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The Effects of Poor Communication in Construction Projects and How to Improve It

The Effects of Poor Communication in Construction Projects and How to Improve ItA serious issue to consider

Poor communication in a construction project is one of the prime reasons why projects incur damage and fail. Here are several ways poor communication can impact a project.

– Lack of communication and poor communication can create confusion for the entire project team. This leads to mistakes and slows down the project.

– Poor flow of information and unclear and untimely communication can lead to skipping steps of the construction project, untimely orders, failed assignments, and more. And all of these result in delays on the project.

– Also, poor ineffective communication often contributes to project budget risk and results in increased costs. Budget overruns can jeopardize the entire project.

– The construction industry is a high-risk environment. Poor communication often comes to injuries and untimely help. It is also a ground for lawsuits.

The best solution

Mobile solutions are the best way to establish and improve communication in a construction project. However, just calls and messages per mobile phone are not enough. The entire flow of data in a construction project should be documented. Workers deal with various forms and reports and communicate through them. Construction apps are able to digitize any data and make the work with it fast, simple, convenient, and agile.

Snappii offers powerful construction apps with pre-made mobile forms to fill in in a snap, generate complete reports, share and store them. Make quick estimates, provide invoices, assign tasks, notify about any changes, track work progress, create and collect reports, make various inspections, create timesheets, track work hours, and more. Elimination of paper forms and transfer to mobile solutions streamline communication and help keep everything under control. Try the following ready-made construction apps.

Construction Daily Log app

Construction Estimator app

Punch In/Out Timesheet app

Construction Manager app

Construction Change Order app

Construction Photos app

Most of these apps can be modified to meet 100% of your needs. Send us your requirements and we will be back with a quote.

Automation, Agility and Other Advantages of Field Service Mobile Apps

Automation, Agility and Other Advantages of Field Service Mobile AppsThe enabler of modern field service sector

In the field services sector, automation and agility are key. It contributes to minimizing customer downtime, optimization of management, regular interactions between the entire team, streamlining of reacting and performing day-to-day operations, and more. Field service mobile apps are the best tool for instant automation of various operations with field data as well as for fast, high quality, and agile workflow. Snappii knows a lot about feature-rich field service mobile apps and offers some ready-made ones in its app gallery.

Ready-made field service apps you should try

Estimates, inspections, inventories, work order assigning, and other operations can be made by several clicks on a mobile device. The field technicians can get rid of time-consuming paperwork and managers are able to keep all processes under control and get timely reports without huge efforts. The field service mobile apps from Snappii cover plenty of fields of activity. Try the following ready-made apps for field service:

Job Estimator app

Work Order Assigner app

Inspect Anything app

Daily Log Reporting app

Inventory Anything app

App customization without huge efforts and costs

We understand that you will not be able to enjoy all the benefits of automation and field service mobile apps if they do not fully meet your needs. That’s why Snappii offers customization of most of its ready-made apps. We will modify the app per your specific requirements. App customization is faster and more affordable than creating an app from scratch. Send us your requirements and we will be back to you with a quote.

“Our whole experience of Snappii has been a pleasure, didn`t think it is possible to create such a professional app so quickly and easily!”

Colin Stokes, Adiuvo

“Snappii has been a game-changer for our home care agency. We honestly could not run our business at this time without our Snappii App!”

John Bennett, Sunny Days In-Home Care

“The whole Snappii Team, is top-notch, in customer service. It is something that many companies lack these days, so I appreciate the time you put in, to help us along.”

Jason Conn, ATCi

It is just a part of what customers are saying about Snappii. Don’t waste your time and money and start the new more successful stage of your business.

Reduce Risks of COVID-19 Infection by Eliminating Paperwork

Reduce Risks of COVID-19 Infection by Eliminating PaperworkHow paper-based documentation spread the infection

For over half a year we have to live and work in a pandemic of COVID-19. Many safeguards are already in place and continue to be implemented in workflows to keep the businesses open. The infection is primarily spread person to person by small droplets, or by contacting contaminated surfaces. Social distancing, personal hygiene, and personal protective equipment reduce the risk of transmitting the virus. Most businesses are forced to work with documents and this causes the risk in several directions at once. People constantly transfer paper files that may contain the virus as well as they have to visit offices and contact face to face. However, it can be easily avoided by switching to the digital format of documents.

