The Craziest Document Submission Stories: Share Your Experiences!

As professionals in the field, we often encounter unexpected—and sometimes downright bizarre—ways that clients choose to submit important documents. While it’s always a challenge to maintain a streamlined workflow, these unconventional submissions certainly provide some comic relief.

I’d like to kick things off with a memorable experience of my own. One of my clients once sent me a photo of a PDF that they had displayed on their iPad, but here’s the kicker: they used a Samsung phone to take the picture and then emailed it to me. Shockingly, we had to process that invoice manually, which was anything but efficient!

Now that I’ve shared my story, I’m eager to learn from your experiences. Have you ever received a handwritten note, an upside-down scan, or perhaps an image file with a cryptic name like “Image(345).jpg”?

I’m on a quest to gather tales of the strangest document submissions we’ve encountered as we work on solutions to streamline this chaos. I’m not trying to sell you anything—I just want to know I’m not alone in this!

Feel free to share your stories below; let’s commiserate over the quirks of document management!