3 Ways to Use Barcode Scanning in Your Mobile Forms
The Barcode feature is a simple yet powerful way to elevate your mobile form data input
Leveraging Barcode Scanning fields and Data Sources (collections of your data) mobile form users can scan a barcode using their device’s camera and instantly populate corresponding fields with relevant information.
For example, if a user were completing a digital inventory form, they could easily scan a product’s barcode and populate corresponding fields with that product’s SKU, name, price, and more. This process significantly reduces the time spent searching for and entering information, results in more accurate data input, and reduces data redundancy.
Many GoFormz users have already realized incredible results via Barcode Scanning. Explore their use cases and transformative results below:
Inspections & preventative maintenance
Barcode Scanning can significantly expedite the input of inspection data, while simultaneously improving the quality of collected information. When inspecting equipment or performing an audit, handwriting inspection notes can result in illegible information and inaccurate data. With mobile forms and Barcode Scanning, equipment information can be instantly populated within corresponding fields, removing the need for handwritten, redundant data, and expediting form completion.
For example, Vestas, a wind energy and sustainable energy solutions provider, uses Barcode Scanning fields within their mobile inspection and equipment preventative maintenance forms. Before GoFormz, Vestas teams would need to handwrite and deliver equipment information using paper forms – wasting time and allowing opportunities for human error. Now, with mobile inspection forms, Vestas teams can simply scan an equipment barcode and instantly populate fields with data.
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“With GoFormz we can take a picture on the spot, scan barcodes for serial numbers, fill in the issues, and send it to the department that needs to investigate the issue… within minutes.”
Digital service tickets
Barcode Scanning can also optimize mobile service tickets. By connecting your Barcode fields to a data collection, relevant fields can be instantly filled with service data, for example, a customer name.
For example, DESHAZO, a crane manufacturer and service provider, uses Barcode Scanning to instantly fill Service Tickets with job site information, resulting in more accurate, timely project data.
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Inventory management
Inventory management can also greatly benefit from Barcode Scanning capabilities. Barcode fields can be used to scan a product, and instantly fill relevant fields with the number of product units available, the product’s SKU and price, and more. When used in conjunction with Automatic Calculations and Table fields, product information can be organized into clear line items, displaying highly accurate price and quantity data.
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