PlatoForms Blog

The ins and outs of online fillable forms

Top 15 Online Tools For Students

Top 15 Online Tools For Students

According to a survey by the NewSchools Venture Fund in 2019, 65% of teachers use digital tools every day, while 53% said they’d prefer to use technology more often. This proves that using online tools contributes to the huge impact of students’ learning curve–making room for convenience and innovation while learning.

Read More
Three Ways to Improve  Productivity and Sales

Three Ways to Improve Productivity and Sales

The advancement of technology has helped businesses scale in a span of short time. With the help of productivity and management tools, companies can now maximize the use of the internet to push the boundaries of their efficiency. Now, it’s possible to do business transactions online as remote work continues to rise. However, productivity is just a step into boosting company sales. To maximize the company’s productivity and improve business sales as well, here are some tips that you can consider:

Read More
The Best Productivity Blogs You Can Follow

The Best Productivity Blogs You Can Follow

Books and seminars about productivity have been around for as long as we can remember—but now, people can’t sit down and go through a whole book to know the tricks of being productive. With the rising fame of the internet and thinning attention span of users as time goes by, people are now much hungrier for content on the go. Through productivity blogs, readers can quickly learn the hacks of maximizing productivity without spending so much time learning it. To add, blogs also provide specific, short, and easy-to-digest content. Whether you’re a student who looks for a way to be more productive or an employee who needs career advice, we listed some productivity blogs that you can browse or bookmark for future learning.

Read More
Best Apps For Going Paperless

Best Apps For Going Paperless

Going paperless continues to be challenging for companies–papers have been a huge part of our everyday lives. However, its harmful effects on the environment continue to soar, not to mention the expensive cost of using it.

Read More
Top 5 Online PDF Form Software For 2022

Top 5 Online PDF Form Software For 2022

You have been using PDFs for quite a while—but are still on the fence about choosing the right PDF form software for you. With all the PDF tools available in the market, it isn’t easy to choose a software that can let you turn PDF into fillable forms, submit PDF forms online, edit, and do so much more with your PDFs. There are tons of free PDF software available, but the features are limited, unlike with paid PDF tools.

Read More
Things You Can Do To Organize Your Files And Be Productive

Things You Can Do To Organize Your Files And Be Productive

A lot of companies use online collaboration tools to increase productivity–including PlatoForms. Aside from letting you convert PDFs to web forms and submit PDF forms online, our features also offer workflow that can increase your team productivity. However, online tools can only do so much–maintaining a neat workspace is also important to achieve productivity. A research from reliable plant says that an average person is wasting over 4.3 hours a week just to search a paper–which can waste time and increase stress. Keeping a clean and organized workspace starts with you–including desks. A messy desk is the main culprit of the stack of papers, lost information, and mishandled documents, which can cause reduced productivity and disorganized work. Consider the following tips to clean your desk and regain productivity:

Read More
How API Boosts Your Business

How API Boosts Your Business

We previously talked about the API and how it works with our online PDF forms. It offers so much more than converting your PDFs to online forms–it allows you to submit PDF forms online, turn PDFs into online forms, and more. It isn’t called lego blocks of building software without any reason–it’s essential not just for developers, but for businesses as well. We listed several reasons why API integration tools are important–it promotes automation, lessens human errors, enables proper monitoring of data, and offers security. While API provides tons of benefits for businesses, we also make sure to provide seamless interaction between our clients and their online PDF forms through our restful API. With our form integration with API, you can get things done with your online forms and even achieve maximum productivity.

Read More
Top 5 Online Research And Survey Form Creator For 2021

Top 5 Online Research And Survey Form Creator For 2021

Back in the day, students and researchers had to print survey forms and distribute them to samples manually. Some even have to go to places just to distribute forms and gather data. Thankfully, this manual process has been automated as online survey form creators or software arose. With the help of online survey tools, researchers can finally get rid of the slow process and human errors. In this article, we chose 5 online survey form creators that you can use for your research or survey work. Whether you’re a student or researcher who needs things done, these tools can help make your data gathering much easier than before.

