Steps to Reduce Data Entry Errors

Steps to Reduce Data Entry Errors

Data entry roles have existed since the late 1800s. Since then, small businesses and large corporations alike have struggled to maintain data accuracy. While human error is understandable and somewhat unavoidable, they are also costly. In fact, there’s a rule for this. It’s called the 1-10-100 rule. 

Here’s what it means: It costs companies $1 to verify data after it’s entered into a company’s system, $10 to clean each data error afterward, and $100 if the error goes unnoticed.  

Since human-derived data entry errors are likely to occur at some point, you can expect your company to waste a lot of resources to fix data entry problems or deal with the consequences of unnoticed mistakes. With that in mind, you can take a few steps to reduce common data entry errors. They include: 

  1. Avoid having an understaffed workforce.
  2. Setting and modeling high standards for all employees.
  3. Data validation.
  4. Introducing process controls.
  5. Creating streamlined processes.
  6. Eliminating redundancies.
  7. Utilizing technology to automate specific (if not all) data entry tasks.

Learn more about each step below. 

Estimates suggest the typical data entry error rate is between 1% and 4%. These numbers seem small and inconsequential. However, transcription errors, transposition errors, and unit/representation inconsistencies at these rates over a period of time can be incredibly costly to your business. 

These are just data entry error estimates for the typical employee. One can surmise the rate is exponentially higher for overworked employees in understaffed departments. With that in mind, keeping your data entry team adequately staffed, trained, and equipped with the right tools is in your best interest. 

Employees involved in the data entry process who are held to high standards are likelier to achieve incredible results. With that in mind, employers should set lofty yet achievable error rate goals. In doing so, you develop a new standard, build a strong culture, and reduce careless errors. 

One way to incentivize error-free data entry is to offer performance-based perks for outstanding work (i.e., more paid time off, gift cards, monetary raises, promotions, etc.). Generally, higher standards should go beyond the data entry team. They should permeate throughout the organization. 

Suppose an employee enters data accurately according to their source, but the source is invalid or of poor quality. In that case, it still counts as a data entry error, which means that sooner or later, your company will have to pay to correct it. One of the simplest methods to avoid this type of mistake is to check the accuracy and quality of a data source (i.e., data validation or data cleaning) before passing it to the data entry team. 

Depending on the potential impact of errors on a particular data set, it can be beneficial to introduce process controls for specific data entry tasks. Process controls can include having two people enter the same data (i.e., double key data entry) or hiring another employee to conduct a ‘second level check’ after the data is entered. These types of process controls can significantly reduce human error. However, hiring two people to do the same job can also be costly. 

Perhaps one of the best methods to reduce data entry errors is to utilize technology to automate the data entry process. In doing so, you can eliminate human errors caused by inattention, boredom, fatigue, etc. By automating specific data entry tasks, you free up your human resources to tackle other pressing functions within the organization while eliminating most data entry errors. 

How Can Data Entry Errors Be Reduced? 

Reduced or eliminated data entry errors means more money to reinvest into the business, less confusion, and more profits. In addition to the steps listed above, you can do the following to help reduce data entry errors within your organization: 

  • Conduct pre-validation checks.
  • Cultivate a stress-free and distraction-free work environment for data entry employees.
  • Hire employees with a personality profile that fits the role.
  • Update your data collection software.
  • Never stop optimizing the data entry process.
  • Conduct regular training about the importance of accurate data and how it affects the company’s bottom line.

Process errors can be just as devastating to a company’s bottom line as data entry errors. With that in mind, you can significantly reduce unnecessary process errors by taking the following steps: 

  • Identify tasks that are prone to human error. 
  • Consider automating certain tasks. 
  • Reduce data set redundancies. 
  • Conduct regular data audits to instill accountability among employees.
  • Ensure that multiple qualified employees have access to datasets. 
  • Encourage employees to speak out about process issues. 
  • Take fast action as soon as you notice fixable process errors. 

GoCanvas – Reduce Manual Data Entry Tasks & Automate Your Forms 

Manually capturing and entering data is expensive, time-consuming, and in many cases, a misappropriation of employee talent. Automated GoCanvas data entry apps can help your company increase productivity by 20%, save thousands of dollars, and capture job site data in real-time so you can take immediate action to improve workplace efficiency. 
Our automated data entry forms have boundless integration possibilities, reduce paperwork, and eliminate data entry errors. Try GoCanvas automated data entry forms today for free – no credit card required. 

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Create Your Own QR and Bar code Scanning in GoCanvas for iOS and Android Devices

Create Your Own QR and Bar code Scanning in GoCanvas for iOS and Android Devices

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When it comes to your business, productivity is key. A QR and barcode scanning option can make life a lot easier for you and your employees by streamlining work orders, tracking inventory, and much more.

Our scanning technology has been a popular feature for many types of industries such as the construction industry, the service industry, the petroleum industry, the transportation sector, and the energy sector. Here’s how some our customers have utilized QR and barcode scanning to fulfill their business’ needs:

  • Inspections
  • Work Orders
  • Timecards
  • Daily-Weekly Reports

GoCanvas offers, for FREE, the ability to add Barcode & QR code scanning to any of your GoCanvas mobile forms. Retail, warehousing, field services, manufacturing and other businesses reap productivity benefits in using QR and barcode scanning including: 

  • Error Reduction: Scanning data is much more accurate than having users manually enter data.
  • Time Savings: Scanning dramatically reduces the time your employees spend gathering information, especially when doing inventory.
  • Elimination of Paper: GoCanvas mobile forms store all of your data in the cloud, eliminating the need for paper records.
  • Improved Customer Service: By speeding up work order and inventory processes, you can improve your customer service.

Here are the steps to add QR and barcode scanning functionality to your GoCanvas forms.

