Insurer Services

Start by clicking Register on the SLIP+ login page. Select Insurer and complete the registration form. Once completed, all login information will be provided to the email address listed on the registration form. After an account is live, active users can add additional SLIP+ users. If you attempt to register an insurer and receive an error, please contact [email protected] for assistance.

Please note initial users of the SLIP+ platform were given login credentials on September 15, 2024. For questions regarding previous accounts, please contact [email protected].

Insurers are required to report the following information for each transaction

• Home State (Colorado, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, or Wyoming)
• Name of Surplus Lines Agent or indicate the transaction is Independently Procured Coverage (IPC)
• National Producer Number (NPN) of the Surplus Lines Agent
• Policy Number (as it appears on the policy documentation)
• Insured Name (as it appears on the policy documentation)
• Transaction Effective Date (as it appears on the policy documentation)
• Premium (the premium should include any inspection or policy fees charged that are deemed taxable premium by the home state)

Insurers should report data for Alabama, Colorado, Kansas Louisiana, Montana, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Wyoming in SLIP+.

We use the Policy Transaction Date to determine reporting timelines.
For New Business and Renewals, the Policy Transaction Date is the same as the Policy Effective Date, which marks the policy’s inception.

However, for any subsequent activities such as endorsements, return premiums, cancellations, or other changes—the date used is the endorsement transaction date/policy transaction date, not the original inception date.

To view batch filing documentation and manage submissions in SLIP+ for States, follow these steps:

1. Log in at https://states.slipplus.com.
2. Navigate to the Filings tab.
3. Select Batch Upload, then click Upload Batch File.
4. If prompted, click Apply.
5. Under Batch Submission Documentation, you’ll find all the tools and resources needed — including schema files, test batch files, and submission response details.

This platform currently supports filings for the following states: Alabama (AL), Montana (MT), Colorado (CO), Oklahoma (OK), South Dakota (SD), Tennessee (TN), and Wyoming (WY).

For additional resources, visit our main website:
www.slipplus.com → Filings > Insurer Services
Or go directly to: https://slipplus.com/filing-payment-resources/insurer-services/

Yes! You can easily set up additional users from within your main SLIP+ for States account. Just follow these steps:

• Go to Settings
• Select User Manager
• Click on Add New User

You can add as many users as needed to support your filing process.

Yes. A No Business Report is required in lieu of quarterly or annual policy information for eligible surplus lines insurers not doing business in the following states: Colorado, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Wyoming, Montana and Alabama and must be submitted through SLIP+ for States, under the Compliance tab. Foreign insurers must submit the No Business Report quarterly within 90 days of the end of the quarter. Alien insurers need to file annually, by June 30, for the previous calendar year.

“Duplicate Transaction” means our system has already received a transaction with the same policy number, effective date, and premium amount. If you receive this error, remove the transaction(s) from the batch file and resubmit it.

It appears you had a Byte Order Mark (BOM) at the very beginning of your file. .NET Web Services are not compatible with this BOM. In general, if your file is successfully uploaded and then rejected for schema errors via email, it’s a BOM issue. This is viewable in a hexadecimal editor at the very beginning of your file as “EF BB BF” or “FF FE”

Below are a few resources regarding how to remove the BOM during the file creation:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4942825/xdocument-saving-xml-to-file-without-bom

This can also happen if you used the Microsoft XML Notepad application to edit your file before submitting. That application tends to insert the BOM in files.

Or to manually remove the BOM, open the file in Microsoft Notepad, then ‘Save As’, and select ANSI in the Encoding dropdown.

The batch file displays the total premium amount for all transactions submitted within the batch. If your total premium exceeds the amount shown on the discrepancy notice, some reported premiums may not have effective dates within the reporting period. The email you received from SLIP+ for States compares the insurer’s premiums with effective dates within the reporting period against agent and IPC/Direct Procurement filers’ premiums within the same period.

• Authenticator Application (Example: DUO, Microsoft Authenticator, 1Password)
• SMS (Text Message)
• Email

A minimum of one MFA method is required (primary method), but users have the option of setting up multiple methods, if desired. We recommend setting up at least two options in case your primary method is not accessible. 

Unfortunately, there can only be a single device linked to each account. If you have multiple users currently using a single user’s credentials, you will need to create each of those users as secondary SLIP+ users associated with the primary account. You can do that by going to the Settings page (found by clicking on the account holder name in the top right corner) and then User Manager. There is an icon for “Add New User” in the top right corner of that page. There you can add each secondary user that would need access to the account.

If you wish to reset, delete or set up any of the MFA methods after the initial setup, you can do so by going to Settings:

• You can perform the following actions from this screen:
• Setup – Add any MFA methods that are not currently set up (Gear Icon)
• Reset – Make updates to any existing MFA method (Circle with Arrow Icon)
  • For example, if you have SMS set up and you get a new cell phone number, reset will remove the current MFA method and phone number and you can set the MFA method again. 
• Delete – Delete an existing MFA method (Trash Can Icon)
  • If you delete a method by mistake, click on Setup to add the method back to your account 
  • If all MFA methods are deleted, you will prompted to set up MFA the next time you login to SLIP+ for States. 

If you have any questions about multi-factor authentication, please contact the SLIP+ team at [email protected] or 877.267.9855.

Foreign Insurers

Alien Insurers