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GoCanvas

Easy, flexible & powerful software for service businesses.

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GoCanvas Reviews

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  • Ease of use
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  • Likelihood to recommend8.85/10

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What we have found that we like the most is the ability to access this on mobile and workstations. Also, it is user friendly and very simple to use and customize to our requirements for COVID.
The templates they provide and the associated tools to customize your forms to fit your needs are great. If you every have questions or issues the support staff at GoCanvas has also been outstanding.
It has a contemporary look and feel, great mobile app, easy to integrate 3rd party tools or systems, the collaboration, communication and assessment tools are the best.
The mobile app does not support all types of documents (it is not a recurring error, I have not been able to reproduce the error).
Billing and exceptionally bad customer service.
Possibly deleting former employees as well since this data is no longer needed. Maybe also have backups of individual employees when they leave on vacation so that we can get immediate attention.
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Lori M.

Civil Engineering, 11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

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Great product!

Reviewed 5 years ago

Implementing GoCanvas mobile forms has made an enormous improvement in getting pertinent information from job sites to our Project Managers in house. Paper forms completed in the field were not submitted timely and when submitted were often illegible. Now, we receive them daily in perfect form. Project Managers are now able to really manage what is happening in the field which has reduced downtime, unnecessary overtime, and makes month end pay request processing much easier, which translates to more timely payments to contractors and our firm!

Pros

GoCanvas apps are amazingly easy to create. With just a little instruction or even by watching a few tutorials, most any level user will be able to create apps tailored to your specific needs.

Cons

For our particular business, we need the ability to scan and attach documents, not just photos. We have to use a workaround for this and wish the software could handle PDFs in addition to photos. But that's very specific to our needs; overall, there isn't much to dislike!

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Steve K.

Construction, 11-50 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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Canvas has made my job and my teams job a lot easier. Also customer support is top notch.

Reviewed 5 years ago

Got rid of a manual paper process.

Pros

Ease of use and anytime I need the help your just a phone call away with someone always willing to help.

Cons

My only complaint about the software is every time I make a change to an app it creates a new version therefore when I have to do a download of a project that has already been running for a year I have to make sure I am downloading the data from every version.

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PAUL B.

Environmental Services, 11-50 employees

Used other for 2+ years

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Poor communication - bad customer service: Stay away!

Reviewed 3 years ago

GoCanvas have continued to bill our credit card despite repeated instructions to close our account. Customer service seems non-existent despite numerous emails and submission requests over the past month. I am bitterly disappointed with GoCanvas and would strongly advise anyone considering using this organisation to evaluate alternative service providers first.

Pros

At the time, we considered GoCanvas to provide value for money. We have since re-evaluated this decision and now deeply regret involving ourselves with GoCanvas.

Cons

Billing and exceptionally bad customer service.

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Trevor D.

Environmental Services, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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GoCanvas - Business Digitisation

Reviewed 2 years ago
Pros

Creating a live interaction with customers as well as maintaining WHS obligations.

Cons

You do have to put a lot of effort into the set up process to maximise the return from GoCanvas but the implementation team are exceptional during this phase.

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Beth W.

Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing,

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GET IT!

Reviewed 8 years ago

GoCanvas has been incredible to work with. Our business is in Electrical Contracting, and GoCanvas designed a form on their app so that our employees don't need to fill out paper work tickets anymore. They also installed a barcode scanning system, so that our employees can scan items that they take from our warehouse to use at the jobsite. GoCanvas also give the ability to export those work tickets...

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Customer Service Adaptability Ease of Use

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Thanks for your thoughts and feedback! We appreciate it!

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Mechanical or Industrial Engineering, 51-200 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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Go Canvas is a Force Multiplier

Reviewed 4 years ago

We solved our field service ticket and manual inspection sheet issue. We were utilizing computers, tablets and having to access excel and then email to send these forms. Now the techs can utilize their phones and email directly to customer and supervisor when complete. This has allowed us to become much more versatile and is causing other departments to question their processes.

Pros

The basics are very easy to learn and you can quickly create simple forms that allow you advanced mobilization.

Cons

When a form has to be dynamic the software becomes a little more complicated and having to set the app up and then the layout on the pdf can be somewhat time consuming.

