Online Permit Application Software for Local Government
Your Permit Application Forms, Online
GovOwl takes the paper and PDF forms your agency uses today and puts them online, so applicants apply and submit from anywhere instead of printing, handwriting, and dropping off. These are your forms, rebuilt online as fillable, paperless versions that match what you already ask for, not our rigid templates handed to you. What the applicant types comes in as a record, ready for your staff to review and accept, so nobody re-keys a form by hand.
A Long Form Becomes a Short One
A paper application shows every applicant every question, including the ones that do not apply to them. Online, the form answers back. For example, an applicant picks their floodplain type and the questions that follow change to match it. The applicant sees a short form, and your staff still gets every answer the long one would have collected.
Where a form is mandated by the state, we match it precisely. Where it is yours, we will work with you, make recommendations to simplify it, then you decide.
Straight Into Your System
Every agency-approved electronic submission routes automatically to the right department and lands on the right record, with documents and plans uploaded alongside it. No transcription, no lost paperwork, no second data entry.
Built for Small and Combined Departments
In a combined office, intake is not one form. It is a food permit application one hour and a septic application the next, then a building permit, a business license, a contractor registration. Today each of those probably lives somewhere different, on paper, in a PDF, or in an Access database somebody built years ago. They all run through the same forms in GovOwl, every one lands on the property record, and the applicant can apply and pay in one go. Putting paper and PDF applications online is where most agencies start with us, so converting your forms into online applications is the work we do most and know best.
Related Programs
Online Payments | Portal | Permitting & Licensing | Building | Environmental Health
Show Us Your Forms
Tell us which forms you use today. We will show you how they run online.