Closing a Loan With All Obligations Met

Loan contracts with all their financial obligations met can be closed. Loan Management enables you to close these contracts automatically through scheduled jobs or manually, according to a series of settings defined at the banking product and at the contract level.

There are cases when you might expect the loan to get closed once all amounts recovered and the loan is not revolving, or you might want such contracts to be closed after a certain number of days, allowing for possible reconciliations, or even leave them to be manually closed or with a localized job. All this is enabled from product level and, if set as negotiable, you can also change the default at contract level. You might need such settings if you work with direct debit and need to allow for the number of days the direct debit can bounce to pass before you really close the deal.

You can configure the closure settings during product definition, in the Lean Contract Settings' tab -> Closing Contract Settings section, as described in the Banking Product Factory user guide:

If allowed from the product definition, you can amend the closure settings of the contract, the way Loan Management should behave once the loan is repaid and the contract can be closed. Perform these configurations in the Closure Settings section of the Overview tab, during contract creation, for contracts based on banking products having the Closing Is Flexible = True setting:

Depending on the real time closure setting, Loan Management uses the one following scheduled jobs to close the contracts automatically:

  • Close Contracts (CB) Job - this job closes automatically all contracts with Automatic Closure = True and Real Time Closure = False, with zero available amount and with no further amounts to be recovered, that have Balance Off Date filled in and Closure Date = Current Date.

  • Close Contracts RealTime(CB) Job - this job closes automatically all contracts with Automatic Closure = True and Real Time Closure = True, with zero available amount and with no further amounts to be recovered.

You can see the list of contracts that are ready to be closed in the Closure of Contracts report:

You can also use the GetClosureOfContracts endpoint to fetch the same information within your own API integration.

If you opted to close a contract with all the obligations met manually, and not automatically, then follow these steps:

  1. Double-click an approved contract with zero amounts to be recovered, opening it for editing.

  2. Change the contract's Next Status into Closed.

    If Loan Management performs all the validations and finds that the financial obligations are met and there are no more amount to be recovered, then the contract's status becomes Closed. You can't perform any other operations on this contract.

    Any existing versions of the contract are also automatically closed, as you can see in the History tab.