Local Government as a Platform

Enable your users to rapidly deliver services online

IEG4’s eDesigner with Local Gov as a platform enables business-users to build and deploy intelligent online forms rapidly, add custom-built rules and integration to existing systems and connect online forms to payment systems without code (No Code). Access to a library of 250+ forms come with eDesigner and forms can be shared between authorities.

Business users can build powerful online forms quickly and easily

Get rid of all your paper forms, PDFs and the manual processes underpinning them

Marketplace sharing

Councils can choose to share any forms they develop via the forms directory

Link to workflow and back office systems

Facilitate a complete digital transaction – see progress checks, requests and documents

‘Council in a box’ suite of forms

A library of 100+ forms is available from day one to get you up and running fast

eDesigner in number

>900

Different online forms across our council users

400k

Forms built by councils submitted by customers in 2018

35%

Of all IEG4 form submissions are now from those built by customers

100+

Forms free as a part of being an eDesigner user

Build your Online Services

Building intelligent digital services couldn't be easier with the user friendly features embedded into eDesigner; constructed to enable business users, to directly build their online services as per their requirements

Lightning fast, with simple to access design features

Easy no code payment integration

Easy no code logic building

Easy to add questions, answers, document uploads

Easy to edit service content

Easy to capture evidence online

Seamless Integration

Seamless integration into document management, digital workflow, citizen accounts, payment engines, maps, and line of business applications

Forms used in existing EDMS or Open Process workflows

Forms tracked by citizens

No code payment integration

No code back office integration

No code mapping integration

Local Government in a Box

eDesigner Marketplace suite comes with access to a library of 250+ forms, many of which have been built by users and made available to share. It’s a great way to either get started or get your forms strategy into shape

Share forms through eDesigner Marketplace

Make every service online

Make every Council service look uniform

All forms are mobile-responsive and trackable

Smart search tags make it easy to find forms

Gov.uk Pay integration

All these functions and
‍‍no code

eMapper

Push data collected directly into your systems

With eMapper, council users can map content from online forms directly into an XML format which can be pushed into back office systems.

With simple clicks users can generate a schematically valid file that can be saved to a file location for import or be directly pushed to an API end point.

With this functionality councils have built integration into Civica APP within the customer services team. In another, IDOX Uniform is updated.

Map content into XML format back office systems understand without code.

Map content from user friendly lists to abstract back office codes

Push content automatically to back office locations or directly post it to an API without code.

Ability to map multiple files and push to multiple different locations.

Case creation

A platform based approach to cases and workflow

With eDesigner and OpenProcess a user can map content from an online form directly into an OpenProcess case without code. This means that all content can be seen in situ the second a form is submitted.

Remove the need to manage tasks within email clients!

Transition away from legacy case management applications that simply act as a record of a service request and the associated documents notes

Enable a shift toward a council-wide workflow and case management solution.

Geolocation

Prevent duplication / no code location capture

With eDesigner your customer service/business users can build online forms, which capture location and can show existing issues to prevent duplicate/triplicate requests.

Not only can this be used for any location based service, it can all be done with NO CODE.

Capture the location within eDesigner built forms, which automatically kick off processes in OpenProcess and in turn will automatically show in future forms of that type and in OneVu.

Enable ALL service requests that require location to delivered online

Ability to search their current location or a specific location.

Ability to view a street view

Payment integration

Capita | Civica | GOV.UK Pay | No code

Increasing revenue by being able to collect payments online is always going to be a good idea. With eDesigner's payment plug ins, IEG4's customers have built a huge number of forms designed to capture payment prior to submission.

The incredible thing is that these online forms are built in customer services/business focused teams not in the web development team.

This is possible because they require no specialist knowledge nor any code at all.

Capture payments and fully integrate to your payment system

Options of a fixed price, a custom amount and shopping basket are built in

Using conditional logic users can automatically determine the amount to be paid.

Details of the fund code / payment reference / form reference is passed to the accounts receivable side of things to enable reconciliation.

An email receipt can be set up to be sent automatically when payments go through

Literally takes minutes to set up

Page/Form Logic

Intelligence you control

Designing an online service should not just be a case of replicating every page as if it were a PDF. With the ability to show / hide content or pages based upon what someone has said means form lengths typically decrease dramatically.

The more conditional logic the more likely a person is only seeing questions they really need to see/complete.

With our simple to use rules designer you are able to add conditional logic quickly and easily with no code. Some of the most incredible forms our customers have built have been done from within customer services. E.g. a House of Multiple Occupation Licence form at the Borough of King's Lynn and West Norfolk Council.

Easy to add conditional rules with the ability to nest rules infinitely. I.e. if this and this and this and this and this and this and this is true. Then show this content but hide this content.

Ability to add rules that hide entire pages. Meaning you could have a 20 page form but only ever show 2 pages of it. Ensuring a central point for a user to apply for any licence as an example.

Prepopulation

Seamless | Lego Data

Wouldn't it be great if the data you already knew about someone in OneVu could be automatically populated into your form.

Since its inception its been possible to pre-populate the basics like name, address, email, date of birth. But soon we will take this further.

IEG4's innovative 'headless' approach to converting data from back office systems into a common format for reuse online is currently used in OneVu. However, this same data will soon be able to be leveraged in online forms built by you.

So let's say, for example that you already know a person's rent arrears/parking fine/benefit overpayment amount from when they authenticated to these departments. It will be possible to pre-populate this kind of data into forms you build without code or technical gobbledegook.

Your forms prepopulated automatically from profile data in Onevu

Your forms able to be prepopulated by data from line of business applications.

Reporting

Insight to see and respond to channel shift

Powered by the industry leading Microsoft PowerBI, IEG4's Reportal functionality comes with eDesigner. Managers can see how eDesigner is enabling digital transformation over time.

Reporting comes with the ability to: