Case Study: Tennessee Valley Soccer Referee Association achieves reliable mobile, offline incident reporting and automated PDF forms with Jotform

How to ditch paper and collect data for PDFs through mobile forms

Tennessee Valley Soccer Referee Association was struggling to collect standardized U.S. Soccer incident reports from referees working on the field: the process required printing, scanning, or saving fragile fillable PDFs that often resulted in blank or lost submissions and left administrators scrolling through thousands of unsearchable reports. Jotform stepped in with Jotform Smart PDF Forms and the Jotform Mobile Forms app to address these mobile, offline, and formatting challenges.

Jotform converted the official PDF into an online form linked to the original incident template and enabled referees to complete reports offline on their phones; responses automatically sync when a connection is available and populate the original PDF. The solution gave the Tennessee Valley Soccer Referee Association a searchable database (by team name and game number), downloadable CSV/Excel exports, and reliable PDF copies for every submission—streamlining handling of the thousands of weekend reports and eliminating many lost or blank submissions.

Tennessee Valley Soccer Referee Association

Kevin Anderson

Soccer Referee