The benefits of mobile forms

Snappii offers a breakthrough solution to convert already existing PDF forms and reports to their digital analog to use them on any mobile device. Optical Field Recognition system allows anyone to do this in a few minutes. It is a great way to go digital instantly without a huge investment of time and money. This is especially relevant in the current situation of the spread of COVID-19. Businesses can easily and quickly provide additional safety to their employees and get rid of face-to-face interaction as well as using and transferring of paper. The pre-made mobile forms can be filled in and generated to professional reports to submit anytime and anywhere. This is also a perfect opportunity to increase the accuracy and timeliness of data.

Some more things

There are 100+ ready-to-use mobile form templates already available in the Snappii Mobile Forms app. They cover plenty of industries and fields of activity. These mobile forms can be modified to meet any specific needs. Also, the Snappii team can convert and create forms for its users. All that is required is to send us the forms and requirements.

A Customized App for Better Managing the Lifecycle of Work Orders

A Customized App for Better Managing the Lifecycle of Work OrdersWork orders are the engine of the operations. They power the team and start a process. Сreation and assignment of work orders take time and attentiveness. Most managers find it difficult to handle paper-based work orders for the field team. It’s time-consuming and labor-intensive to fill in paper forms and transfer them to workers. Also, simply creating and assigning a work order is not enough for successful work. That work order must also be managed properly. A solid and timely system for managing the lifecycle of a work order ensures a smooth transition between work stages and meeting deadlines.

Work Order Assigner app for a more organized and streamlined process

There is an opportunity to create paperless digital work orders, instantly assign them to any worker and get a progress report as well as a notification about its completion. Snappii offers a ready-made Work Order Assigner app. The app allows users to easily create tasks and assign them to particular employees, provide details and time frames. Workers can log into the app, see assigned work orders, and add notes about the status. The completed mobile forms can be generated into PDF reports, shared, and stored in the app. The Work Order Assigner app is available to be downloaded in Apple App Store and Google Play.

Want a more suitable app? Request app customization

If you have your own work orders and want to use them, the Snappii team can customize the Work Order Assigner app for you. It is a fast and affordable way to go to the digital format, save a lot of time and increase the efficiency of work. Send us your requirements and forms to discuss app customization.

Work orders are a pillar of great operation. The organized management of work orders and using the right tool contribute to more stable and tracked workflows and the opportunity to grow and succeed.

Increase the Level of Fire Safety Control with Fire Inspection App

Increase the Level of Fire Safety Control with Fire Inspection AppThe top task for any business

Fire safety should always be the main concern, no matter what type and size of business you run. It is an extensive and extremely demanding task that requires keeping a lot of aspects under control, so you cannot do without help tools.

To minimize the impact and probability of fires, it is critical to be prepared. You can ensure this by some measures. One of them is regular inspection of fire-fighting equipment and compliance with fire safety policy. This task requires a regular collection of data, documenting and timely reporting for instant necessary actions. It is extremely difficult if you use paper.

The paperless solution for better fire safety control

Snappii offers a paperless fire safety inspection and maintenance process. It contributes to faster, more efficient, organized and convenient work with data. Special fire safety apps allow users to keep all details under control and at hand. It also provides legal protection for businesses.

A ready-made Fire Inspection app from Snappii is an excellent tool to perform inspections and capture required data easily and quickly using a mobile device. The app allows users to ensure that the premises have all fire safety and fire suppression equipment in place and good working order. Pre-made mobile forms make workers free from time-consuming and inconvenient paperwork. For example, the Fire Inspection app helps perform monthly fire extinguishers and fire hydrants inspections. Users can quickly scan the bar code to get all details about a fire extinguisher – serial number, age, location, etc. It is an opportunity to take and attach photos. Also, users can capture handwritten signatures. The completed inspection form can be generated to the PDF or Excel report, shared and stored on the device. This video can provide more information about the Fire Inspection app and show how it works. Download the app to try it right now. It is available in Apple App Store and Google Play.

