FEX Quote Engine

[Mark]

We can put a man on the moon, but can't regrow back hair.

 

[ksigmtsu]

Yes, but I will say, that the only significant issue I have with Compulife is that in order to run a FE quote, the "Type of Insurance" must be one of the "To Age 121 Level" products. Personally, I wish they would rename these categories to start with the words "Final Expense", followed by the actual policy type. The reason being, is that people who go to a website, and who don't want term, may not know what the heck "To age 121" means, or at least that it is the same as a simplified issue $10,000 final expense policy. I have had more people email me asking about that. Gets kinda old.

I do like how they have a sample quoting engine available in a website integrated format. Life Insurance Quotes

FEX looks pretty cool though, I will add. I wish they had a site like Compulife where you could actually RUN a quote, instead of having to sign up for a trial first. If anyone knows of one, I'd be interested in running a few just to check it out.

The reason it's displaying the "to age 121" is because you're using the default template.

It can be modified to show whatever words you want in that blank, even by a layman. Just find those words in your webpage, change them inside the <option> </option> tags.

Don't mess up the tags. Make a backup first.

The whole form can be changed, and will still be parsed correctly by compulifes CGI script as long as you send it the proper information.

Having said that, I'd imaging that the FEX engine will do the same, without having really dug into much about how theirs works other than installing it on a webpage for someone, any form that passes variables to any location that parses it can be replaced by anything you want that also sends the variables, and the receiver will parse it as if it came from the original script.

Technically, you can even parse out a quote engine by having CURL send the variables, receive the response into a variable, then display the response back on your end using php and email it to a person after interception into the variable, or anything else you'd want to do with it.

Personally, I'd like to see the concept you're talking about with FEX doing xml response that can be parsed, because as a person that builds websites, it would be nice to be able to format the entire output as you wished, and by doing it via xml like that you could structure the tables and add web forms for signup if the carrier had them, parse out to email, make it send mail to the client with the quote, etc.

The catch would be, it would allow someone to sign up 1 time then send requests from websites they didn't own, and would make it very difficult to see how it was happening (they could just pass the xml), which isn't a good thing for your end if you get some bad customers, but I'd imagine no one is gonna overload your server or whatever either way.
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We can put a man on the moon, but can't regrow back hair.

I thought most people were against "back hair". Some even try lazer removal, and shave it off.

The gorilla look has been out for a while.

 

[Robert Barney]

Thanks for pointing out how the Compulife can be modified by the user.

 

[FEX Quotes]

... Having said that, I'd imaging that the FEX engine will do the same, without having really dug into much about how theirs works other than installing it on a webpage for someone, any form that passes variables to any location that parses it can be replaced by anything you want that also sends the variables, and the receiver will parse it as if it came from the original script.

Technically, you can even parse out a quote engine by having CURL send the variables, receive the response into a variable, then display the response back on your end using php and email it to a person after interception into the variable, or anything else you'd want to do with it.

Personally, I'd like to see the concept you're talking about with FEX doing xml response that can be parsed, because as a person that builds websites, it would be nice to be able to format the entire output as you wished, and by doing it via xml like that you could structure the tables and add web forms for signup if the carrier had them, parse out to email, make it send mail to the client with the quote, etc.

The catch would be, it would allow someone to sign up 1 time then send requests from websites they didn't own, and would make it very difficult to see how it was happening (they could just pass the xml), which isn't a good thing for your end if you get some bad customers, but I'd imagine no one is gonna overload your server or whatever either way.

It's not on our web site yet, but we actually do have an API that utilizes an XML response. It's available for those agents who already have the web plugin.