Field Data Collection: Survey answers that go straight from the phone to the indicator tracker.
Surveys are on paper or in a separate app.
The data is cleaned in Excel, uploaded weeks later and typed again into the indicator tracker.
Relief One, Programmes & impact
How it works
Offline mobile forms that feed your indicators.
- Build a form with logic, GPS, photos and signatures, or import an existing survey form (XLSForm).
- Collect offline on phones and tablets; it syncs when back online.
- Validate. Checks and a review queue; only validated submissions count.
- Feed the results. Each form maps to indicators, beneficiaries or cases.
What it does.
- Form builder
- Skip logic, calculations, GPS, photos, signatures and barcodes.
- Imported surveys
- Bring an existing form (XLSForm) or a CSV export from your survey tool.
- Offline collection
- On phones and tablets, synced when the connection returns.
- Assignments and quotas
- Per enumerator.
- Validation and quarantine
- Checks and a review queue; only validated submissions count.
- Mapped to indicators
- Answers feed indicators, disaggregation, beneficiaries or cases.
- Maps of submissions
- See where data was collected.
- Consent and minimisation
- Consent captured, only the data you need kept.
The full list
Form builder with skip logic and calculations; GPS, photos, signatures, barcodes; offline mode with sync and conflict handling, enumerator assignments and quotas, validation rules and quarantine, review queue; mapping of answers to indicators (count, sum, share) and to disaggregation, imported surveys (XLSForm) and CSV exports from your survey tool, consent capture, maps of submissions, data minimisation on the device, export to Excel and statistical tools.
What makes the difference
- Forms work without network and sync later.
- A validated submission updates the indicator the same day.
- Values typed by hand are never overwritten.
With your AI agent
One question can cross several modules.
Photos without consent are left out of the donor report.
- A question
- “Draft interim report 2 for Northbridge on Safe Water for Kassala.”
- Reads
- Field Data Collection, Grant Management & Donor Reporting, MEAL, Finance & Fund Accounting, Partners & Sub-grants, Workspace: Home, Drive, Calendar & Office
- Comes back
- A draft report, with the field figures sourced (To validate)
Connected to
It shares its records with these modules.
- MEAL: Show what changed, and how you know.
- Case Management: Confidential files for each person you support.
- Cash & Voucher Assistance: Pay each household once, and reconcile the round.
- Security & Safety: Report incidents from the field, offline.
- Information Management & Maps: Who does what, where.
- Grant Management & Donor Reporting: What each grant still needs from you.
- Finance & Fund Accounting: Does each project cover its costs?
- Partners & Sub-grants: Fund local partners and follow their work.
- Workspace: Home, Drive, Calendar & Office: Where the team works, wherever it sits.
Before you book a demo.
Do unchecked submissions count towards our indicators?
No. A submission that fails a validation rule goes to quarantine and waits in the review queue. Once validated, its answers feed the indicator as a count, a sum or a share, with your disaggregation.
Can we export the raw answers for our statistician?
Yes. Submissions export to Excel and to statistical tools. Forms come in the other way too: an existing XLSForm, or a CSV export from the survey tool you use now.
Can we start with Field Data Collection alone?
Yes. Each organisation starts with the base, then picks its modules. You can start with one and add others later.
Can we switch a module off later?
You can, and its data is kept. A module switched off disappears from menus and search, and switching it back on restores it.
Can you import from our spreadsheets and current tools?
Yes: people, projects, budgets, policies, files (including a one-time import or a live two-way sync with Google Drive), and the content of your existing workbooks. Connectors to your other systems are built as part of the project.
Next module
- Case Management: Confidential files for each person you support.
Programmes & impact
- Programme Management: Which activities can start, and what blocks them.
- MEAL: Show what changed, and how you know.
- Case Management: Confidential files for each person you support.
- Cash & Voucher Assistance: Pay each household once, and reconcile the round.
- Information Management & Maps: Who does what, where.
- Add to your Relief One
- The base: The part every organisation gets.
- Relief One
Book a demo of Relief One.
Tell us how your organisation works and which modules you are looking at. We show you Relief One on the parts that matter to you.