You may remember Chris Carpenter from previous stories we’ve run on his online doc / forms sites Widgely and Australian Business Forms.

Well Chris is back with Doculicious, a kind of updated version of Widgely.

As before there’s a really simple PDF creator however the main difference is that Doculicious lets people embed the templates/forms onto their own websites. With Widgely the templates can only be used from the widgely site. In addition to that are many other changes including multiple styles for templates/forms, tracking of form usage and export of form data.

I’m really feeling the whole online form thing - particularly when you need to make it an exact replica of an offline form e.g. with official forms. Outside of that though, there are lots of reasons why there’s a need for something like doculicious.

According to Chris, the benefits of using Doculicious over a normal PDF download include:

• Get notifications when someone completes a form.
• Set the notification email to attach the form data as a CSV and/or PDF file.
• Easily track, manage and process form entries.
• Unique tracking codes to match faxed or mailed forms to data entries.
• Form data can be downloaded as PDF or CSV.
• Removes the need to re-type or read messy, handwritten forms.
• Increases compliance by removing error-prone steps from a business workflow.
• Makes it easy for people to do business with you. Increase sales and client happiness.
• No need to change business processes.
• Create styles for a templates web form. Match them to existing site designs and branding.

Doculicious uses a freemium based subscription model (with 6 levels ranging from free to US$197) so  you can pop onto the site and try it for free if you like

As a side note - it’s good to see more and more document/form/info management solutions being created by Aussie startups. Another couple that come to mind are  Documentlabs and Puttoo. I also have a couple of emails from other related sites sitting in my inbox.

Could be an nice little cluster forming.