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Over 7,000 brokers use Employee Navigator’s software to manage their customers’ benefits, onboarding, Affordable Care Act requirements and more on its user-friendly, intuitive platform.

Employee Navigator specializes in helping smaller businesses. Lincoln proudly connects directly to its Employee Navigator Data Exchange, designed to help simplify the benefits administration process alongside 80 other carriers.

Source: Employee Navigator data, as of April 2026.

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Solutions designed for you

Ease your day-to-day administrative burden using simple, automated workflows.

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Overview

Identifiy and resolve data exchange file errors with ease with Employee Navigator.

Key benefits for brokers and human resource administrators

  • Reviews highlighted file errors and provides steps to resolve them
  • Tracks errors by allowing users to add notes, understand causes and mark them complete
  • Searches historical data to spot repeating errors and help reduce future occurrences

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Overview

Make it simple for your employees to submit EOI through our user-friendly connection via single sign-on (SSO) and receive real-time decisions from API connections on your employee platform.

Key benefits

For employers:
  • Designed to replace paper forms
  • Minimizes the need to manually track EOI decisions with real-time data exchange
  • Helps drive higher EOI completion rates1
For employees:
  • A single source of truth
  • Simplified EOI applications process is designed to reduce inquiries regarding demographics and elections

1 Based on the observed results, such as The Motley Fool case study. Individual employer outcomes may vary depending on historical completion rates and employee engagement.

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Overview

Employee Navigator’s AI Plan Build functionality pairs with Lincoln’s “Employee Navigator Plan Build Guide” to help create a faster workflow for building benefit plans with higher accuracy.

Key benefits for plan builders

  • Helps to significantly reduce plan setup time
  • Automates complex building tasks
  • Enables users to build multiple benefit plans concurrently

More than just an API solution

LincSmart® is a smarter way to approach human resource challenges.

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Data exchange efficiencies

Plan setup and mapping are made easier. A specialized Employee Navigator team does the work for you. To help verify accuracy, our quality assurance team reviews the plan builds to support data consistency when you need it. Additionally, they complete the data mapping for EDI files on behalf of the broker.

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Plan building tools

Access to tools that support building Lincoln products and empower benefit decisions, including:

  • Plan Build Guide
    Provides step-by-step guidance for building Lincoln plans
  • Engagement Guide
    A guide for brokers to create an enrollment experience that empowers employees to make benefits decisions
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Simplified billing solution

Simplify monthly invoicing with Employee Navigator’s self-billing reports. Lincoln accepts Employee Navigator’s reports in place of our standard self-bill template to make it easy to remit premium.

Explore other connections powered by LincSmart®

Our LincSmart® connections share the same passion for solutions and technology that we do. Together, our goal is a quality integration with your existing systems and to make your processes as easy as possible.

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Employer solutions

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Broker solutions

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Retirement solutions

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