  1.  Log on to the GoCanvas website and open the forma you wish to use.
  2.  Add a QR/Barcode field to the screen within the form where you would like to use this feature.
  3.  Name the QR/Barcode field whatever you like, “Scan Barcode,”; and press the “Enter” key.
  4.  Make sure to press “publish to device” to make your changes live on your smartphone or iOS device.

The good news? Your mobile device already has a built-in barcode and QR code scanner/QR and barcode reader, which is (the camera app) so, you don’t need to download any software.

Once the desired form has the QR and barcode field(s) added, you are ready to move on to your smartphone or tablet and start using this functionality.

On your device, you will launch and log in to the GoCanvas client as usual and then launch the form you just added the QR or barcode field to. You will now see the text “Capture Barcode” below the barcode field.

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Click the “Capture Barcode” button

  • You will now see a green square in the center of the screen.
  • Line up the product’s barcode or QR code within the square to capture.
  • The square will turn green or red (depending on the device) and the code will be captured like taking a picture. You don’t have to do anything more than line up the code within the box and wait for it to capture.
  • Once the code has been captured you will see the screen go back to your GoCanvas form and the Barcode field will be populated with the code.

You can supercharge your application by having your code pull up a product catalog, price, patient record, location history, or anything at all. Learn more about this feature and info on using QR or Barcode scanning with Reference Data.

Scan QR codes and barcodes in real-time and save the hassle of manually inputting information. The GoCanvas QR and barcode scanner functionality integrates with your existing mobile forms and applications to make data collection faster and more accurate. You can also use our code scanner for all types of QR and barcode formats for inventory management, asset tracking, timekeeping, customer check-in, and more! GoCanvas forms are available on iPhones and Android phones and our solution can be found in Google Play, Amazon, and Apple app stores. Learn more about setting up your own QR codes and barcode functionality today.

If you have any issues or need assistance setting up this or any of our features please don’t hesitate to contact us.

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5 Best Practices for Small Business Data Collection

5 Best Practices for Small Business Data Collection

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Data collection is critical for any small business. The data you collect can help you make better decisions about your customers, your marketing strategy, and even your overall business strategy. But collecting data can be a challenge, especially for small businesses.

No matter what industry or niche you’re in, one of the things that can make or break you is how you handle data collection. There are many different types of data collection such as survey questions, demographics questionnaires, customer data, web analytics, and more. The important thing is that you have a system in place to collect this data so you can use it to improve your business.

Failing to follow the best practices for data collection can have serious consequences such as decreased customer satisfaction, lower data quality, and even legal issues. Small businesses should focus on data collection as much, if not more, than bigger businesses because they don’t have the same resources to fall back on. A big business might be ok with losing a few invoices a month and can get by losing $10,000 in potential revenue. But can you afford to?

Here are a few best practices for small businesses to follow for successful data collection:

There are many different methods of data collection, but the most important thing is to have a process in place. Whether you’re just getting started with your data collection efforts or refocusing them, this process should be repeatable and scale-able so that as you grow, you’re not having to reinvent the wheel each month.

There are many aspects to consider when creating your process for data collection such as:

  • How will you collect the data?
  • Who will be responsible for collecting the data?
  • When will the data be collected?
  • How often will the data be collected?
  • What format will the data be collected in?

Avoiding time-consuming and costly mistakes is essential for small businesses. Defining the data set you need and how you will collect it from the outset will help save time and money down the line.

Data integrity is essential for small businesses. This means that the data you collect needs to be accurate and consistent. There are a few ways to ensure this:

  • Use the same method of data collection each time: This could be surveys, customer feedback forms, web analytics, or something else.
  • Create a data dictionary: This is a reference tool that defines all of the data points you’re collecting and how they should be used. This is especially helpful if you have multiple team members responsible for data collection.
  • Use templates: Templates help to ensure that the data is collected in a consistent format. This makes it easier to analyze and use later on.

Stick to a time frame: Timing is everything when it comes to data collection. Make sure you’re collecting data at the same time each day, week, or month. This will help you spot trends over time.

Being consistent with your data collection methods is crucial so you can track efforts over time and have the ability to make business decisions based on insights you’re discovering.

It is important for small businesses to collect data and have a secure place to store it. You are probably collecting various types of information from your customers, partners, and employees, in addition to the data you track about your own business. Make sure you’re storing this securely. At GoCanvas, we help our clients store their data securely in the cloud, so there’s no need to worry about file cabinets or physical storage space.

Another best practice for small business data collection is to make it as simple as possible for your workforce and/or your customers to get you the information you’re looking for. No one wants to fill out a 20-question survey, so try to keep things short and sweet. You can also use incentives to encourage participation in surveys or feedback forms.

Instead of asking people to fill out any paper forms at all, why not use online surveys to collect this information? You’ll get your raw data back in real-time quickly and securely, and you won’t have to deal with terrible handwriting, torn pages, or completely lost forms. Watch this video about how GoCanvas can help you go paperless and mobile with your data collection.

As business owners, it’s important to set time aside to take a step back and evaluate your data collection efforts, as well as the data itself. Ask yourself what’s working and what’s not working in your data collection process. Analytics is one way to gain insight into what is working in your data and what is not.

By using the latest features and technologies (signature capture, integrations, GPS recording, barcode scanning, calculations, etc.) you can improve the quality of your data and make sure it is high-quality.

You might also find that one element of your data collection process is holding you back. Tightening the sales cycle in a small business is incredibly important for growth and sustainability.

Now you can easily modernize the way you are collecting data for your small business. Whether you are looking to improve your data handling processes or advance reporting, we hope you consider using GoCanvas as your data collection tool. Sign up for GoCanvas free and give our platform a try today!

