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Anvil for HR tech

Quickly automate onboarding documents for better employee experience.

HR techs use Anvil to launch customized digital workforce management solutions. Use Document AI to generate mobile-friendly, multi-lingual Webforms for any HR paperwork process.
The challenge

Hiring and supporting a workforce requires a library of complex forms mandated by governments and employers. Paperwork rules and compliance make it

difficult for companies to build a delightful and streamlined digital experience

for both the employee and employer.

The solution

A developer-first platform for

capturing reusable structured-data, preparing documents, and collecting e-signatures

. Anvil's pre-built library of components can be easily assembled and integrated to accelerate software development for any paperwork process.

How Seso digitized farmworker hiring with Anvil

Anvil's platform provided us with all of the tools to build and scale new digital experiences, quickly and compliantly, directly into the Seso product, from bespoke webforms for data collection all the way through to document generation and e-sign.

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Jordan Taylor
Co-founder & Head of Product, Seso
See the full case study

Seso is building a labor marketplace for the agriculture industry, offering end-to-end recruiting and workforce management.

Jordan Taylor
Co-Founder, Seso
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One platform for all document workflows

Collect data with Webforms
Collect data with Webforms

Use Anvil's AI Webform generation to build on-brand mobile-friendly Webforms.

Fill or generate PDFs
Fill or generate PDFs

One API call is all it takes to fill PDFs via API or dynamically generate new ones.

Get it e-signed
Get it e-signed

Identify and assign signers with Anvil's Document AI and embed white-labeled e-signatures into your app.

Provide the best digital experience for your clients

Quickly build tailored HR experiences that exceed your clients' expectations.

See white labeling docs

Fast-track development with prebuilt PDF templates

Get started with a prebuilt forms that you can customize and begin collecting responses to in minutes.

FAQs

Is Anvil customizable?

Yes. Anvil can dynamically determine which questions are asked in a webform and which PDFs get filled, style the entire form filling experience with CSS, determine the order in which e-signatures are elicited, and even format the output of the final documents. If you find something not customizable, let us know.

How does Anvil help my team build and scale faster?

Paperwork is table-stakes for many businesses but carries an opportunity cost for developers working on core, differentiated features. Our SDK jumpstarts the software development process for documents so you can launch new products faster, saving your engineers months of document-related development time.

How much is Anvil relative to building it all in-house?

It depends on a number of variables (such as the number of developers resourced for building in-house, their salaries, etc.), but we’ve observed customers reducing costs, including time saved, on the order of 3x up to 10x.

Can Anvil be used to complete government forms?

Government forms such as the I-9 or W-4 are right within Anvil's wheelhouse. These forms are standardized and often available as fillable forms that can be easily used to create templates for filling over API or as part of a Workflow. Anvil has many of these forms already built as document templates that can be easily copied to get started.

Government forms often get updated every year. Rather than having to create an entirely new template, Anvil allows you to easily swap out the underlying form but keep your fillable configuration.

Can Anvil be used to complete non fillable PDFs?

Anvil makes it easy to add validated, fillable fields to any PDF with a simple drag and drop UI either as standalone templates or in the Workflow builder. Anvil's builders also support text tags, allowing you to create templated PDFS from .docx files.

Can existing information be used to pre-fill or complete forms in Anvil?

Anvil Workflows allow you to pre-fill Webforms with your own structured data in addition to any new data you need to collect from employees and/or employers. This can be done over API or with no-code UI URLS and Zapier. One or more Webforms can contribute to a set of documents in an Anvil Workflow.

What if I have multiple documents that need to be generated?

Anvil Workflows can fill multiple documents from a single submission of data. If information is replicated across documents (such as employee name, address, etc.) you only need to provide or request that information once. Anvil Workflows also allow you to add document selection logic to determine which documents should be filled and included in the Workflow output.

Can I collect one signature for multiple documents?

With Anvil Workflows, a single signature (from any number of signers) can be applied to an entire set of completed forms.

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Let's find the right solution for you

Talk with our team about your document projects and learn how Anvil can provide:
  • More flexibility with composable & reusable components
  • Faster time to market
  • Easier development
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A developer-first approach to paperwork

Integrate e-signatures into your app with just a few lines of code.
Use our React components to embed your Webform and receive notifications.
Get notified via webhooks when users submit data to your webforms.
Connect to our API with the language of your choice.
Get the full details on integrating Webforms into your app.
Find detailed documentation, references, and step-by-step tutorials all in one place.

Anvil is secure & compliant

Bank-level encryption
We apply industry standard encryption to all data in transit. Sensitive data gets an extra layer of encryption.
Trusted reliability
We go beyond providing best in class uptime and deliver super-fast performance at any scale.
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