Our integration consists of two parts: an application integration to improve the user journey, on-boarding, and handoff from your school to Climb; and a reporting infrastructure to integrate data about Climb borrowers with your systems. Learn more about the second part of integrations below:
Code
The Climb Application Integration is simply a single API on climbcredit.com that takes the applicant’s details from your application and returns the URL for a Climb application with the applicant’s details pre-populated. It's super simple!
- To speed up the integration, we can also provide a simple JavaScript function (<10 lines of code) that you can embed in your client app wherever it makes sense to do so within your prospective students’ journey.
- Climb can provide a sample standalone HTML page that has sample applications sent to our demo school if your team is interested in a test environment.
Process
The first step in a Climb integration is a meeting between our product and technical teams to understand your user journey and determine the best place(s) to integrate your applications with Climb.
- In most cases, the integration is plug-and-play, and this meeting helps us understand how the Climb Integration can best help your students. We can determine and implement any tech changes required, and sketch out the implementation timeline.
- Once the integration on the school side is past this initial development stage, we’ll provide links to our test environment where you can safely test the integration.
Example workflow:
- As an example, you can choose to integrate with your school’s application website or any applicable student portals. This often depends on whether students participate in longer-term courses, where students may apply for financing at different points of their studies.
- In either case, when a student applies to the school, they also create a Climb application and simply enable a button that the student can click to take them to their Climb application.