1st SBA Submission Package Accepted

Written by Stephen Ladek | 20 April 2010

We're excited to announce that just days after our launch, sbaOpen has received confirmation from SBA that our first application package has been accepted.

The package was completed by sbaAccess for one of their clients.

Our launch announcements have been well received and we have already signed up several new clients for both our PPL and SPM packages. Join our growing community today by contacting us here.

Official Launch

Written by Stephen Ladek | 14 April 2010

Yesterday was an exciting day as sbaOpen was officially released to the general public. We are all excited and looking forward to the opportunities ahead with our growing community.

The service has launched with our first three modules (GATHER, ANALYZE and APPROVE) fully operational for 7(a) non-PLP loans. As we stand today, our community members have everything in place to work with their small business clients - from the time they have a warm lead through submission of the application to the SBA.

It has been quite an adventure upto this point, covering several months of design work and 8 months of development work that will continue into the foreseeable future. Over the last several weeks, our Alpha and Beta testing phases provided plenty of challenges, revealing new twists and turns in the SBA application up to the last minute. And, we're eager to hear from "outside the bubble" of our development process for ways we can improve the service, make our help files and tutorials more robust and increase the value our community receives.

We will use this blog as a way to keep you updated from "inside" sbaOpen as we find and fix outstanding issues, release enhancements and implement new features.