limit is of the limit type associated with the same role. In the example above, Core Banking checks the existence of a participant who has a Merchant Exposure type limit.

If the existing limit's available amount is smaller than the value of the contract, then Core Banking checks the limit's Is Mandatory field. If Is Mandatory = True, then an error is raised that the limit is reached and the contract cannot be approved, otherwise, a warning is presented but the contract can be approved.