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What is a Purchase Order Form?

What is a Purchase Order Form?

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Purchase order forms are used to record the details of a transaction between a buyer and seller. Purchase orders, often referred to as POs, are used by different types of companies for their documentation and record-keeping purposes. Purchase orders are most commonly used by companies that need to process sales, with use cases that span from the retail industry, wholesale businesses, restaurants, vendors, service providers, and more.

Like other forms of documentation, order forms are designed to include all of the relevant details of the purchase and clarify what’s included with this transaction between the buyer and seller of goods or services. Purchase orders become transactional documents when both parties sign off on the agreement of the sale.

This article covers common ways to create a purchase order form, with examples and templates from GoCanvas to help you simplify the purchase order management process for your business.

Deciding how to create a purchase order form will depend entirely on your business needs. There are many tools available that your business can leverage to create a purchase order form. Here are a few options for creating PO forms:

Paper: The most basic option is simply using a pen and paper form to fill out POs on the job. However, managing paper forms can become complicated when you have a growing business or multiple locations. To solve the challenges of paper forms, many companies are switching to digital tools to simplify and streamline their business operations. 

Word or Excel: For companies starting out in exploring digital options, many look to familiar tools like Excel, Google Sheets, or Word document templates for purchase order forms. While these tools are good for managing your own documents, they can be limited in terms of providing workflow and collaboration tools to manage and share information between multiple people in real-time.

Software and Apps: The best option for companies that need to scale their operations is to consider digital apps and software built for order form management. This category of software provides an easy-to-use system for creating and assigning purchase orders, capturing images and digital signatures, and sharing PDF files in real-time to both the seller and buyer. Going from paper forms to digital software and apps is designed to help companies provide a better service experience, collect payments faster, and maximize productivity by eliminating manual work.

No matter what format you decide on to create your purchase order, there are some common types of information to include on these forms. Here is an example of how to write a purchase order and what to include in your form:

Seller and Buyer details: When writing the purchase order, it should document the basics of the transaction between parties. Including things like the name of merchant, name of purchaser, billing addresses, and similar types of information typically need to be recorded on the PO.

Purchase Order details: When you are writing the purchase order, it should include all of the specifics relevant to the agreement. Many companies will include things like a unique PO #, the shipping terms, a description of items being purchased, the payment method and payment terms, and the date of the PO.

Calculations: A typical format of writing a purchase order will have a table or fields that are used for calculations, with quantities of items, price per item, taxes, and total amount to be billed. Many software tools for purchase order forms will also help by providing automatic calculations to ensure accurate billing every time. 

Images: While much of the purchase order form will be written in text format fields, you may want to include any relevant images that add context to the sales order. This could be branding the document with company logos or even capturing photo images of the items being sold to include along with the order form. 

Signatures: Capturing a signature may be required for the purchase order form. In that case, it can be helpful to have software or apps for PO management to sign off digitally on documents and share the final PDF report when multiple parties have signed off on the agreement.

A purchase order is like a blank canvas and writing a form can be done in whatever way makes the most sense for your business. Starting from scratch though can be difficult, which is why GoCanvas has created a wide range of purchase order templates to get you started. These digital form templates can be customized to fit any business needs, and we have different purchase orders depending on your industry or use case. Using our drag and drop form builder, creating a digital purchase order is simple and doesn’t require any advanced training or help from an IT department. 

Access the simple purchase order form app here on the GoCanvas app store or view a PDF version of the template here. 

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What is HAZOP Analysis?

Reducing workplace hazards as much as possible ensures the health and well-being of your employees, and also prevents the costly repairs, lawsuits, and lost reputation that can come from a safety-related incident. One of the key methods of proactive hazard control is Process Hazard Analysis (PHA). In fact, OSHA finds PHA to be such an important step that it’s required as part of their standards. This article covers one of the components of PHA, Hazard & Operability Analysis (HAZOP) and digital templates you can use for your organization.

Identifying risks means taking a systematic look at the way processes and operations work – both the way they are intended to work and the ways in which they work in practice. A Hazard & Operability Analysis is one way of doing that. During a HAZOP study, your team will break down the process or operation into smaller segments and examine each one for potential hazards. 

The goal of a HAZOP is to discover design and engineering issues that may lead to hazards. These issues are often overlooked during an initial design phase because everything is assumed to go according to plan. By bringing in a multi-disciplinary team, a broader view of the process can be had. Unintended ways in which the process or operation may be performed can be found, and any hidden hazards discovered before they have a chance to cause a catastrophe. 

To understand the concept better, let’s take a look at a simple example. Imagine you have some complex process. Your HAZOP team has broken that process down into many tiny portions, called nodes. Imagine further that one of those nodes involves pumping coolant from a storage tank to a piece of machinery. The team would then identify all the ways in which this process may go wrong. For example:

  • Perhaps the pump stops pumping. What hazards does an overheating machine cause?
  • Maybe the pipe carrying the coolant bursts. Will the escaping coolant burn someone?

These types of questions are asked and answered about every aspect, or node, of the process.

Picking the right people for a HAZOP team is extremely important. In fact, if you pick the wrong people, you may be better off doing no HAZOP analysis at all. The purpose of a HAZOP study is to provide your staff with peace of mind regarding the safety of the process and operations they engage in. Further, HAZOP analysis provides the groundwork for preparing employees for dealing with the potential hazards that are discovered. If the staff performing the HAZOP is incomplete, or isn’t qualified, then everyone will be ill-prepared for potential hazards and have a false sense of security while on the job.

Therefore, it’s important that the team you assemble to conduct a HAZOP study is well-qualified in their particular area of expertise. However, it’s equally important that you bring in people from a variety of disciplines. The strength of a HAZOP study comes from being able to view the process outside of the bounds in which it was designed. This requires as many perspectives as possible. 

