Scanning a printed form so it can be digitally signed is not a paperless process. It is a paper process with an extra step.
In-person signatures used to be the only option, and getting them was inconvenient at best. Then remote signature tools let managers email documents into a signing program, which was a real improvement.
But most property management offices still run on paper leases, paper forms and paper inspections. Scanning a printed document into a digital file so that it can be digitally signed is not as efficient as it looks. You have added a step to a process you were trying to remove.
Because zInspector is paperless front to back, there is no printing, copying, scanning or storing to undo first. Within that context, requesting and collecting a remote signature is a few button clicks rather than a workflow.
A signed PDF sitting in an email thread is technically a signed document and practically a lost one. Because the signed inspection lands in the property Timeline, the version that matters is the one attached to the property, where anyone looking for it would think to look.
It pairs naturally with move in inspections, where getting every leaseholder to acknowledge the baseline is exactly the step people skip.
Yes. You can invite the primary tenant alone or everyone named on the lease, and the document circulates until all signatures are collected.
Agent-completed inspections and any other document created within zInspector. If it exists in the system, it can be circulated.
In your zInspector Timeline for that property, so it stays with the inspection rather than in somebody's inbox.
Send your next completed inspection for signature and watch it circulate itself.
