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Why do people still use paper work orders?
Someone came to fix my garage today. The garage repairman issued me a paper work order and I asked why they don't do this on a phone or tablet. He said everything is done via paper. Are there startups solving this?
- rossdavidh 7y agoOh, it's been solved, many times. But consider the advantages of paper: - low battery usage - high contrast; easy to use in direct sunlight - rapid bootup time - you drop it, it still works - cheap - low training time (for simple forms) - error-tolerant in many ways Now, there are problems as well, for sure, like no data validation and expensive harvesting of that data. But, in many cases, the above advantages outweigh the disadvantages, not because there's not good software to replace it, but simply because there are things that paper is very good at. If you don't particularly benefit from the advantages of software for your exact use case, paper can be absolutely the correct choice.
- ddingus 7y agoPaper does not have downtime. It is robust, does not require licenses, charging, updates... A cheap scanner get it useable elsewhere. Simple, cheap is why.
- zepto 7y agoWhen you say solving ‘this’ what exactly problem are you noticing?