Formstacking the deck
Updated October 21, 2019

Formstacking the deck

David Steininger | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Formstack

Cairn University uses Formstack for the majority of our online forms - from simple event registrations to our Application for Admission and everything in between. Formstack has been an integral part of our initiative to migrate many of our forms and applications to the web, which has - among many other things - greatly increased the speed at which we are able to move students through the enrollment process.
  • Very intuitive and simple use, while offering a lot of advanced features that offer a lot of control.
  • The conditional logic features allow us to build complex forms that walk users through a process, dynamically showing or hiding fields based on their previous selections.
  • Simple and seamless payment integrations.
  • The Wordpress plugin had been a bit fickle (but I think they have improved this recently).
  • Date and time fields cannot be used to trigger conditions (would come in VERY handy for an institution working with a lot of
  • The number of clicks in and out of different screen to finish setting up, say a custom email response, can be a bit tedious sometimes.
  • Google Sheets
  • PayPal Pro
  • Wordpress
Formstack comes with its own live submission reporting capabilities that you can customize and share with others, but by integrating with Google Sheets, we can export data from submissions to a sheet for other users to add additional content columns and make comments.

The Wordpress plugin allows us to easily embed a Formstack form on a page or post with a shortcode.
If you have a need for advanced forms with conditional logic and payment integrations, Formstack is a great pick. If you only need a handful of simple contact forms, there are more affordable solutions. Likewise, if you need a much more robust solution with front-end user accounts (to login and complete a form) or bulletproof integrations with an existing CMS, you might want to find a different dedicated enterprise solution. Formstack can fill in a pretty wide space between the two ends of the spectrum.

Formstack Forms Feature Ratings

Survey templates
8
Themes
7
Custom logo/branding
8
Changes to live survey
8
Multiple question types
9
Survey logic flexibility
9
Data export
8
Standard reports
8
Custom reports
7
Access controls
7
Compliance
9