There is a big piece of real estate that many people aren’t using when it comes to their online forms – the confirmation email. With Formstack you can quickly send anyone who submits a form a confirmation email.
Last week, I wrote about how to create a single item order form, but what if you have more than one item and want to integrate your form with PayPal? Well, today I’m going to show you the most basic way to do this. I’m going to skip all of the steps from my last blog post, so if you haven’t read that one, you should head there now.
Over the last few months, my pet project has been the Formstack iPhone application. I’m amazed by how popular the app has been, and even more amazed at the ways Formstack customers are integrating the app into their business workflow. I’d like to take a few moments to look at the three most popular ways the Formstack app is being used.
Many organizations use Formstack for things like contact forms, order forms and event registrations. But one important overlooked aspect of what you can do with Formstack is the ability to create and quickly deploy surveys or customer/user feedback forms. Surveys don’t have to be done by big corporations and they don’t have to be long and arduous. Quick, effective, online surveys can allow your organization to gain valuable feedback from your customers or users. A while back we wrote about some tips for your contact forms so we thought we would give you some tips on how your organizations can use and deploy surveys.
We get a lot of questions here at Formstack about setting up basic order forms, so I thought over the next several weeks I could get a little more in-depth with order forms here in the blog than we do in our support documentation. For today, I’m going to show you how to build a simple single-item form and integrate it with Paypal.
The Coburn Place is an Indianpolis-based nonprofit organization that is dedicated to providing a safe place for women and children who are victims of abuse. We heard about the Coburn Place through a friend of Formstack and his involvement in Giving Sum. He thought Coburn Place could use our services to he;p manage some of their online donations and event registrations. We teamed up with the Coburn Place and helped them get started with their largest fundraising event – Blue Breakfast. Below is how they used Formstack and how they anticipate using it in the future for online fundraising and more!
As we continue to grow both in terms of size and in terms of name recognition we continue to find ourselves with new and exciting opportunities. We received further proof of that as Formstack has been named a finalist for the TechPoint MIRA Awards. We were nominated in the Information Technology Gazelle category which spotlights Indiana’s growing and well-positioned young tech companies.
Anyone who has completed an online form that includes CAPTCHA knows that it can be very annoying, and sometimes actually prevents people from filling out a web form. One of the great advantages to using Formstack is that we have built-in SPAM protection in our forms, however we do give users the ability to add CAPTCHA to their forms in the form builder. We did this because many many of our users requested it for peace of mind and as an added layer of protection on their forms.
We are asked frequently by prospective Formstack customers if they can use our online forms in their Content Management System (CMS). The answer is a resounding yes!
The levels of integration will vary as much as the number of CMS systems out there. Some CMS systems like Big Santo have Formstack integration already “baked into” the application. Others allow for integration of our forms via our embeded option which amounts to basically pasting a few lines of JavasScript code that we provide onto a webpage. And other CMS systems limit their users to using forms as links on the page. No matter what CMS system you are using, there is probably a way to integrate Formstack forms.
If you use Microsoft Word and build a lot of Formstack forms, you may come across a problem where your entire form won’t load in Internet Explorer, yet it loads fine in Firefox and other browsers. This sometimes happens when you paste formatted text from Word into a Section in the form builder. Anything below this section won’t appear.