Once you’ve assembled your team and determined which process or operation they’ll be conducting their HAZOP study on, the process itself is straightforward and highly systematic. The team should conduct their study by following the six steps listed below:

Each part of the system should be broken down into the smallest possible component. Each of these components, or nodes, should then be examined individually. Performing the study in this way ensures that all aspects of the system will get a thorough review.

Guide words are the heart of a HAZOP study. For each of the guide words listed below, think of how it may apply to the node of the process being studied. In order to do this effectively, the parameters of the node should be determined and compared to the list of guide words. Custom guide words may be developed as the team sees fit.

  • No or not – Something is not happening that should be.
  • More – There is more of something than there should be.
  • Less – There is less of something than there should be.
  • As well as – Something else is happening in addition to the intended design: Oil as well as impurities.
  • Part of – Only part of the process is operating as expected.
  • Reverse – A process is behaving opposite of what is expected.
  • Other than – A substitution has occurred: Something other than oil in the system.
  • Early – A part of the process arrives or finishes early.
  • Late – A part of the process arrives or finishes late.
  • Before – A part of the process arrives or finishes before another one.
  • After – A part of the process arrives or finishes after another one.

By applying the guide words to all of the parameters of a node of operations, your team will have identified the ways the parameters may be off. Now, they must brainstorm to determine all of the conditions that could lead to these parameters behaving incorrectly. By doing so, they’ll have identified many of the ways that hazards can develop. 

For each of the causes in the previous step, the team should figure out what the consequences of those causes are. This is an important part of determining exactly what safety hazards are presented by the problems. 

For any consequence that presents a safety hazard, the team should determine a list of safeguards that can help prevent that hazard from occurring. Additionally, they should come up with a procedure for dealing with those consequences should preventing them not work. 

Finally, the team should assemble a list of safety recommendations based on the safeguards and mitigation procedures that they developed in the last step. This will give management the tools they need to make informed decisions about what changes need to be made to the processes, operations, and training surrounding them. 

Using paper forms is time-consuming, error prone, and makes it difficult to quickly distribute the results to everyone who needs them. Companies are going digital with their operations, leveraging tools like GoCanvas Safety  that is built to meet the complex needs of hazard management. Data entered into the mobile app becomes immediately available and can be presented in an easy-to-understand dashboard. The software allows you to examine key metrics from the data to determine trends and gain insights that will let you find and address hazards more quickly. By digitizing your safety management programs, you help ensure that your business stays compliant with rules and regulations in your industry.

Built-in to GoCanvas Safety is a set of templates that will make your hazard identification studies more streamlined and thorough than ever before. This includes not only templates for HAZOP, but for a wide range of hazard identification use cases. These tools and templates make specialized hazard and safety software a must-have for any operation that wants to maximize its hazard-reduction efforts.  Follow this link to access the HAZOP form template and get started today with a free trial of GoCanvas to see how it works.

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Investing in Mobile Form Builders: How to Calculate the ROI

Investing in Mobile Form Builders: How to Calculate the ROI

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If you are thinking about investing in a , it’s important to understand what that means for your business and the potential return on investment (ROI). Form builders help field service companies to digitize their processes and improve workflows between the field and office. Simple, yet powerful software built for the field can become your competitive advantage, with a digital experience for customers and tools to improve productivity for your employees. This article will cover some of the types of questions to ask yourself to understand the potential ROI that can be achieved through direct cost savings, productivity gains, and much more. You can also access our free ROI calculator here, that shows you the impact of GoCanvas on key business outcomes.

While calculating return on investment is a fairly simple calculation, there can be some nuance to understand the different ways software impacts your business outcomes. The basic concept of ROI calculations is to understand the cost savings or revenue growth achieved when implementing software, minus the cost of the initial investment. The difference is your return on investment and it helps provide justification for the time, effort, and money spent on building out these business processes. With most form builders and field service management software, there is a clear return on investment in the form of cost savings, productivity gains, and competitive advantage by going digital over paper. While each business is unique, here are some helpful questions and categories to consider:

Starting with the number of employees you have is important for understanding your ROI calculation. For example, if you only have two employees that are managing your operations, the calculation will be very different than if you have one hundred employees. As a company scales its growth, it becomes a larger impact to implement form builders and software built for the field to help eliminate manual processes. Manual processes on a smaller scale are manageable, but become increasingly difficult as your business grows.

It’s often overlooked, but the direct cost of paper can be more than you think. You should consider things like how many paper forms are filled out by employees each day and what are the costs per form. This will allow you to calculate the direct cost of paper spent on a daily basis, so you can get a true cost of your paper processes. GoCanvas is often priced below what a typical company spends on buying paper forms, not to mention the impact that office paper has on the environment.

Do your employees spend time traveling between the field and office to manage paperwork? If so, then you could be losing valuable employee time that can add up into a significant cost to your business. To calculate the total daily cost of form delivery, you can multiply the number of hours per day spent delivering forms by the average hourly wage for a field technician. Form delivery is often one of the most expensive components of paperwork and manual processes. Going digital allows employees to upload their documentation instantly to the cloud, giving real-time visibility into operations and reducing the need for travel time.

Another cost that is often overlooked and difficult to calculate is the time employees spend in the office to manage paperwork and perform manual data entry. To calculate the total daily cost of manual data entry, you can multiply the hourly pay of office administrators by the number of hours per day employees spend  entering paperwork into your back office or accessing paper based forms.

By pushing data collected from field service management software to your other back office software tools, you can eliminate these very manual processes of data entry and paper form collection. Don’t forget the cost of hard to read paperwork, or even having to pull that paperwork afterwards to confirm information. Rework is often another culprit when it comes to dealing with manual processes that are a drain on productivity.

