Formstack is Solid in SaaS Data Collection
- Event registration data collection and payments with PayPal for High Performance driving events
- Event registration and payment collection for various charitable and non-profit events
- Fannie Mae form 1003 data collection for the loan origination process
- Small merchandise sales and order fulfillment
- Salesforce and general 'form' data collection and request processes
- Formstack integrates very well with WordPress. A simple plug-in install and any WordPress site is ready to begin collecting data.
- Formstack has a plethora of options for the actual routing of data. Not only can you store data in the FormStack cloud for future retrieval, you have the ability to route the data to your own email, others email (for confirmation), or integrate with Google Docs
- The management and flow process of forms is quite advanced. From calculations to conditional based logic, Formstack is capable of quite advanced, quasi-'systems' type data routing. This makes data collecting and the conditional collecting of data (i.e. if this, then collect that) very easy
- Using Formstack, I have been able to - on multiple occasions - stand up professional quality, web-based, data and payment collecting applications in literally days and not weeks. The "time to live" using Formstack is incredible.
- With a Formstack account, you will find yourself often using it to "collect data." The simplicity combined with the professionalism makes it a go-to choice over alternatives such as email and manual data collection, or even SharePoint lists or shared Google Docs
Google Forms and Office 365 are nice tools with not nearly the same feature-set available from Formstack. While they are usually included with your SaaS subscription, they just don't offer as much formatting and conditional routing, nor the integration and notifications to other systems.
SharePoint requires a huge capital investment and a PhD in order to build data collection mechanisms. Even though forms and data can integrate very well to MS SQL databases on the back end, they are clunky and dated in their operations.
Gravity Forms is a solid competitor in the WordPress space. Often costing less with the ability to collect the data to a local database (mySQL). The feature set of Gravity is geared towards a different need and in my case Formstack was a better fit in all situations.
- Implemented in-house