Product roadmap
The following quarterly updates are designed to help you and your organization with program planning and strategy. Helix welcomes your feedback regarding the updates and other ways we can support you.
Product
Beginning work to support incoming and outgoing wire transactions for business accounts, including:
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Adding ability to originate wire transfer requests via Helix Admin Console
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Updating Helix Admin Console screens for managing outgoing wire transactions
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Adding transaction types and realtime events
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Updating import files/export files
Beginning multi-quarter work to develop additional data sets for integration with ThoughtSpot, including:
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Updating solution name to Data Insights from Data Analytics
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Importing additional data to be used with Data Insights worksheets
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Enabling self-service analytics to Helix Admin Console users
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Offering ad hoc reporting capabilities
Continuing multi-quarter work, including:
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Concluding development for business search functionality to list related business or customer data in a single search field
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Making updates and optimizations to Helix Admin Console
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Global access business checking accounts
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Continuing work in Helix Admin Console to update global access functionality to support business checking accounts, enabling bank users to create and update a business customer, and create a business application
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Updating Helix API to provide additional information to card transactions, including:
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Merchant-related data elements such as merchant identification, location, and merchant category code (MCC)
Process improvements
Updating the bulk account closure files to simplify the Bulk Account Close Process:
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Currently, in order to close negative accounts, the process requires a bulk transfer to clear the accounts, and a second to close the accounts
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A new file will allow for bulk account closures and negative balance write-offs to occur within a single file
Adding functionality to close and reissue a locked debit card via Helix API:
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Currently, cards locked by Falcon Fraud must be unlocked via Helix Admin Console and then reissued
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Update includes the ability to reissue all card types (i.e., digital, virtual, physical) without requiring the cardholder to have the card unlocked before the card can be reissued
Bank and platform health
Developing a unique identifier for deposit networks:
- Identifies a customer across all banks and programs
- Can be used by deposit networks in lieu of Tax Identification Number (TIN) or other Personal Identifiable Information (PII)
Beginning work on the following to support multiple choice functionality:
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Helix API endpoints, files and reports, and Helix Admin Console
Making additional transaction data available to Centrix to improve visibility and efficiency:
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Providing additional ISO details to Centrix
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Updating Helix Admin Console card transaction detail page to support dispute research and fraud identification
Updating the Payment Exception queue to allow differentiated return posting behavior based on exception types:
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Developing Helix configurations to manage functionality and determine the following:
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Which exception types return directly from the Payment Exception queue without posting to the account
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Which exceptions are posted to the account and then returned
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Product
Beginning multi-quarter work to initiate ACH transfers of funds to any bank and account on the ACH network without requiring an external account:
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Developing API endpoints, database tables, events, jobs, reports, and limit configurations, to support multiple use cases
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Preparing for additional business account features, such as payroll or bill pay
Adding ThoughtSpot embedded user interface to Helix Admin Console
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Users will be able to access ThoughtSpot data models
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Access to ThoughtSpot controlled with new UPM permissions
Adding a new field to the /transfer/create endpoint, to provide more information when indicating the specific purpose of a single transaction
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Purpose code logic to be specific to use cases needed by a programs and approved by the bank of record (i.e., international remittances)
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Purpose code to be sent to BSA/AML vendors when required by the bank of record
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Purpose codes to be configured by Helix Support
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Reporting updates
Continuing multi-quarter work, including:
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Continuing development for business search functionality to list related business or customer data in a single search field
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Deploying business account reporting
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Continuing Helix end-to-end testing
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Completing bank testing and certification
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Business debit cards
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Starting development to support business debit cards
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Adding embossed second line for business name
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Updating card controls to configure limit group 7
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Making updates to Helix Admin Console and developing API endpoints
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Business batch file enhancements
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Continuing development to update existing batch files to support business accounts
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Global access business checking accounts
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Continuing work to update global access functionality to support a business checking account
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Making configuration changes to support Know Your Business (KYB) requirements
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Updating ACH transaction types to support business checking account transactions
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Bank and platform health
Adding functionality for programs to assess fees directly within Helix:
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1Q focus will be card fees
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Programs can set fees based on customer type, product type, or groups
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First phase of fee creation will require Helix support to create fees; subsequent versions will include a fee interface in Helix Admin Console
Adding data fields to support the Date of Last Contact by a customer:
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Developing API endpoints to send the Date of Last Contact to Helix
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Multiple states define dormancy with the last time the customer logged into the app or contacted the organization
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Updating reporting and dormancy calculations for escheatment
Continuing multi-quarter work, including:
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Updated Card page
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Improving the Card landing page to better support card servicing questions and reduce time spent on identifying the cardholder:
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Adding the following page properties:
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Last 4 of PAN
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Update card issuance type
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Sort order for cards by card status
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Add embossed name on card
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Hover text
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Manual review enhancements
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Improving the Manual Review queue
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Updating the documentType property to an editable field
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Adding an Attachments column to indicate applications with additional documentation
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General ledger mapping interface
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Adding functionality allowing banks of record to manage general ledger (GL) mapping
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Program account support
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Report all GL accounts within Helix Admin Console
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Support Fed account and product GL mapping
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