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About Loan Accounts

A loan account is an instance of a loan product. A loan account has a unique account number, a specified interest rate, and it is owned by one, and only one, client or group. 

A loan account can be created for an active client or group based on a loan product that is active on the Submitted Date. When a loan account is created, it inherits the rules and defaults from the loan product. Your financial institution may allow some of the inherited information to be modified for a loan account, depending on how the loan product is defined.

Note

Existing loan accounts are unaffected when the loan product they are based upon is changed.

A client may have multiple simultaneous loan accounts within the financial institution's policies, defined in the Product Mix

Note

In the case of a group loan application, individual client loan accounts belonging to members of the group are included for the purposes of applying product mix rules.

The loan account lifecycle is illustrated in the Mifos X Loan Account Lifecycle diagram. Loan account states are visually indicated in Mifos X using the color scheme illustrated in the Mifos X Loan Account Lifecycle diagram.

Figure Mifos X Loan Account Lifecycle

The loan account actions / transactions availability and affect on the loan account lifecycle state are:

Previous StateAction / TransactionResulting State
N/AAdd LoanPending Approval
Pending Approval

Add Loan Charge

Approve

Modify Application

Reject

Assign Loan Officer

Withdrawn by client

Delete

Add Collateral

Guarantor

Loan Screen Reports

Pending Approval

Approved

Pending Approval

Cancel (Rejected)

Pending Approval

Cancel (Withdrawn)

N/A

Pending Approval

Pending Approval

Pending Approval

Approved

Assign Loan Officer

Disburse

Disburse to Savings

Undo Approval

Add Loan Charge

Guarantor

Loan Screen Reports

Approved

Active

Active

Pending Approval

Approved

Approved

Approved

Active

Add Loan Charge

Make Repayment

Undo Disbursal

Waive Interest

Write-Off

Close (as Rescheduled)

Close 

Loan Screen Reports

Active

Active

Approved

Active

Closed (Written Off)

Closed (Rescheduled)

Closed (Obligation Met) or Closed (Overpaid) 

Active

An active loan account in good standing is indicated by a green status. A active loan account that is not in good standing is indicated by a red status.

Group Loan Accounts

There are two main types of loan account for groups: a group loan and a joint liability group (JLG) loan. 

Group Loan account: If the group wants take a loan (as group one loan) and do not want track how the loan is spitted between (among)the group members and as group repayment is collected. In this case only one loan account is created against the particular group. ( This is feature is useful for Bank linkage programs, where Nationalized Banks provide loan to a group rather than to member and as group need to repay the loan ex: SHGs)

JLG loan account: In JLG loan application, a loan is created for each member of that group (one can exclude members if member is not applied for new loan) and tracked at member level only. And only these JLG loans appear in the collection sheet. This is feature is useful for organization following Grameen or similar methodology (center, group and joint liability loans)

It is similar to the individual loan but individual loan does not appear in the collection sheet.

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Loan

Charges

Charges (fees and penalties) can be charged to loan accounts in three ways: 

  • Charges are inherited from the product definition. A loan officer may have the ability to remove one or more of these charges for a loan account. When a charge is removed from a loan account, other loan accounts are not affected.
  • Charges (not yet associated with the loan account) can be selected and attached to the loan account.
  • Miscellaneous charges (one time charge) can be charged to a loan account. The loan officer specifies the amount, which is added in the next payment.

    Repayment 

    Mifos X enables individual and group processes for loan repayment.

    Individual loan repayments are recorded against one loan account at time using the Make Repayment transaction. Individual loan repayments may also be made by transferring funds from a Saving account to a Loan account based on an active standing order.

    Group repayment processes leverage the collection sheet. expects repayments on group meeting dates and 

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