Customize Complex or Simple Forms with Ease
April 30, 2020

Customize Complex or Simple Forms with Ease

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with JotForm

I’m the primary user of JotForm at our company; however, a number of folks have decided to get their own accounts as well over the past year. The primary purpose that we have selected and continue to use JotForm is that it allows us to create professional processes and systems that allow the staff to spend their time more efficiently all while using a friendly user interface. To give a current example: As you can imagine, in the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of events that we organize have been canceled or postponed. With these situations, our team must work with the hundreds of exhibitors for each show to determine how their payments will be allocated (toward a virtual trade show, toward next year’s show, as a refund, or a combination of these options depending on the client’s direction). Rather than sending out an email and then having our staff collect emails and compile information, we’ve developed a form template that we clone and then customize for each show. When we send the initial email explaining the options, we then include a custom link/button directing them to the form with the company name we have on file in the “Company Name” field of the form. Depending on their allocation selection, additional questions may appear. Depending on various responses, customize confirmations are sent to the exhibitors when the form is submitted. Likewise, custom notifications are sent to our team. The information is also fed into a Google Sheet. We’ve also added another sheet within the google workbook, which has all of the companies listed. Using the Company Name in the form response tab and the company names in the second tab, we were able to pull over responses. This has allowed us to see who has and, at times more importantly, who has not responded. Having all of this information in one place will allow our accounts team to be able to more easily allocate the funds of the hundreds of exhibitors.

  • Integrations: Being able to integrate with the Google Suite, various CRMs, or collect payments with any number of vendors is excellent!
  • Conditional Rules: Being able to show/hide, require/un-require questions, send specific emails, and calculating values based on responses is a game-changer for me.
  • Easy User Interface: Building forms in JotForms is very intuitive.
  • Support: Getting support is easy whether it's via the forum or by submitting a help ticket.
  • Customized Appearance: They've really improved this over the past 6 years, but I wish there were more capabilities when it comes to organizing the form questions.
  • Display of HTML Code: I am charged with updating websites for events. We use the same format for all shows so built a form to help generate HTML code. It worked perfectly, but after a few months there was a change at JotForm and now the code will not display
  • Price Structure: The form limits are lifetime instead of monthly or annually, which may prove problematic for longtime users who do not want to delete forms they made previously.
  • Efficiency: Though it takes some time to build a complex form with the correct conditional rules and custom templates, being able to collect the data in one place allows for a great deal of efficiency; long gone are the days of collecting hundreds or email responses and worrying that you missed one or more of them when you're tracking.
I initially came across JotForms when I hit some limitations on Google Forms. Specifically, at the time, I was not allowed to collect documents in Google Forms. JotForm allowed me not only to collect documents but also to define which types of documents I collected. It has been nearly 6 years since I found JotForm and there have only been a handful of times within that timeframe that I've used Google Forms since.
  • Employee Surveys
  • Customer Surveys
JotForm is very versatile. I've made forms with over 100 fields (many hidden) and others that were only 3 fields. In my last position, I had the free account so I was limited to creating 5 forms. I chose to use JotForm for the more involved forms that were used with the external partners and left the streamlined and internal forms to Google Forms.

Jotform Feature Ratings

Survey templates
Not Rated
Themes
Not Rated
Custom logo/branding
9
Changes to live survey
10
Question design help
Not Rated
Multiple question types
10
Survey logic flexibility
10
Response tracking
10
Data export
10
Standard reports
Not Rated
Custom reports
10
Analytics
10
Vendor-offered crowdsourcing
10
Respondent restrictions
10
Access controls
10
Compliance
10