National Association of Realtors Notes GoPaperless Solutions!
We had a great time at the the National Association of Realtors tradeshow this past weekend! The NAR graciously mentioned GoPaperless Solutions in the article linked below. In it, they note that we are the only company out of many offering realtors the ability to get wet signatures! Check out the article here: http://www.narconferencelive.com/2011/11/13/has-your-business-gone-digital-yet/
Chronicles of a modern home buyer
A friend of mine spent over a year looking for a home to purchase and during that time, signed and initialed countless offers and counter offers. The thought of it is exhausting. It went a little like this: she would find a place, get a large email with countless pages depending on the purchasing situation, short sale, REO etc. Print them all out, sign, scan and try to email them back–but only in pieces because the file size was always too large. Finally, she pondered over and over again as to whether or not she should just shell out the costly fees of faxing them out or, drive 30 minutes away to give them to her realtor– if the scanning wasn’t going so well, tiresome right? Remembering this makes me wonder why all realtors aren’t using eSigning technology. The home buyers’ life would be so much easier if each realtor just had a product like eSignOnline.
Treasury Board President Wants the Federal Government to Go Paperless
The Treasury board president, Tony Clement, says he wants the federal government to mostly go paperless by using computers and other technology available to politicians. The tablet computer is one of the ways in which he plans to go about executing his paperless plan. Despite the cost of streamlining all the paper documents into digital form along with the cost of upgrading the outdated IT system, Clement seems optimistic and excited for the long term savings to the federal government.
So, just how much paper does the federal government waste? Well, according to Lexmark and O’Keeffe & Company, $440 million worth–now that’s a lot of paper. Read the full article here: http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Tony+Clement+want+feds+more+digital+documents/5567715/story.html
Four Reasons the ThinkPad Tablet Is Right for Business
Article posted on PCWorld this morning by Tony Bradley, PCWorld.
Tablet headlines have been dominated for the past week by the sudden demise of the TouchPad, and the subsequent fire sale by HP to clear out inventory. But, just because HP is bailing on the tablet industry doesn’t mean the world has come to a halt. Today, Lenovo launched its ThinkPad Tablet–an Android tablet with more of a business focus than some of its rivals.
FormSimplicity Select GoPaperless’ eSignOnline as its Integrated e-Signing Solution
GoPaperless Solutions is pleased to announce that Form Simplicity has announced a strategic relationship with the company and selected eSignOnline as the electronic signing solution integrated within the Form Simplicity program.
With Form Simplicity’s new integrated e-signing solution, powered by GoPaperless Solution, users can now easily and quickly start, send, complete and mange an e-signing process within one easy-to-use interface. Form Simplicity transaction documents as well as uploaded files can now be e-signed in minutes rather than hours and days, reducing cost and eliminating paper from the document workflow. The integrated e-signing solution ensures that the Form Simplicity user experiences a single-sign on and consistent user interface branded to the regional Form Simplicity client. Form Simplicity is now the official forms provider to a growing list of REALTOR® organizations in areas ranging from Florida, South Dakota, Delaware, Iowa, and Massachusetts among others.
“We partnered with GoPaperless because we felt its eSignOnline solution would be widely accepted by Form Simplicity users,” said Joe Ballarino, President and COO of Real Estate Industry Solutions, developer of Form Simplicity. “With the e-signature’s easy-to-use interface within Form Simplicity, users will be delighted at just how quickly they can send documents to their clients for signatures, in addition to having easy access to another tool they can use to create a paperless office.”
“We are excited to offer the integrated eSign service for FormSimplicity. The integration is seamless and adds value to the entire process. We have created a secure and robust system allowing users to feel confident their documents will be signed and returned quickly,” said Mehrdad Alaei, CEO of GoPaperless Solutions, developer of eSignOnline and Real Estate Dashboard for the Real Estate Industry.
