Award-Winning Project
How Automating a Manual Credit Check Process Unlocked Rapid Scale for WA's Clean Energy Pioneer

2023 HubSpot Impact Awards Winner
Custom Integration Category
Client
Plico Energy
Year
2023
Services
Custom API Integration · HubSpot Customisation · Workflow Automation · PDF Generation · Monitoring Dashboard
Industry
Clean Energy
INDUSTRY
Clean Energy — Solar & Battery Subscription (Virtual Power Plant)
Location
Western Australia (expanding nationally)
challenge
Manual credit checks creating a 10+ day bottleneck in customer sign-up, exposing sensitive data, and choking growth
Solution
Custom 3-way integration: Jotform ↔ T&H Webservice ↔ Experian API ↔ HubSpot with full downstream automation
Credit Checks
1,139+ automated (and counting)
Processing Speed
10.4 days → 20.2 hours (10x faster)
Productivity Gain
4.45% reduction in time from Opportunity to Customer
Award
2023 HubSpot Impact Awards Winner — Custom Integration Category
Services Delivered
Custom API Integration · HubSpot Customisation · Workflow Automation · PDF Generation · Monitoring Dashboard
Tech Stack
Jotform (Sign-up Form) ↔ T&H Webservice ↔ Experian API ↔ HubSpot CRMation · Workflow Automation · PDF Generation · Monitoring Dashboard
01. Data security
The sales team was handling sensitive customer and identity documents (eg. Driver Licence numbers) to run credit checks as part of the sign up process.
02. Slow team velocity
Each credit check was done manually by the team. It was lengthy and cumbersome and became the biggest bottleneck in the sign up process.
03. High workload
Plico was in a significant growth phase where demand for solar energy kept increasing continuously and needed to really scale its customer signup rate
04. Poor customer experience
The customer signup process was taking a long time to complete all the necessary steps
05. Siloed data
Plico was using platforms and solutions that weren’t corrected to HubSpot
The Solution: Custom Integration
We developed a thorough custom integration between 3 platforms used by Plico:
Jotform used to build the customer sign up form, embedded in a HubSpot landing page
Thank-you pages built on HubSpot
The Experian API provided by the credit reporting agency to run credit checks automatically
HubSpot to process all the data and automate the downstream process to simplify, reduce and streamline the team’s workload.
The webservice we developed bridges the gap between Jotform, Experian and HubSpot, while allowing for a smooth user experience, removing back and forth between the sales team and the customer.
Before
Customer fills out sign up form
Sales team collects form data and runs credit check manually
Sales team updates client’s Contact and Deal records in HubSpot
Sales team sends email to customer telling them about the outcome of their application, with either a link to pay their sign up fee, or a link to run a manual credit check done by the client using another credit reporting agency
After
Customer fills out sign up form
The Webservice runs the credit check with Experian and updates Hubspot’s Deal and Contact records accordingly
Customer is redirected to a Thank-you page or a Membership payment page depending on results of their credit check
Next steps in the process are triggered automatically
Extra Services
In addition to that, the integration we developed comes with more services and features:
Overall
We also customised HubSpot heavily to further enhance the impact of the solution
Record customisation and custom properties to host the necessary information after the credit check
Advanced property permissions
Workflows to automate
- Deals to move to the next stage
- Alerts for HubSpot admins in case the integration or the Experian API has issues
- Tasks for the operations team with next steps for their clients
Webservice & Experian API monitoring workflow triggering alerts to specific team members when needed.
Improving internal communication with a workflow using custom code to add a note to the record:
Automating next steps post-credit check
Moving deal stage automatically after the automated credit check to alleviate the team's workload
Impact
Results
A more integrated HubSpot
HubSpot has become the centre of the whole new client onboarding process
A better customer experience
Customers can now execute in 1 step what used require back-and-forth with the Plico sales team
High engagement of the team
The Plico Sales team fully understands how HubSpot helps them close more deals
- 2023 HubSpot impact awards winner
Why This Won a HubSpot Impact Award

It wasn't just a good integration. It was the right integration for the business problem.
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