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Managed Frappe Lending for Private Lenders Credit Unions Fintech Lenders

Loan products, origination, disbursement, interest accrual, collateral and collections, running on a platform you own outright. One flat monthly price with no charge per active loan.

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What Managed Frappe Lending Covers

The loan book and the general ledger in one system

Installing Frappe Lending takes an afternoon. What takes a quarter is deciding how your loan products behave, mapping your delinquency policy onto a classification engine written for a different regulator, and reconciling an existing book to the penny before anyone cuts over. That is the work we do. It sits on top of a full ERPNext implementation, because every accrual and every repayment posts to a real chart of accounts.

The order of that work matters more here than on most projects. Loan products and their interest behaviour are modelled and tested against known cases before anything else is touched. Classification and provisioning rules are mapped to your regulator rather than to the defaults that shipped. Then the existing book is loaded and reconciled to the penny, with a parallel run before cutover instead of after it. Nobody should go live on a lending system because the configuration looked right.

Frappe Lending Against a Licensed Servicing Platform

How it compares with the platform you license today

Most lenders arrive here from a servicing platform priced per active loan, or from a spreadsheet and a servicing bureau. Both hold up until the book grows. The comparison that matters is not feature against feature. It is what you own at the end, and whether you can answer a question about your own portfolio without raising a ticket. Reporting is the usual sticking point, which is why we normally pair this with an analytics layer sitting on the live tables.

Where the loan book lives

On infrastructure we manage in a region you pick, in a database your own analysts can read.

What it costs as the book grows

A flat monthly price with no charge per active loan, so a good year does not arrive with an invoice attached to it.

Servicing and the general ledger

Disbursements, accruals, charges and repayments post straight to your chart of accounts. No nightly export and no reconciliation spreadsheet.

Changing it to fit your product

New fields, approval rules and whole record types are configuration work rather than a change request with a release date attached.

Reading your own portfolio

Query access and a report builder over the live loan tables. Ask a new question on a Tuesday, answer it the same afternoon.

Leaving with everything

AGPL source, a full database export, and handover documentation written for whoever replaces us.

Who This Is Built For

Where a managed lending platform earns its place

There is a boundary worth naming. This runs a lending business, from the application through to the final repayment. It is not a sales pipeline, and if what you need is somewhere to work the deals before they become applications, that is a different application entirely and we manage it separately. There is a second boundary too. The compliance layer was written for Indian regulation. The loan mechanics carry across to a US book cleanly, the regulatory report formats do not, and we say so before you sign anything.

How the Implementation Runs

Three phases, and the middle one is reconciliation

The risk in a lending project is almost never the software. It is the book you already have. Balances, accrued interest and partial allocations all have to arrive intact and then agree with your current system to the penny, in writing, before anyone switches anything off.

1

Products, policy and accounts

We model your loan products, your charge structure and your delinquency policy, then map each of them onto the accounts they post to. This phase decides how much correcting you do for the rest of the system's life, so we run it slowly and on purpose.

2

Configure, migrate, reconcile

We build the products, import the existing book with its schedules and accrual history, then reconcile it against your current system and hand you the variance report to sign. The reconciliation is a deliverable, not a step somebody does quietly.

3

Parallel run, then cut over

Both systems run together through at least one full billing cycle. When the numbers agree twice, we cut over. Nobody switches off a servicing platform on a promise, and we would not ask you to.

One price, and it does not move when your book does

Pricing

Managed Frappe Lending
Standard

Standalone Service

$1,200.00
/per month, per instance
One active request at a time

DETAILS

A monthly subscription covering implementation, configuration, hosting, data migration, training and ongoing support for Frappe Lending running on ERPNext. One active request at a time.

Managed Frappe Lending
Priority

Standalone Service

$2,400.00
/per month, per instance
Two active requests at a time

DETAILS

Two active requests running in parallel, with faster turnaround and a quarterly review of your loan product configuration, nightly job health and portfolio reconciliation.

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Everything included in the monthly price

Everything a managed lending platform includes

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What You Are Actually Buying

Frappe Lending is an open source loan management system that covers the whole life of a loan, from the application a borrower submits to the day the account closes. It is built on ERPNext and the Frappe Framework, it is fully REST API compatible, and it is licensed AGPL-3.0. We implement it, host it, keep it patched, and operate it for you at a flat monthly price.
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It Runs On ERPNext, and That Sets the Scope

Frappe Lending is not a standalone product sitting beside your accounting. Every disbursement, accrual, charge and repayment posts into a real chart of accounts inside ERPNext. That is the reason the numbers reconcile without a nightly export. It also means the project is an ERPNext implementation with Lending configured on top of it, and we scope it that way from the first conversation rather than discovering it in week six.
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The Regulatory Model Is Indian. Read This Before Anything Else