Do not give up on specific requirements

The distinctive feature of Snappii is an opportunity to customize most of its ready-made apps. Our team can modify the Fire Inspection app to meet your specific needs. Send them to us to discuss and get a free quote. Get a product to help you increase the level of fire safety control. It is easier and more affordable than you think.

Ensure Better Safety at Construction Sites with Digital Forms and Apps

Ensure Better Safety at Construction Sites with Digital Forms and AppsWhy construction companies should abandon paper forms

The problems associated with using paper to manage safety at construction sites are well known but often continue to be ignored. A paper-based system of reporting, inspection and management is extremely unreliable. Workers can’t report the incident in time, quickly find the right safety confirmation form as well as fill in any inspection form or checklist. If a construction company still doesn’t use digital forms and construction apps to maintain construction sites’ safety, it may be missing a solution that would be simple and fast to implement.

A unique form conversion solution from Snappii

Snappii offers such a solution. Nowadays anyone can go digital instantly without a huge investment of time and money. Snappii has invented its first of a kind Optical Field Recognition to convert any existing paper forms to their digital analog. Thanks to this Artificial Intelligence system, it requires a few simple steps and no programming. Here are the blog posts explaining how to convert the forms on a PC and a mobile device. Besides using OFR, users can create a mobile form from scratch or use one of the ready-made templates Snappii offers. The process is really simple and based on adding the necessary fields. Snappii Mobile Forms app allows users to instantly use the created mobile forms. Watch this video to learn more about the process.

Digital forms contribute to more timely and accurate data to avoid and prevent any incidents. Moreover, it is a convenient and reliable way to store all safety data and documentation for legal defense and have constant access to it.

Snappii team understands how busy construction workers are and is ready to create any mobile form or app for them. We will meet any specific needs. Send us the forms and requirements and get a free quote to start.

How Sign In Guest Book App Can Help Track Visitors and Mitigate Coronavirus Risk

How Sign In Guest Book App Can Help Track Visitors and Mitigate Coronavirus RiskSafety is a priority

The spread of Сoronavirus has escalated concerns when it comes to tracking and managing of offices’ and organizations’ visitors. The virus has made it crucial to limit face-to-face contacts and regulate the presence of a certain number of people in one premise. Today businesses are in dire need of a visitor registration solution as well as a way of their tracking and gathering information.

Track visitors and manage visits in a snap

The best tool to track visitors is mobile apps. It is a paperless solution that is always at hand to capture any details and generate necessary documentation. Snappii has such an app. Sign In Guest Book app is designed to keep track of visitors at reception and not only this. Manual filling out of tons of paper forms is not required. All necessary information and important details can be instantly added to a smart mobile form. The visitors can sign themselves and get a printed badge. The app saves and stores all visitors’ logs and allows them to sign out later by searching their names and date in the database. The admin panel of the Sign In Guest Book app allows users to:

– sign in/out visitors,

– get a history of visitors for any time range,

– upload Excel files with employees/companies to visit or manually add them via a form,

– sync information across multiple devices,

– create events, add information and upload attendees,

– track who has attended and who’s not,

– create consolidated reports,

– slice and dice the captured information,

– contact visitors via email or call them.

Let Sign In Guest Book app help you be more responsible

Keep all visits under control in this complicated period with the smart and multifunctional Sign In Guest Book app. Learn how the app works from this short video. Download and try it on iOS and Android devices. Also, read this information from the CDC about how to create a safe and healthy workplace for workers and clients.

Inspect & Maintain Vehicles App for Instant Vehicle Inspections without Postponements

Inspect & Maintain Vehicles App for Instant Vehicle Inspections without PostponementsThe difficulties of vehicle inspections

Regular vehicle inspections are essential to ensure vehicles meet roadworthiness and emission standards. Also, they help reduce vehicle breakdowns and accidents due to vehicle conditions. Usually, vehicle owners have to hire inspectors due to the labor input of the inspection process, and the necessity to fill out plenty of documentation. This is associated with additional costs and efforts. So, sometimes vehicle owners postpone vehicle inspections and subsequently face significant difficulties. Also, such a process leads to delays in repairs. Vehicle owners can’t clearly understand when it is time to sunset the vehicle and buy a new one and miss the best offers.