Form builders like GoCanvas can help you to eliminate the time spent tracking down missing or incomplete information and trying to decipher handwritten data and information. Understanding the daily cost of fixing errors and tracking down information is an important consideration. Be sure to ask yourself how many hours a day are spent by your data entry specialist tracking down info and/or fixing errors. While this may be hard to calculate, having an estimate is a useful measure for understanding how employees on average are spending their time fixing problematic paperwork.

Form builders like GoCanvas will save you a large percentage of the time spent doing manual calculations and looking up data that would normally have been in paper-based customer lists, product catalogs and price lists. Be sure to calculate how many hours per day are spent by each of your mobile workers looking up information. For examples this could be in Parts Catalogs, Patient Files, Price Books, Tax Lists, Delivery Schedules, and more. This will allow you to better understand the total daily time savings by switching from paper forms to a digital form builder like GoCanvas.

GoCanvas will save you a large percentage of the time spent doing manual calculations and looking up data that would normally have been in paper-based customer lists, product catalogs and price lists.

Many businesses that lose important documents like work orders and invoices have to write these costs off. Software can help you to eliminate this issue and helps you recoup this lost revenue. For example, how much business do you write off because of lost, damaged or illegible paperwork each week? While this may be harder for you to calculate, having an estimate of the write-offs that happen while on the job can help you get an idea of lost opportunities that can be avoided with better processes.

In addition to helping organizations recoup lost revenue and save time, tools like GoCanvas enable businesses to realize a variety of soft savings that may or may not be able to be directly measured, but can be extremely valuable. Here are some key considerations:

  • Are efforts to improve your company’s going green initiatives important to you and your company?
  • Is the ability to access real time data from the field important to you or your company?
  • Field service software does the math for your workers, eliminating errors. Is this important to you and your company?
  • Technology can collect information not possible on paper (e.g., the actual time of events, GPS locations, photos, payment capture) and give you advanced functionality to Dispatch forms to employees and improve collaboration. Are these features important to you and your company? 

Now that you have an understanding of what factors go into calculating the business impact of software built for the field, be sure to fill out our free online calculator to see the potential ROI of GoCanvas. You can also reach out to our team at any time and we can walk you through the ways GoCanvas can make an impact for your business growth.

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Timesheet Forms: Why Going Digital is Better than Paper

Timesheet Forms: Why Going Digital is Better than Paper

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Timesheet forms are commonly built out using simple tools like Microsoft Word or PDF files that are printed out on paper for employees to record their hours worked. While this may seem like a simple solution for timekeeping, there are several key drawbacks that make paper timesheet forms less desirable for business operations. Continue reading for the top reasons to digitize your timesheet forms, rather than using paper time cards and sheets in Microsoft Word Documents or PDF files. 

Digital timesheet forms can be used as an alternative to paper forms and provide an option for employees to fill them out on a mobile device, PC, or tablet from anywhere with no internet connection required. Keep reading to learn the key difference between paper and digital forms for timesheet cards.

Timesheet forms using paper are known to be error prone. A common scenario is for employees to fill out their hours on a paper form, but then an error is discovered later by an office manager or administrator. In the worst case scenario, errors can lead to improper payments to employees or incorrect billing amounts to clients. Even if errors are identified early on, the best case scenario is that employees have to track down employees and spend the extra time and effort to correct these mistakes. In either case, errors can be costly for productivity and can lead to accounting mistakes that you do not want to happen as a business owner or manager. 

What causes errors to happen on timesheet forms?

There are many things that can go wrong with a timesheet form that is filled out by hand using paper. Here are some of the most common mistakes made by employees:

  • Calculation errors. Mistakes that happen when math is incorrect or numbers are filled out incorrectly.
  • Missing or incorrect fields. Many times employers need to require information in a timecard, like category of work performed or client to bill. If information is missing or incorrect, it creates additional work to track down and correct.
  • Buddy punching. While most mistakes on timesheets are purely accidental, buddy punching is a form of misleading hours worked. This most often happens when employees clock in or out early to cover for fellow team members, creating errors in the true number of hours worked.
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How do digital timesheet forms reduce errors?

No matter the cause of errors on timesheets, it’s important to limit these issues to ensure that proper data is being used for accounting purposes. Here is how digital timesheets help to ensure errors are avoided:

  • Automatic calculations. With digital timesheet forms, the software system is able to handle automatic calculations that ensure hours worked and labor rates are calculated correctly every time.
  • Standardized fields. With digital time card forms, data is collected in a standardized way to ensure that fields are correctly filled out by employees. Drop down lists, required fields, and other features allow you to control what data is collected and ensure accurate timesheets the first time.
  • Unique login and digital signatures. With a unique login to digital timesheets, you ensure that employees are clocking in their time accurately and signing off with their own digital signature to send for manager approval. Some timecards can even use GPS tracking on the mobile device for an added measure that work has been performed on site for a set number of hours and logged digitally using GPS.

At the end of the day, technology provides many benefits for employers and timesheets performed digitally are less error-prone compared to paper forms for time cards.

It’s very difficult to keep track of paperwork over time. It’s common for paperwork to be lost entirely or misplaced by staff. Even if paperwork isn’t lost, it can become an added cost to store in filing cabinets, on top of the direct cost of printing the paper in the first place. Although paperwork seems to be a low cost solution, the hidden costs over time can be quite high for a business. Lost paper timesheet forms can be a headache to manage, whereas digital forms simplify the process and bring information automatically to the cloud.

