- Intuitive – PDF Forms designed to flow logically from start to finish. Forms that only display relevant fields and hide those that aren’t relevant from the user filling the form.
- Cost Effective – PDF SwiftForms™ Forms that remove many of the inefficient and costly elements associated with traditional paper based forms. The need to conduct large print runs no longer applies. The need to re-print if even a minor change is required along with disposal of out-of-date forms no longer applies. The need to pay staff to interpret near illegible hand written form entries and re-enter them into your systems no longer applies. The savings are many and the removal of significant problems associated with traditional forms are eliminated.
- Accessible – PDF SwiftForms™ that are all developed with the goal of creating forms that are available to anyone who wants or needs to fill them in. Wherever practical within PDF Form development SwiftForms™ follow the United Nations G3ICT Accessibility guidelines and also develop to comply with any legislative requirements of the countries that SwiftForms™ will be hosted and used in.
- Self Validating – PDF SwiftForms™ are smart forms because they are able to identify and alert the user filling them in when information is not what is expected. For example when someone enters a future date 01/01/2015 into a date field that requires their date of birth, a PDF SwiftForm will alert them to the error and return the user to the field so that they can immediately correct the mistake. This build in validation can check for correct formatting of email addresses, telephone numbers, check that required fields are not left blank and alert the user to a wide range of problems before the form is returned to your organisation.
- Legible – Anyone who has received paper forms filled by hand understands the difficulty that is often experienced interpreting what has been written into the form. Every person has different handwriting and the process of deciphering what some handwritten text is meant to convey can be time consuming, fraught with error and costly inefficiency. Swiftforms™ return legible information that does not require re-keying by your staff improving quality and benefiting your bottom line.
- Printable – At the root of PDF SwiftForms™ is fundamentally a PDF document. Although there is significant software based functionality embedded in the PDF document to enable the smart eform capabilities, at its basic level the document is still a PDF. This means that mo matter which operating system, device, screen resolution paper size or type, the printer you use or any other factor the document will appear and print the way it was intended to be seen.
- Compatible – One of the several options for receiving your form data is as XML. Most modern systems are able to take a custom formatted XML document and import the data directly into existing databases or other systems. PDF SwiftForms™ provide other options for receiving your form data including as email messages, CSV files or or even the entire PDF document containing all of the saved entries.
- Sign-able – If a hand-signed document is required a PDF SwiftForm™ will still provide an excellent solution that continues to provide many of the benefits listed above. Forms that require signature can be designed to validate prior to the print event being executed. This means that the form is forced to be as accurate as possible before the user prints, signs and post or faxes it back to your organisation.
- Submittable – If a hand-signed document is not required and an electronic solution is suitable for your needs you also have the option with PDF SwiftForms™ to have data that is collected directly submitted to you as a custom formatted email, XML or directly into your database. Since the data is validated on the client (PDF Form) side of the process you can be confident that the correctly formatted information will be received no matter how you choose to receive it.
I hope that this brief overview of SwiftForms provides your organisation with an insight into my philosophy and the product that you should expect to receive when you engage SwiftForms to develop new or convert your existing flat paper or PDF forms to dynamic PDF SwiftForms.
Rod Swift
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