Format

Printed document

Digital Document

Creation

Design in a text editor; print in-house or through an outside service.

Create forms in a simple drag-and drop visual form creator with no printing required

Distribution

Must be physically distributed to users in-person, by mail, or through a delivery service.

Immediately available to authorized users via mobile devices.

Revisions

Edit the form, reprint and redistribute; old forms become unusable waste.

Revisions are simple with the form creation tool; no unusable forms left over.

Ease of Use

Forms can only capture user responses; requires additional processing steps before the data becomes actionable.

Data fields can be formatted to simplify and standardize data entry; data can automatically be analyed, reported and included in workflows.

Data Collection

Must be physically collected after data entry.

Form submissions are automatically and instantly delivered to the correct recipients.

Cost Considerations

Staff time and labor, supplies, storage, and shredding costs make paper forms expensive to create, manage and dispose of.

Technology makes form creation, analysis and reporting easy, highly efficient and cost efficient.

Additional Benefits

None to speak of with outdated methods like paper forms (no disrespect to Johannes Gutenberg intended).

Minimize errors by handling data once instead of multiple times; make management by exception easy and productive.

Overall Rating

With no upside potential for improvement, paper forms rate poorly.

With unlimited potential for innovation, FormsTrackR is hard to beat.