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Legacy-friendly Paperless Workflow

Eliminate your dependency on preprinted forms and integrate automated email, faxing and storage.

Whether your goal is a paperless workflow or just a convenient, hassle-free way to manage and distribute forms, Bravo Forms is the solution.

Bravo Forms gives businesses attractive, formatted forms without the expense and hassle of pre-printed stock. At the same time, Bravo Forms creates and maintains a complete archive of each form you print. The flexible form printer definition process allows you to easily define a complex set of processing rules and behaviors and apply them to each job sent to that form printer.

Process Overview

Each print job is output to predefined virtual network printers running on the Bravo Forms server using your existing software. The text-based output from the original print job is overlaid on a PDF or image-based template. Optionally, generated content based on parsed information (like a barcode) can be added. The final PDF output file is created and acted upon based on the definition of the virtual form printer. Actions may include printing the file to one or more physical printers, faxing the document to one or more numbers, emailing the file, and saving the PDF file in a network share on the Bravo Forms server for archival purposes.

Forms Features

  • Web-based interface includes a step-by-step wizard for creating new virtual printers.
  • Define regions of your print job to capture data such as invoice/order number, customer fax, and other data that can be used to make decisions about how to format and route output of your document.
  • Sophisticated pattern matching allows you to batch print documents (like statements) and still process and file each individual document separately.

Formatting Features

  • Easy-to-use and maintain PDF templates eliminate the need for preprinted paper stock.
  • Formatting and alignment options make it easy to ensure that your content is aligned perfectly.
  • Automatically add barcodes and other rich content to your printouts based on specified information or data captured from the print job itself.

Output Features

  • Output system allows users to leverage printing, email and fax to direct formatted jobs to personnel, partners and customers.
  • Built-in, smart archiving system facilitates automated storage of documents based on user-specified naming conventions (including cross-filing).
  • Modular approach to document output and archiving allow users to perform as many output actions as necessary.
  • Document archive can be mounted as a network drive to make documents readily available on your network.
  • Bravo Forms Agent software eliminates the need to setup and install printers within Bravo Forms.

Advanced Features

  • Powerful XML-based API features enable you to customize formatting and output on a job-by-job basis.
  • Electronic faxing API integration allows sending of faxes without a phone line.

System Compatibility

Bravo Forms can interface with any software capable of sending text-based output to a network printer. Because Bravo Forms operates by intercepting print jobs, there is typically no training required for end users on your system.

$11,990 including Bravo Server hardware and a block of 30 hours to be used for installation, setup and forms design.