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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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 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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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