Here’s how digital timesheet forms ensure information is never lost:

  • Cloud storage. Digital timesheets are automatically saved to the cloud, meaning your employees can input hours from a mobile app and have it available in real-time to the cloud.
  • No internet connection required. Many businesses today that have contract or hourly workers are doing jobs out in the field or in remote locations. Digital forms do not require an internet connection, allowing employees to input their data into the app and have it sync whenever they are back on WiFi or cell service becomes available.
  • Automated data sharing. Data can be synced with other apps your business uses like Dropbox, Google Drive, Quickbooks, and much more. This ensures data is accessible in all of the tools you already use today and automatically synced to reduce manual work.

Paper timesheet forms create manual work, whether that happens because of an error or due to manual data entry that is required to get accounting or billing processed. Going digital helps to streamline the timesheet process, both for employees and operation teams. Contact the GoCanvas team to learn more about digital timesheet forms or sign up for a free trial to see how easy it is to digitize your forms.

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What is the Best Software to Create Forms?

What is the Best Software to Create Forms?

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There are many software solutions available to help your business create forms. Forms are used to capture data for a specific business purpose. Deciding on the best software for your business will require you to examine what features and functionality you need to accomplish your desired outcome. Software for creating forms should be both simple and powerful enough to help you capture all types of information needed. This article covers some of the top considerations when selecting the best software to create forms for your business.

The basic purpose of creating forms is to collect data. When deciding on a platform for creating forms, consider how data is captured, stored, and made available for reporting. 

All form builders are designed to capture data. But there are some important distinctions to make and not all form builders are created equal.

Understand how data is captured from users. You will want to determine how you need to collect data from your employees, customers, or partners. For example, if your teams largely operate in the field, having mobile forms will be required to capture data from a tablet or phone. You may also want the ability to collect data offline when in remote locations and have it sync to the cloud when WiFi becomes available. Knowing how you plan to collect data will help you determine what software solutions and features are needed to support your use case.

Consider what types of form fields are needed. You will want to understand the types of fields that can be used when creating forms. For example, some software solutions will allow you to build custom form fields like:

  • Image capture for users to upload a photo
  • GPS capture to log the location of the submission
  • Signatures to document agreements and records
  • Calculations for automatically performing math based on form fields
  • Barcode scanning for equipment or inventory
  • Drop down and multiple choice fields
  • Required fields to ensure accurate data collection

Balance ease-of-use and customization. Most businesses need forms to be customizable, yet easy to use. Some of the basic form solutions are easy enough to use, but fall short when it comes to making customizations to the forms. Best-in-class solutions today are designed with a drag-and-drop interface that allows you to quickly and easily develop mobile forms for data capture. Having the ability to make customizations (without requiring help from developers) empowers your team to move faster.

It’s important to understand how your business needs to use the data once it’s captured in the forms. For example, you may want need to integrate with:

  • Cloud storage and databases
  • Accounting systems to process payroll
  • Finance systems to process billing
  • CRM systems to access customer data
  • Other similar types of cloud-based systems

Syncing data between systems can improve data quality, reduce manual work, and enable data insights. As you evaluate technology, make sure to inquire about the types of integrations available. Some will be simple data connectors, while others may require a webservices API to connect your data. 

While there may be some upfront work involved to get your data integrated, there can be significant time savings in the future achieved through a connected data ecosystem.

Data analytics provide a way for your company to look for business trends and patterns. Identifying trends allows your business to take the appropriate next step and address any concerns or opportunities.

Capturing data through forms should enable and promote data analytics. This allows business leaders to dig into the data to better understand project performance, financials, and opportunities to drive business growth. 

Best-in-class form builders should allow you to both capture data and use that information for analytics and reporting. Make sure to understand how data captured can be used for analytics, so you can take advantage of the opportunity to leverage data to inform business decisions.

It goes without saying that apps and software should have the highest level of security and data privacy. The technology should be secure and enable compliance with any applicable regulations. 

For example, your business may need to be HIPPA compliant if you are processing medical information. Or maybe you may need to be GDPR compliant if you are processing and storing customer data. Best-in-class solutions will have the highest level of security and compliance, helping to ensure that your organization is following best practices for data security. 

The best software for your business will prioritize the data needs of your organization. This will ensure that you capture accurate information, integrate data into your processes, and share data to any one that needs it.

GoCanvas is a mobile platform that makes it simple for any business to automate how work is done, replacing outdated processes and expensive paperwork. The GoCanvas App works on all smartphones and tablets, helping companies easily collect information across their organization, share it instantly with others and gain real-time insights on their business operations.

About GoCanvas

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What to Look for in a Mobile Form Builder

What to Look for in a Mobile Form Builder

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Finding the right form builder for your business is an important decision. Today’s form builders are offered as cloud-based solutions, where you can login to the platform online and start building forms to be deployed on a mobile app or web browser.

There are limitless ways companies can use forms for their business. 

Most often forms are used to collect information from different groups of employees in the field or on a job site. Common examples include things like work orders, inspections, timesheets, estimates, reports, invoices, and more. Forms can be used anytime you need to collect and share information between your field teams, office staff, management, customers, partners, and other key stakeholders for your business.

So what should you look for when selecting a mobile form builder? The answer to that question will entirely depend on your business needs. This article will cover some of the top considerations when selecting a mobile form builder, so you can make an informed decision. 

Ease-of-use is an important factor for growing businesses. You don’t want to invest in software and have a difficult experience making it successful or finding out later that the user experience makes it difficult to gain adoption.

So what makes a form builder easy to use?

No Code or Low Code. 

A no code or low code form builder essentially means that you do not need to dedicate development resources to deploy the forms. The form builder will use drag and drop functionality and you can develop forms and apps without any advanced technical knowledge required.