Form Simplicity users have the option to purchase Form Simplicity’s e-signature tool by upgrading to the Ultimate edition. In addition to unlimited e-signing capabilities, the Ultimate edition gives users unlimited online transaction storage and unlimited domestic faxing for only $99/year per user. Users may simply click the “Upgrade” link on the homepage of Form Simplicity to select the Ultimate edition.
About GoPaperless Solutions
GoPaperless Solutions is a hi-tech company delivering the latest in total paper-free computing business solutions backed by leading edge service and support with our global ecosystem in mind. GoPaperless Solutions provides innovative software solutions such as eSignDashboard, Real Estate Dashboard and eSignOnline for the paperless professional in a variety of industries including real estate, insurance, automotive, finance, health care, and field service.
About Real Estate Industry Solutions
Real Estate Industry Solutions, LLC is a leading provider of forms management software and technology support services for the real estate industry. The company provides associations, multiple listing services, brokers and vendors value for their customer base through services such as Form Simplicity and Technology Helpline. Real Estate Industry Solutions is a wholly-owned business subsidiary of Florida Realtors® and is located in the Florida Realtors® headquarters in Orlando, FL.
eSignOnline Version 3.0 Release
GoPaperless Solutions today announced the v3.0 release for their product eSignOnline, the new and easy way to get electronic signatures on the web.
The latest release delivers the following features for all plans and users of eSignOnline.
•Address book: All existing signers from past signing sessions are automatically added to the new address book inside eSignOnline. Contacts from other mail programs and databases can also be imported into your eSignOnline address book via a CSV import utility.
•Copy & Duplicate Sessions: Save even more time now with the copy feature that allows user to select the document version, existing signing locations, and signer information to quickly start a new session and send out for signatures.
•Certificate of Authenticity: The option to download and save a Certificate of Authenticity for a signing session as a PDF file to the transaction folder is just a one click step.
•Non-Sequential signing: Sequential signing (parties invited one by one) and Non-Sequential signing (all parties invited immediately) is now an option and choice during signing session setup.
•Enhanced Session History Page: Added functionality to sort, group, and filter sessions for faster retrieval and processing.
•Search Tool: A global search tool to look up sessions by first name, last name, email address, transaction name and session title.
•New Template Zones: More specific signer zones such as Buyer, Seller, Agent, Client, Buyer’s Agent, Seller’s Agent, Buyer’s Broker, Seller’s Broker, Landlord, Tenant, and Other Signers are now available to format templates. This makes signer configuration during template setup in a signing session much easier and more accurate to designate signers.
•Transaction Name: The ability to start categorizing signing sessions under a specific transaction name. As a user creates new sessions and start entering the transaction name, a pull down menu will display existing transaction names in their session history for faster selection and entry. This provides more organization to the sessions and is easier to sort, identify and filter sessions by transaction name.
•Document Download Options: The signing session completion email will now contain links to download all individual documents in a session as one PDF or separated PDFs. This will eliminate any issues with email servers that limit the size of file attachments.
GoPaperless Solutions Offers eSignOnline FREE to Real Estate Dashboard Users
GoPaperless Solutions is happy to announce that our best-selling signature solution software eSignOnline™ is now offered as a free unlimited service to all Real Estate Dashboard™ customers.
eSignOnline is still offered as a stand-alone service, with a simple to use interface and web access from anywhere, for just $9.95 per month. With eSignOnline you can create documents for e-signatures using a simple wizard interface, email out for signatures and get confirmations fast! Save the time and cost associated with paper! No more paper, no pen, no shipping, no waiting for documents in the mail. What could normally take days, can happen in minutes. Signatures created using eSignOnline are secure, encrypted, and legally binding. Your clients will love it!
Real Estate Dashboard users already know the benefits of having their files organized and stored online, getting contracts signed on the spot with a tablet PC using biometric electronic signature, sending faxes and emails instantly, accessing docs online, and much more. Now Real Estate Dashboard users have unlimited use of eSignOnline to send out documents for signature via the web, to get contracts executed within minutes.
