Online forms are not just for large corporations with budgets for specialized applications. Small businesses can make use of 'customizable' form creation systems to suite their needs too.
Online forms are a great way for any business to cut-down on the paperwork associated with maintaining and collecting paper forms. Although there are specialized, and costly, applications developed for specific industries such as health care, travel etc. there are other more generic systems that work well for small businesses. These systems typically permit you to create an online webpage in a matter of minutes and allow you to see the entries online. Some even offer the ability to integrate with a payment system such as Paypal.
Createforms.com is one such system which has a wizard-driven design that lets you simply answer a few questions about the type of information you want to collect (e.g. name, phone number etc) and it creates the online webpage for you instantly. After the page is created, users enter the information and it is collected for you waiting. When you need to look at the information, you just login and print it out or download it. They also offer very affordable rates starting at just $5/month.
Next time your small business collects information such as customer lists etc, consider using an online system to cut-down on the time and expense of maintaining a paper list.
