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How It Works

Canvas makes it easy to publish custom software applications for your phone. These apps are great for collecting real-time information critical to your business or personal productivity. When you use Canvas mobile apps, you’ll reduce your reliance on paper, and you’ll eliminate redundant data entry and excess process for your employees and customers. Our software service is comprehensive, empowering you to share information, create connections, and grow your business.

How It Works In a 3 Minute Nutshell

Free Trial

When you click the Get App button, you’ll be asked to sign up for a 30 day free trial. The Canvas web site is always free to use. If you want to continue using the mobile app at the end of 30 days, you can choose one of our service plans.

Android, BlackBerry, Windows Phones and Netbooks

You can use your app on any BlackBerry model. Here we’re booking a sales order on a BlackBerry Tour. You can take pictures with this app, too. Canvas also works on any Windows phone or mobile computer. Windows phones give you touch screens for signature capture or drawings. Barcode scanners like the Motorola MC75 are great for collecting a lot of data, and they are really durable. Have a new Droid? Our apps run on Google phones, too. Pretty cool, huh?

Customizing Your Apps

If you need one of our apps to do something different, you can change it yourself with your web browser. You don’t need expensive programmers. With Canvas you are empowered to modify or create as many mobile apps as you want. And it doesn’t cost you anything but a few minutes of your time. On average, our customers find they can publish a new mobile app in 15 minutes. To learn more about how to customize apps from our store or build your own apps from scratch, watch our 25 minute video tutorial. The tutorial will walk you through publishing a sales order app from start to finish.

Web Reporting and Hosting

Canvas gives you an end-to-end solution. Once you collect information with your Smartphone or barcode scanner, the information is stored in a secure database on our servers. You can use our web site to configure charts and graphs for dynamic, real-time web reporting.

You can organize your web reports in a dashboard for easy viewing. Columns, lines and pie charts are supported today, and we’re continually adding new web reporting features. That’s one of the benefits of a software service like Canvas. You get a software update pretty much every month, and you never have to worry about maintenance contracts, data centers, or installing software. All of the support, software updates, hosting, systems administration and network bandwidth you need are included in your service plan.

Sharing Data

Chances are, you’ll want to use information from your mobile apps in other ways. You can easily export your data to a file that you can view and edit in Excel. You can also use this file to integrate Canvas with other software systems. If you want to integrate mobile information in real time, you can get your data via web services and XML. Here’s an example of one of our partner’s apps getting expense reports from Canvas and putting it into QuickBooks. The beautiful thing about Canvas is that you can make adjustments to the app so that it works with your own chart of accounts in QuickBooks. That’s right. No programming necessary, either.

PDF Routing and Electronic Document Management

To make connections with your customers, employees and partners, you need to share information. Every time you use a Canvas mobile app, you can automatically send a PDF to whomever you want – in real time. No waiting to get back to the office. It happens wherever you are, whenever you want.

Service Plans

We founded our business to make mobile apps easy and affordable for every company and mobile professional. Our base price is $.50 for each form you submit from your mobile app. You pay only for what you use. If you process a lot of transactions, we have monthly and annual plans that give you unlimited use. When you consider the cost of paper, postage, and administrative labor to process and store documents, Canvas really is less than the cost of the paper it replaces. Check out our paper meter to see what you’re saving with every transaction, then consider the added value of the new connections and efficiencies you gain with Canvas.

Help and Support

So that’s how it works in a nutshell. Get one of the apps from our library and try it out. If you get stuck or need guidance, click “How It Works” for a video tutorial or “Help” for more support. Thanks for trying Canvas. We look forward to making connections with you.