Forms can be a massive pain for web projects.
Designers will throw them into projects without a thought in the world for where the data is going, how it will be stored, how it will be kept secure, or who is going to use it.
Jotform solves all of that.
When you go beyond a simple email signup or a “Contact Us” form, you probably need something like this.
I went on the hunt for a hosted forms solution after I’d beaten my own skull to a bloody pulp trying to get Microsoft forms to do anything useful. Before anyone starts about Power Automate, this is for a social media agency where the team are masters at social platforms, but after that there’s a drop off in technology skills as steep as the white cliffs of Dover.
Three things stood out above the other suspects that include Wufoo, Surveymonkey and Typeform.
Signatures:
We completely dumped a bunch of expensive Adobe signature tools using this, and automated the process of getting clients to sign agency Terms & Conditions. I can get anyone to sign anything, now, and have a decent level of proof that they’ve done it.
Automations:
We already have a Make.com account but some inbuilt workflows for automation make this way simpler. We’re cleaning up the process of clients sending us data, keeping it secure and checked at each step without having to pay a fortune to secure our in-house file sharing systems.
Passing data on.
A bit of a niche one, but I managed to build a small profiling quiz with a custom reporting page using this tool. It’s saved me the £30 a month on a quiz tool like ScoreApp or TryInteract. Possibly one for me to do a tutorial on another day.
Try it out at https://jotform.com
