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.
For those of you visiting the website over the weekend you may notice that there are some big changes. Not only have we rolled out a new website, we also made some enhancements to our online form builder as well.
Long-time FormSpring customers know that we are constantly rolling out new features for our online form builder. What they might not know is that most of these new features are ones that have been suggested by our users. We take customer suggestions very seriously here at FormSpring. If we feel a feature will benefit a majority of our users and it’s possible to add it, we probably will.
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.
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.
Two questions that we are often asked is the best way to integrate your online forms with your website and how to get the forms to match the “look and feel” of your site.
FormSpring gives you a few different options to integrate your web forms. The first is by using a simple link. Each form that you create in the form builder automatically generates a URL for that form. By using that URL you can easily link the form from anywhere on your site, use the link in an email newsletter or post on third party websites, without having to generate a new form for each instance. When using the URL you can choose a standard template (we offer 6 basic templates) or you can create your template.
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’ve had our PayPal integration for a while now and many of you are using it for order forms, event registration forms, ticket promotions and more. But one of the requests we often get is “do you integrate with other processors?” We are proud to announce that today we are launching some enhanced features to our PayPal integration as well as new integration with Google Checkout, Authorize.net and First Data.
