Is The Paperless Office Possible?

For 30 years we’ve been waiting for the dodgy scrap metal dealer to collect the company’s metal filing cabinets, dump them in the back of his rusty van, and drive them off to be crushed.  Whilst we’ve been patiently sifting through invoices, indexes, and information, all printed on thinly sliced pieces of forest, we are no closer to the paperless office than we were when the PC was born and people first started speculating what “the office of the future” would look like.

So here we are in 2018… have we achieved the paperless office?  Are we at least any closer?  Not by a long shot! The fact is, every decade the problem gets infinitely worse.  We are still spending hours a week sifting through endless rows of grey, rattling file cabinets and countless yellow file folders (you know the ones, with the curling corners) dreaming of the day when we will be able to find the pages we need in a matter of seconds. We still envision a day when computers will make our working environment streamlined and organised. Businesses are constantly facing pressure to improve efficiency, reduce costs and optimise processes.

Now we’ve all heard about document scanning and digital filing. Scan it and file it. Awesome right? Wrong!  Content Chaos still dominates most offices!  Even with electronic documents!

In a ‘Now’ World when we expect information immediately, quotes in seconds and instant responses, companies who have just shifted their filing system from paper to digital are still suffering from the same drag on productivity.

We’ve only shifted the problem from trying to remember which folder in the cabinet we filed that darn contract in, to which folder on the darn C:\drive!

Putting information INTO a system is one thing. Getting information OUT is entirely another.

Companies with efficient document management systems to manage their paperwork — whether in the cloud or on-premise — operate at a vastly superior level compared to those that still rely on methods that harken back to the dark days of physical file cabinets and traditional digital folders.

What our clients say about PaperLess

“be able to track our invoices more efficiently and with a cost saving to the business...This saves a lot of time trying to find old invoices in the paper archive"

Andrew Barlow, Management Accountant & Acting Financial Controller.

“…the time spent prior to installing PaperLess on processing invoices was lengthy with manually inputting the supplier, description, nominal code and values for each invoice. Invoice recognition does all this for you at a click of a button.”

Kurt Roberts, ACCA MAAT Management Accountant for CPL Training Group Limited

“I personally think it’s great. It allows me to enter invoices without the requirement to manually input all of the data and then refer to archived documents with ease”

Joseph Ryland, UKFast.Net Ltd Finance Director

 “..save £10,000 every year with staff as well as to save employees time spent on processing invoices”

Colin Mayrs, Blair’s Caravans Managing Director

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