 

Vehicle inspections in a snap

Snappii allows vehicle and fleet owners to avoid extra expenses and easily perform professional vehicle inspections. Inspect & Maintain Vehicles app is a great smart tool to inspect various types of vehicles including heavy and not heavy ones. Recently the app has been updated and now it is more useful and clear. Now app user can instantly add any vehicle and start its inspection without any assigning. The pre-made mobile form makes data collection a process of several clicks. Users can even speak their answers without typing, thanks to the speech-to-text function. Also, they can document any damages with photo evidence. Inspect & Maintain Vehicles app increases the vehicle maintenance and drivers’ safety level due to the opportunity to perform pre-trip and post-trip inspections. Users just tap a button to mark a condition of each part. After filling out the form, it can be instantly converted to a PDF and Excel report. The reports can be shared as well as stored in the app for quick access anytime.

 

 

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If Inspect & Maintain Vehicles app doesn’t completely meet your specific needs, we are ready to discuss its customization. This is more fast and affordable than creating an app from scratch. Send us your requirements here.

Don’t risk your life or the life of another in an unsafe vehicle. Perform regular vehicle inspections. With Snappii it doesn’t require huge efforts.

No More Reasons to Avoid Daily Reporting on the Construction Site

No More Reasons to Avoid Daily Reporting on the Construction SiteThe reality for construction sites is the more steps workers need to take to document daily activities, the more likely they will make mistakes and inaccuracies and ultimately try to dodge this process. Most people don’t enjoy paperwork and this is not surprising. No field worker wants to spend time filling out paper forms and transferring them to the manager after a grueling workday at the construction site.

What Snappii can offer

Snappii has been supporting construction field workers for about 10 years. Keeping in mind the problem with paper-based daily reporting, Snappii has created outstanding solutions to solve this issue and make the life of field workers easier.

A ready-made Construction Daily Log app from Snappii allows users to create professional daily reports in minutes right on a mobile device. It is a smart and affordable way to eliminate paperwork. No more need to spend hours on this process and visit the office. The Construction Daily Log app includes a one-page collapsed form to collect all necessary details of the workday and the progress of the project. After filling out the form, it can be instantly generated into the PDF report. The report can be submitted to the manager in various ways and safely stored in the app, this way users can access all the reports anytime. Recently we have added one important feature to allow managers to track who has not turned their report in. Read more about it here.

If you are not ready to leave your existing forms and reports, Snappii can offer the following solution. We can easily convert your paper forms and reports to their digital analog to fill them out on any mobile device. It is affordable for anyone as well as simple and fast to implement. Send us your forms and requirements here.

Turn to the Digital Format of Bills of Lading with Snappii

Turn to the Digital Format of Bills of Lading with SnappiiThe time of big changes

Bill of lading is one of the key documents in international trade. Completing a bill of lading is an obligatory part of the carriage of goods. Perhaps the first bills of lading date back to the 17th century. Of course, they were in paper format. And so it was until recently. Today companies are on the way to digitize bills of lading. Such solutions started appearing in the late 90s, all aimed at eliminating unavoidable problems with paper documents. Among such problems are inconvenience, labor intensiveness, unreliability, inaccuracy, inflexibility, and more. In the modern time of mobile technology, a bill of lading took on the form of a smart mobile app.

Bill of Lading Manager app from Snappii

Snappii offers its ready-made Bill of Lading Manager app to easily and quickly create digital bills of lading right on a mobile device and provide them to third parties. Users can use their existing client database and quickly fill in the pre-made mobile form. Also, there is an opportunity to auto-fill the saved information, calculate the total cost, instantly email the completed bills in a PDF format, and more. Learn more about the Bill of Lading Manager app and have a visual representation of its work here. Download the app in Apple App Store or Google Play.

Bill of Lading Manager app gets rid of time-consuming paperwork and manual filling errors. It is a perfect tool to make your work with data more efficient and agile. Also, an increase in productivity means an increase in income.

App customization solution

If you already have your own bill of lading forms, don’t worry, Snappii will use them and customize the Bill of Lading Manager app for you. It’s more affordable than an app development and ensures a 100% meeting of all your specific requirements. Just contact us here to discuss the app customization and get a free quote.

