Document Retention

How are you handling document retention for your paperless office? We are using File Butler, http://www.denvertax.com/document-retention/. It is a program that we developed for in-house use.

With File Butler, when a file is created we also include the deletion date. When the deletion date arrives, File Butler moves the obsolete files to a quarantine folder.

This has saved lots of time and disk space.

When I talk to businesses about their paperless office, the document retention issue rarely comes up. This will eventually be a disaster if a business does not address document retention.