{"id":16,"date":"2016-01-11T17:38:19","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T22:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inspectaride.com\/blog\/?p=16"},"modified":"2022-10-19T11:43:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T15:43:00","slug":"advantages-of-software-over-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inspectaride.com\/blog\/advantages-of-software-over-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"Advantages of Software over Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"article-info\">\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"article-body\">\n<p>When was the last time you heard someone say, &#8220;We need to switch to paper because this software stuff isn&#8217;t working out?&#8221; I haven&#8217;t heard that one either. Now, you may hear someone say that they need to switch to different or better software, but no one is looking to make a move back to paper. It makes sense why we don&#8217;t hear this. There are a lot of advantages of being electronic and not paper-based, some of which include the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Less stuff to carry around<\/li>\n<li>No more messy handwriting<\/li>\n<li>Easier to include pictures<\/li>\n<li>Easier to store reports<\/li>\n<li>Easier to send reports where they need to go<\/li>\n<li>Faster to put together with VIN decoder, dropdowns, etc<\/li>\n<li>Better presentation and is easier to read<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you&#8217;re still using paper for your inspections, you&#8217;ve undoubtedly given some thought to switching to software. There are many reasons not to change, whether it&#8217;s cost, the time to learn something new, or fear that it may be\u00a0<em>even more\u00a0<\/em>complicated than what you&#8217;re doing.<\/p>\n<p>These are understandable reasons, but let me ask you this:\u00a0<em>If you could go back in time and make the switch to an electronic process one year ago, which would mean you would be paperless today, would you?\u00a0<\/em>Most people say yes because they understand the value of being paperless and that it&#8217;s a switch that they will make at some point.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s holding you back? One year from now, will you look back wishing you had made the switch?<\/p>\n<p>Be kind to your future self and sign up for a free InspectARide trial to see for yourself if paperless is better:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inspectaride.com\/register?utm_source=blog&amp;utm_content=switch_from_paper\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"undefined\">https:\/\/www.inspectaride.com\/register<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<footer><\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When was the last time you heard someone say, &#8220;We need to switch to paper because this software stuff isn&#8217;t working out?&#8221; I haven&#8217;t heard that one either. Now, you may hear someone say that they need to switch to different or better software, but no one is looking to make a move back to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inspectaride.com\/blog\/advantages-of-software-over-paper\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Advantages of Software over Paper&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspectaride.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspectaride.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspectaride.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspectaride.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspectaride.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspectaride.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspectaride.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions\/487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspectaride.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspectaride.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspectaride.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}