Yearly Archives: 2021

Template Additions: Application Forms, Order Forms & More

Formsite template additions

Formsite’s template area offers form owners fast and easy browsing for online form templates. Search using keywords for templates or browse by industry and type, or choose one that suits your style. Our newest template additions offer form owners an even wider range of choices.

Use the form builder to customize the template to include images or your custom brand style. Combine templates or copy item blocks from other forms for the perfect online form for your needs.

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New Style Updates, Excel Numbers, Bulk Updating, & More

Formsite 2021 updates

Formsite has published several updates that don’t warrant individual posts but are still notable. These updates include usability enhancements for building forms, new style updates and more.

Excel Number Formats

A previous update fixed the Excel formatting for exported results to apply number formats to number items. The recent update added currency formatting for the form’s Amount column. Now, form owners can see the order amounts in exported results without needing to update the formats in Excel.

The currency settings should use the user’s local currency choice for their computer. For example, if the local language settings use a European locale then the currency will default to the Euro.

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Styling Online Forms with New Themes, Settings, and CSS

Formsite Styling online forms

Formsite forms have styling options for forms of all kinds. Whether you’re looking to make a fast great-looking form or have strict brand guidelines, our system can help. The form editor’s Style pages lets form owners use built-in themes, customize the settings, or use CSS code. The Style pages include:

  • Themes and Colors: Built-in styling by our professional designers
  • Customize: Settings for virtually every form element
  • Advanced: Add links to your site’s styles or edit the CSS
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Online Store Templates for Easy E-commerce

Formsite online store templates

Formsite has templates for all kinds of business needs, including online store templates. Choose Formsite templates for making a new online store or adding online ordering to an existing store. Examples of templates available include:

Any kind of product or service can display as custom images or in a list of related items. Form owners can add options for customization and follow-up questions. Conditional logic shows extra selections or redirects to other pages.

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Create an Excel Integration for Online Forms

Formsite Excel integration

Formsite’s Google Sheets integration is a popular and useful tool for many customers. Some customers use Microsoft products, however, and use Zapier as a solution. Using Zapier, they connect their online forms for a custom Microsoft Excel integration.

As with Google Sheets, the Excel integration updates a specified spreadsheet with new results. Some useful ideas include:

  • Use as a data backup
  • Share results with colleagues
  • Create custom analytics charts and graphs
  • Make custom reports with statistics and equations
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2 Ways to Make a Custom Dashboard for Online Forms

Formsite online form dashboard

Dashboards are graphical displays of data from a database or Results Table. An example is a modern bank account website that shows the total amounts in all connected accounts. A dashboard for an online form displays metrics like order or scoring totals, completion duration, and more.

Formsite’s integrations page shows over a dozen choices for dashboard services. The specific services offered by each application vary, but they all provide a graphical view of the results data. Here are 2 ways to use a dashboard application to display form data.

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Add Google Calendar Events with Formsite

Formsite Google Calendar

Formsite’s Google Calendar integration now lets form owners add events and attendees to calendars. Set up the integration to connect to a Google account and create an event or add an attendee. Set standard event lengths or include end times in the form, or set all-day events.

Connect Calendar items to the integration to let form visitors choose their date, then either set an all-day event or collect a specific time. See how to set it up.

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Integrate Online Forms with Constant Contact

Formsite Constant Contact integration

Online form owners use Formsite’s integrations to use form data with other online services. For example, our new Constant Contact integration lets form owners send results data to one or more lists after each submission. Constant Contact provides communication services that work great with Formsite.

Constant Contact lets organizations create campaigns to send email, post to social media accounts, and more. Email campaigns allow companies to stay in touch with subscribers and customers through their inbox. Using Formsite’s integration, form owners can add email addresses and other form data to lists.

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