Enterprise DNA

Instead of WinBEAT NEXT

Done renting WinBEAT NEXT? Own the system your book lives in.

Enterprise DNA builds your version around the way your office quotes, renews and looks after claims, maps your WinBEAT records into it, and runs it for you. Trust accounting stays in a system built and audited to hold client money.

Ebix publishes no price for WinBEAT NEXT. It is sold on a quarterly subscription with no large upfront licence fee, and the figure comes from Ebix Australia's sales team.

  • check_circleYour data in a database you own
  • check_circleOpen source, no lock-in
  • check_circleBuilt and run by Enterprise DNA

What the subscription pays for

Every quarter, a fee for someone else's copy of your book

Ebix describes WinBEAT NEXT as the cloud version of WinBEAT, run end to end by Ebix. The insureds, policies and claims in it were won and serviced by your office. Here is what the quarterly invoice buys.

request_quote

A subscription with no published figure

The WinBEAT NEXT page names a flexible quarterly subscription but no amount. To learn it, you fill in the sales lead form and wait for a call.

cloud

Hosting run by Ebix

Ebix manages the whole environment: backups, security and upgrades. That saves running a server, and it also means your records sit on Ebix's setup, not one you hold.

event_repeat

A fee that never finishes

There is no big licence up front, but the subscription keeps arriving every quarter for as long as the book stays in WinBEAT NEXT.

hub

Connections on Ebix's terms

Sunrise Exchange, iClose, premium funders, NAB banking and the Ebix payment gateway plug into WinBEAT NEXT. External API integrations are still listed as on the roadmap.

school

Training to work the screens

Ebix offers training from introductory to advanced levels.

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No exit written down

None of Ebix's WinBEAT pages explain how a brokerage takes its own records out. Leaving starts with asking Ebix what you can have.

What you get instead

Your brokerage's records, answering back

Monday

The week's renewals sorted by risk, not by date

Each renewal records how far it has got, from untouched to quoted to bound, so the first job of the week is the one most likely to slip.

  • check Everything expiring inside sixty days, heaviest premium with no client contact at the top
  • check Quotes still out with an underwriter past the day terms were promised, counted in days
  • check Cover that has run out but still reads as current, called out before anything else
  • check Which underwriter is slowest to return terms, broken down by class

Insureds

One business, all its covers, one answer

An insured is a single record with every policy and section beneath it, so a trading business's fleet, liability and property read together.

  • check Insureds nobody has spoken to in half a year, ranked by what they pay
  • check The clients each account manager looks after, and what shifts if one resigns
  • check Endorsements kept with the date they started
  • check Two clients with the same name are both shown, and you pick

The file

Claims and advice files a reviewer can follow

Every claim step and every piece of advice is its own entry, and a check lists each file that falls short of the rules your licence answers to.

  • check Open claims in order of how long the insured has waited for news
  • check Claims lodged with an insurer and never acknowledged, insurer named
  • check Placements from the past year with no advice file, listed in one question
  • check Each check quotes the clause it rests on, such as in the Insurance Brokers Code of Practice

Ownership

Records you keep, changes you ask for

The book sits in plain records any tool can read, and it changes when you describe the change. No client money ever passes through it.

  • check Brokerage earned by insurer and month, and commission booked but never paid
  • check Schedules and claim letters produced in your own colours
  • check A new field, stage or report added by asking in plain English
  • check Open source, so there is no subscription to keep it running

Make it yours

Design your own WinBEAT NEXT replacement

Everything starts from the open-source base. Then it gets your name, the parts you run, your rules and your data from WinBEAT NEXT. Try it here, and we build the real one.

2. What it runs

3. Make it fit

4. Your colour

Your business · your WinBEAT NEXT replacement Your version
YB Your business

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Answered from your own database

Build my version

We build it from the open-source base, bring your WinBEAT NEXT data across and run it for you.

Switching

How to switch from WinBEAT NEXT

A move usually involves getting your records out, mapping them into the new database and checking a test import before you switch.

  1. 1

    Request your records

    Ebix's pages do not describe an export, so ask Ebix in writing for your insureds, policies, claims and contacts as spreadsheet files before giving notice. Take what Ebix provides and check the available options with Ebix. Keep the original files unchanged so you have a reference while the new records are checked.

