PairSoft Success Stories: How Three Schools Aced Their Document Management

Digital transformation is far more than a trend — it’s the inevitable next step in the evolution of business processes. Running a paperless office is a part of that trend, but it’s not only about becoming more energy-efficient and reducing your carbon footprint. From a business perspective, it’s about reducing operational costs and supercharging efficiency with a cloud infrastructure accessible anywhere.

We’ve often talked about the benefits of document management systems (DMS) here on our blog. For the education sector, which routinely deals with huge amounts of printed and digital information, a DMS is even more valuable, especially when you factor in the relatively low technology budgets many schools face. If you’re still not convinced, here are three schools that have benefited enormously from using PairSoft:

West Virginia University Foundation

The disbursement department of the West Virginia University (WVU) Foundation processes more than 1,200 invoices and 800 credit card transactions every month. Previously, all their invoices were paper-based, making it especially difficult for their three-person team to review each one. As a result, there were often delays in processing payments, not to mention that one fiscal year was enough to fill up 20 filing cabinets.

Related article: Calculating the ROI of document management systemsAfter migrating to the PairSoftCloud, the WVU Foundation was able to shorten the process of reviewing and paying invoices from 26 to a maximum of five business days. Furthermore, after digitizing their documents, all the information became easily searchable, thus cutting hour-long document search requests to mere minutes or even seconds. The result was a faster and more streamlined invoicing workflow.

Excelsior College

Excelsior College processes an average of 25,000 invoices per year. Their biggest challenge was ensuring they were delivered, approved, and returned on time, which was complicated because they needed to send them via interoffice mail for signature approval. Needless to say, it was a relatively lengthy and inefficient process. Moreover, the annual audit process would take many hours to gather the necessary materials.

By moving to PairSoft, Excelsior’s financial team could deliver electronic images of their invoices at any time of day directly to the correct parties using workflow automation. Timeframes were slashed by more than half by tapping an Approve button, and processes that previously took one week now only take two days. Advanced document capture also dramatically reduced data entry and their use of filing cabinets by 50%, not to mention huge savings in purchasing tons of envelopes.

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Washington and Lee University

The Washington and Lee University development office in Virginia found themselves in desperate need of an upgrade. Before modernizing their processes, the team was faced with over five decades of documentation that only kept stacking up. Another cause for concern was that the file room acted as a single point of failure, potentially vulnerable to factors like fires, theft, or natural disaster.

Acting upon a recommendation from a consultant, the university decided to make the move to PairSoft, since it would allow them to integrate scanning into their daily process and thus digitize their entire document collection. The integration proved to be quick and seamless, and no one on the team has had to handle a paper document since. Furthermore, employees working remotely have since been able to access files anytime, anywhere, thus improving workforce flexibility, mobility, and morale.

It’s clear that PairSoftis an easy choice for schools that want to transition to a paperless environment. But even if you’re not in the education sector, cloud DMS offers a host of benefits for any business.

So, are you ready to move to a cloud-hosted document-management system? Call us today or sign up for a free demo to experience the benefits of PairSoft for yourself.