FormSpring 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.
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.
We get a lot of questions here at FormSpring 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.
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 FormSpring 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 FormSpring 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 FormSpring 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 FormSpring forms.
If you use Microsoft Word and build a lot of FormSpring 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.
A growing customer segment here at FormSpring is State and Local Government organizations who are looking for an easy, affordable, way to collect information online and manage that data without having to utilize a ton of IT resources.
Spring is here and that means the spring/summer sports leagues are kicking into high gear. We have a wide variety of sports and rec leagues who already use FormSpring for online registration/sign up forms and one big issue that many leagues have is getting the players and their families to fill out the necessary forms and turn them in the first day of practice.
If you’re using your a FormSpring form to accept sensitive data, such as credit cards or social security numbers, you must enable all of our security features in order to protect your data. These security features are not enabled by default and are only available on paid plans at the Professional level or higher. The security features available to you are SSL, PGP and data encryption.
A while back we wrote about the integration of Google Checkout and FormSpring forms. At the time we wrote that, nonprofit entities were able to process their donations with Google Checkout with no fees or set up costs.
We are consistently trying to expand the ways that you can access information to aide you in the form building process. We have added two new videos. The first is how to use Conditional Logic and the second is how to use Self-Calculating Form Fields.
