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New OfficeDrop Pricing Plans Coming Soon

Friday, August 13th, 2010

OfficeDrop is Updating Our Pricing Plans

I am pleased to announce that OfficeDrop will soon be releasing new pricing plans. But first, I have a message for existing customers:

Existing Paying OfficeDrop Customers Will NOT be affected by the NEW pricing

If you are an existing paying customer the monthly price you pay will not change. You will continue to receive the same set of services you have come to expect and your plan will remain the same. You can choose to switch to one of the new pricing plans, if you wish to take advantage of our new multi-user features, but the choice is yours. Stay with your current plan or pick a new one at anytime.

Users in Our 60-Day Free Trial Period Will Have Additional Pricing Options

New users who have already signed up for our 60-day free trial will have the option at any point during their trial to upgrade to one of the plans that were available when they signed up, OR they can choose one of the new plans. Again, the choice is yours. Upgrade options that were available to you when you signed up will continue to be available. You also have new plan choices.

Information on the New Pricing Plans

The new pricing plans take advantage of new features we will be releasing in the coming weeks. In particular, we will be launching multi-user accounts. This has been a highly requested feature and we are excited to add this capability to our service. With a multi-user account, a single OfficeDrop account can be used by multiple users, each with their own login. You can also define groups of users, set permissions on folders and documents & customize the OfficeDrop interface with your own logo. Multi-user functionality has been highly requested, and we think it will help our customers share data with their accountants, assistants, co-workers, and others. Other new features available with the new plans include increased storage, counting storage as GB (vs. the page count), and easier ordering of on-demand/one-off scanvelopes.

You will also see that we have a new line of self-scanning plans. These plans will take advantage of our simple to use ScanDrop scanning software, and allow offices to manage and share paper and digital files with our award winning online document management/digital filing system.

New customers will see different pricing plans very shortly. We believe that these new prices will better reflect the improvements to the service that we have made and are making, such as integrations with Google Docs, Our ScanDrop scanning software, more functionality in linking OfficeDrop accounts to Evernote, improved search, more storage, etc.

To preview our new pricing plans, please click here.

We are also working on a new pricing FAQ page, which I will link to as soon as it is ready.

Again, I would like to make it clear that we are NOT changing the prices that current users pay nor the plan they are on nor level of services that they receive. And users currently evaluating our service who are in our 60-day free trial period will be able to upgrade to one of the new pricing plans OR one of the plans they saw when they signed up (i.e. the “old” plans.)

If you have questions please contact us by phone at 888-674-6493, via our live chat feature which you can access at the top of our home page or you can email me, prasad (at) officedrop (dot) com or support (at) officedrop (dot) com.

Sincerely,

Prasad Thammineni, CEO and Co-Founder, OfficeDrop

OfficeDrop Gets Your Paper into Evernote

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

We’ve just issued a press release to let everyone know that OfficeDrop now acts as a cheap, easy way to get all of your paper into Evernote.

Good News For Evernote Users

With OfficeDrop’s new, automatic scan to Evernote it’s simple to get text-searchable paper into Evernote. Users signed up for OfficeDrop document scanning can now set their account to automatically upload all scans, not just manually push selected scans, to Evernote. Evernote customers can drop their paper into OfficeDrop’s prepaid envelopes, put the envelopes in the mail and OfficeDrop will automatically scan all paper directly into the customer’s Evernote account. Learn more about using OfficeDrop’s mail-in scanning service to Evernote here: http://www.officedrop.com/officedrop-evernote

If you want to scan documents yourself, you can also self-scan paper documents to Evernote with OfficeDrop’s free scanning software, ScanDrop. The ScanDrop scanning software that you use to scan to Google Docs is now completely compatible with Evernote. ScanDrop connects TWAIN enabled scanners on Windows machines directly with Evernote. From the convenient ScanDrop application, users can view, edit and upload their scans to Evernote, all without having to open a web browser or Evernote. Get the free ScanDrop software here: http://www.officedrop.com/scandrop-scanning-software/

We hope you enjoy the new ways to get paper into Evernote. This way you can remember paper document as well as digital documents and never forget a thing.