Warehouse Inventory & Shipment App: a Powerful Custom Solution for Streamlined Inventories

Warehouse Inventory & Shipment App: a Powerful Custom Solution for Streamlined InventoriesToday many warehouses leverage automation to improve efficiency and streamline such regular activities as inventory. However, to achieve these benefits, companies should choose technologies that are easy-to-implement and meet all specific requirements.

Automate warehouse inventories with Warehouse Inventory & Shipment app

Warehouse Inventory & Shipment app from Snappii is the best pocket tool to automate warehouse inventories and conduct them in minutes right on a mobile device. This ready-made app allows users to:

– add the items to the form manually or auto-fill them from the stock,

– check shipment information and track goods that are shipped in and shipped out,

– use a bar code scanner,

– add and track warehouse logs,

– take and add pictures,

– show locations on a map,

– generate and submit custom-looking PDF and Excel inventory reports,

– sync data across multiple devices,

– upload the completed forms to cloud drives.

Warehouse Inventory & Shipment app is not just a way to get rid of paper. It provides efficiency, speed, reliability, accuracy, and cost savings. More organized inventories contribute to more stable work of the entire warehouse. The app is available in Apple App Store, as well as in Google Play.

Why you should consider app customization

Talking about meeting specific requirements, Snappii really means it. We are ready to customize the Warehouse Inventory & Shipment app for you. “The whole Snappii team is top-notch in customer service,” says Jason Conn from ATCi. It is important for us to take into account and fulfill all your needs. Snappii support team will discuss all details with you and provide a free quote. Don’t settle for less and join successful Snappii’s customers to get more benefits and rise to the next level. Also, the good news is that app customization is more affordable than creating an app from scratch. You will save a lot of money and time and get a great product.

How to Get the Great Business App for Field Data Management without Huge Effort and Costs

How to Get the Great Business App for Field Data Management without Huge Effort and CostsManaging data in an organized and systematic manner is essential for field businesses. An efficient data management system is a system where data can be easily and quickly collected, processed, shared, organized, appropriately stored, and provides constant access to it. Modern business apps can provide all of these. However, ready-made business apps for work with field data usually have too generalized features. And ordering a custom business app development is an expensive and long process. However, we know the way to let you don’t waste your time and money and start efficient field data management as soon as possible.

The best way to get a business app you need

Snappii offers an app customization solution. You just choose the most suitable app from our gallery of ready-made apps and we customize it to meet your specific needs. We can do it almost with all Snappii’s apps. Snappii apps cover plenty of industries and fields of activity and provide a great set of features for field data management.

Here are some words from our successful customers:

“Our field staff is able to collect documents and have them emailed to our office staff and stored in our cloud instantaneously. This has saved our company both time and money. It has enabled us to scale our business at a rapid rate. We have grown quickly enough to be an Inc. 5000 company four years in a row, that wouldn’t be possible without Snappii.”

John Bennett, Executive Director, Sunny Days In-Home Care, Inc.

“Snappii built the app with our requirements needed to reduce the handling of paper invoices and BOL for our customers. This is a real time saver all the way around. Our drivers are able to send the electronic document from where ever they are in the USA. Make the office reduce time with not having to manually go through stacks of paper when drivers return to the home terminal. This company has gone from many paper items to 0 paper needed for our purpose. We love it.”

Edwin Smutt, Elevation Transport

“The main idea for the application was to convert the existing paper forms we use on a daily basis. We needed to organize Timesheets, Pipe test reports, HVAC and Plumbing sheets, as well as track job on-site daily reports. We’re really happy with the progress. Now it literally takes a few minutes to fill out the report, sign and send it. We receive a convenient PDF output that’s stored in the app and also can be shared via email, cloud drives, and printed if needed.”

Steven Koski, Outside Labor Superintendent/Safety Officer, Harold Brothers Mechanical Contractors, Inc.

If you are ready to consider custom business app development from scratch, it is a more available solution with Snappii than with other app development companies. We offer shorter development times and a more affordable price. Just contact us to discuss this, ask any questions and get more detailed information and pricing.


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