Herald Changelog
The latest updates at Herald.
The changes below are Herald additions and updates that are backwards compatible. In the event of a change that may affect your integration with Herald, you'll be contacted in advance to ensure you have sufficient time to adjust. Read more in our guide to High Impact Changes at Herald.
Herald Added Defaulting and Native Email Quoting
We've been focused on developing, refining, and enhancing our commercial insurance APIs. While this update provides key highlights, more details will be shared soon. Stay informed about the latest features and improvements, with additional updates to come.
Effortless Insurance Applications with Herald's Autofill API
Say goodbye to tedious data entry! Herald's new Autofill API streamlines the insurance application process by instantly populating Herald applications with saved business data. Whether starting fresh or completing a partially filled application, Autofill ensures accuracy while saving valuable time. Elevate your workflow and boost efficiency with seamless integration—try it today!
Herald & Babbix Introduce Native Quoting in Outlook
Email remains a dominant tool for insurance brokers, but manual workflows slow down the quoting process. Now, Herald and Babbix are changing that. With native quoting inside Outlook, brokers can instantly extract key data from emails using Babbix’s AI-powered tools, while Herald submits that information to carriers—returning a panel of quotes as soon as they’re ready. No more back-and-forth emails or manual data entry. Easily integrate it into your existing platform or launch a new offering with zero new code required. Watch a demo here.
Tidying up
Fixes and improvements
This week we focused on tidying up. We improved performance and dealt with a few bugs:
- We improved the ordering of properties in our API response so that its easier for developers to read.
- We fixed a bug that returned an ‘active’ status for a quote without a premium under certain (rare) circumstances.
- An update to how we store requests and responses improves our ability to provide support quickly and enables us to share logs with customers in the future.
- We updated our API schema to make certain fields nullable so that there are no empty objects {} or arrays [].
- Our API documentation now explains the purpose of the beta branch: previewing upcoming changes to our API.
Third time's the charm
Carrier #3
We launched our third General Liability product with a new carrier to Herald: Markel. Just like Atlantic Casualty two weeks ago, and Century two weeks before that, our customers can now generate quotes from their demo environment. They’ll get real data, but not real quotes quite yet.
Fixes and improvements
Beyond adding our third carrier we made a few fixes and improvements:
- We fixed a bug that created duplicate quotes when you duplicate the product ID in the submission. Product IDs must now be unique.
- We improved our error handling for duplicate coverage and risk parameters.
- Invalid dates (like June 31st) now cause an error instead of generating quote status “unresponsive.”
- We fixed a timezone issue that was causing quotes to get blocked in the late hours of Pacific time.
Carrier #2
Carrier #2
We launched another General Liability product with our second carrier: Atlantic Casualty. Just like Century two weeks ago, our customers can now generate quotes from their demo environment. They’ll get real data, but not real quotes quite yet.
Fixes and improvements
Beyond adding another carrier (!) we made a few fixes and improvements to our application:
- Enabled Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS), which makes it possible to interact with our API using web applications
- Removed erroneous timestamps from the API response body
- Improved the performance of submission validation logic
- Fixed a bug to only include the secondary address field when present