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Comparative rater

What is a commercial comparative rater?

A commercial comparative rater allows you to input information once and receive many responses, quotes and rates to make a comparative choice. SFM offers this service to agency partners.

Comparative rater access

Request access

If you are an appointed agency with SFM and your agency uses one of the platforms for commercial comparative rating that SFM is connected to, request access to utilize SFM in the commercial comparative rater.

Frequently asked questions

Currently, SFM is connected to Vertafore Commercial Submissions​ and IVANS IDP (Tarmika, Epic Quotes Commercial Lines, and potentially more) – product of IVANS.

If you are an appointed agency with SFM and your agency uses one of the platforms for commercial comparative rating that SFM is connected to, you will need to request access to utilize SFM in the commercial comparative rater. Click here to request access.

Once you have confirmed set up with SFM, you will need to enter your login email and agency number (the number you were assigned when your agency first started doing business with SFM). If you don’t know your agency number you can ask someone at your agency, contact us for help, or reach out to your SFM underwriter.

If you use one of the comparative raters that SFM is connected to and would like to quote with SFM but are not yet appointed as an agency, you can fill out your information here.

If you are having issues specifically with SFM on the commercial comparative rater, please email us.