It’s a new year and a new age. The time to switch to mobile forms from paper forms is here. If you haven’t mobilized your business processes onto smartphones and tablets, then your competition is most likely gaining the upper hand.
Still, some businesses are apprehensive when it comes to leaving the comfort of paper forms. Ironically, mobile forms provide a much more streamlined and pleasant form-filling experience. But we understand that it can still feel like a leap of faith.
Here’s why you should trust making the switch to mobile forms:
1. More secure – Paper forms can be damaged or misplaced, thus putting critical information at risk. Mobile forms are completed within the App on a device and then immediately submitted to the appropriate secure company destination (back office system, cloud storage service, etc).
2. Added proof-of-work – While information contained within a paper form can be disputed
with relative ease by a customer, mobile form information cannot. Each submitted mobile form contains both a GPS and time stamp, providing the ability to accurately audit work done in the field.
3. Better form captures – In addition to being able to capture a digital signature, mobile forms can also capture barcodes and photos, providing heightened job site detail that a paper form could never supply.
4. More accurate – Human error is lessened with mobile form features such aslookup tables that are tied to updated back office information (such as customer or parts information), ensuring that forms are filled in as accurately as possible.
5. Increased worker accountability – With the ability to analyze and report on the productivity of each field worker in no time, deploying mobile forms as part of any business process is an absolute necessity.
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