Industries / Community Finance
Helping CDFIs and Community Lenders Scale Their Impact
We empower CDFIs and community lenders with the technology to reach more people, manage diverse lending products, and demonstrate the impact that secures your future funding.
The Challenges Community Lenders Face
Community finance organisations do vital work, but outdated technology holds back the impact you could be making.
Limited Resources, Growing Demand
Your community needs more from you than ever, but your team and budget remain stretched. Manual processes make it impossible to scale your impact without scaling your costs.
Managing Diverse Loan Products
CDFIs often manage a wide range of lending products, from personal loans to business finance. Legacy systems struggle to handle this diversity without workarounds and manual intervention.
Demonstrating Social Impact
Funders and stakeholders need clear evidence of your community impact. Gathering this data manually from disparate systems is time-consuming and prone to gaps.
Built for Community Lenders
Portfolio Management
Manage diverse loan products from one dashboard
Automated Operations
Reduce manual work by up to 90%
Compliance Built In
Automated regulatory reporting and audit trails
Impact Reporting
Demonstrate your community impact to funders
How Soar Supports Community Finance
Our platform is designed for the unique needs of community lenders. Manage your entire operation from one place, and free your team to focus on the people and communities you serve.
Beyond Traditional Lending
Our platform is flexible enough to support the diverse ways community organisations serve their communities.
Trust Savings Schemes
We support organisations running trust savings schemes, providing the tools to manage savings products alongside lending operations within a single platform. Your members can save and borrow in one place, and your team manages everything from a unified dashboard.
University Affordability Assessments
Cardiff Metropolitan University uses our platform to run affordability assessments for student grant applications. Our flexible assessment engine adapts beyond traditional lending to support any organisation evaluating financial need.
Soar gives us everything in one unified platform — CRM, Open Banking, KYC, and payments — that we can access 24/7 from anywhere in the world, on any device. It's transformed how we work.
Jackie Milton
Head of Operations, Robert Owen Community Bank