Track your downline in one place
Upgrade your HealthSherpa Medicare account to an Agency Account to connect with your downline agents and view their enrollments directly in your Clients tab.
NEW: Agencies can now connect with agents in two ways, depending on the relationship:
Captive (LOA) join code: Agent connects fully to their upline agency, giving the agency visibility into all contact records.
Independent join code: Agent connects to agencies per carrier, which shares limited Contact data.
Agency accounts
To enable agency features, you'll convert your account from an Agent Account to an Agency Account. This adds agency capabilities, and retains all existing agent capabilities (quoting, enrolling, etc).
How to convert:
Go to your Settings (the ⚙️ icon in the header)
Scroll down to Agency account conversion and click Begin conversion
Add your agency name and phone number
Click Confirm
ℹ️ Please note: After you convert to an agency account, you can only revert back with help from our Support team. And as an agency, you can't then join up to another upline agency (for now – we'll add agency-to-agency joins soon). |
After you convert to an agency account, you’ll see a new Agency tab, where you can view a table of connected agents and view your join codes.
Captive & independent join codes
Every agency account gets two join codes – one for captive (LOA) Agents, and one for independent Agents. Share the appropriate code with agents to connect their accounts to yours.
Captive join codes are for captive (LOA) agents who work exclusively under one agency, and all enrollments they submit are owned by that agency. Connecting with this code gives the upline agency full visibility into all of the agent's contact records. This code is added to the agent's Settings page, as shown below:
Independent join codes are for independent agents who can work with one or multiple upline agencies. These agents own their own book of business and can add join codes on a per-carrier basis to reflect different uplines across different carriers. Connecting with this code gives the upline agency visibility into Contacts who have submitted enrollments with a carrier that the agent has joined to your agency. These codes are added on the Carriers page, as shown below:
Downline Contact records
Clients & Leads list
Once an agent joins your agency, you’ll gain access into their Contacts right in your Clients and Leads lists:
Access rules for Captive agents:
You’ll have Full Book access to all of their Contacts.
Access rules for Independent agents:
You’ll only see Contacts tied to enrollments submitted with carriers they joined to your agency, and only for the period while your join code was active.
If the join code is later removed, you’ll still retain visibility into those past qualifying enrollments, but not into new ones.
An Agent column will show which agent the Contact belongs to.
Contact profiles
You can view the Contact profiles of your downline's qualifying Contacts, and you'll see a banner identifying which agent the Contact belongs to.
For captive (LOA) joins, you'll see all contact data.
For independent joins, only limited data is visible (name, state, zip, status, and enrollment records for joined carriers).
Exports
When you export from your agency account, it includes joined downline Contacts.
Captive joins: All Contacts
Independent joins: Only those Contacts with enrollments tied to your agency
Exports will include an Agent column and indicate whether the agent is Captive or Independent.
Joining agent accounts to an agency
Agents can connect to your agency using your join codes.
For captive (LOA) agents, here's how:
The agent should go to their Settings page (the ⚙️ icon in the header)
Scroll down to Join an upline agency and click Add join code
Enter the agency's 6-digit captive join code
Once joined: the agency gains visibility into all of the agent's Contacts. The agent’s experience doesn’t change – they have full access to their own Contacts, while the agency gains read-only access.
For independent agents, here's how:
The agent should go to their Carriers page
When adding or editing a carrier to this page, you'll see the option to add a join code.
Enter the agency's 6-digit independent join code
Once joined: the agency gains visibility into Contacts who have submitted enrollments with the carrier(s) that you've added join codes for. And only limited data is made visible to the agency (name, state, zip, status, and enrollment records for joined carriers).
Full Book access
By default, every agent account has Full Book access to their captive downline’s Contacts. They can also grant Full Book access to any captive downline agent.
Frequently asked questions
What's the difference between a captive agent and an independent agent?
Terms can vary, but we're using the term "captive agent" to mean an agent who only has a single upline across all their carrier appointments. Typically, these agents are salaried W2, but not always. And we're using the term "independent agent" to mean an agent who may have multiple different uplines for different carriers. These agents are typically 1099 employees who receive commission directly and pay for their own leads.
Features coming next
Agency reporting tools
Track downline production with reporting and performance insights at the agent level.
Multiple agency admins
Add additional users with admin access to manage your agency.
Agency-to-agency connections
Support multi-level hierarchies by connecting one agency account to another.
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Questions? Contact support
Call (855) 521-4984 or email medicare-agents@healthsherpa.com with questions.