As we developed Hande, customers kept asking for more flexibility in how they recorded information. They wanted to create their own forms inside the app, whether that meant taking a different approach from ours or adding something specific to their service.
That is why we built Forms.
You can now create bespoke forms in Hande, giving your team a way to record the information you need in a format you have chosen.
Your service has its own way of working
When we build a feature, we make decisions about what it should capture and how it should work. But the way we have designed something will not suit every team or every situation.
You might want different questions. You might prefer another structure. Or you might need a form for something particular to your organisation that we have not covered.
Those are reasonable things to ask of the software you use every day. You know your service, your staff and the detail that matters to your work. There should be room for that knowledge inside Hande.
Forms gives you that room.
Build the form you need inside Hande
Forms lets you create your own forms for young people, properties and staff, and make them available where your team needs to use them.
You choose the questions and shape the form around its purpose. That could mean creating a property checklist with the detail your team needs, a staff feedback form with your own prompts, or a record for a particular piece of support work.
There are fifteen field types to build with. Four of them connect to the records you already hold, so a form can carry details from a young person, a property or a member of staff without anyone retyping them.
You also decide when a form runs: on a schedule, from an event, after another form, or by hand. A weekly property check can arrive on its own each week. A follow-up review can wait for the form it relates to.
For managers, that means more say over the information staff are asked to record. For providers running several services, it offers a way to put an agreed approach into a form their teams can use.
More choice in how you use Hande
Our job is to keep improving Hande and listen when customers tell us something could work better. Forms is part of that response.
It gives you the option to build a bespoke form when you want a different approach or have a requirement specific to your service. Your feedback still matters, and it will continue to shape the features we build.
We want Hande to be useful in the real working day. Giving customers more control over their own forms is an important part of that.
What would you build?
If you have ever looked at a form in your care software and thought about what you would do differently, we would like to hear it.
Tell us what you need to record and how you would like the form to work. We can show you the Forms builder and explore it together.
Book a demo at handeapp.co.uk, or email hello@handeapp.co.uk.
