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Jenesis Software
Agency management system for small independent property and casualty agencies
As of 31 August 2026, Jenesis Software starts at $50/month. A US agency management system aimed at independent P&C agencies of roughly one to fifteen staff, and one of the very few in its category that publishes a per user price at all. Softwr lists it under Insurance. Jenesis Software is available on Web, iOS, Android.
Overview
What Jenesis Software does
Jenesis Software sells JenesisNow, a browser based agency management system for independent insurance agencies in the United States. It handles client and policy records, ACORD form completion, certificates of insurance, commission tracking, receipting and invoicing, two way email and SMS, and IVANS carrier downloads so that policy data lands from carriers rather than being keyed in. The company is privately held and based in Shelby, North Carolina, and has sold into small personal lines and small commercial agencies since 1998. What distinguishes it commercially is price transparency in a category built on quotes. JenesisNow Basic is published at around 50 US dollars per user per month and Pro at around 70, against Applied Epic and Vertafore AMS360 deals that are negotiated, multi year and frequently carry five figure implementation charges. That matters because the buyers here are two and three person agencies for whom a system costing more than a producer commission is simply out of reach. The catch that the price page understates is the base fee levied per physical agency location, which turns a multi branch agency from a per seat purchase into a per site one. The buyer is the agency principal, usually the person who also sells, and the trade off is scope. Jenesis covers the operational spine of a small agency well and stops there. There is no benefits administration, no surplus lines tax handling of consequence, no meaningful analytics layer, and the carrier download breadth is narrower than the large incumbents. Agencies that grow past roughly twenty staff, add commercial lines complexity or acquire other agencies typically migrate out, and the migration is manual because the export options are limited.
What people use it 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
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- 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.
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Pricing
What Jenesis Software costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
JenesisNow Basic
$50 /mo
- Client and policy management
- ACORD form library
- Certificates of insurance
- Email and document storage
- Base fee charged per agency location
JenesisNow Pro
$70 /mo
- Everything in Basic
- IVANS carrier downloads
- Commission tracking
- Two way texting
- Receipting and invoicing
- Base fee charged per agency location
Capabilities
Features
ACORD form library
Pre-fills standard ACORD applications and certificates from stored client and policy data
IVANS downloads
Pulls policy, claim and commission data directly from participating carriers
Certificate management
Issues and reissues certificates of insurance with holder lists and renewal tracking
Commission tracking
Reconciles carrier commission statements against expected agency income
Two way text and email
Sends and logs client correspondence against the policy record
Receipting and invoicing
Agency bill invoicing, payment receipting and basic accounts receivable
Comparative rating links
Passes client data to third party raters rather than rating in house
Zapier connection
Routes new client and policy events to outside tools without custom development
Answered, with sources
Questions people ask
Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
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.
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.
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.
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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- HawkSoft
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- Majesco Policy for L&A
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- Indio
- Vertafore AMS360
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