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.
We made lots of changes during our last upgrade. Many of the changes were relatively small but made life building your online forms a little easier. One of those changes is the addition of more pre-built forms. The pre-built forms are an easy way to get started with the basics without having to build a form completely from scratch. They also give you good ideas for the types of fields you may want to include in your own form, even if you don’t use a pre-built one.
Many small businesses and nonprofit organizations have turned to blogging as a way to connect with their customers, and as a relatively cheap way to do a bit of online marketing. One of the more popular blogging platforms is WordPress. Many people don’t know that creating a form that works in your WordPress blog is easy with FormSpring. You can create any type of form, a simple online contact form or even an event registration form, and embed that form right within your blog post.
There may be times when you want to collect a small bit of information on one form and then redirect the user on to a second, longer form to collect more information. On the second form, you don’t want them to have to fill out any of the same info from the first form, so you want to pass on that data from one form to another.
We have been working hard on a new version of the FormSpring form builder and are excited to announce many great new features and functionality. Most of the changes you will see will give you more flexibility in managing the look and feel of your online forms as well as providing your users with better usability. You can see some of the major changes in action by viewing a video recap.
Often times we talk about FormSpring being used by small businesses and nonprofits, but there is also a strong number of educational institutions (Colleges, School Corps, Athletic organizations, etc.) that are using our form builder and using it in many unique ways.
We were asked the other day for tips on how you can use your online contact forms and online lead generation forms in smarter ways to really create value for you and your business. Some of the tips below might seem basic but ofter overlooked by the majority of people who are creating their online forms.
We often talk a lot about the features and functions within our form builder, but one of the many topics we rarely touch on here is why do you need web forms?
The answer is simple, because it’s an easier way to manage and collect information. Many of our customers are small businesses or nonprofits who were used to collecting information through old fashioned paper forms, Word or PDF attachments, or emails. By collecting information through online forms you are not only making it easier for your customers and website visitors to give you information but you are also making it easier to manage that information you collect for your organization.
We were very excited in developing the FormSpring iPhone Apps because we knew that with the growth of the iPhone and the many technologies it uses that there would be some very good business uses for both the phone and the apps.
