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Tuesday, January 25th, 2011

Now Available in the Mac App Store!

ScanDrop for Mac is now ready for purchase and download in the Mac App store! ScanDrop is the simplest way to connect you scanner with popular cloud storage options like Google Docs, Evernote and OfficeDrop’s own Digital Filing System!

For a limited time ScanDrop for Mac is only $1.99, but the price will go up after this introductory offer expires – so get it now!

Click here to get the ScanDrop for Mac Scanner Software in the Mac App Store.

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OfficeDrop in Lifehacker

Friday, January 21st, 2011

OfficeDrop is offering a Mac version of the ScanDrop Scanner Software, for a limited time, for free to Lifehacker readers. You can read Lifehacker’s review of ScanDrop for Mac here.

ScanDrop Scanner Software for the Mac allows Mac users to connect their scanners to the cloud and upload paper to popular cloud storage solutions like Google Docs, Evernote and OfficeDrop’s own cloud filing system.

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ScanDrop for Mac Coming Soon to the Mac App Store!

We intend to release ScanDrop for the Mac in the new Mac App Store soon as a paid app, so this is a chance to get the app for free for a limited time!

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Getting the Most out of OfficeDrop’s Cloud Dashboard

Monday, December 27th, 2010

Mylee, one of OfficeDrop’s resident customer happiness rockstars, recently wrote a very helpful review on how to get the most out of OfficeDrop’s cloud document management dashboard. (This is much better than the cloud dashboard post I published last week!)

Introducing the new OfficeDrop Cloud Dashboard!

It’s finally here! We’re proud to introduce the new OfficeDrop dashboard, which gives you an at-a-glance summary of your OfficeDrop account’s contents and recent activity. Now you can view the status of your most recent scanvelope, view all your recent account activity, and see what’s new at OfficeDrop- all from the same page! OfficeDrop’s new dashboard was designed to give you all your pertinent account information at your fingertips-without having to go from tab to tab.

Anatomy of the Dashboard

See below to learn all the different sections in our new dashboard and how each can help you save time and get the most out of OfficeDrop’s document management service.

OfficeDrop's Cloud Dashboard Overview

A. Recent product updates

In this section, you’ll see updates about what’s new here at OfficeDrop, any new products or features we’ve released, and click through links on how to use them:

Dashboard Product Updates

B. Document Processing Activity

See the current status of all your paper and digital files. You can check the status of your most recent scanvelope, or get a list of your most recent document uploads, which folder they’re in, and the upload date. The document names and scanvelope tracking IDs are click through links that allow you to access those particular files immediately, without having to go through the Documents tab.

C. View Documents

Use this section to get directly to your documents quickly and easily. Use the click through links to go directly to your document queue, your newest documents, your Items Not in Folder, or your Favorites folder.

View Cloud Documents

D. Addons Activity

Manage your OfficeDrop integrations directly from the Addons Activity section. You can view the docs you’ve sent to other cloud services like Evernote and GoogleDocs, and access them directly using the click through link file names.

E. Account Activity

From this section, you view all actions performed in your account as well as across any sub-users if you are a multi-user account administrator. You’ll see what user created which folders, who uploaded which documents, and all other actions performed across your OfficeDrop account. It is a great place to manage and audit the data you are storing in the cloud.

F. Alerts and Reminders

Check this section often for information about your account, when you’re close to your storage limit, and other up to the minute account information that will help you manage your OfficeDrop account.

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Instant Cloud Actions

Sunday, December 26th, 2010

Act on your cloud documents instantly with OfficeDrop’s new Instant Action feature!

cloud_dashboard_officedrop21 Waiting until your documents have been completely OCR’d before you can access them is a thing of the past- you can now download, share, and access your documents even before they’ve even processed completely through OfficeDrop’s cloud storage system.

How do Instant Actions work?

This new functionality allows you to act on your documents, even if you can’t text search them yet. When documents process through OfficeDrop’s system, it can take a few minutes before they become fully text searchable PDFs. You used to have to wait for this processing to finish before you could share your documents.

But you no longer have to wait to view, share, or download these files with our cloud Instant Actions! When a document has been uploaded, it will show under your Documents tab with a small red magnifying glass symbol in the upper right hand corner. This lets you know that although the document isn’t text searchable yet, it’s ready for your use. You can immediately view the document, share it, download it, and perform all normal actions upon it (with the exception of search). Once the document has completely processed through our system, the red symbol will disappear and your document can now be text searched.

How are Instant Actions helpful?

Say you have an invoice that you need to get to a client quickly. You upload the invoice to OfficeDrop but don’t want to wait for it to be completely OCR’d before you share it. You’ll see the document under your Documents tab with the red magnifying glass symbol, indicating that while you can’t yet text-search this document, you can interact with it. Select ‘Share’ and your client can then access and download the invoice, whether it has completely processed through our system or not. This cuts down on wait time between when you upload your files and when you can manage them. When you’re in a rush, OfficeDrop’s instant actions allow you instant access. It’s your information- use it when you need it.

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Connect to the Cloud from your Desktop

Thursday, November 18th, 2010

Announcing OfficeDrop’s new Desktop Cloud Connector, a downloadable Windows software to connects your desktop with OfficeDrop’s award winning online digital filing system. Now you can experience the power of cloud computing with the speed and convenience of your desktop computer.

Apps are the Way to Go

Is the web dead?

Our clients spoke and we listened – people want to use apps to manage their cloud-based data! Since the introduction of ScanDrop, our scan to the cloud scanning software, patterns of how users submit their paper into OfficeDrop’s system has totally flipped from mainly uploading from the website in Q1 to larger than 50% email and ScanDrop submission in October.

The chart to the right shows how clients have been submitting digital files into the OfficeDrop’s digital filing system. (Note that we are excluding files submitted into the system by our document scanning service!)

Wired Magazine was onto something – the web seems to not the preferred way to get data into the cloud!

You can read about the growth in our apps in a previous blog post here. And here is a link with more info on how we believe that small businesses think the web is dead.

Key Features of OfficeDrop’s Desktop Cloud Connector

There are some pretty serious advantages to using OfficeDrop’s desktop software to manage the paper and digital files that you’ve stored in the cloud:

Sync all files and scans across the desktops in your organization – and if you are the administrator you can set which permissions and manage which folders and files each of your employees sees
Faster full-text search
Easier document upload and download
Connect directly with your scanner using ScanDrop
4 document views, including the classic OfficeDrop snippet view

If you are already an OfficeDrop user visit https://www.officedrop.com/ze/tools/ to download the Windows desktop app today.

If you are not yet a user, visit our pricing page and pick a plan that is right for you!

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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).