Frappe built this for Indian NBFCs, and the vocabulary shows. Non-Performing Asset classification, Days Past Due tracking, co-lending partners and the ALM audit report are all Reserve Bank of India concepts. The underlying mechanics are configurable and they transfer cleanly to a US book. The default thresholds, the report names and the regulatory outputs do not. We map the classification engine onto your delinquency buckets and your charge-off policy during setup, and we tell you plainly which of your reports will have to be built rather than switched on.
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Loan Products Are Where the Configuration Lives

A Loan Product carries the interest rate, the repayment method, the penalty structure, the applicable charges and the accounts each of them posts to. Get the products right and the rest of the system behaves. Get them wrong and you spend a year fixing individual loans. This is the part of the build we spend the most time on with you, because it is the part that is expensive to change once there are live accounts against it.
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The Loan Cycle, End to End

Booking, disbursement, repayment schedule generation, interest accrual, demand raising, restructure and transfer are all first-class documents rather than states on a spreadsheet row. Each one leaves an accounting entry behind it. Partial disbursement, moratorium periods and schedule regeneration after a restructure are handled inside the system rather than by an analyst with a calculator.
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The Scheduled Processes Are What Actually Breaks

Process Loan Interest Accrual, Process Loan Demand and Process Loan Classification run on a schedule. When one of them silently fails, your book is wrong and nobody finds out for days, because every screen still loads and every number still looks like a number. We monitor these per run rather than monitoring whether the server is up. A green uptime dashboard over a book that stopped accruing on Tuesday is worthless.
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Collateral and Securities Backed Lending

Loan Security Types, individual securities, assignment against a loan, release on repayment and a sanctioned amount derived from pledged value are all supported. This is the part Zerodha built their Loan Against Securities product on, according to Frappe's own product page. If you lend against a portfolio rather than a signature, this is the half of the system that matters most to you.
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Security Prices Need a Feed, and That Is a Project

A securities-backed book is only as accurate as the prices behind it. Frappe Lending exposes a bulk price update API for exactly this reason, but nobody ships you the feed. We wire it to your market data source, schedule it, and alarm on a stale price rather than letting a two day old valuation quietly inflate your sanctioned limits.
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Automated Accounting, Including Suspense

Suspense accounting is built in, which matters the moment a payment arrives that you cannot yet allocate. Posting date and value date are handled separately, so a repayment received on the last day of the month and processed on the first day of the next lands in the right period. These are small details right up until an auditor asks about them.
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Charges, Waivers, Write-Offs and Settlements

Charges are defined as masters and applied to loans through the API or by hand. Waivers, write-offs and settlements each have their own document and their own accounting treatment. A written-off loan does not simply disappear from a report, which is the behaviour you want when someone asks you to explain a number two years later.
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Collections and Closure

Repayment allocation, refunds and foreclosure are all covered, along with the reposting tool for when an allocation needs to be corrected after the fact. Foreclosure calculates the payoff figure rather than leaving it to a spreadsheet, which removes an entire category of dispute with borrowers.
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Co-Lending and Loan Transfer

Loan Partner records support a co-lending arrangement where one institution originates and another funds a share. It is a genuinely useful capability and it was built for the Indian model, where the regulator defines the structure. If you participate in US loan participations or sell portfolios forward, the document structure adapts, but the terminology on screen will not match what your counterparties call it. We rename what we can and we tell you what we cannot.
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The Origination System Is a Whole Second Half

Alongside loan management there is a separate origination stack: a form builder for applications, a business rules engine for automated decisioning, loan leads, loan applications, electronic signing integrations and a borrower portal. Buyers routinely scope the loan management side and forget this exists until someone asks how an application gets in. We scope both halves up front and tell you which one to launch first.
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The Borrower Portal

Borrowers get their own login to see outstanding balances, schedules and statements without calling your team. Every support call this removes is a real cost you stop paying. We brand it, we configure what is visible, and we treat it as a public-facing production surface rather than an internal screen, because that is exactly what it is.
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AGPL-3.0, and What It Means for a Public Portal

Frappe Lending is AGPL licensed. The obligation attaches when you modify the software and make it available over a network, which a borrower portal plainly does. Configuration is not modification and most lenders never cross the line. We tell you which side of it a request falls on before we build it, rather than after your counsel finds out. No vendor page raises this and it is a real question for a regulated business.
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The Reporting You Get

Loan Outstanding, past and future cashflow, statement of account, security ledger, security exposure by applicant, loan status and disbursement analysis all ship as standard reports. Because everything sits on ERPNext, anything not on that list can be built as a query report against the same tables. That is a genuinely different position from a closed platform where the answer is a change request and a quarter's wait.
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The Reporting You Do Not Get

There is no HMDA submission, no TRID or Regulation Z disclosure generation, no state licensing workflow and no credit bureau furnishing in Metro 2 format. If your business depends on any of those arriving out of the box, this is the wrong platform and we will say so at the first meeting rather than at go-live.
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Migrating Your Existing Book

There is a loan import path for bringing an existing portfolio across with its balances, schedules and accrual history. The import is the easy part. Reconciling the imported book to your current system to the penny, before anyone cuts over, is the work. We do that reconciliation as a deliverable with a sign-off, and we run both systems in parallel through at least one full billing cycle.
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It Is a Small Project, and We Would Rather You Heard It From Us

The public repository sits at roughly 330 stars with 18 contributors, and the documentation was last updated about seven months before this page was written. That is a thin bench for software that moves money. It is also precisely why a managed partner is worth paying for here. We read the source, we track the releases, and we test upgrades against a copy of your data before they reach your production site.
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What the Monthly Price Covers

Hosting on infrastructure we manage, version upgrades tested against your data first, scheduled backups with restores we actually rehearse, monitoring of the accrual and classification jobs rather than just the server, configuration changes, report building, user and role administration, and incident response. One price, no per-loan fee, no per-user fee.

