Go Paperless: Mobile Forms Can Fatten Your Bottom Line

Use low-code platforms to build mobile forms. You'll save hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in costs and improve employee productivity.

A while back I wrote about how mobile forms can save you thousands of dollars a year by cutting costs for rekeying data, filing and storing papers, lowering real estate costs and improving productivity.

I've recently uncovered updated data on the costs of paper forms and how going digital can save you thousands of dollars. You might be surprised by what paper forms cost the average organization.

How Much Money You Can Save By Using Mobile Forms

You might be surprised by the amount of money that paper forms cost the average organization. “The Paperless Office: How Much You Can Save” offers great data on the lost productivity costs and high expenses that paper-based organizations face.

Lost Productivity Costs with Paper Forms

First, the article claims that employees spend up to two hours trying to find paper files each day, and managers might spend four hours per week on average looking for lost or misplaced information. 

Employees can spend up to 2 hours a day trying to find paper files.
Managers can spend up to 4 hours a week looking for lost or misplaced information.

Administrative Expenses Associated with Paper Forms

Second, recording, moving, and storing paper forms is very expensive. Companies must pay for filing cabinets and extensive storage space. 

Consider the following chart from RecordNation. It shows that the cost of using paper forms can be 75% more than the cost of using digital forms. 

How much does this all add up to and how much can you save? Based on a business with 24 filing cabinets and 100 employees each making $15 per hour, the chart shows costs with a digital way to manage files, and without a way to manage them:

That's an annual cost savings of more than $570,000 for a small company!

Related reading: Learn how going paperless can fight climate change.

Given the lost productivity and growing costs of file storage and maintenance, going paperless seems to be a no-brainer, provided you can go digital cost-effectively.

How to Go Paper Free and Build Mobile Forms without Breaking the Bank

Keep in mind that it’s easy to quickly and affordably build mobile forms that collect data. You can get all the benefits of going paperless even if you don’t have a high-powered development team or a sophisticated document management system.

.The best and easiest way to go paper free is to get the right mobile forms software builder to build forms for any mobile device. Mobile forms make it easy to find information and can eliminate these time- and money-wasting habits.

Alpha TransForm, a no-code app builder, is ideal for the task because it offers the development speed of mobile forms products with the power of low-code development platforms. Users can be confident they're building enterprise apps that will never run out of power.