This feature is incredibly important for how businesses work today. Tools for the workforce should be designed with simplicity in mind, so that anyone can pick them up and start using them right away. While it may be helpful to involve IT in the process, you shouldn’t have to rely heavily on development resources in order to use a form builder. 

Simplicity in the Field.

While the no code form builder makes it easy for office staff and managers to build the forms, it also needs to be as simple as possible for field teams. When implementing a new technology, a common fear is that teams in the field will fail to adopt the technology. That’s why the mobile form technology needs to be simple, so it makes the job easier for anyone that needs to complete the forms.

Consider features like integrating the form builder into your CRM or databases, so that customer records or project information is automatically pulled in real time to the forms. This auto populates form fields with information that is already known like customer information, parts, cost codes, and anything else that your teams may need to reference to complete the form.

Your mobile form builder should be easier and faster for employees, saving them time from manual processes and workflows. Consider how your form builder solution prioritizes time savings and efficiencies for crews in the field, as this can lead to greater adoption of the tools.

Customization.

When thinking about ease of use, another important consideration is customization. Some form builders can be difficult to customize, or they are built for very specific use cases that make it limited in the scope of what you can do with the platform. A highly customizable form builder will ensure that you can easily customize the forms to fit a wide range of potential use cases that your business will need, both now and in the future. 

Best in class form builders will offer this level of customization, while maintaining the simplicity and ease of use that your business needs to fit into your existing workflows.

Lack of data insights is one of the main reasons companies choose to eliminate paper forms and move to digital form builders. With paper forms, information is not available in real-time and data is collected in ways that are inconsistent and difficult to report on.

It’s important that your business finds a form builder that promotes best practices for data collection and reporting. These insights can lead to better outcomes, including opportunities to lower costs, increase revenue, and improve the customer experience.

So how can a form builder help your company improve its data processes?

Standardized forms.

When thinking about how your business collects data, the form builder should empower you to collect consistent and accurate data from the field in real-time. Things like required fields can help to ensure information is not left missing and things like drop down lists can help to ensure the right format is submitted for data. 

Analytics and Reporting.

With best practices in place for data capture, your business will have clean data that is available in real-time. Your form builder should also give you the ability to run and share reports automatically with anyone that needs to view the information. You should also have the option to run more advanced analytics to spot trends and patterns in the data that’s being collected. Taking this data-driven mindset can have a profound impact on your operations.

Data Integrations

As discussed earlier in the article, data integrations can be an important part of the form builder solution. Not just to enrich form submissions, but also to ensure that data is synced automatically between your different cloud-based platforms. It’s likely that the form field data collected can be useful for payroll and accounting purposes, or you need the information to sync with other databases that your team uses internally. 

 All of this is possible with a best-in-class form builder that sets your business up to collect, report on, and distribute data to help your organization become more data-driven.

When implementing any new technology for business, it’s always important to understand the time-to-value for your organization. When selecting a mobile form builder, you should seek to gain an understanding of the types of results companies similar to yours have seen with the form builder. 

Other factors that impact your value and adoption of the platform are things like customer success resources that can be made available to your organization, as well as support channels and training that is available to help your staff learn and answer questions. Best-in-class mobile form builders will have proven success stories and clearly defined processes for onboarding and implementation to guide your business to achieve its goals. 

With digital transformation projects like implementing a mobile form builder, it’s important to remember the change management component and the resources in place to help your team with successful adoption of the technology. This will ensure that you see a return on investment in a matter of months that justifies the business expense by lowering costs, increasing revenue, and creating a competitive advantage. It’s important to find both the technology and the people to support your move toward digitization.

GoCanvas’s passion is building mobile products that enable businesses to digitize information and be more responsive to their customers. The cloud-based, customizable app works on smartphones and tablets, empowering SMB customers to digitally collect data and realize its value in improving workflow, communications, and operational processes.

GoCanvas is trusted by thousands of businesses throughout 70 countries, automating millions of workplace activities, making it one of the fastest-growing mobile platforms in the world.

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What You Need to Know About OSHA Compliance

What You Need to Know About OSHA Compliance

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Worker safety has long been a priority among employers, workers, unions, and other stakeholders. However, the coronavirus pandemic has brought mainstream attention to this issue and shed light on a largely obscure agency known as OSHA. OSHA stands for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and is an agency in the U.S. Department of Labor responsible for ensuring workplace safety. Established in 1971 as a provision of the federal Occupational Safety and Health Act (the OSH Act) a year earlier, OSHA sets workforce safety standards for private employers and the federal government and conducts training to help employers ensure OSHA compliance.

Despite its half-century history, OSHA’s standards and compliance requirements remain unfamiliar to many employers and even many human resources professionals. Yet noncompliance can not only result in stiff penalties, but compromise worker safety, damage corporate reputations, and elicit expensive litigation.

Broadly, the OSH Act requires certain employers to provide a safe workplace to workers under the parameters of the law and OSHA standards and regulations. Section 5 of the act includes a “general duty clause,” which holds that covered employers must not only provide a safe workplace but must keep abreast with the best safety practices for their industry and establishment. Further, employers must provide personal protective equipment when workers are expected to work in unsafe conditions.

OSHA may act under the general duty clause when covered employers know that a correctable hazard exists of which an employer is aware (or should be aware) and which could cause serious harm or death. To ensure employers are aware of what conditions may constitute a correctable and dangerous hazard, OSHA has established many general and industry-specific safety rules and regulations by which employers must abide.

Covered employers must remediate workplace safety deficiencies while continuously working to mitigate new and emerging workplace risks. As per the OSHA website, employers must:

  • “Develop and implement a written hazard communication program and train employees on the hazards they are exposed to and proper precautions.”
  • “Provide safety training in a language, and vocabulary workers can understand.”
  • “Use color codes, posters, labels or signs to warn employees of potential hazards.”
  • “Post, at a prominent location within the workplace, the OSHA poster informing employees of their rights and responsibilities.”
  • “Establish or update operating procedures and communicate them so that employees follow safety and health requirements.”

