Payday loan software
for short-term lenders

Made for storefront and online short-term lenders. Single-payment payday loans, installment advances, and small-dollar lines of credit, all from one configurable platform.
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Payday loans software by HES FinTech
Identify genuine repayment capacity across your delinquent book, prioritize the right accounts, and deploy targeted strategies that return borrowers to good standing faster.
40%
fewer NPLs
Streamline every stage of the short-term lending workflow. Document capture and templated agreements cut per-loan handling cost and speed each payout.
90%
lower document cost
Clear higher application counts without adding staff. Automation handles intake and verification, so a small team keeps pace at short-term volume.
44%
leaner operations

Purpose-built payday loan software
for the full lending cycle

Rapid onboarding

Give borrowers a white-label mobile journey they can finish in one sitting. KYC checks and pay stub uploads happen inside it, and affordability is assessed before any credit decision. Learn more

Confident origination

Make precise short-term lending decisions using configurable credit rules, AI-enhanced risk scoring, and real-time access to income and banking data. Rollover limits and fee structures are set per payday product. Learn more

Controlled servicing

Maintain clear operational oversight across your payday portfolio with automated payment tracking and proactive borrower engagement from a single platform. Learn more

Effective collection

Recover more short-term delinquencies with AI-prioritized outreach, salary-cycle-aware retry logic, and repayment plans that help borrowers clear past-due balances. Learn more

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Digital onboarding

Payday loan software that takes
applicants from tap to payout

The application flow runs fully online, request to payout, so short-term applicants self-serve and get a fast decision. Automation handles intake, letting the team keep pace with far higher application counts without adding staff.
payday loan calculator on a mobile application form
short-term loan approval on a mobile phone
borrower repayment portal after payout
partner portal for payday loan applications

Approve in minutes, not by tomorrow

Give payday loan borrowers a fast and convenient lending experience. They can check fees, total repayment amounts, and due dates upfront, apply, upload documents, and sign agreements directly from their phones.

Support on-time repayment after payout

After payout, the borrower portal shows the due date and current balance and accepts early or on-time payments. Text and email reminders are sent before the deadline, reducing missed installments.

Add storefront and referral channels

Storefront partners and referral agents work from a dashboard of their own, logging applications and following approvals for their customers. Reach short-term borrowers in new locations and channels without hiring or opening branches.

Keep short-term lending teams
moving as one

Every short-term loan keeps moving because each task goes to the right agent, chosen by role and current workload. SLAs stay visible, and verification, underwriting, and collections work from a single view.
task management dashboard for short-term lending teams
Loan origination

Cut decision time with
smart payday loan software

In short-term lending, a slow yes is a lost borrower, and a careless one is a default. Automated verification and AI underwriting turn each application into a quick, defensible decision.

Know your borrower

Run automated identity verification, KYC, sanctions, and fraud checks in seconds. Combine credit bureau data, bank account activity, and alternative income signals to verify borrowers and assess their repayment capacity before making a lending decision.

Underwrite faster, lend smarter

Combine custom credit rules, scorecards, and AI-powered scoring to assess short-term borrowers in minutes. Automate decisions for standard applications and route higher-risk cases for manual review. Evaluate thin-file borrowers using alternative data, improve approval rates, and keep credit risk under control.

GiniMachine scoring that sharpens itself

GiniMachine learns from every short-term credit decision you make. It reads how loans perform, spots fresh risk signals, and retrains itself, pushing scoring accuracy toward 3x while cutting defaults, hand reviews, and good loans wrongly declined.

No paper from first form to signed contract

Strip paper from the entire short-term loan flow. OCR pulls and verifies payslips, IDs, and statements within seconds; built-in eSignature then signs the contract on screen. Document handling costs fall by up to 90%, printing and scanning gone.
identity verification for a payday loan application
configurable underwriting for short-term loans
AI credit decisioning for short-term lending
GiniMachine self-learning credit scoring
paperless payday loan origination with eSignature
and much more

Configure any payday product

Stand up whatever short-term product you sell: single-payment payday, installment advances, or a small credit line. Tune fees, rates, due dates, and who qualifies, by product or by segment, with zero developer time.

Borrower outreach across channels

Push timed outreach to borrowers by rules that react to their behavior and loan status, across the channels they use. Engagement holds through the whole term, and the support desk handles fewer manual messages.

Auto-generated loan agreements

Dynamic templates with auto-filled fields turn out a binding short-term agreement. Drafting errors are gone, payout is faster, and each contract holds to the policy you configure per product and state.

Access control and data protection

Lock down borrower records behind role-level permissions you define, password rules you control, and a second sign-in factor. Every action is recorded in the activity log and stays audit-ready.

Custom notification templates

Compose text, email, and app-alert templates, each driven by dynamic fields, to cover every touchpoint: status, approval, repayment nudges tied to payday, and renewal offers.

No-code process builder

Set up and change short-term lending flows, no engineering team involved. Lay out application paths, set approval logic, branch decision trees, and ship a new process in days rather than quarters.