Top 10 Reasons to Go Paperless
How Electronic Signatures Can Help Any Real Estate Professional
By Rebecca Meier
What sets an agent apart from all other agents? It isn’t always that easy to break from the mold and stand out in the crowd. In our market today, clients are looking for something more, something different, something to give them a reason to pick that perfect agent and refer them to friends and family.
Real Estate Agents can bring value to their clients by using the Technology that we all have at our fingertips. Some people may find today’s technology a bit overwhelming and shy away from it and those are the people that may be missing out on potential clients, commissions and a much smoother transaction.
Imagine you are sitting in front of a potential client, trying to get that listing. Your potential clients have also interviewed two other agents right before you. You pull out your Tablet PC or iPad and fire up your Real Estate Dashboard™ electronic signature software, allowing them view and securely sign all the required documents right on the screen with the digital pen…no paper, no fax machines, no worries. Then you just email or e-fax it off right from the software. They are so impressed that it was so easy. After you have developed a relationship with your client, you can use eSignOnline™ to send them documents for digital signature without them having to print, scan or fax and without you having to wait for them to get documents back to you. It all happens automatically and within minutes, everyone gets a signed copy. Clients love it and appreciate your use of technology to their benefit.
Here are 10 reasons why going paperless can benefit your business directly:
1. Reduce business cost associated with paper, printers, copiers, fax machines, ink and toner cartridges, repairs and support.
2. Eliminate filing cabinets and reduce office space
3. Conduct business in a mobile environment resulting in faster responses to customers
4. Increase efficiency of your staff by removing the time spent searching for and sending documents
5. Present a professional image to your customers with mobile computing solutions
6. Create faster business work flow by eliminating the time wasted on getting paper signatures on contracts and forms that need to be hand delivered
7. Secure backup of all documents
8. Real time updates and delivery of documents
9. Conduct business environmentally friendly and brag about it
10. Establish rapport with clients who favor “going green”
In this “Green” world we are living in today, you and your client should feel good that you are all taking part to help preserve our beautiful planet by going paperless.
Consider some of the environmental impact of using paper in your business:
• Cutting trees that release oxygen for our environment
• Energy usage and release of harmful gases in pulp and paper industry
• Fuel consumption by air, rail, and road transport distributing reams of paper
• Fuel consumption sending paper documents via ground & air courier services
• Manufacturing printers, ink and toner cartridges
Consider the following facts about the paper and ink industry:
• Paper consumption has tripled since 1960 and Americans generate 85 million tons of paper into the waste stream
• The U.S. pulp and paper industry is the 2nd largest consumer of energy
• EPA estimates that more than 400 million ink and 100 million toner cartridges end up in landfills each year
• The average U.S. officer worker prints 10,000 pages per year
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Consider the environmental impact of just 10 million pages:
• 2,500 trees
• 56,000 gallons of oil
• 450 cubic yards of landfill space
• 595,000 KW (kilowatts) of energy (Data Source: http://www.epa.gov)
This article was written by GoPaperless Account Executive Rebecca Meier. To learn more about GoPaperless, please click here.
If you would like to look through an archive of green technology solutions for the real estate professional, please click here.
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Do you file personal documents electronically?
I recently came across an article where a woman was venting about how years ago, during the emergence of the home computer, people were saying that we would be a paperless society–when in fact, she feels, we are using more paper than ever before. She explained that she has so many documents, for business, school, and personal use, that one thing a computer can’t do is manage them all. Because of that, she maintains an arsenal of printed documents to rummage through when she needs them.
Sometimes, I think it is easier for us to comprehend the organization of our paperwork when we see it in front of us. If our documents are filed away in a neat eDoc program on our computer or tablet, somehow it becomes invisible and seems less manageable. Perhaps with continuing advancement of technology and the shifting of this mindset, we will be able to organize our files electronically without feeling that loss of control. What do you think? Would you prefer to file your documents electronically or not?