Keel Export

Your elections, in your ben admin, clean.

Keel captures every election and hands your ben admin a validated, ready-to-load bundle. No re-keying, no rejected files, no scramble at the deadline.

The ben-admin round-trip, handled.

Elections in, a clean Employee Navigator bundle out, validated before it ships. No manual 834 builds, no re-keying, no rejections.

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Export run
Northwind Trading · OE 2026
142 elections · destination: Employee Navigator
Collect
142 in
Validate
6 checks
Map
to EDI 834
Bundle
1 file
Deliver
to EN
Validation
SSN format
Dependent coverage
Plan eligibility
EOI flags
Coverage dates
Deduction amounts
Destination
Employee NavigatorBen-admin of record
Waiting for the bundle…
Bundle deliveredNW_OE2026.834 · 142 records · 0 errors
Keel
Validates + bundles
Employee Navigator
System of record, transmits
Carriers + payroll
Run downstream
Keel stops at the clean handoff. Your ben admin stays the system of record and feeds the carriers.
Illustrative. Example export, representative figures, not a live transmission.
Why it's different

The handoff is where deals go to die.

The old way

Re-key the elections and hope the file loads.

Elections retyped from a spreadsheet into the ben admin.
A hand-built 834 file that gets rejected on a format error.
Errors found weeks later, in a carrier's discrepancy report.
A frantic deadline week every single year.
With Keel

A validated bundle, delivered and confirmed.

Elections flow straight from Keel, never retyped.
Validated against the ben admin's rules before it ships.
Errors caught here, with the fix, not weeks downstream.
A delivery receipt, every record accounted for.
By the numbers

In clean, out clean.

0%
Validated before it ships
0
Elections re-keyed by hand
Minutes
To a delivered bundle
EN-ready
Employee Navigator first
Better together

It does not start from a spreadsheet.

Export pulls clean, validated data straight from the suite. Nothing is retyped along the way.

Keel Enroll
Feeds the elections
Every signed election lands in the bundle exactly as the employee chose it, no transcription.
Keel Rules
Sets the logic
Eligibility and contribution rules are already applied, so the export reflects the real plan year.
Keel Shield
Guards the data
SSNs and sensitive fields are handled encrypted, end to end, into the ben admin.
Questions

The details.

Which ben admins do you export to?
Employee Navigator first, since that is where most of our brokers live. The bundle is built to the standard EDI 834 shape, so it maps to other ben admins as well. Keel captures the elections and hands off a clean file, your ben admin handles carrier transmission and payroll deductions from there.
What if a record has an error?
It is caught at the validate stage, before anything ships, with the specific record and field flagged and a suggested fix. You resolve it in Keel and re-run. The point is that errors surface here, where they are cheap to fix, instead of weeks later in a carrier discrepancy report.
Does Keel send to carriers directly?
No, and that is deliberate. Keel captures the elections and produces the ben-admin-ready bundle. Your ben admin remains the system of record and handles carrier feeds and payroll downstream. We make the handoff clean, we do not try to replace the rails that already work.
What does this do for the broker?
It removes the worst week of your year. No more re-keying elections, no more rejected files, no more chasing discrepancies after the deadline. The round-trip is automated and auditable, so you can take on more groups without taking on more deadline-week risk.
Keel Export

Elections in.
Clean bundle out.

See a full export run, validated and delivered to the ben admin, in one tap.

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