Read More
Stripe Payments Form Pros and Cons: A Product Review by PlatoForms

Stripe Payments Form Pros and Cons: A Product Review by PlatoForms

Managing an online business is tough–every aspect of the business must be managed digitally, including payments. Since online business continues to boom, online payment software also rises to ease the lives of e-commerce companies in accepting payments. Stripe, an online payment platform founded in 2009, aims to provide convenience in managing and accepting payments online. Aside from making payments easier than before, Stripe is also focused on preventing fraud in payment transactions. We took the time to go through the software to provide a detailed stripe payments review that could help you to get started, so keep reading!

Read More
5 Reasons Why PlatoForms is a Good Alternative for Google Forms

5 Reasons Why PlatoForms is a Good Alternative for Google Forms

Google has proved that they’re more than the top search engine in the game by launching Google Workspace, formerly known as G-suite. The jack of all trades software includes the most necessary tools for organizations: Gmail, calendar, Google Drive, Google One Storage, and Google Forms. From students to business owners, Google Forms gained popularity because of its simple interface and beginner-friendly navigation.

Read More
Improve Your Company's Workflow Efficiency With These Steps

Improve Your Company's Workflow Efficiency With These Steps

Small or big, companies need to improve their workflow efficiency to achieve success. With an organized workflow, organizations can reduce errors, increase productivity, and maximize collaboration. Improving workflow efficiency sounds easy–but it’s crucial for businesses and organizations to do it. We gathered some tips on how you can obtain an organized workflow–and why it’s important for companies to use PlatoForms online form workflow for their business.

Read More
Importance of Mental Health in Your Employee's Productivity

Importance of Mental Health in Your Employee's Productivity

While the stigma and shame of mental health are still on the rise, companies are continuing to see the importance of mental health in the workplace. According to the United Kingdom Department of Health and the Confederation of British Industry, 15-30% of workers will experience a form of mental health during their working lives. In fact, these mental health problems can cause numerous illnesses and disabilities. Albeit mental health problems due to work stress are common, employees experienced increased mental health issues because of the global pandemic.

Read More
The Difference Between B2B and B2C Marketing: The Complete Guide

The Difference Between B2B and B2C Marketing: The Complete Guide

If you’ve been in the marketing industry for a while, you probably have heard of B2B and B2C marketing. Some may say they’re similar, some may say they’re different–both are accurate. There are a lot of differences between B2B and B2C marketing, but the similarities are evident as well. In this article, we will go through the basics of B2B and B2C marketing, and how PlatoForms can empower both of your marketing strategies.

Read More
Why Workflow Contributes To The Success Of Human Resources Departments

Why Workflow Contributes To The Success Of Human Resources Departments

The use of workflow creator or PDF online software, in general, wasn’t so famous in human resources industries back then. Before, HR companies utilized paper forms for applications, manually delivered the documents to their teams, and stored them in large file storage. While this process has been going on for years, everything became different as the 2020 pandemic hit—HR departments were forced to conduct job interviews and applicant screenings online. Like the other departments, the human resources management faced the changes as remote work continued to increase. Since working from home seems to stay until the new “normal,” HR departments need to improve their hiring process, including the management of online application forms.

Read More
How Pre-filled Forms Can Innovate Your Online Business

How Pre-filled Forms Can Innovate Your Online Business

When the pandemic hit the world in 2019, lockdown meant no more strolling down through the shopping malls anymore—and e-commerce businesses saw this as a ray of sunshine. The quarantine enabled online stores to be stronger than before. People started to see the benefits of scrolling down their mobile phones to choose products, explore different stores, and order something overseas. Aside from the convenience of buying stuff online, product reviews are useful for consumers. People can now check whether their desired product is worth the money or not, and this helps them set the right expectations.

Read More
Not Really Sure Where To Use PDF Master Forms? Here Are A Few Ideas That Could Help

Not Really Sure Where To Use PDF Master Forms? Here Are A Few Ideas That Could Help

More than its ability to convert PDFs to online forms and combine PDFs into one file, Master Forms is more than a file management feature. It’s central data that can be used to create multiple copies of your PDF–allowing you to produce a combined, organized, and accessible silo of your documents. While a master document such as Master Forms can organize numerous documents, this feature is also beneficial for all types of industries–making your organization’s data management even better than before.

