The software provider has launched an online insurance service with the firm, which offers insurance on residential, buy-to-let and commercial properties.
Both companies believe electronic trading initiatives are key for brokers and the tie-up between the two will help improve their offering to the intermediary market.
David Aylmer, joint managing director of Dashboard, said: “As brokers continue to try and increase their revenue per sale, this is another great addition to Dashboard to allow easy click-of-a-button use to a simple online quotation and fulfillment insurance provider.”
Dashboard has a number of tie-ups with companies, aimed at reducing re-keying for intermediaries and offering electronic solutions, something it will now do with Barclay Willis.
The insurance firm offers building and contents insurance across residential, commercial and buy-to-let properties and aims to reward brokers through enhanced fees.
Dan Willis, managing director of Barclay Willis, said: “Our online system is the perfect way to provide market leading product rates and commissions to mortgage intermediaries. The tie with Dashboard fits perfectly into our online distribution philosophy and makes life even easier for all our clients.”
Electronic trading, such as the proposition now being offered between Dashboard and Barclay Willis, has grown increasingly popular among intermediaries.
Jon Burridge, managing director of Quantum Mortgage Brokers, said: “We have five general insurance providers and we do all our business online. Electronic trading is definitely the way forward and we’ve been embracing it for the last three years. It makes things significantly quicker, and often, our decision on which product to use will be influenced by whether we can do it electronically.”
