ARUN NAGARAJAN: Hello, and welcome
to another great exciting episode of "Googles Developers
Live."
My name is Arun Nagarajan, and I'm
with the Google Apps Developer Relations Team.
And we're actually live here from our studios.
We have a great partner, PandaDoc, that's joining us.
And they're going to be walking us through a great add-on
that they've built for Google Docs.
And we'll have a conversation, but more importantly, also
see a demo of the product, itself.
But before we get started with some of the technical demos,
and the product stuff, tell me a little bit
about what the company does.
What are your typical products?
And what are some of the use cases you're trying to solve?
DUSTIN YODER: Yes, so we built PandaDoc out of the idea
that we had another application that we were sending proposals.
And what we realized is people wanted
to send all kinds of documents.
They wanted people to be able to sign, comment,
annotate, and even track the document they sent out.
So that's where PandaDoc came from.
And with the PandaDoc Google add-on,
or the add-on to Google, it allows any document
to be uploaded, sent to anyone you choose, and then you
can comment back and forth, sign in, and get confirmation
that they've opened it, signed it,
and you can communicate right inside.
ARUN NAGARAJAN: So it's a whole electronic document workflow?
DUSTIN YODER: Exactly, but it's all inside,
and so it's just one clean workflow.
ARUN NAGARAJAN: That's great.
And who is a typical user?
And who are using PandaDoc today?
DUSTIN YODER: Yes, so we created it with the consumer and SMB
in mind.
So we thought there was this big gap in these smaller companies,
and the everyday user like ourselves,
the 25-person software company, sending documents.
We didn't have these enterprise applications for doing this.
And so we all use the Google Docs and all the other document
storage companies.
And we said, let's build something
that works with these guys.
And since we use Google Docs inside our company,
and we know a lot of other consumers and SMBs do,
we said let's build it for them, and give it to them for free,
and have a great product for them.
ARUN NAGARAJAN: Perfect.
And how does the Google add-ons for sheets, for Docs rather,
help a business?
Like what are some of the selling
points of the integration?
SASHA KOVALIOV: So the first one is seamless integration
with your processes, actually.
So you don't have to two or three different applications,
everything is done inside Google Docs?
The other one is simplicity.
It's very simple, as we'll see later in the demo
how it's done.
And we have a really clearer UI.
A lot of people are complaining that right now the e-signature
in software and applications, they're a pain to use.
We've devised PandaDoc with a clearer UI,
from the very beginning.
And this is the main benefits.
And we've built it really fast.
It took us only a month, month and a half to do,
and we'll see how it works.
ARUN NAGARAJAN: All right.
That's great.
Let's take a look at the demo.
SASHA KOVALIOV: Yeah, absolutely.
So we were using Google Docs, ourselves.
And we hate to use three, four, or five tools
to just send and complete a doc.
So that's why we decided to build PandaDoc.
And I'll show you how easy it is to send a document.
So I'm sending an agreement to Dustin for him to sign.
So let's see how it works.
You login into your Google Docs, and you open your doc.
So you have PandaDoc menu on the top,
you open the PandaDoc panel, and we
will define who are we going to send it to.
So we're sending it to Dustin, so we type Dustin's email.
And we need to add several widgets,
so name, it will be filled by Dustin, we select and enter.
This will be filled by Dustin.
Then we will add a Date Selector,
which again will be completed by Dustin.
And the last one is his signature.
So we add a Signature block into the document.
And when we're done, we just click Send,
and we will be able to insert a small note to say, Dustin,
what we want him to do.
So we'll just say, hey Dustin, just please sign and date,
so we can start.
ARUN NAGARAJAN: And all of that is fully integrated
into Google Docs?
SASHA KOVALIOV: Absolutely.
ARUN NAGARAJAN: You haven't left the doc yet?
SASHA KOVALIOV: We don't leave anything.
ARUN NAGARAJAN: That's great.
SASHA KOVALIOV: So we send him the doc.
We can open the doc in PandaDoc now, to look at the timeline,
and to track activity.
ARUN NAGARAJAN: And this is your tool, this is the web app?
SASHA KOVALIOV: This is yes, this is the web app.
ARUN NAGARAJAN: Great.
SASHA KOVALIOV: And we can see what fields Dustin has to fill.
Let's take a look at what Dustin has
to do to complete the document.
So he gets an email, he opens the document,
and he can fill the document in three simple steps.
He enters his email, he picks the date,
and then he adds his signature.
He can upload his PNG, he can draw,
or he can just select the typed signature.
He clicks, Complete the Document, and this is it.
It's done.
I can track all the activity.
I can track when Dustin opens the document.
We have the notification, we have the Dashboard.
So whenever somebody says, well I
haven't received the document, I can say,
well I see you have received it.
And also we give you the legally binding PDF copy,
for your old-style users, with a certificate and IP
address and the hash.
ARUN NAGARAJAN: If you had to actually print it?
SASHA KOVALIOV: Yeah, if you need to print it.
ARUN NAGARAJAN: That's great.
That's awesome.
And I think you mentioned that it
took about a month and a half to build this?
SASHA KOVALIOV: Yeah, about that.
So API is very easy to use.
There is really good documentation.
And let me quickly go through how it was built.
ARUN NAGARAJAN: Yeah let's take a look.
SASHA KOVALIOV: So as you can see here,
the plug-in itself consists of two sides, the panel
and whatever happens on the server, right?
So, there's a server side, which is actually a script.
And we have HTML Panel client, which talks to the server side.
ARUN NAGARAJAN: Great.
SASHA KOVALIOV: All the widgets here, we
inserted them as images into the Google Doc,
and we'll link them to the appropriate instances
into PandaDoc.
So when you click Send, all the images
will be transformed into HTML slices in PandaDoc, which
the signee can fill in, and sign them.
So in a nutshell, this is how it works.
ARUN NAGARAJAN: That's very cool.
Thank you very much for sharing all the details of your add-on,
and also some of the business context
of why you built this add-on, and what
you're looking to get out of it.
I've personally used the add-on, and I
think it's a really awesome add-on.
These guys have done a terrific job.
Good luck with the launch, and we really
hope you guys out there check it out, and give us
a lot of feedback on it.
Thank you very much.
DUSTIN YODER AND SASHA KOVALIOV: Thank you.