Read More
 The Pomodoro Technique for Productivity: Does It Work?

The Pomodoro Technique for Productivity: Does It Work?

I used to hate techniques and self-help productivity books—until I heard about the Pomodoro technique for productivity.

Read More
How PlatoForms Online Forms Can Empower your Hospitality Business

How PlatoForms Online Forms Can Empower your Hospitality Business

We are all familiar with how hospitality businesses operate–the usual greetings, escort services, food assistance, hotel bookings, and more. While it is common for businesses providing hospitality to offer a 5-star customer experience, what most companies in this field don’t pay attention to is the customer’s data gathering and management.

Read More
API Integration For Online PDFs, How Does It Help?

API Integration For Online PDFs, How Does It Help?

Today, every single software has been benefiting from the large advantage of APIs (Application Programming Interfaces). Because of the API, the performance of applications and web systems becomes seamless and more convenient. Our online forms here in PlatoForms are equipped with API for PDF forms–allowing you to streamline your form usage.

Read More
Tips On Maximizing The Web Form Feature

Tips On Maximizing The Web Form Feature

Back in the day, scanner machines contribute to the glorious use of PDFs. Using PDFs meant manual scanning and filling out of forms—thankfully, with the help of online PDF software, it is possible to turn PDFs into web form today.

Read More
9 Ways You Can Make The Most Out Of PDFs

9 Ways You Can Make The Most Out Of PDFs

PDF is popular. When Adobe released the PDF format in 2008 as an open standard, people have known PDF as the most convenient, pocket-sized, and ideal document format for every type of industry.

Read More
Your Guide To Using E-signatures: Things That You Need To Know!

Your Guide To Using E-signatures: Things That You Need To Know!

Back in the day, people will travel miles and miles away just to get one handwritten signature from a business deal.

Read More
 How Pre-Filled Forms Can Boost Your Completion Rate

How Pre-Filled Forms Can Boost Your Completion Rate

Ever tried to fill out a PDF form online but quit midway because it’s tiring to put the same information over and over again?

Read More
Announcing Stripe Integration: Accept Payment via Stripe With PlatoForms

Announcing Stripe Integration: Accept Payment via Stripe With PlatoForms

A PDF software and form builder with payment integration? Now, your online PDF forms can seamlessly receive payments from your clients whenever, wherever. In addition to converting PDFs to online forms, PlatoForms can now be also integrated with Stripe to take the hassle out of online payments. With our Stripe payment forms, turning PDFs into fillable forms and collecting payments through it is now possible in minutes.

Read More
How Your Team Can Depend On PlatoForms Workflow

How Your Team Can Depend On PlatoForms Workflow

It’s the digital age of automation and online transactions—but some companies still like sticking to the old.

Read More
Tips on How To Succeed in Working From Home

Tips on How To Succeed in Working From Home

Working from home is more than sitting at computers and sipping coffee every day. It also means juggling with personal life such as taking care of kids, getting distracted by pets, and battling with background noises at home.

Read More
Why We Love Using PDF Workflow Forms For Team Collaboration (And You Should, Too!)

Why We Love Using PDF Workflow Forms For Team Collaboration (And You Should, Too!)

Thanks to the advancement of technology, we can now collaborate without being hindered by time and location. Because of electricity, the internet, and the right collaborating tools—team collaboration is now within reach.

Read More
HIPAA Compliance: Your 2021 Definitive Guide

HIPAA Compliance: Your 2021 Definitive Guide

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of telehealth began to rise rapidly to expand the health assistance to patients amidst quarantine limitations. Since everyone is advised to stay at home, those who seek medical help found convenience through telehealth for check-ups. Since medical consultations are now conducted online, the use of online forms to obtain patient information needs to be more secured than ever. Thankfully, HIPAA compliance exists. Because of this act, healthcare providers have the HIPAA authorization to obtain medical information from forms.

Read More
Why Your Business Needs Master Forms: Fill Once, Generate Multiple PDFs

Why Your Business Needs Master Forms: Fill Once, Generate Multiple PDFs

Filling out the same information across multiple business forms wastes time and increases errors. Whether you’re in real estate, HR, education, or running an online business, duplicating data across documents is frustrating and inefficient.

Read More