insurance quote camparison sites

[fahimsalim]

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Hi,

I want to build an insurance quote comaprison site such as the likes of gocompare.com and confused.com - does anybody know how they produce the different quotes on their site?

I want to give site visitors the ability to input the required information and then to display the different quotes to them from the different insurance companies.

I have been told that this would have to be done through the insurance provider's API but not sure how to obtain this.

Any help is much appreciated.

Fahim

[accelerator]

The two affiliate networks below specialise in finance so it might be worth talking to them:

OMG Network – Affiliate Marketing

Specialist Financial Services Network - Smart-Quotes

Rgds

[fahimsalim]

Thanks Accelerator.

It seems that this is a 'specialist' area and the insurance companies are scattered through a number of affiliate programs.

Does anybody know of any other affiliate programs as such?
and especially if they have the capability of returning quotes through an API or quoation engine?

I am looking for more than just banners and text links.

Fahim

[accelerator]

I found this:

UniRisX - The on demand global insurance service

From this post:

CoBranded / White Label Insurance Sites

Rgds

[accelerator]

... and an article about BeatThatQuote.com's white label insurance offering:

SourceWire | Press Releases - BeatThatQuote.com wins white label deal with independent.co.uk

Rgds

[startuk]

The big players (GoCompare, MoneySupermarket etc.) all have a feed from CDL:

CDL (Cheshire Datasystems Ltd)

CDL get prices from a number of insurers and brokers, and give them to you in a feed - but you have to pay to get it (about £20k a year I think, maybe more).

They then hook in feeds from other insurers to make up their full comparison service.

In other words, if you want a proper quote comparison service, you have to be able to do big volumes to justify the initial outlay - so maybe best to go for a white label first.