  2. 2

    Load the records

    The import accepts WinBEAT data or plain CSV. Start with a test run, which shows every row before anything is saved. WinBEAT NEXT's columns differ from the new system's import format, so map them to the right fields before loading the records for real. Treat the test run as a check, not the final import.

  3. 3

    Review flagged rows

    Review the test results and work through anything they flag before saving records. Check the rows against your WinBEAT NEXT export, especially where a field has been mapped or a value is not carried across as expected. Correct the mapping or source data, then run the test again. Save the records once the results make sense.

  4. 4

    Run both side by side

    Keep WinBEAT NEXT available while you start using the new database. For a short period, check the records you rely on in both systems, especially upcoming renewals and open claims, and resolve any differences before relying on the new database alone. The free version does not connect to Sunrise Exchange or premium funders, so those links may need to stay running alongside.

  5. 5

    Switch off WinBEAT NEXT

    Before you stop using WinBEAT NEXT, confirm the records you need are in the new database and your checks are complete. Then make the new database your working record, stop entering updates in WinBEAT NEXT and contact Ebix about ending the service. Keep your exported files available as a reference during the handover.

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Where the real effort goes

The main work is mapping WinBEAT NEXT's columns to the new format, deciding which history to bring and carrying over your own fields and rules. The free version does not hold client money or reconcile a trust account, so keep that in the system already responsible for it. When you have Enterprise DNA run the move, they do the mapping.

Not ready for a call?

Get your WinBEAT NEXT switch plan by email

We will send you the step-by-step plan for moving your business off WinBEAT NEXT, what the move really involves, and how we would do it for you.

One email with your plan. No spam, and you can unsubscribe any time.

Two ways to switch

Start with the free version, or have Enterprise DNA build and run yours

Open source

Run it yourself

Free

  1. 1 Download the free version from GitHub
  2. 2 Load the sample brokerage and open it in Claude Code
  3. 3 Ask what is renewing in the next fortnight with no client contact
  4. 4 Map your WinBEAT records in once you are ready
Get it on GitHub

Omni by Enterprise DNA

Have Enterprise DNA build it for you

One setup fee, then a monthly retainer

  • check We map your WinBEAT insureds, policies, claims and contacts across and reconcile the counts with you
  • check We link it to the accounting system that keeps your trust account, so premium and brokerage line up with each policy
  • check We set up the renewal stages, reports and compliance checks your office works by
  • check It runs inside Omni, our managed Command Center, beside the rest of your business
Book a discovery call

Questions

Instead of WinBEAT NEXT, answered

WinBEAT handles our trust accounting. Where does that go? expand_more

Not into this system. The free version never holds client money or reconciles a trust account, on purpose: that obligation has an auditor attached and belongs in accounting software built for it. Enterprise DNA connects your version to whichever system keeps it, and if trust accounting is what you would miss most about WinBEAT, it is the first thing we scope with you.

Ebix says there is no lock-in. Why move at all? expand_more

No lock-in contract is not the same as owning the records. On WinBEAT NEXT your book lives on Ebix's setup, changes come through Ebix, and the subscription arrives every quarter. In your own version the records sit in a database your brokerage holds, and a new report or rule is a request you make in plain English.

How do we get our records out of WinBEAT NEXT? expand_more

Ebix's pages do not describe an export, so ask Ebix in writing for your insureds, policies, claims and contacts as spreadsheet files before you give notice. Those columns differ from the free version's import format, so they are mapped on the way in. Enterprise DNA does the mapping, and a test run shows every row before anything is saved.

We quote through Sunrise Exchange and use premium funding. Do we lose that? expand_more

The free version does not connect to Sunrise Exchange or premium funders; you record what was quoted, bound and funded. If those links carry much of your placing, they are scoped into the version Enterprise DNA builds, or left running alongside while everything else moves.

Our staff know WinBEAT well. Is this harder to learn? expand_more

There are no screens to learn. Staff ask in plain English, such as which renewals are due this month with no call logged, and get the same clear answer every time. Anyone who can write an email can use it.

Weigh your WinBEAT NEXT subscription against owning the system

30 minutes with Sam. Bring your WinBEAT NEXT invoice and tell us which parts your team leans on. We look at what a year costs you, how your trust accounting and funding would sit, and what your own version would look like. If staying with Ebix is the better call, we say so.

Broking for Claude Code is free and open source, published by Enterprise DNA.

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