Lightning Forms is a SharePoint list form design tool that aims to enable users to improve the logic, layout and styling of responsive SharePoint Forms. Lightning Forms offers cascading lookups, customized buttons with actions, repeating lists integration, tab controls, styling and conditional control formatting, calculations, and expressions. These features help users to build business forms within SharePoint and offers an alternative to InfoPath Forms.
$2,200
per year per installation
Setmore
Score6 out of 10
N/A
SetMore is appointment scheduling software from the company of the same name in Portland, Oregon.
$0
per month up to 4 users and 200 appointments
Pricing
Lightning Tools Lightning Forms
Setmore
Editions & Modules
Lightning Forms OnPrem
From $2000
per year per installation
Lightning Forms Plus OnPrem
From $3500
per year per installation
Lightning Forms OnPrem Enterprise Edition
POA
per year per installation
Lightning Forms (Online)
From $2200
per year per installation
Form Designer Suite (Online)
From $4000
per year per installation
Lightning Forms Enterprise Edition (Online)
POA
per year per installation
Team
$9
per month per user (unlimited users)
Pro
$12
per month per user (1-2 users)
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Lightning Tools Lightning Forms
Setmore
Free Trial
Yes
No
Free/Freemium Version
No
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
No
Entry-level Setup Fee
No setup fee
No setup fee
Additional Details
Prices stated are minimum per installation for "stock" products.
$2.2 & $4.00 per user/year for each product ion top of base price.
Enterprise editions can be amended to suit business needs if deemed necessary, additional costs incurred and TBD.
All packages include free technical support.
Free upgrades available to latest versions of tool as they are released. (online versions)
Up to a 58% discount available for annual pricing.
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Features
Lightning Tools Lightning Forms
Setmore
Survey Format & Appearance
Comparison of Survey Format & Appearance features of Lightning Tools Lightning Forms and Setmore
Feature
Lightning Tools Lightning Forms
8.2
1 Ratings
2% above category average
Setmore
-
Ratings
Custom logo/branding
8.21 Ratings
00 Ratings
Survey Content
Comparison of Survey Content features of Lightning Tools Lightning Forms and Setmore
Feature
Lightning Tools Lightning Forms
8.6
1 Ratings
1% above category average
Setmore
-
Ratings
Changes to live survey
9.11 Ratings
00 Ratings
Multiple question types
8.21 Ratings
00 Ratings
Survey Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Survey Reporting & Analytics features of Lightning Tools Lightning Forms and Setmore
Feature
Lightning Tools Lightning Forms
9.1
2 Ratings
11% above category average
Setmore
-
Ratings
Data export
9.12 Ratings
00 Ratings
Standard reports
9.11 Ratings
00 Ratings
Survey Administration & Security
Comparison of Survey Administration & Security features of Lightning Tools Lightning Forms and Setmore
Overall, there are many use cases for which Lightning Forms provides a slick, easy to develop and extremely useful solution. Request forms that need to be actioned and inspection forms are the scenarios that we have used them for so far, which have seen a lot of success. We have decided that other scenarios that are perhaps more sensitive, for instance forms that may contain special category data relating to our customers, are less appropriate given the permissions/licensing constraints of both SharePoint and Lightning Forms.
SetMore is getting aged as it is. we have been moving progressively to other solutions for scheduling with far better integration. however, SetMore is a good tool to implement in start-ups and small business where you need to have plans and activities scheduled with individuals inside and outside of the organization. As mentioned, this tool is used internally with the support team, sales team, RRHH. This last uses with recruitment prospects that can go to the website and schedule its interview with an assigned person considering the availability of it.
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Simple user interface - users of the forms intuitively aware of how/where to input information. This is in part due to being able to show or hide different questions or areas of the form, and making them required or not, based on previous answers.
Low/simple code - building complex forms with automation and multiple dependencies or lookups is relatively easy once you get started. You have the power of JavaScript to use and do some quite clever things if you can get to grips with it - a lot of solutions are only a Google away.
As it is based on SharePoint, it integrates perfectly with the rest of the M365 suite. Things like PowerAutomate enhance its functionality even further.
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The styling of the form can sometimes be slightly awkward to use depending on what you're looking to do. For instance, if I was looking to highlight fields that users have missed (left empty), I would need to set up a validation for that question and then set a style for that particular field for when it is invalid. When you have a large and complex form with lots of dependencies, this is awkward.
Support for complex and niche issues is slightly lacking in my experience. I submitted a helpdesk ticket for help with a strange issue I couldn't figure out, which took several weeks to get a response to. Because it is niche, it's more difficult to find an answer by searching the internet. Luckily, knowing there is likely to always be a fix if you find the right place/use the right formula, I manage to resolve the issue with some trial and error.
It is disappointing that Lightning Forms does not integrate with the MS Lists app. Having the ability to access the form through the list app would add in a lot of useful functionality, including a better experience for users when taking photos to add as attachments.
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It is very user friendly both to me who is building the content (with little background knowledge of coding etc., other than what I have picked up from using products like PowerAutomate, PowerBI, a bit of html etc.) and to end users of varying levels of IT proficiency. This has been extremely important as we have used the forms to make relatively large process changes, and need to have our users on board and seeing that it is actually easier than it was before.
Some support has been okay, but in one instance of a fairly complex problem, the support team were not able to provide me with a fix within a few weeks, before I was able to find a workaround myself.
We were using Microsoft Forms, SharePoint Lists and PowerAutomate to attempt to do much of what we are currently doing. Functionality is very limited in comparison. The ability to make questions required based on previous answers was a massive improvement from normal SharePoint List forms and has greatly improved the quality of data. Also just the very visual display and customisation is much better.
SetMore is so much simpler while providing great features. The ease of use makes this a better product for our clients and staff without sacrificing many of the bells and whistles that others tout. The online booking pages ability to schedule without creating a login has led to more visitors scheduling appointments instead of clicking away when scheduling.
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We changed the process by which site colleagues report repairs on behalf of customers. Instead of emailing them into a shared inbox, they now report them using a lightning form. We have seen a great improvement in the time taken for our team to log the repair issue from the time is arrives with them.
We anticipate that streamlining our void property reletting process by using a SharePoint kanban board view with lightning forms (providing a single platform for all things void) will reduce avoidable days vacant and therefore reduce our void loss.
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