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Thursday, April 2, 2009

Electronic Forms Solution For Employee Forms - 6 Things to Look For


By Jamie Chapman

Have you ever gotten an I-9 or W-4 form from an employee that was incomplete, the calculations wrong, or the filled out incorrectly? How can you eliminate these problems while capturing data at the same? Turning these paper forms into Electronic Forms with an Electronic Forms Software Solution will allow you to have all your forms completed correctly the first time. Here are 6 things to look for when making a decision on a solution.

Select an Electronic Forms Software Solution that allows you to take your paper forms and turn them into an electronic forms. Look for the following in a solution that offers the following:

  • Required Completion Fields - Avoid having to go back and collect incomplete data with auto-enforced completion of required fields.
  • Locking of Fields - Insures complete form integrity by locking all fields once a form has been electronically signed.
  • Yearly Form Updates - Free yearly updates of State and Federal Tax forms.
  • Data validation Capabilities - Automated field-by-field validation maximizes first-time data collection accuracy.
  • Electronic Signatures - Federal ESIGN compliant electronic signature collection.
  • Email notification - Email notifications that can be automatically sent to HR once forms are complete.

By identifying a provider that can offer these options you are making the time consuming and costly printing, completion, copying, processing and filing of paper forms a thing of the past. Providers should be able to make the technology meet your needs, not your needs matching the technology. Keep this mind when shopping around for an Electronic Forms Solution.

And to help you get started. Check out eForm-Connect with a free online trial at http://testdrive.eformconnect.com/efc

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