Digital Enrollment: The Only Way to Go in the Modern Marketplace

Here at BenefitMall, we take great pride in supporting insurance brokers with state-of-the-art technology. You’re already familiar with what we offer if you've used our Agency Workspace platform. Did you know we also offer digital enrollment for your clients' employees? Needless to say, digital enrollment is the only way to go in the modern marketplace.

Paper enrollment served its purpose back when it was the only option. But the days of paper applications were left in the rear-view mirror years ago. It’s time to let them go forever and move enrollment into the digital age. You and your clients get so much more by going digital.

Decisions Made It Easier

Statistics show that the majority of American workers don't really understand their health insurance benefits. Insurance plan benefits are hard for them to grasp when they don't even know basic terms like 'premium' and 'deductible'. And when employees do not understand, they find it difficult to make decisions.

While digital enrollment cannot necessarily change that all by itself, it does give employees access to information in a format they’re familiar with. They are more likely to read health insurance information presented digitally and in bite-sized chunks, thereby facilitating easier decision-making.

Faster and More Efficient Enrollment

Paper applications are tedious in that employees find themselves writing the same information multiple times. Digital enrollment changes the game. On a digital platform, repetitive information is entered only once. Employees only have to type their names, addresses, and phone numbers a single time. Their employers only have to enter their share of the information once. That information is populated across the entire platform as needed.

That is one way to speed up enrollment. Employees who know what they want can enroll or re-enroll in minutes. By contrast, they could spend two or three times as much on paper documents.

24/7 Access to Information

So far, we’ve covered two compelling reasons to move enrollment into the digital space. Here's another: digital enrollment gives employees 24/7 access to information. If they want to look up their insurance options at 2 o'clock in the morning, that's fine. It doesn't matter that HR is closed for the night. The same for actual enrollment. Employees can enroll when they have the time, rather than having to do it on the employer's schedule.

Enroll from Any Device

Our online enrollment platform, like so many others, is cloud-based. This benefits employees inasmuch as they can enroll using any device. Any laptop, desktop, tablet, or smartphone will do—as long as it’s equipped with a modern web browser.

This helps by giving employees the opportunity to enroll outside of work hours. Imagine an employee who wants to go home and discuss insurance options with a spouse prior to enrollment. The two can decide what they want to do over dinner, then immediately enroll before cleaning up the kitchen and retiring for the evening.

Digital platforms with companion mobile apps up the game by reaching employees where they are. We live in a highly mobile society, and being able to enroll, re-enroll, and continually check plan benefits via a mobile app is obviously a plus.

No Reason to Ignore Digital

In the end, there really is no good reason to ignore digital enrollment. The rest of the world has gone digital—health insurance needs to follow. We invite you to take a look at all our technology solutions to see how they can make you better at serving your clients. Among them is digital enrollment.