Automated decision processes

Workflow
Loan servicing

All-in-one payday loan servicing

HES LoanBox manages the whole short-term loan in one place, payout through final payment, so servicing stays accurate and no payment is missed. Balances update in real time, terms stay configurable, and payments are processed in the platform.
short-term loan servicing dashboard
payday loan management workspace
borrower CRM for short-term lending
payday loan payment operations

Service each loan automatically

Each short-term loan is serviced from payout through the final payment. Interest, fees, rollovers, top-ups, and early payoffs compute by your rules, so there are no spreadsheets and no end-of-day reconciliation.

Manage every product together

Handle single-payment payday, installment, and line-of-credit products side by side. Shift due dates, grant hardship extensions, restructure a balance, or post a partial payment instantly, while the full history stays intact for audit.

One screen per borrower

Pull up any borrower on one screen: application history, live and settled loans, documents, messages, and current risk. Agents answer at first contact, notice repeat-borrower patterns, and keep service tidy.

Payments you can rely on

Move payouts and repayments through gateways you connect, plus ACH, SEPA, card networks, and local rails. Set retry rules for failed pulls, keep balances current, and run on ISO 27001 and SOC 2 controls.

AI risk intelligence that keeps
your short-term book profitable

Scoring you can defend

Scoring spans the short-term flow front to back, pre-KYC filtering through NPL forecasting, with outputs you can explain and defend in review.

Risk flagged early

Set the risk thresholds that fit your book and identify likely defaults before they occur. Pricing can be adjusted to keep the short-term portfolio profitable.

Sharper decisions with AI

Back each short-term credit call with GiniMachine AI, which scores up to three times sharper than a standard scorecard.
AI scoring model for payday loans
Loan collections

Recover more from automated
short-term collections

Automated recovery returns overdue short-term loans to payment faster and at lower cost. AI ranks accounts by likelihood to pay and routes each case to the right channel, with fees applied only within the caps you have set.

Put recovery on a workflow

Take manual effort out of recovery and run every overdue short-term loan through HES LoanBox.
Drive text, email, and phone outreach from one queue
Generate and track collection notices from templates you control
Apply templated or fully custom workflows by days-past-due bucket

Make each action borrower-specific

Drop blanket dunning for strategies driven by data on each borrower.
Choose the approach that works per borrower segment
AI sets the best time, channel, and message
Predict repayment odds and forecast incoming cash
Score accounts to work the highest-recovery cases first

Prevent missed payments early

Keep short-term borrowers on track with reminders that actually get read.
Schedule reminders with wording suited to each borrower
Track what lands, gets read, and gets a reply, live
Reach people through push, voice bot, in-app, or another channel

Fees and penalties within your limits

Add overdue charges and hold them to the caps you configure, with a clear record behind each one.
Set penalty rules by short-term product and the state you lend in
Hold fees and interest to the caps you configure
Keep borrower notices clear, every record audit-ready
automated collections workflow for short-term loans
AI collection scoring for payday loans
payment reminders for short-term borrowers
fee and penalty management for payday loans

Analytics built for short-term lenders

HES LoanBox shapes live dashboards around the short-term KPIs your team watches. Get the underlying numbers out, set up whatever metrics matter, and view the book across product, vintage, and channel as needed.
payday lending reporting dashboard

What you get with HES

Configure, customize, or own the code

Short-term rules vary by state and product, so set caps, fees, rollover terms, and eligibility yourself. For anything beyond configuration, commission custom development or take ownership of the source code, with no vendor lock-in.

Pricing that survives high volume

HES LoanBox uses one-time platform licensing, so small-dollar economics hold at scale: no per-seat or per-loan fees, and unlimited users and borrowers at any volume.

Live, and lending, from 3 months

Launch a short-term product, or open a new state, from 3 months. It deploys ready to lend, so you book loans and reach ROI early, ahead of competitors' slower rollouts.

Specialists in short-term lending

For 14+ years we have built lending software for consumer and short-term lenders across the US, EU, and emerging markets. We know how the model works and build the platform that runs it.

Success stories

client
HES FinTech has been our reliable technology partner since 2012. I believe much of our success is due to the well-architected HES LoanBox solution.
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Boris Batine
Co-Founder, ID Finance
client
HES FinTech offers comprehensive front-to-back solutions with integrations. Our machine learning platform will allow clients best-in-class investment advice.
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Edward Downpatrick
Strategy Director, Fintuity
client
In just 6 months, we went from storing all our data in Excel to a fast, reliable, and user-friendly platform that caters to our specific needs.
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Hjortur H. Jonsson
Partner, ALM Securities
client
HES FinTech developed our lending software and predictive analytics. Their expertise delivered automation, clear UI/UX and customer portal.
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Mazen Alasnag
Head of Loan Management, Wa'ed
client
The LMS provided flexible repayment options, automated restructuring and branch-level management, enhancing efficiency and risk mitigation.
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Urnukhjargal Badam
CEO, Tavan Bogd
Security
Deployment
Tech stack