New Site Design Ready For Launch

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

Remember how we mentioned we were going with a new site design? We might have been a little overzealous with the release date on that, but now we’re going live for real. Expect to see the new look by the end of this week.

As mentioned in the above linked post, all of the site changes are purely aesthetic and don’t reflect any change in our business or service. So just sit back and enjoy the new colors, layouts, and navigations.

If you have any comments about the site (Love it? Don’t love it? Want the old site back?) feel free to email healy [at] officedrop.com and let us know what you think.

We hope you enjoy the new look and as always, we look forward to serving your document management needs.

OfficeDrop on AppSumo: 6 Months for 15 Bucks

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

Have you been wishing for a great deal on document scanning and document management? If so, consider your wish granted thanks to AppSumo.

AppSumo is best known for bundling a big pile of awesome web apps, throwing a mawashi on them, and selling it all at heavily discounted prices.

Get Serious OfficeDrop Discounts on AppSumo

Now OfficeDrop is in the ring, and for a limited time you will be able to get 6 months of document scanning goodness for just $15 dollars. For just $15 you can get six months of our document scanning and document management value plan which includes one pre-paid envelope per month (for 6 months), and unrestricted digital storage access.

Also keep in mind that this is what AppSumo calls a snowball deal, which means the more people buy, the lower the price for everyone!

The offer isn’t going to last long, so take advantage of this giant AppSumo discount and start crushing your document problems today. Also please note that this offer is only for new OfficeDrop customers.

OfficeDrop for iPad - Paper To Go

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

Have you ever spent your workday hunched over a messy filing cabinet, hunting desperately for a piece of information you aren’t even sure exists? Imagine that same workday  spent sitting in a comfy office chair, text-searching and then paging through all your documents from the effortless Multi-Touch display of the iPad.

OfficeDrop Logo Now in App Store image

Doesn’t that sound nice? It’s only a download away with OfficeDrop’s new iPad application. Yep, OfficeDrop is making document management easier than ever before with our new iPad app, OfficeDrop - Paper To Go (*see screenshots below). Do everything you can do on OfficeDrop from the rich graphic display of the iPad. With just a few touches of the screen you can:

  • View any of your documents and turn pages with one touch
  • Pull up the keyboard and search all of your documents by word or phrase
  • Apply labels and folders to ensure all of your documents stay organized
  • Share any document by providing secure links to clients, co-workers, and friends

Those are only some of the OfficeDrop features you can enjoy from the comfortable, portable iPad, and with your OfficeDrop account, you’re backed with our document scanning service to ensure your new paper documents also become iPad-accessible.

Our new iPad app is ready and waiting on the iTunes store so you’re just a quick download away from finding any document you want from any place you want (especially that comfy chair).

Download OfficeDrop for the iPad today

iPad Screenshot 1

iPad Screenshot 2

iPad Screenshot 3

OfficeDrop Slips Into A Fresh New Website

Friday, June 25th, 2010

New Site Design

Just a heads up - we’re going to be pushing a new site design in the next few days/ over the weekend, so don’t be worried you’re looking at a different OfficeDrop when you see the new styles.

We’re still the same convenient, secure document scanning and document management service, now with a fresh coat of paint.

As with the name change, the difference is purely superficial - no changes to service, management, features, pricing, etc. Hope you enjoy the new design and, as always, we look forward to serving all of your document scanning and document management needs.

ScanDrop Now Scans to OfficeDrop

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

Good news for OfficeDrop and ScanDrop users alike - OfficeDrop’s free scanning software/ document management application, ScanDrop, now scans your paper documents directly to the OfficeDrop system.

You can download the free ScanDrop Scanning Software here.

ScanDrop Right to OfficeDrop

It used to be that ScanDrop could only scan paper documents to Google Docs, excluding our own document management system. However, thanks to a recent upgrade, OfficeDrop users can now scan, edit, and upload their own paper documents right to their online OfficeDrop account.

OfficeDrop takes the hassle out of document scanning with our bulk and subscription scanning services, and now ScanDrop gives a third option: scanning from home with your own scanner.

