# Onboarding

### Streamline the onboarding process

### Accelerate your onboarding process

Bringing your customers, vendors, and/or employees on board faster presents can create a substantial uplift in revenues, retention and more. Sounds straightforward, but it's difficult to execute because current onboarding solutions are manual, costly and inefficient. These systems lack the ability to securely store, manage, and ensure compliance for sensitive onboarding documentation, such as W-2s, contracts, and vendor agreements. With Box, teams can shorten the onboarding cycle, reduce errors, secure sensitive data, and deliver a seamless experience — for employees, vendors, or clients — from beginning to end.

###### Accelerate onboarding cycles
Internal teams and external candidates/vendors/clients can quickly and easily access content and collaborate to make decisions

###### Standardize and automate critical onboarding processes  
Reduce manual routing and limit potential errors by automating each step of the onboarding process

###### Improve the security and compliance of sensitive content  
Simplify how you retain and secure employment contracts, employee documentation, and vendor agreements in accordance with FLSA, EEOC, or other standards

###### Reduce onboarding cost and complexity  
With a streamlined, efficient, and transparent onboarding process, teams can effectively reduce their overhead spend and increase savings

###### Extract insights  
Use [Box Skills](/content/skills/index.html) to classify and extract information from onboarding documents such as W-2 forms, contracts, agreements, and identification documents with machine learning.

#### "We're always looking to make the technology of onboarding people easy [...] A lot of the Box interaction is invisible to them. But behind the scenes, there's plumbing that puts it together."

\- Ravindra Sunku, Director of IT, StitchFix

#### Key capabilities

###### Build custom workflows  
Build custom workflows with Box Relay to automate and standardize onboarding, greatly accelerating the end-to-end process, while reducing internal burden

###### Integrate eSignature tools  
Tools like DocuSign and AdobeSign can be easily leveraged to send documents for electronic signature and save back to Box

###### Control content access  
Implement global security controls, granular file permissions, and built-in retention and audit capabilities

###### Build apps using Box APIs  
Use Box’s APIs and SDKs to create a custom onboarding experience

###### Ensure compliance  
Leverage retention and disposition features to comply with regulations like FLSA and EEOC

###### Prioritize security  
Ensure that sensitive information like employee or vendor PII is safely and securely managed

###### Share and collaborate across functions  
Invite employees and clients to share and collaborate on onboarding files

###### Preview files  
Enjoy less toggling when you can preview over 120+ file types directly in the browser

###### On-demand access  
Access and manage all of your files stored in Box right from your desktop or on mobile

###### Track analytics  
Track, generate, and export reports on onboarding activity in each file using the reports feature in the admin console.