123FormBuilder vs. FormAssembly

If you have a lot of customer interaction with your site, where you need to collected specific, targeted, situational data, 123FormBuilder is an absolute winner. If your site is more information and perhaps leads to a software platform or other product or service, 123FormBuilder might prove unnecessarily robust for you. Something simpler and cheaper might make more sense for you. But in most cases where you're seeking to collect information from customers, I'd happily recommend 123FormBuilder.

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Our primary use case for FormAssembly involves using it for data intake into Salesforce. We've found that FormAssembly for the cost is the best and most flexible form builder on the market to allow us to quickly create and test forms to get data into Salesforce. We've even been able to accommodate quite complex logic in FormAssembly forms to process form data into actionable information internally. Outside of the specific Salesforce power-ups, I probably would not be as keen to recommend FormAssembly over other applications such as Google Forms. While we love the Salesforce connectivity, I would say there are other apps on the market that offer better options in terms of sharing settings, user validation, and overall look and feel of the forms.

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• Ease of constructing a form with requisite inputs
• Customizable look and feel options based on varying requirements in our case
• Logic based branching & validation

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• It integrates well with Salesforce. It allows for bi-directional communication which is critical for our form. To provide the custom with a good UX, the form dynamically responds to their input, saves their choices as records in Salesforce and then puts in them in the next step in the process.
• FormAssembly allows for custom scripts to be used (javascript, CSS and html). This has allow for our forms to align better with our branding and provide for a more robust and clean UX.
• We can communicate from one form to another using dynamic url variables. Due to the complexity of our forms this is huge. It allows for our customers to input less, save their info in Salesforce and they stay in a natural workflow regardless of how many forms we need to incorporate.

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• Some employees are intimidated at first. After all, it is html.
• There is so much functionality that it can be easy for novices to get lost.
• Will there be more payment flexibility? parents use more of the bank to person payment options.

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• we could always use more styling options when it comes to the form builder
• in our past use of the form builder when adding attachments to a form, there was an upload limit of 35MB. It would be great if this limit was increased.

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I like the product, but I am no longer in control of the project where this product was being used. However, I would definitely use 123ContactForm on future products

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FormAssembly continues to meet our needs, and the product functionality continues to grow, providing us with new opportunities to utilize the software. We've built many forms and associated processes on FormAssembly. It would require a large effort to migrate to another platform. We have invested a lot of time in learning FormAssembly.

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Easy to install and quickly explain to others how to use

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I've used FormStack and compared to FormAssembly it's connectors to Salesforce personally I think is much easier (Not sure if formstack had any changes since I've used them since 2019 only). I also like how it's easy to create new fields and easily map them to Salesforce and especially the calculated fields which really helps for creating assessment type forms for our clinical department.

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I did not encounter any blackout issues

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The interface was very good and easy to use. Everything loaded quickly and it was easy to integrate other products

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Very neutral, did not have to use support a lot

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While it's not a true development package and misses some features like ingestion of external data for lists, etc... the product is fast, stable, easy to use, and will suit the needs of anyone needing online form functionality with SalesForce and other connectors available for your marketing needs.

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I installed 123ContactForm myself and while I had some issues installing it I was able to visit their website and the troubleshooting information they provided in their faq section. They did offer other support if a user needed additional support, but I found the information provided on their website to be more than sufficient

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123ContactForm was very easy to implement and the content provided by them supported the product very well and answered all of my questions

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I didn't participate in the implementation.

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Compared to JotForm or Woofoo, 123ContactForm offers a much better interface and better flexibility than the other tools. I have used JotForm only to get stumped by their inability to push the limits of the form. As for Woofoo, the level of ease of use in terms of their interface leaves much to be desired. Any updates made to their form was down using a WYSIWYG, where with 123ContactForm you can make the updates while building the form

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When we were researching options 2 years ago, FormAssembly beat other form tools hands down based on Salesforce integration features. The ability to declaratively set up prefill and post-submission data connectors supporting complex hierarchical data relationships was huge there. We also valued the ability to authenticate Salesforce users on the form. This allowed us to ensure that only authorized individuals could make updates to their records (and not other people's records) via the form. Since we embed it so heavily into Salesforce, we often compare FormAssembly to Salesforce's native Visualforce and Lightning Component frameworks when deciding how to fulfill a data capture requirement. Unless something very custom is called for, we very often choose FormAssembly first for the flexibility it gives us to build and iterate in the early phases of a new program.

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It was easy to install and I believe that would make it easy to use across several websites

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• 123ContactForm has been positive for my business. It has saved us money because we did not require any development I was able to do this myself.

• We used to use Joomla built-in forms on our site... oh wow, what an upgrade. FormAssembly is miles ahead. We've saved so much time - we get better, cleaner responses and our users don't have to waste time.
• Updating our existing client records using FormAssembly is a godsend. It's super easy to direct our clients to the proper places.
• We get creative, sometimes. We've built in a feature for our Excel reports that automatically pushes a response through FormAssembly, into SalesForce - so that when salespeople complete an Excel report, then can quickly/easily update SalesForce without logging into anything. Thanks for the workaround, FormAssembly!

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