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Scott S.

Real Estate, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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The response to the issue was very fast

Reviewed 5 years ago

Quick forms that can be deployed to users with the ability to analyze the input in Excel

Pros

The ease in which a form can be created and deployed to users. I also like the ability to export the data in order to perform analysis.

Cons

Unable to attach additional files to the form. There are reports that are not static that I would like to be able to have saved and added to the form prior to submission

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Kate D.

Environmental Services, 51-200 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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Well worth the wait

Reviewed 4 years ago

Building the Customer PDF took 6 months. It was very complicated, and that plus the geographical distance between US/UK meant that this took longer than expected. The result is very good however, and was worth the wait.

Pros

The apps were very easy to set up, in most cases we went live with the apps the same day. The builder is very intuitive and flexible.

Cons

The apps was very easy - no complaints. The custom PDFs are difficult if you need to do handovers etc.

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Tommy N.

Used daily for 6-12 months

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GoCanvas is fantastic. We use this system in our service company and it has saved a lot of time.

Reviewed 5 years ago

Saves the company time and the presentation to the customer has helped our close rates greatly.

Pros

The customer support is wonderful as well as the ease of use. It also integrates with a lot of other programs on the market.

Cons

No cons at this point. The implementation was very easy and the support has been first class. This software is a wonderful to have and makes doing business much easier.

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John Kenneth M.

Financial Services, 5,001-10,000 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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Paperless? Try this

Reviewed 5 years ago
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Yes, this software really amazed me for replacing our documents to data. This is really amazing software.. Everyone should try this to experience the one of a kind software. Really recommended to all.

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Anthony C.

Mining & Metals, 51-200 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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Good Work!

Reviewed 4 years ago

We record inspections, audits, training.

Pros

Ease of using the apps ease of building the apps Mobile function is excellent

Cons

I am unable to get any badges, banners, or sound notifications on my iphone.

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Cody F.

Security and Investigations, 51-200 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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Great software, terrible licensing structure.

Reviewed 4 years ago
Pros

Almost everything; creating an app is easier than falling off a log, and even our users are capable of filling them out.

Cons

The licensing structure is awful. Not being able to add users without totally resetting your license renewal is easily the worst licensing system imaginable. I have tried to think of a worse one, but never could. As much as I love the service overall, I have to constantly fight my managers to continue justifying the cost, and am constantly tasked to find a replacement to save money which is a huge strain on my time. Admittedly this is partially poor management, but the licensing structure does not help matters.

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Willy E.

Government Administration, 501-1,000 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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Impressive integration

Reviewed 4 years ago

We have used this program for many option such as work orders when we did not have any at the time of using this software. Used electronic forms to track time for employee to build justification, and moved our variety of inspections to canvas to make it easy for submitters.

Pros

- Simplicity to create your own forms - Customization open to get the best forms possible

Cons

- cannot remember as some items have been fixed with each update to serve our need

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Ryan H.

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Retail Application for Greenhouse Growers

Reviewed 9 years ago

We are a live plant grower for "Big Box' retailers, and in some cases we own the product until the product scans through the register. We are responsible monitoring and maintaining the inventory in the garden centers, and a missed sale opportunity in the store means a missed sale for the greenhouse. It is very important that we have a true understanding of what our saleable inventory is in each store...

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Justin H.

201-500 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Canvas

Reviewed 5 years ago
Pros

For clients in higher education looking for a premier online learning product built for social learning, Canvas is the product for you! Having worked in other learning management systems which encourage users to 'document dump' and treat their online courses like correspondence courses, I was quite pleased to design courses and teach in such a high quality learning management system. Additionally, appearance, text size, and other learning environment concerns are appropriate to the higher education context, particularly as accessibility is concerned. This is an excellent product!

Cons

As a fully featured product, there is a bit of a learning curve in using the product well. That said, i'm not sure how to avoid this in a robust learning management system.

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bayu a.

Oil & Energy, 501-1,000 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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Doing what it's supposed to do well

Reviewed 2 years ago

It does what it supposed to do well for simple to medium complex forms/ apps. For simple form it has no issue at all. For forms with more complicated and high volume of data, it has issues with some limitation here and there, e.g. only 75 rows of data will be displayed on the mobile device.