Questions that come up before an implementation

Frequently asked questions
Do we need ERPNext as well, and is it extra?
You need it and it is included. Frappe Lending posts every accounting entry into ERPNext, so the two are not really separable. If you already run ERPNext, Lending installs onto your existing site and shares the same database.
This was built for Indian lenders. Can a US lender actually use it?
Yes, with one honest qualification. The loan mechanics are jurisdiction neutral: interest accrual, amortisation, collateral, allocation and the general ledger behave the same anywhere. What is Indian is the compliance layer. NPA classification thresholds and the regulatory report formats are written to Reserve Bank of India expectations. We reconfigure the classification engine to your delinquency and charge-off policy, and any regulatory filing you need is built rather than switched on. Budget for that in the first phase.
What is NPA classification and does it mean anything to us?
It is the automatic marking of a loan as non-performing once it crosses a defined overdue threshold. A US lender calls the same idea non-accrual status or a charge-off trigger. The engine underneath is a configurable rule against Days Past Due, so it maps to your policy cleanly. The label on the screen is what needs changing, not the logic.
Can it produce HMDA reports or Regulation Z disclosures?
Not out of the box, and we will not pretend otherwise. There is no disclosure generation engine and no Metro 2 credit furnishing. Those are custom work on top, and for some lenders the cost of building them is a good reason to buy a US-native platform instead.
Who actually runs this in production?
Frappe names Zerodha, India's largest stock broker, and Kinara Capital on its product page. A Zerodha engineer is quoted there describing building their Loan Against Securities product on it and integrating customer-facing apps through the REST API. Those are the vendor's references rather than ours, and we pass them on as such.
When is Frappe Lending the wrong choice for us?
If you are a US consumer lender whose product depends on disclosure generation, HMDA reporting and state licensing workflow arriving configured, buy nCino, LoanPro or Mortgage Cadence. You will spend less and sleep better. Frappe Lending earns its place when you want to own the platform, you have unusual product structures, or you are already committed to ERPNext.
How do you migrate our existing loan book?
Loans come across through the import path with balances, schedules and accrual history intact. Then we reconcile the imported book against your current system down to the penny and give you the variance report to sign off. Both systems run in parallel through at least one full billing cycle before anyone turns the old one off.
What happens if a nightly process fails?
We find out that night, not at month end. Interest accrual, demand raising and classification are monitored per run with an alert on a missed or partial execution. A failed run is re-run and the affected accounts are reconciled before the next cycle. This is the single most common way a loan book goes quietly wrong and it is the thing we watch hardest.
Does it handle lending against securities or other collateral?
Yes. Securities are held as masters with prices, assigned against loans, and released on repayment, and the sanctioned amount can derive from pledged value. If you lend against a portfolio you also need a price feed, which nobody ships with the software. We connect yours and alarm on stale prices.
Can we brand the borrower portal and control what it shows?
Yes to both. Branding, visible fields and which actions a borrower can take are all configurable. We treat the portal as a production public surface, which means it gets the same patching discipline and the same monitoring as the rest of the site.
Does the AGPL license create a problem for us?
Usually not. The obligation attaches to modified source made available over a network, and configuration is not modification. Most lenders never cross that line. When a request would cross it, we say so before we start work and we discuss the options with you. We are not your counsel and we do not give legal advice, but we do know where the line sits in the code.
Where does our data live and how is it protected?
On infrastructure we manage in a region you choose, encrypted at rest and in transit, with role-based permissions and audit trails on record changes. Backups are scheduled and restores are tested rather than assumed. Access to your production site is limited and logged.
How long does an implementation take?
A single straightforward loan product with a clean book is a matter of weeks. A multi-product lender with collateral, co-lending and an existing portfolio to migrate is a matter of months, and most of that time goes on product configuration and reconciliation rather than on software. We give you a phased plan with a first go-live that is deliberately narrow.
What is not included in the monthly price?
Custom development beyond configuration, third-party service fees such as market data or signing providers, and the migration project itself are quoted separately. Everything in the operating list is included with no per-loan or per-user charge.
Can we move to a different provider later?
Yes, and that is a deliberate property of open source. The application, the database and your data are yours. We hand over a running site with credentials and documentation, and we do not hold your instance hostage to keep the contract.
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