ABSTRACT

This study focused on designing a Web-Based Loan Management System (LMS), which would assist the microfinance institution (Pride Microfinance Limited) to keep records of its clients which can be accessed wherever and whenever needed. The LMS developed during the study, stores records in a web-database and also allows online updates of the web application. An investigation was carried out to establish how the existing system functions regarding the problems at hand in addition to the way forward.

To help in investigation, the interview and observation were used in fact finding. The system design used the three-tier client server architecture to implement the inference mechanism while database component was implemented using NIP programming language and MySQL, a Relational Database Management System. The user interface was implemented using HTML and PEP. The LMS helps users (loans officers) to store, read, update, modify~’ and delete loan data. The development used the Waterfall Model under the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC).