One of the main values for most businesses is reliability. For a customer, it’s more likely to choose a service that has positive reviews and feedback. In order to achieve appreciation from the customers, businesses have to provide a very high level of their service. Competition is tough in many industries and businesses need to adapt to ever-changing reality. If for example, several years ago businesses had to physically travel to the clients and perform estimates, then today avoiding face-to-face interactions is nice to have. Today, more and more organizations turn to mobile apps and forms in order to speed up project estimation, electronically sign documents, improve team collaboration and communication, which helps them become a competitive business.

Paper forms vs. Mobile forms

If you are looking to decide on whether it makes sense to switch to digital forms, we have prepared a list of pros and cons.

Doing Paper Forms and Reports by Hand is So Last Century. Here’s what’s associated with paper forms:

– Takes hours to fill out

– Illegible handwriting

– Can’t find it

– Printing costs

– Storage costs

– Driving forms to the office

– Retyping data into computer

Now let’s see what’s associated with digital forms:

– Fill out forms in minutes

– No more illegible forms

– Easy to find anytime anywhere

– Speak your forms, don’t type them

– Even works without the Internet

– Stored in the Cloud Forever

A mobile device is something that’s always with you. It literally takes less time to find a smartphone than to find a pen to sign a document. So why not use this privilege? Using mobile forms and apps, you can make estimates, inspections, work orders, invoices, daily reports, which includes such abilities as taking and annotating photos to prove the work done, collecting signatures, sharing locations, recording audio, and video evidence, and so much more. Needless to say that mobile data collection eliminates human errors, which makes your business more reliable for your customers.

“Thanks to Snappii, our company has gone from many paper items to ZERO paper needed for our purpose,” says Edwin Smutt from Elevation Transport.

Snappii offers multiple ways you can easily and affordably ditch paperwork forever. You can either create the forms yourself using Snappii’s mobile forms editor, or you can have our team of professionals convert your paper forms to mobile apps for you. In any case, Snappii will help you make this transformation a breeze.

In-home care is a rapidly expanding and evolving field. In-home care services are not just about elderly care. This type of service can help with rehabilitation after medical events and surgery as well as help people regain their independence to manage a chronic condition. In-home care agencies provide a team of various specialists that can include therapists, nurses, social workers, and more. Also, one of the main tasks of such agencies besides care and treatment is home and surrounding assessing and improvement.

Responsibility and documenting

The in-home care field is associated with great responsibility. This way, clear organization, and documenting are essential for in-home care agencies. Often paperwork and reporting require a lot of time and damage the quality of the direct responsibilities. Today mobile technologies come to the rescue. Special mobile apps allow all specialists to replace time-consuming paperwork with a smart, fast, and convenient digital approach. The apps provide pre-made mobile forms that can be filled in in a snap anytime and anywhere. Moreover, there is an opportunity to share any data and keep in touch with all employees.

In Home Care Providers app: the best way to avoid paperwork

Snappii has created the In Home Care Providers app to make life easier for all in-home care agencies’ employees. The app provides 30+ ready-made mobile forms. The completed forms can be shared as PDF files instantly via email, cloud drives, or printed. The In Home Care Providers app complies with HIPAA. It is a great opportunity to get rid of paperwork and have more time for real work.

“The app saves time and money by giving our Field Staff the ability to submit documentation from anywhere in our territory. We continue to grow our territory size and are able to run everything out of one office because we can submit documents instantaneously with our app. Also, the state is constantly changing policies and we can make quick adjustments to our documentation within the app so that our staff is immediately using documents that meet the requirements for compliance.”

John B

~ Director of Sunny Days Home Care

You can see how the app works in this video. The In Home Care Providers app is available in both Apple App Store and Google Play.

Any jobsite has to be a safe and comfortable place to work at. Communication between the employees, the head office, and the clients is the key to successful project completion. How can one gain a flawless jobsite operations process? There are five ways that can help you improve yours.

1. Digitize your reports.

The most important point to optimize the jobsite progress tracking is to turn to mobile apps and forms. Checklists, daily reports, inspections – all these can be converted to mobile forms that are easy to carry with you, fill out and share.

2. Simplify the data collection process.

No matter what information has to be collected, it has to be easy to collect it at the jobsite. For example, a speech to text feature that is available in mobile forms, allows your staff to easily and quickly explain the jobsite progress. The ability to add photos, videos, and record audio messages give more information about the status of tasks. Even without the Internet connection, your team can fill out the reports, save necessary details and share them with the head office once the Internet connection is established.

3. Save time on jobsite rides 

Digital daily reports, checklists, and inspections can be easily shared via Email or cloud drives with the head office, which eliminates the need to drive back and forth to check out the jobsite progress. Get updates from your team in the field without the necessity to visit the site.

4. Make your office a control center 

With the mobile forms and apps the entire working process can be managed. Collect digital signatures, approve change requests and review the status of the tasks using a mobile app.

5. Get paid faster

The last but not least point sums up the above points leading us to an integral part of every job: payment. Using mobile apps and forms, it is easy to track billable hours and speed up payments to your staff. Accurate information helps the head office receive the payments from the client faster. Tracking the jobsite progress with mobile apps and forms helps generate invoices and speeds up payments.

At Snappii we pride ourselves on having one of the best products in the market. Our mobile forms and apps library is rich enough to satisfy the needs of most businesses. If you have your own forms that you’d like to convert to digital forms, you can use our powerful Mobile Forms Creator here. As always, we are happy to help you go mobile. Contact us with any questions you may have or send us your forms you’d like to convert here.

The majority of businesses wonder how they can reach out to their clients and potential customers easily. Email marketing doesn’t bring the results it used to bring a few years ago. According to MailChimp, the average click rate has decreased to 3% at best. Today, consumers respond to the push notifications sent directly to their mobile devices.

Businesses realize the need for mobile apps. This is the easiest way to reach out to potential customers. Consumers use mobile apps more than access the web via their computers and laptops. According to various studies, users respond to push notifications sent to their mobile devices 26% better than to the emails. And the reason for that is that push notifications are delivered instantly, while it takes up to 6 hours for the end-user to read an email. A custom mobile business app will help you get into consumers’ phones. Snappii offers custom mobile app development in weeks, not months. Send us your requirements and we will discuss your custom mobile app needs and provide you with a working prototype you can share with your team.

At Hyster, we integrate intelligence into our lift trucks and we wanted to deliver that same level of technology with our information for this app. Snappii provided a unique technology platform that enabled us to deliver this comprehensive app to the lift truck industry.

~Hyster

Custom mobile app development for your specific business needs enables you to get the product you want to engage with your audience. Contact us to discuss your requirements.

How Custom Mobile Apps Can Be Used Internally in Your Company

If you do not need to engage with the potential customers but need to organize and manage your business easily, turn to custom mobile app development to operate with:

• Timesheets
• Daily logs and reports
• Different Inspections
• Inventories
• Checklists
• Team management
• And more

Snappii has been a game-changer for our home care agency. Our management staff is constantly in the field as we provide care for seniors throughout most of Western Pennsylvania. It has enabled our company to scale and increase our geographical footprint while keeping overhead down. Snappii did a great job of building out our app initially, and thanks to the user-friendly system, we are able to update the app on our own. Support has been great and is also quick to respond to any questions that we may have. We honestly could not run our business at this time without our Snappii App!

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

Snappii has a great set of ready-made apps, the majority of which can be customized. Additionally, Snappii offers custom app development to meet the needs of your business. Send us your app requirements here.

With the novel coronavirus outbreak, the majority of employees were sent to work from home. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in the US only 7% of employees were working remotely on a regular basis before the pandemic, so for the rest of them, this experience was totally new.

Based on the research conducted by SHRM’s COVID-19 Business Index, 64% of US employees are working from home now.

Most of the employees were feeling stressed because they had to organize a place at home to work at; they had to set up the boundaries to family members to explain that being at home they still have to do their jobs. Additional stress was caused by social isolation. In this blog post, we will see if anything has changed after the pandemic.

How COVID-19 pandemic affected remote work

Just in a few weeks, employees have learnt to better organize and manage their time working from home. A recent Gallup research shows that 59% of U.S. workers, who have been working from home during the coronavirus pandemic, would prefer to continue to work remotely as much as possible.

We see that businesses have learnt to adjust themselves to the new circumstances. Delivery of goods, not just from supermarkets and restaurants, has increased significantly. People no longer have to even go to the pick-points to take the orders from online shops or pick their mail from the post offices – the couriers will bring everything to your front porch. Taking these into account, employers now realize that more and more employees would like to continue working from home as there are more conditions now allowing them to distract less than they used to at the beginning of the remote work. Employers will have to adapt as nobody knows if the remote work is here to stay.

How Mobile apps help in remote work

Snappii understands the needs of employers to track the employees’ activities and productivity. Snappii’s Mobile apps are a great help in managing employees’ time.

Timesheet manager app and Punch In/Out Timesheet app allow its users to

• Punch in and punch out to mark the beginning and the end of the work
• Create weekly and biweekly forms with work hours and break minutes
• Generate the reports and send them to managers, supervisors, or accounting

Billable hours tracker app allows its users to track and bill time accurately and effectively.

Mobile apps allow employers to track daily reports of employees and monitor their progress. Such apps as Daily Log reporting are meant to easily log in hours each employee has spent to complete a task. The app calculates total hours and emails a report to the manager. The Daily Log Reporting app is available for free download from Apple and Google stores.

If your business requires any special mobile apps that will help boost productivity, simply send us your requirements here.

We already know that remote work causes less stress now and should equip ourselves with useful tools to increase efficiency.

Time management skills are a special practice modern businesses crave for. Indeed, every minute costs businesses serious money, hence, needs to be valued. Besides completing all the tasks in time, employees have to find additional time to complete a daily report.

A study of U.S. and European companies by The Boston Consulting Group found that “managers spend 40% of their time writing reports.” Just think about this number. Full daily reports indicating work progress, taking and attaching photos, describing the issues reflected by the photos, collecting signatures from the clients, managers and so on, steal 40% of people’s time.

How to Quit Paperwork and Boost Productivity

Let’s take a look at an average employee working on site who needs to create a daily report at the end of the day. After a hard day of work, the employee takes notes to reflect all the work done, takes photos, counts the materials cost, labor costs and hours. This looks like an additional shift. Now let’s see if there is a solution to quit paperwork and at the same time boost employees’ productivity.

We at Snappii hear all the time how people are drowning in paperwork. Here’s an example from one of our customers:

“Snappii provided the app with our requirements needed to reduce handling of paper invoice and BOL for our customers. This is a wonderful app and a real time saver. Our company has gone from many paper items to ZERO paper needed for our purpose. We love it.” ~ Edwin Smutt, Elevation Transport.

Mobile apps are an effective way to ditch paperwork for good. Say goodbye to stocks of paper, clipboards, illegible handwriting, human errors, etc. Snappii offers convenient and easy form conversion for Do-It-Yourself users. Download free Snappii Mobile Forms app, load your existing forms by taking a photo or scanning, or a digital form and convert it to a mobile form app in a snap. If you don’t have your own form, you can choose a ready-made form from the library. The Snappii Mobile Forms app is available for free download from both stores. The Apple version has the ability to load PDF, a photo, a scan or create a form from scratch. The Google version has the collection of ready-made templates and the ability to load your PDF.

Additionally, Snappii team can help you convert your forms. Just contact us here.

Use mobile apps today to save precious time on filling out forms, reports, inspections, checklists and more, and boost your productivity.