Archive for the 'Form Builder How-To' Category

Formstack is an easy to use form builder but sometimes you need some help. Here you will be able to find tips and tricks in building online forms that work for your organization. Whether it is the building a basic contact form or creating a complex order form you can find all the resources you need.

Form Lingo: SSL (Secure Sockets Layer)

This post is a part of the Form Lingo Blog Series that helps define popular words and phrases within the Formstack application. As a reiteration of the Formstack Support Docs, this series is a response to our customers’ frequently asked questions about particular features, setting options, field names, etc.

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Five Ways to Increase Form Submissions

Form building can certainly be the easiest part in the data capturing process. Receiving submissions, however, can be quite the challenge. In order to make sure you’re getting the most out of your forms, I came up with a few tactics that may help.  The key thought would be to make it as easy as possible for your users to gain access to your form and omit any challenges possible. Even the simplest obstacle can deter them.

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Get Your Information Faster with New Dashboard

As some of you may have noticed, we’ve been working hard to make some changes to the Formstack application. Building new integrations like WebMerge, creating a new Feature Suggestions page, developing an Idea Bar, and launching our new Field Guide – these are just a few things we’ve done to improve our product within the past couple of months. And today, we’re happy to show you another enhancement we’ve made.

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Create Online Forms Instantly with our New Field Guides

In the coming weeks, we’ll be rolling out some pretty awesome new features within our form builder. This week we are excited to launch the new Field Guide. Acting as what you’d normally consider to be a “wizard”, the Formstack Field Guide adds ease to the form building process. With easy-to-use form templates, prompts and suggestions, and continuous guidance, this new Field Guide is a great way to help you make forms even faster.

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Create PDF Documents with WebMerge Integration

We are happy to announce a new integration with WebMerge, a service that allows you to automatically create PDF documents from your form submissions. Setting up your documents is really easy. You can choose to upload a fillable PDF (allows you to type data directly into the PDF) or use their document builder to create your own template.

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HR: The Paperless Employee Performance Form

A previous post titled, “Creating the Best Online Job Application Form,” focused on a buildable form for the Human Resources department of any small to medium business. Today’s post is along the same lines.

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Five Ways to Run Fundraisers Online

Managing fundraisers can be a lot of work. Several hours are usually invested into coordinating each step of the planning process, and conducting specific tasks like recruiting volunteers or collecting donations takes patience and dedication. While running fundraisers can be stressful, there are several simple solutions to make it a lot easier.

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New Feature: Template Gallery For Your Web Forms

A common request from our customers is more style options when it comes to their web forms. It has long been on our minds to add some sort of template gallery that Formstack users could browse and use with their forms. Starting this morning, this new feature is now available on all paid plans!

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Creating the Best Online Job Application Form

As you probably know, Formstack’s online form builder is a great tool for businesses, of any size, to help facilitate otherwise tedious processes. What kind of tedious processes you might ask? Well, there are too many to count, but for now, we’ll focus on helping out the local Human Resources department.

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Using a web form to automatically deliver whitepapers to your visitors

A popular method of both providing valuable information to potential customers and collecting more details about your website visitors is to offer a whitepaper. Typically, in order to download and view a whitepaper, the visitor needs to submit some of their info, such as their name and email address. This kind of setup can easily be achieved using Formstack.

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