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Jenesis Software vs Verisk

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Jenesis Software

Insurance

Agency management system for small independent property and casualty agencies

From
$50/month
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite
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Verisk

Insurance

Insurance data, ISO forms and rating content that most American P&C products are built on

From
On request
Rated
-
Full reviewWebsite

The short version

  • Each has a real cost: Jenesis Software the base fee is charged per physical agency location rather than per organisation, so an agency with three small branches pays three base fees on top of every seat and the effective cost per user rises sharply as it opens offices.; Verisk the ISO content has no real substitute for a carrier writing standard lines, so renewal negotiations start from a position where walking away is not credible.
  • They diverge on capability: Jenesis Software covers ACORD form library, Verisk covers ISO forms and rating content.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Jenesis Software and Verisk actually diverge.

Attributes where Jenesis Software and Verisk differ
AttributeJenesis SoftwareVerisk
Starting price$50/monthOn request
Pricing modelPer user per monthquote
PlatformsWeb, iOS, AndroidWeb, API, Windows

Identical on both: free tier (No), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Insurance).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in Jenesis Software

  • ACORD form library
  • IVANS downloads
  • Certificate management
  • Commission tracking
  • Two way text and email
  • Receipting and invoicing
  • Comparative rating links
  • Zapier connection

Only in Verisk

  • ISO forms and rating content
  • ClaimSearch
  • Extreme event models
  • Property data
  • Xactimate
  • Underwriting analytics

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Jenesis Software

  • A three person personal lines agency replacing spreadsheets and a shared Outlook mailbox without committing to a multi year enterprise contractnot Verisk
  • An agency principal who wants IVANS downloads so renewal data arrives from carriers instead of being retyped each termnot Verisk
  • A small commercial agency that issues certificates of insurance daily and needs holder lists and reissue tracking in one placenot Verisk
  • A scratch agency budgeting a fixed monthly software cost from year one rather than negotiating an enterprise quotenot Verisk

Verisk

  • A carrier filing standard commercial lines products that must use recognised forms and loss costsnot Jenesis Software
  • A claims organisation checking submitted claims against the industry database for prior activitynot Jenesis Software
  • A property insurer pricing catastrophe exposure for reinsurance placementnot Jenesis Software
  • An MGA that needs bureau content without building and filing proprietary forms in every statenot Jenesis Software

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Jenesis Software

  • The base fee is charged per physical agency location rather than per organisation, so an agency with three small branches pays three base fees on top of every seat and the effective cost per user rises sharply as it opens offices.
  • Carrier download coverage is narrower than Applied Epic or Vertafore AMS360, so agencies with a long tail of regional carriers keep manually entering policies for the carriers Jenesis does not support and never reach a clean single source of policy data.
  • Reporting is limited to fixed operational reports, so an agency that wants book of business analysis by producer, carrier profitability or retention cohorts has to export data and build it in a spreadsheet each month.
  • There is no accounting general ledger, so agency bill trust accounting is reconciled in QuickBooks or similar alongside the system and the two records drift unless someone reconciles them deliberately.
  • Export options for a full data extract are constrained, which makes migrating away or being acquired by a larger agency a manual data project rather than a supported handover, and this only becomes visible at the point of exit.

Verisk

  • The ISO content has no real substitute for a carrier writing standard lines, so renewal negotiations start from a position where walking away is not credible.
  • Pricing is negotiated separately per product and per line, and large insurers routinely find overlapping agreements across underwriting, claims and actuarial that nobody had counted together.
  • Circular updates to forms and loss costs must be loaded into your policy system on a schedule, which is recurring work that carriers with older platforms do partly by hand.
  • The breadth of the portfolio means account management is spread across product teams, so a problem in one service does not necessarily get attention from the people selling you another.
  • Usage-based components such as data prefill and claims searches make annual spend hard to forecast, and the variance lands in the year you grow fastest.

Pricing, plan by plan

Jenesis Software

$50/month
  • JenesisNow Basic$50/month
    • Client and policy management
    • ACORD form library
    • Certificates of insurance
  • JenesisNow Pro$70/month
    • Everything in Basic
    • IVANS carrier downloads
    • Commission tracking

Verisk

On request
  • Verisk Insurance Solutions$undefined/year
    • ISO forms and loss cost licensing
    • Data and analytics services by line
    • API access

Which should you pick?

Choose Jenesis Software if

  • You need acord form library.
  • You work on Web, iOS, Android.
  • You also want ivans downloads.
Jenesis Software review

Choose Verisk if

  • You need iso forms and rating content.
  • You work on Web, API, Windows.
  • You also want claimsearch.
Verisk review

Questions people ask

Is Jenesis Software or Verisk better?
Neither clearly leads. Jenesis Software starts at $50/month and Verisk at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Jenesis Software or Verisk?
Jenesis Software starts at $50/month and Verisk at On request.
Does Jenesis Software or Verisk run on more platforms?
Jenesis Software runs on Web, iOS, Android. Verisk runs on Web, API, Windows.
What is Jenesis Software best used for?
Jenesis Software is most often used for a three person personal lines agency replacing spreadsheets and a shared outlook mailbox without committing to a multi year enterprise contract, an agency principal who wants ivans downloads so renewal data arrives from carriers instead of being retyped each term, a small commercial agency that issues certificates of insurance daily and needs holder lists and reissue tracking in one place, a scratch agency budgeting a fixed monthly software cost from year one rather than negotiating an enterprise quote. Of those, a three person personal lines agency replacing spreadsheets and a shared outlook mailbox without committing to a multi year enterprise contract and an agency principal who wants ivans downloads so renewal data arrives from carriers instead of being retyped each term are not what Verisk is typically brought in for.
What can Jenesis Software do that Verisk cannot?
Jenesis Software covers ACORD form library, IVANS downloads, Certificate management, Commission tracking. Verisk covers ISO forms and rating content, ClaimSearch, Extreme event models, Property data.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Jenesis Software: Does Jenesis publish its price?

Yes. JenesisNow Basic is roughly 50 US dollars per user per month and Pro roughly 70, which is unusual in agency management systems. What is not published is the base fee charged per physical agency location, and you must ask for that figure before comparing.

Verisk: Can a carrier avoid ISO content entirely?

Only by developing and filing proprietary forms and rates, which a handful of large insurers do. For everyone else the filing and legal cost of independence exceeds the licence.

Jenesis Software: Can it replace Applied Epic or AMS360?

Only for small agencies. It lacks the accounting, benefits, surplus lines and reporting depth those systems carry, and most agencies migrating up rather than down leave Jenesis somewhere around twenty staff.

Verisk: Is Xactimate part of Verisk?

Yes. It came with the Xactware acquisition and is the dominant property claims estimating tool in North America, used by carriers and by the contractors they pay.

Jenesis Software: Does it do comparative rating?

No. It passes data to third party raters such as EZLynx rather than producing carrier quotes itself, so you still licence a rater separately.

Verisk: Did Verisk sell off businesses?

Yes. It divested non-insurance units including its energy research business in 2023 and refocused on insurance data and analytics.

Jenesis Software: Is agency accounting included?

Only receipting, invoicing and basic receivables. There is no general ledger, so trust accounting is normally kept in a separate accounting package.

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