Step 1: Choose which storage to upload to

Step 1: Choose which to Upload to

You can now choose either OfficeDrop or Google Docs

Step 2: Sign into your OfficeDrop account

Step 2: Sign into your OfficeDrop account

Sign into OfficeDrop right from ScanDrop

Step 3: Scan your paper, edit and upload with ScanDrop

Step 3: Scan your paper, edit and upload with ScanDrop. You can even apply OfficeDrop labels (pictured)

From ScanDrop you can edit scans, delete pages, and can even apply your OfficeDrop labels and upload to folders

OfficeDrop is designed to save you time by doing the scanning and uploading for you, but if your preference is scanning solo, ScanDrop is the next best thing. With ScanDrop, you can use just about any personal scanner as a portal to scan paper to your OfficeDrop account. Just configure your scanner with ScanDrop and any scanned documents can be viewed, rotated, deleted, and uploaded to your OfficeDrop account.

As always, any paper you scan gets converted to a text-searchable PDF so you can search everything online from your handy OfficeDrop account.

Get the ScanDrop application for free and start searching your paper documents from the convenient OfficeDrop document management system. Download free from the OfficeDrop website or get it just as free from the Google Apps Marketplace.

OfficeDrop Links to Google Docs

Friday, June 11th, 2010

Do you use Google Docs? Wish you could get the paper in your office into Google Docs? Welcome to OfficeDrop scanning services - now linked with Google Docs.

Get Searchable PDFs to Google Docs

If you use OfficeDrop already, you know every document that goes into OfficeDrop becomes a text-searchable PDF file, and you are enjoying the benefits of using OfficeDrop’s mail-in scanning service. When you upload documents from OfficeDrop to Google Docs, they stay text-searchable - pretty handy since Google Docs can’t make documents text-searchable on it’s own. With OfficeDrop’s Google Docs link you can enjoy the versatility of Google Docs without sacrificing text search. It’s the easiest way to get paper into Google Docs as text-searchable PDFs. Follow this link to learn more and sign up: http://www.officedrop.com/google-docs-paper-management/, or visit our page in the Google Apps Marketplace.

Push OfficeDrop Folders to Google Docs

OfficeDrop just released a new application feature that lets you automatically push the contents in OfficeDrop folders to your Google Docs account. What that means is that all of the documents in a linked OfficeDrop folder are automatically uploaded to your Google Docs, and any documents you later put into that folder are automatically uploaded as well.

Send Individual Documents

No need to send an entire folder? No problem. The new Google Docs feature also lets you select individual documents to send to your Google Docs account. Just select the “More” dropdown menu from the snippet view and then you can “Send to Google Docs.” The OfficeDrop system will even let you pick which Google Docs folder you want the document sent to.

Here’s How to Do it:

Step One: Authorizing OfficeDrop for Google Docs

Before you can start linking OfficeDrop folders and sending documents to Google Docs, you must first enter your Google account information and authorize OfficeDrop for interaction with Google Docs.

  • From your OfficeDrop account home screen, click the “tools” link at the topmost navigation bar. Once you’ve done that, click “Add-ons,” located at the top left of your screen.
  • From the Add-ons page, locate the space reserved for Google Docs. In the space provided, enter your Google email account information and click “Authorize OfficeDrop.”
  • From there, you’ll get a Google accounts message. Choose your appropriate Google account and click “continue.”
  • From a second Google accounts window, click “Grant Access” and you will be brought back to the OfficeDrop Add-ons screen. A message should appear notifying you that your account was successfully linked to Google Docs.

Linking and Accessing Folders

Linking folders to Google Docs allows you to scan documents to OfficeDrop folders, and have them accessible from your Google Docs account. When a folder is linked, OfficeDrop documents are uploaded to Google Docs, but documents are never removed from the OfficeDrop system as a result of this link.

