Mobile app: GoCanvas
Developer: Canvas Solutions, Inc. (d/b/a GoCanvas)
Cost: Based on Plans
Available on: Apple and Android devices and Windows Desktop
Eliminate paper-based business forms and create digitized, customizable mobile forms using the GoCanvas mobile app. With GoCanvas, users can choose from over 20,000 pre-built form templates to customize or use the do-it-yourself App Builder and PDF Designer. The PDF Designer allows users to customize the layout, colors, fonts and other form elements such as links, pictures and social media.
Contractors can use GoCanvas for inspections, checklists, work orders, invoices, estimates, dispatches, audits, logs and more. In fact, more than 1,000 construction companies and contractors use GoCanvas to automate these processes, according to developer Canvas Solutions, Inc. One user, The Austin Company, claims that GoCanvas has helped them streamline inspection checklists that used to take two or more hours down to only 15 minutes.
GoCanvas incorporates many powerful features including:
- Signature, image, location, and date/time capture
- Calculations
- Autofill information from a database
- Barcode scanning
- Conditional fields and workflow rules
- Dispatch calendar: create, assign and manage field jobs through easy-to-use calendar
- Integration with backend systems
With GoCanvas, users can build their own mobile apps to fit their needs — without programming or coding required — and edit them at anytime. You can create as many mobile apps as your company needs at no additional cost.
App features:
- Works on and offline
- Share data securely in the cloud with customers and colleagues
- Deploy and update forms in real-time
- Required fields prevent users from skipping fields
- Private, searchable database
- Works along side or integrates with other systems via API. Out of the box integrations with solutions like Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, Zapier and Salesforce.com
- Automatically push data into Excel for real-time insights
