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Get Forms as HTML Email

The email format we use to send form submissions is flexible and supported by all desktop, web-based, and mobile email clients. Plain-text emails however become tedious to read and process for long forms and when form results must be printed for processing, e.g. for mortgage application forms, quote request forms, and many types of forms in the insurance and real estate industries.

FormSmarts users now have the option to have form submissions sent formatted as a table in a rich text (HTML) email. Depending on interest, we may also start to send form results as PDF attachments.

The main advantages of HTML emails are:

• Form reports are shorter
• Look is more appealing online and printed
• Email addresses, web links, and callto links (e.g for Skype) will launch the relevant application when clicked, as long as the field type as been set correctly.

To start receiving form results in HTML, change the Email Format to HTML Email in the Settings tab of your account. This option is initially only available to FormSmarts Pro members, but we plan to extend it to all users if there is demand, and pending review of performance implications.

We welcome your feedback about the ability to get form submissions in HTML format.

P.S. We will soon allow text comments in web forms,… stay tuned.

Posted on June 4th, 2009 in form handler.
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Send Form Results to Multiple Email Addresses

We’ve updated FormSmarts form builder and form processing back-end to allow several email subscribers for each form. We’ll be releasing more subscription mechanisms later this month.

Before using an email address as a form recipient, you first need to add it to your account, and verify it. You can change the recipients of a form in the Form Details screen of your account.

The number of email subscribers allowed for each form depends on your plan.

Posted on May 31st, 2009 in form builder.
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How to Integrate Paypal into Your Forms

We’ve now released a preview of FormSmarts Payment Integration feature.
This preview release only supports Paypal. We’ll extend to other payment platforms and provide a broader range of features in the coming months, based on user feedback.

The spirit behind payment integration is to make it hyper-easy to request a one-off payment as part of a form submission. The feature does not aim to replicate a shopping cart, but simply seeks to address the specific needs of:

• Event registration forms
• Service request forms
• Simple order forms

…and other common cases where a form submission must be followed by a payment.

Requesting a Payment on Your Forms

To request a payment on your form:

1. Set the Return URL of the form to http://www.paypal.com
2. Add a drop-down list or radio buttons, and type list options formatted as:
   

   
   Standard Registration ($30 USD)
   
   Premium Registration ($60 USD)
   

That’s it. We will pick up the option selected and redirect the user to Paypal on the confirmation page.

Simply change the currency code to receive a payment in another currency.

Reconciling Form Results & Payment

The name and email address submitted as part of form data may not always match those on the Paypal account used for payment. You will then need to reconcile each form submission with the corresponding payment using the FormSmarts reference number.

The FormSmarts reference number is shown on the confirmation page and in the subject of the email notification. The same reference will appear in the payment details in your Paypal account.

How Payment Integration Works

In the current implementation, your Paypal email address must be the same as your FormSmarts login. You can change your FormSmarts login if needed.

To avoid the user having to type the same information twice if paying by credit card, we will attempt to pass on his first name, last name, email and country to Paypal. If you intend to request this information on your form, make sure you name the first name and last name fields exactly like this.

Payment integration is at this time limited to one chargeable item for each form. Feel free to try out this demo.

Get a FormSmarts Pro Account Free!

If you sign up for Paypal with a premium or business account (it’s free) with our referral link, we’ll refund your FormSmarts Pro subscription as soon as we get an equivalent referral fee from Paypal! See Paypal conditions here.

We welcome your feedback about payment integration.

Posted on May 5th, 2009 in form builder.
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Tags: payment integration, paypal, pro, return url

Personalize the Confirmation Message Shown After a Form Submission

You can now personalize the confirmation message that is displayed after every successful form submission.

To personalize the confirmation message for a form, visit the Forms tab of your account, and edit the form’s details. This feature is only available to FormSmarts Pro users.

Important note: All default messages shown during form submission are localized. If you change the confirmation message, users will see your personalized message instead of the default confirmation message in their own language.

You can always revert to the default confirmation message by erasing the text in the Personalized Message box.

We welcome your comments about this new feature.

Posted on April 11th, 2009 in form builder.
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Attaching Multiple Email Recipients to a Form

We are getting many comments about the current limitation of one email
recipient for each form.

With the next version of FormSmarts, Pro users will be able to
subscribe to form results using one or more of the following
mechanisms:

• Email subscription. Subscribe one or more email recipients.
• Form to phone. Get urgent form results delivered (”pushed”) to your
  cellphone as SMS.
• Stored form results. Aggregate form submissions on FormSmarts, and
  download them later as Microsoft Excel documents.

The allowance of one email recipient per form for users of the free service will not be changed.

The new subscription mechanism should best fit the needs of most users. We welcome your feedback about this development.

Posted on January 20th, 2009 in form builder.
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