  • To link a folder to Google Docs, move to your OfficeDrop folders menu and access the folder’s context menu by clicking the small arrow directly to the left of that folder.
  • From the context menu, select “Link to Google Docs.”
  • A new menu will appear, allowing you to choose which Google Docs folder you want to link with. Select a Google Docs folder from the dropdown list and then click “Create.”
  • A confirmation message will inform you that the link was successful. Now that the OfficeDrop folder is linked to Google Docs, all of the documents in that OfficeDrop folder, along with any document moved or uploaded to that folder after linking, will be made available in the designated folder in your Google Docs account.

*Please Note: Though documents in OfficeDrop will be sent to Google Docs, the link does not work backwards and documents uploaded to linked Google Docs folders will not appear in OfficeDrop.

Sending Individual Documents to Google Docs

In addition to linking folders, you can also send specific documents to Google Docs one-by-one. As with folders, these documents are simply made accessible on Google Docs, and they are not removed from OfficeDrop.

  • Sending an individual OfficeDrop document to Google Docs can either be done from the snippet list view, or from the individual document view.
  • From the snippet view, click the “More” button (located bottom right of the document snippet), and from the dropdown menu select “Send to Google Docs.”
  • From the individual document view, the same “Send to Google Docs” button as a right-hand navigation link toward the bottom of the screen.
  • Once you have clicked “Send to Google Docs” from either view, you will be prompted to choose a Google Docs folder. Choose the Google Docs folder to send to and click “Send.”
  • Wait a moment, and then a message will alert you that the document has successfully been sent.

Known Issues

We have noticed some issues in the way Google Docs recognizes the scans pushed into Google Docs. We believe that this is because some PDFs are approaching the limits of how Google Docs is able to handle files. Issues we have experienced:

  • If you notice an error in Google Docs that says “Sorry, we are unable to retrieve the document for viewing” when you click on the document to preview it, do not be concerned - it in your Google Docs account. If you click on the document a few times Google the document will eventually appear as you’d expect.
  • Some scanned PDFs are too large in size for Google to do virus checks, and you will get a message when you attempt to download the file. If the file is a PDF created by OfficeDrop, do not be concerned - there is no virus.
  • Google Doc’s search index does not always completely index PDFs. You are able to download the PDF with all of text recognized; i.e. a program like Adobe Reader can find the word or text in the file but Google Docs search can not. OfficeDrop is pushing documents that have been OCR’ed and the text is in the document, it is just not being found by Google Doc’s search feature.

Use OfficeDrop to Embed PDFs in Your Website HTML

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

Did you know that you can use OfficeDrop to embed your documents on a webpage? It’s simple.

If there’s a document you want to share via a webpage, you can just paste some code into the HTML and you’ve got a webpage with an embedded OfficeDrop PDF document - just like this one here (how-to below):

Pretty cool, huh? Just another new feature we’ve provided to help you get the most out of your documents. (Don’t worry, the size is only restricted so you can see our handy Blog navigation on the right).

How did you do that?

If you’ve ever embeded a Youtube video, you’ll be familiar with the process.

  • To embed an OfficeDrop document’s URL on your site, find the document you want to publish, and from the list view click the “More” dropdown menu and then select “Embed URL” (you can also select this button from the individual document view).
  • Then, agree to the disclaimer, and click “Publish.” After that, OfficeDrop will provide you with a widget code that you can paste into your site’s HTML.
  • Be sure to change the height and width of the image to your preference before copying the code.
  • All that’s left is to copy paste into your site’s code, and your document will be on display.

For help embedding OfficeDrop documents on your blog, see the Youtube embedding instructions here. Just paste the OfficeDrop generated code where the Youtube code would go.

New ScanDrop Video for TWAIN Scanning

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

In our first ScanDrop video, we showed you how you can scan directly to Google Docs with a Fujitsu ScanSnap scanner. Though the ScanSnap is a great scanner, there are a lot of other brands that use a different software protocol called TWAIN, and the ScanDrop scanning software works with all of these as well.

Basically, all you need to know is that configuring ScanDrop will be a little different if you aren’t using a ScanSnap. It’s still easy to do, so if you’re scanning with a scanner that isn’t a ScanSnap, see the following video to get ScanDrop up and running on your TWAIN scanner.

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