Pros

Apps/ form are very easy to customize and develop.

Cons

Limitation to use big reference data. Not really flexibility on PDF designer.

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Jorge R.

Facilities Services, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Canvas completely change they we were producing and storing service report for my business.

Reviewed 5 years ago

Service reports looks more professional. Save time & storage to us and our clients.

Pros

That it adapted to my business and not the other way around. That it is cost effective. Last but not least, that 99% of my clients love it.

Cons

So far so good! Like every new software, you go to a period of try and error, however canvas support was there all the way step by step.

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Rhonda S.

Construction, 11-50 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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Time Saver

Reviewed 5 years ago

It has made working with the crew in the field easier, has saved us money, our clients like the information that we are giving them in order to see what is going on in the projects that we are working on for them.

Pros

Saves us so much time , money, I cant believe that we did business with out it. This product has made my life easy with the workers in the field.

Cons

Ok, so i tried to put N/A it would not let me , i cant find anything wrong with GoCanvas, it exceeds my expectations .

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John H.

Management Consulting, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Thanks GoCanvas - its the new JOTS!!!

Reviewed 7 years ago

GoCanvas has absolutely changed how JOTS Computer Services, Inc. delivers services to its customers. Truly as simple as Click-Submit-Done, Yes, that easy. From sales, tech support to the development team, GoCanvas delivers the Wow factor in all that they do. Thanks GoCanvas!

Pros

The continuous and creative development of the GoCanvas App. Never gets stale, always looking to improve the user experience, ease of use and value of the App.

Cons

I have honestly experience no cons with GoCanvas.

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Robert C.

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Huge fan of this company ! Great customer service response time !

Reviewed 8 years ago

I wanted this software when my previous million dollar employer didn't care to be open to innovation. They didn't care to hear about an environmentally friendly supply usage app that would've reduced spending costs, and greatly reduced a large paper footprint in our world. Recently, I've started my own company and my business now thrives from it. I'm not a software engineer and this program is user...

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Jozsef S.

Construction, self-employed

Used daily for 2+ years

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Very helpful

Reviewed 2 years ago

Love it

Pros

Easy and very fast way to create an inspection report

Cons

The PDF designer section give me a little headache but overall this is a great software

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Anthony S.

Farming, 51-200 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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GoCanvas helps me get the job done while being mobile

Reviewed 5 years ago

I really like the mobile forms.

Pros

I like the ease of building applications that I can monitor, share and assign to fellow employees

Cons

I wish there was a search function where I can have a spreadsheet of information and in the application I could search the spreadsheet and find the information that I am looking for.

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bob j.

Consumer Services, 11-50 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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Best form app.

Reviewed 5 years ago
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Very smart forms with the ability to use reference data. By far the easiest to use and build with.

Cons

Would like the price to be a little less

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Jeff S.

Utilities, 201-500 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

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Go Canvas

Reviewed 5 years ago

It has been a great experience from day one. great customer support and Go Canvas is with you every sep of the way to get it up and running for your business.

Pros

User interface is great. All of our employees really like how it works in the field. As an admin of the product i like how easy it is to create an app and how much i can personalize it to meet the needs of the guys in the field.

Cons

There is no "Select All" function for trying to copy apps. I have many departments and when i want to copy all aps from one department to transfer them to another it is very time consuming. If this upgrade could be done i would have no complaints about the product. I will go on to say that when i brought this up to Go Canvas they sent a ticket over to the solutions team and they did the transfer for me and it helped a ton.

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Felix F.

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

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It is very user friendly

Reviewed 5 years ago
Pros

It has a contemporary look and feel, great mobile app, easy to integrate 3rd party tools or systems, the collaboration, communication and assessment tools are the best. easy setup to make courses public or private or combined, good support, good availability for integrate with external systems. provides an array of extra features which makes in one of the best LMS on the market

Cons

The layout of the site is well organized but it tends to confuse on certain occasions due to the large number of options and features. it takes a long time to adapt to the environment, Nevertheless, once you get how to use it, worth the effort. the mobile app does not support all types of documents (it is not a recurring error, I have not been able to reproduce the error)