Paper Forms Verses Electronic Forms.
- Paper forms are often submitted with missing information.
- Considerable time can be wasted in the office as staff try to contact the submitter to complete missing data.
- Handwriting on the paper forms is often hard to interpret.
- Paper forms are easily misplaced, lost or damaged.
- Paper forms can not effectively provide you with a list of all possible correct answers.
- Paper forms do not provide you with the ability to query all records in a list.
- Electronic forms can provide you with “pick lists” or “drop down” menus that limit your answers to only valid ones.
- Electronic forms that are tied to a database on your handheld PDA, can enable you to “look-up” lists and databases with product listings and product attributes that will automatically fill in the electronic form.
- Electronic forms can compute maths, invoice totals, elasped time on a project, mileage, square feet, and much more.
- Electronic forms provide GPS coordinates, RFID reading, bar code scanning, digital images, CAD drawings, etc.
