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Why You Need Customized Proposal Forms

Executives are always looking to make their abstracts conferences more efficient. While there are any number of ways to do so, one of the simplest methods is to customize proposal forms. But, why customize when you can use an existing template to hypothetically save time and effort?

The answer is simple: templates may save you time now, but they won’t as your program progresses. In fact, using a generic template may cost you because you may miss key information or may even ask too much of entrants. Doing so may affect attendance rates and otherwise interfere with perceived organizational prestige.

Below, we explore this concept in greater detail to establish why when you’re looking to boost prestige and efficiency, customized proposal forms are a simple way to do so.

Why Organize the Process Yourself?

Many executives try to organize emails, binders, spreadsheets, and everything else that comes with the call for papers process and collecting proposals. Even with the assistance of a conference manager and the rest of their team, this is no small task.

All too often, minor details slip through the cracks when you’re juggling multiple platforms and trying to coordinate the efforts of multiple staff members. Luckily, you can use abstracts software to resolve these problems and customize proposal forms in the same system.

How Abstracts Software Betters the Proposal Process

Abstracts software allows you to shorten the proposal process while eliminating much of the guesswork as well. The idea behind software is that you can easily create the form you need and then make submissions as painless as possible.

Most importantly, the best abstracts software allows you to build the proposal form using “click and drag” fields. This requires no coding knowledge and, most importantly, means any member of your team can build the form. By allowing entrants to upload images, PDFs, and other documents directly to the form, you can download all files directly without the need to sort through emails or binders.

Certain abstracts software, like OpenWater, also includes support for special scientific notation and the full greek alphabet. This means no users will ever have to be concerned that information is showing up differently than how it was entered. This also means you can be confident knowing the information you receive from users is as they intended it to be.

Customize Your Next Proposal Form

With full functionality and the ability to customize your proposal form without coding knowledge, abstracts software makes it simple and painless for users to enter your abstracts conference.

The best part is that abstracts software supports all other aspects of your program as well, giving you a simple way to manage and oversee your entire program.

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