Security at the core

ISO 27001 certification, SOC 2 alignment, and a secure SDLC keep security controls consistent across operations. Data is encrypted, access is granted by role, and hosting runs on hardened infrastructure.
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Run it in the cloud
or on-premises

Deploy HES LoanBox on-premises, in the cloud provider you choose, or in a hybrid setup, to match your security and operational requirements.
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Open-source
at the foundation

HES FinTech runs the backend on open-source, license-free tooling: Java LTS, BPMN 2.0, and the Form.io modeler. There are no license fees, only the platform source code itself.
payday loan software technology architecture

The 2026 reality of
payday lending

12M+
Americans borrow payday yearly
More than 12 million Americans use payday loans every year, a high-volume, fast-turnaround market where manual processing cannot keep pace.
391%
typical payday loan APR
A median storefront payday loan runs about 391% APR at $15 per $100 over two weeks. Fee and interest caps of this kind have to be configured precisely, with each charge logged.
80%
of loans rolled over or reborrowed
Over 80% of payday loans are rolled over or reborrowed within two weeks. Scoring real repayment capacity up front is what separates a sustainable book from a churn of renewals.
20%
of payday borrowers default
Around 20% of payday borrowers default over the course of a year. AI scoring that filters weak applications before payout is able to cut NPLs by 40%.

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in 3 months

Keep your focus on growth, We handle the platform.
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FAQ

What is payday loan software?

Short-term lenders run on payday loan software to manage the whole loan: intake, decision, payout, repayment, and collection. The strongest platforms pull four jobs into one place: KYC and document capture at onboarding, affordability checks with AI decisioning quick enough to answer in minutes, servicing of single-payment and installment products on scheduled ACH, and collections the moment a pull fails. HES LoanBox is one such platform, made for storefront and online lenders who prefer a single configurable system over a stack of separate tools.

What is the difference between payday loan software and a loan origination system (LOS)?

The labels blur together, so the confusion is fair. Think of a loan origination system as the front end: apply, verify, decide, fund. Payday loan software wraps around that and keeps going after the money lands, covering repayment servicing, rollovers, borrower messaging, and collections on missed pulls. Buy only an LOS and you usually add a separate servicing tool, then a separate collections tool, and your data ends up living in spreadsheets between them. HES LoanBox and platforms like it fuse those stages into a single configurable setup, the whole reason end-to-end short-term systems are winning out.

How do I choose the right payday loan software?

Begin where the money is leaking. Losing applicants before payout, or deciding too slowly, points you at onboarding and instant affordability decisioning. Drowning in failed ACH and climbing delinquency points you at scoring and collections. Then weigh four cost drivers over a few years: whether the product engine bends to single-payment, installment, and line-of-credit setups state by state; how easily it ties into bank verification, alternative data, and payment rails; the honest go-live date; and whether the license counts seats. HES LoanBox earns a place on the list for lenders after one platform spanning intake to recovery, though your own answer follows your own bottleneck.

How long does payday loan software take to implement?

It ranges a lot. A legacy on-premise build can run beyond a year and tie up your IT staff plus paid consultants. Cloud systems that arrive with prepared workflows, connectors, and configurable products cut that down hard. Most short-term lenders go live on HES LoanBox inside 3 to 6 months, since it ships with single-payment and installment workflows and ready links to bank-data feeds, scoring engines, and payment processors. Scope that covers many products, several states, or odd rule sets stretches the calendar, which is expected and easy to scope once discovery is done.

How does payday loan software help with credit risk and compliance?

Good software runs risk and compliance as a single flow. For risk, it gathers bank and income data next to AI scoring, filtering shaky applications before payout so a thin-margin book does not bleed on defaults. For compliance, an audit trail follows every action, documents stay tracked, permissions split duties by role, and ISO 27001 and SOC 2 certified controls sit under the infrastructure. Overdue charges stay inside the caps you configure per state, each one backed by a clear record. When an examiner asks why a loan was approved, the answer is right there, and the surprises grow fewer.

How much does payday loan software cost?

What you pay tracks volume, product range, deployment, and integration depth. Legacy enterprise tools tend to want big yearly license fees, seat charges, and a heavy setup budget on top. Cloud rivals shifted to subscriptions keyed to volume or modules. HES LoanBox runs a straightforward license model with no seat charges, so adding agents, analysts, or borrowers never moves the price, which is what keeps high-volume, thin-margin lending viable. Anything custom carries its own quote. One short call settles it once your products and likely volume are clear.

Does HES LoanBox connect to the tools we already run?

Yes. Being API-first, HES LoanBox fits the stack a short-term lender already runs. Hooks reach bank-verification and open-banking feeds, alternative-data and scoring engines, ACH and card processors, document and signature tools, accounting, ERP, and BI, across 100+ integrations with open APIs covering anything else. The effort scales with how many systems are involved, but the point holds: data flows on its own rather than getting rekeyed by staff. For any service not yet on the list, the open API is the way in.