Last Updated on June 1, 2022 by Editor
WPForms is built specifically for WordPress. Whether it is accepting payments from the form itself or collecting signature of the user filled by mouse on desktop or screentouch on smartphone, WPForms will do.
1. WPForms Lite (free)
With WPForms lite, you can start free. The lite version of WPForms is best used for creating a simple contact form, newsletter signup form, or suggestion form. There will be no watermark or link pointing to WPForms site, unlike JotForm and many other online form builders. You can also start with Blank Form while adding fields as per your need but with restrictions. Fields like Phone fall under Fancy Fields and not allowed under WPForms free lite plan. So is the case with Payment fields.
2. Basic Plan (39.5$ per year)
For one WordPress website:
Unlimited Forms: No restriction on the number of forms you can embed on your WordPress website.
Unlimited Entries: No restriction on the number of submissions. WPForms will keep record of all the form submissions, be it few hundreds or many times more.
Advanced Fields: For placing parameters like Phone, File Upload, HTML.
Form Templates: No need to start from scratch. Start with a related template and customize.
Multi-page Forms: Filling a larger number of fields on one screen can be overwhelming. Feature to divide a form into multi pages.
File Uploads: One can attach files which again can be text, PDF, or image format.
Constant Contact: Integration with this popular email marketing software. This helps connect data from WPForms submissions into Constant Contact database in an automated way.
Spam Protection: Captcha to discourage unwanted submissions.
Conditional Logic: New questions arise based on what the user fills. For instance, if the user fills male, then Sir, what do you do, and when female, Madam, what do you do.
There is one year of support and updates. You are free to download and activate on any one site at one time.
3. Plus Plan (99.5$ per year)
With Plus priced 99.5$ per year, for three WordPress sites, you avail everything in Basic, and:
Newsletter Forms: Integration with email marketing software Mailchimp, AWeber, GetResponse, Campaign Monitor, and Drip that results in functionalities of newsletter forms such as auto sending of a weekly newsletter based on latest blog posts.
4. WPForms Pro (199.5$)
With WPForms Pro priced 199.5$ per year, for five WordPress websites:
PayPal and Stripe integration for receiving online payments right from the form itself.
Form Landing Pages: Means distraction free template independent of your WordPress theme.
Conversational Forms: Meaning new fields arise one by one. If users are asked to fill a large form, they may not start in the first place. But if fields arise one by one, there is greater chance of fillup.
Surveys & Polls: Features like Likert Scale, random appearance of choices to negate bias, retrospective generation of reports, current result of a poll as user submits his or her own poll.
Form Abandonment: It is not uncommon to fill partial form and then leave. You get the data of the fields that were filled despite the fact that the user did not complete the form by pressing the final submit button. For instance, a user might fill his name and email id while not going beyond. The name and especially email id can be handy for making a followup email.
Geolocation: You can track from which location the form filled (subject to user giving the permission to access location).
Integration with Zapier, a service to integrate web applications.
Signature: A user can sign making use of mouse (desktop/laptop) or screentouch (smartphone).
One can design signup forms, guest post submission forms.
Offline Forms: Even if internet connection lost, forms are saved regularly such that the fields that are already filled accessed.
Form Permissions: Accessibility of a form can be defined based on user status such as a particular form accessible only to Editors.
More Form Templates: Also, survey and poll form templates for quick and easy design of surveys/polls.
5. Elite Plan (299.5$ per year)
You get license to activate WPForms on unlimited sites and more features. There is addon for ActiveCampaign email marketing software. Also, SalesForce CRM integration and Authorize.Net payment gateway integration along with WordPress multisite support.
WPForms has been devised keeping in mind that everything is fast while easy to use with drag and drop. The forms load and submit quickly with optimized codes. For a user like us, this is the best form builder as we avail all the features under one head. From lite free version without watermark or link to Elite, WPForms has something for all.
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