API Documentation

Shop  

• A workflow API that interacts with other Great American Carrier Services, providing an easy-to-follow process to submit/quote new business

Submission  

• Send a new business submission to an internal policy administration system
• Includes the ability to update, retrieve and bind submissions

Product  

• Retrieve information about products sold by Great American Insurance Group
• Get a list of valid class codes, categories, program codes or policy symbols

Appetite/Eligibility  

• Get a list of questions and send answers to determine if an insured fits your risk appetite and/or eligibility

Rating  

• Send risk data, including classes and coverage information to receive either a pricing indication or a quote
• Retrieve detailed tax information and documents

Forms  

• Search, attach and print policy related forms

Issuance  

• Process straight through transactions, such as new business policies and enrollment into master policies
• Generate a new and unique policy number
• Generate a new and unique customer number
• Retrieve the latest policy mod and version for a subsequent transaction

Policy  

• Retrieve policy, enrollment, or quote information from various internal policy administration systems

Document  

• Send and store documents, such as policy and claims documents, in our electronic content management system

Billing  

• Perform business functions related to billing, including payments, accounts and producers

Ingestion  

• An API that provides the ability to securely send data to us in json, xml, pdf, or any binary format
• Subsequent workflows may be triggered after ingestion

Risk Assessment  

• Validate full address information
• Produces eligibility data for catastrophes (such as convective wind, earthquake, hurricane wind, and terrorism) based on zip code
• Produces crime scores for a given address
• Generates risk score for catastrophes (such as wildfire and flood) based on address
• Returns non-profit organization information for a given keyword
• Retrieve motor carrier data for a given DOT number
• Generates a motor vehicle report for a given driver

Letters  

• Generate a printable quote letter or the data used to create the quote letter

Producer  

• Returns user/producer data

Contract  

• Submit contract data
• Includes the ability to retrieve or search for contracts

Opportunity  

• Store data related to a potential business deal
• Includes the ability to retrieve, update and search for opportunities

Notification  

• Manage notification preferences related to claims
• Send chat widget transcript and session data

Claims  

• Send a risk report related to claims
• Create, update, or submit a first notice of loss submission