A California County Air Resource District has deployed Laserfiche Forms to help constituents apply for the County Electric Vehicle Incentive program. This program allows County Citizens that have purchased or own an electric vehicle - apply for cash or tax-break incentives.
 
Traditionally, this process was completed via email or in person with paper forms, requiring the applicant to bring copies of their registration and vehicle purchase agreement to the Air Resource District office. After District review, back and forth with the applicant, internal reviews, lots of paper moving, the application moves to payment and the applicant receives a check in the mail. This process was marked with time consuming inefficiencies.
 
The Air District now provides a public facing digital form to qualify, process, approve, and pay applicants. This process allows the applicant to self-identify if they qualify for the program, submit digital copies of all required information, deliver organized information for admins to process, and finally, send checks to the applicants.
 
Staff time on the program was reduced considerably as there have been fewer phone calls (due to the auto email response), less printing, compiling, and filing of paperwork.  Also, the District used one less staff person for these activities.  The approval workflow smoothed out the process between departments, allowing for quick management review and seamless transition to administration for processing and sending checks to the applicants.

Lots of great scanners on the market right now. Our recommendation is always which scanner is the best for you, because your job requirements and scanning requirements are relative to you. Two important metrics to know when identifying the best scanner for you.

1. Pages per minute. A scanners speed is determined by PPM or pages per minute, which  is the amount of pages that can pass through the scanner in one minute. If you have a lot of scanning to do, waiting on a slow scanner can create frustration.

2. Suggested Daily Volume. A scanners volume is determined by the Suggested Daily volume. If you are scanning a large volume of paper per day, you will want to pick a scanner with a larger suggested daily volume than your expected scanning volume. If you over work your scanner, you will experience double feeds, errors, jams, etc, things that will cause frustration.

We are happy to help you identify which scanner is the best... for you, to help complete your daily scanning requirements in an acceptable time frame.

If you are an essential worker and having employees return to work or have an essential staff you manage; it could make sense to provide a digital Health Screening Questionnaire. This form can easily be built in your forms portal and published to the internet to be completed on a tablet or phone prior employees entering your facility.

If this is something you are interested in, it will only require a few Appleby Imaging service hours and could be available in just a couple days. Let me know how we can help you support your current or returning staff. Stay safe!