Section 8 grants OSHA the authority to perform health and safety inspections at any covered employer’s worksite. If a worksite is found to violate OSHA’s health and safety standards, the employer must remediate the violation and may be subject to penalties. Furthermore, the employer must post any OSHA citations where the violation occurred until it has been remediated, or for three working days, whichever is longer.

Section 8 of the OSH Act further establishes a covered employer’s legal reporting responsibilities, mandating employers to keep illness and injury records stemming from incidents that have occurred on-site or as a result of work performed on-site. Employers are further obligated to provide access to employee medical records and injury logs open request. They must also report workplace fatalities or worksite incidents that result in three or more hospitalizations to OSHA within eight hours.

OSHA inspections may be programmed or unprogrammed. Programmed inspections involve randomly selecting several employers to audit within an industry to ensure that their worksites are in compliance. Unprogrammed inspections are typically initiated through employee outreach to the agency. Workers whose employers are covered by the OSH Act may seek an OSHA inspection themselves and participate in any subsequent investigation. (Employers may not retaliate against any worker for exercising these rights as per Section 11(c) of the OSH Act).

OSHA inspectors (or compliance officers) typically perform a good deal of due diligence before coming on site. They usually do not provide advance notice of their inspections, with certain limited exceptions. But when an OSHA inspector does arrive, they will first share with the employer the reason for their arrival during a pre-inspection opening conference.

The inspector will conduct a physical walk-through of the premises, allowing one employer representative to accompany them. The inspector will also review all employee safety notices and training materials, as well as illness and injury records. After these reviews, the OSHA inspector will meet with the employer’s representatives to discuss the inspector’s findings and any necessary corrective measures that must be taken.

If a worksite is found to be out of compliance with OSHA standards, the agency will issue citations and fines. An OSHA citation must be made within six months of the violation’s observed occurrence and will include:

  • The nature of the violation
  • The severity of the violation
  • Penalties for the violation
  • A deadline for corrective action

However, if an inspection has resulted in proposed citations and fines, employers do have the opportunity to meet with the OSHA Area Director for their region. The agency leverages penalties to ensure OSHA compliance more so than for punitive reasons. So if employers without extensive histories of violations are making good faith efforts to remediate safety issues, some leeway concerning penalties and remediation timeframes may be found during such a meeting.

Employers may also appeal any penalties within 15 days of receipt of the violations. Appeals are reviewed by the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission for a final judgment.

OSHA encourages all employers, covered or not, to develop their own workplace safety and health plan that minimally complies with OSHA standards and any relevant state or local-level workplace safety laws or ordinances. Doing so can help covered employers keep workers safe and avoid OSHA violations, penalties, and expensive remediation costs.

Through its national network of OSHA Training Institute Education Centers, the agency also conducts training on various workplace safety issues so that employers can learn how to comply with new OSHA regulations, address emerging hazards, and strengthen their internal programs. Employers can and should take advantage of these training opportunities, as well as participate in OSHA’s On-Site Consultation Program. This program provides small and midsize businesses with free strategic safety advice from OSHA representatives, which can help them avoid accidents, high mediation costs, and OSHA violations at inspection.

An additional advantage of participating in the On-Site Consultation Program is that if an employer is found to have established an exemplary health and safety program, they may be eligible for SHARP certification. SHARP, which stands for Safety & Health Achievement Recognition Program, is a recognition that not only distinguishes an employer from their industry peers. SHARP-certified employers are exempt from being randomly inspected for a programmed inspection for two years.

However, it is important to note that SHARP-certified employers must remain in compliance with all applicable safety standards during their certification period. Employers may still face unprogrammed inspections if an employee reports one or more hazards and reaches out to the agency to request an OSHA inspection.

Employers and employees often believe that OSHA provides additional certification. It does not. However, workers who complete basic worker safety training in specific industries provided by OSHA-authorized trainers may receive an OSHA card certifying completion. These trainings include:

  • Construction (10 or 30 hours)
  • General Industry (10 or 30 hours)
  • Maritime (10 or 30 hours)
  • Disaster Site (15 hours)

Employers who provide their employees access to this training may benefit from a workforce more dedicated to safe practices, identifying and remediating hazards, and lower injury and illness rates.

OSHA’S website also offers training materials covering everything from best practices to training. There’s even a “Safety Pays” program online that can help employers assess the cost savings they will realize by implementing best practices in worker safety at their facilities.

Employers and HR staff should thoroughly review these materials, especially the recordkeeping and reporting requirements, as failing to keep complete records is a frequent source of OSHA violations. The website features the required forms and instructions available for download. However, employers who use these printed forms risk misplacement, illegible entries, or other similar issues garnering them an OSHA citation.

Rather than risking OSHA citations and fines by using paper forms, employers should rely on digitized versions of these forms that can be updated and stored electronically. GoCanvas specializes in creating these forms in use by various employers across industries. Our GoCanvas Safety package provides you with the safety forms and customization options you need to manage your reporting and compliance requirements in the field. Employees can securely record necessary safety information on mobile devices that you can access in real-time, as well as sort, share, and analyze.

With a graphics-rich dashboard, you’ll be able to easily identify potential hazards before they result in an injury, illness, or OSHA citation. And with robust customization options, you can tailor pre-built safety forms to your specific reporting needs or workflows. Or you can design your own entirely. By improving their reporting tools and processes, GoCanvas customers have reduced their risk by 18 percent. Don’t wait until an OSHA inspector shows up in your parking lot to strengthen your recordkeeping and reporting requirements. 

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