Hi! Can I build complex, long forms without using the drag-and-drop builder? How effective is the AI for form creation?
I currently use Contact Form 7 because I can paste code blocks to build forms quickly. If this offers a faster, more feature-rich option, I’m in. Thanks!
Nice and thank you! This makes it perfect for lead generation usage. That with your API and Webhooks, we can really build out and test interesting sequences to increase conversions. And we can use this on any builder ya WP, HTML.. we can embed forms?
How does this compare to OpnForm? They were a deal on here I hope to see again, open source and total soc2 self hostable security through their leading gitHub community who has a 1-minute quick setup on railway self host. I am primarily concerned with privacy/security and continuous improvement (founder dedication). How can we be sure the data here is never viewed on your back end?
A: When a comment / question is phrased like that, I always get the feeling the person writing this is somehow affiliated with the other platform and just wants to promote it... well, who knows.
To answer your question, I don't know OpnForm, never tried it, so I cannot tell you how it compares. What I can see from first glance is that Deftform offers everything their free and pro plan includes and more, plus we don't charge per additional user.
If you want to self-host and deal with maintenance and stuff like that, it may be a good fit. But there are better open source options available.
We are dedicated to keeping data safe and have released 55 updates in one year. Submitted data is encrypted via AES-256, only workspace admins (and invited team members) have access to data submitted by respondents. And we don't use any tracking like that: https://cloud.ivymayhem.io/0dxjcbdV They are required to use a cookie consent for this, but it seems they don't care and send data to Google and CrispChat without asking your permission.
Good points about their gdpr opportunity to comply better. Regarding the data entered into the fields though, security and privacy are the concerns that a self-hosted option absolves. Can you speak to that, beyond saying it's encrypted&private is there something you can say about your willingness to agree to never access the form fill data we host, which our users trust us with?
Uhm, "willingness to agree..." ? :D What an odd phrase. We have absolutely no desire or need to access any submitted data – never have, and never will. We simply want to offer an alternative to all the bloated and over-priced form builders that exist. We don't share or sell any data with any third-party, neither yours, nor those of your users.
glad to hear that! Yea to explain the word: agree, on a sales page, refers to the representations and warranties that an offering comes with. if you state you will protect our privacy then it is an agreement, thats why I ask for statements on the subject. in the US there are consumer protection laws, not sure about your country if it's just GDPR but Germany is probably similar.
Q: Matrix and payment
Hi Andrea,
I have been working on the forms and getting to migrate my other forms. I have a quick question. Most of my form questions are usually required. Is it possible to make the entire questions compulsory and then switch off those we don't want to be compulsory individually?
Do you plan to have the Matrix input type? You know the type where I add questions in a row and options in columns. Best for when I am comparing several inputs on a scale. See example output on question four of this template https://tally.so/templates/upgrade-pricing-insights-survey/wvB8Qw
Also, are you considering adding quiz mode in the future?
A: Hi there, it's currently not possible to make all fields mandatory by default. You will have to make them mandatory individually. But I added this request to the backlog.
We currently don't offer a "Matrix" table, but this has been requested before and we plan to built support for that later this year (there a quite a few other things scheduled before that).
As for quiz mode, this has been requested as well before but when asking 3 of those who suggested it, we got 3 very different answers of what they'd expect how it works. It's planned to offer this at some point, but we still need to figure out what the best approach for this will be.
Q: Complex form building
Hi! Can I build complex, long forms without using the drag-and-drop builder? How effective is the AI for form creation?
I currently use Contact Form 7 because I can paste code blocks to build forms quickly. If this offers a faster, more feature-rich option, I’m in. Thanks!
andreas_ivymayhem
Apr 6, 2025A: Hi, in order to create fields, you will have to use our drag and drop based builder, we don’t offer a different solution.
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Q: Just checking back to see if multi and conditional steps was done up.. no biggie but..
Ok thanks!
andreas_ivymayhem
Apr 5, 2025A: Multi-page forms will (probably) be available sometime next week. Just need to fix some final things. Basic conditions have been added last year.
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Nice and thank you! This makes it perfect for lead generation usage. That with your API and Webhooks, we can really build out and test interesting sequences to increase conversions. And we can use this on any builder ya WP, HTML.. we can embed forms?
Yes, you can embed forms.
Q: Security/Stability vs. OpnForm?
How does this compare to OpnForm? They were a deal on here I hope to see again, open source and total soc2 self hostable security through their leading gitHub community who has a 1-minute quick setup on railway self host. I am primarily concerned with privacy/security and continuous improvement (founder dedication). How can we be sure the data here is never viewed on your back end?
andreas_ivymayhem
Apr 4, 2025A: When a comment / question is phrased like that, I always get the feeling the person writing this is somehow affiliated with the other platform and just wants to promote it... well, who knows.
To answer your question, I don't know OpnForm, never tried it, so I cannot tell you how it compares. What I can see from first glance is that Deftform offers everything their free and pro plan includes and more, plus we don't charge per additional user.
If you want to self-host and deal with maintenance and stuff like that, it may be a good fit. But there are better open source options available.
We are dedicated to keeping data safe and have released 55 updates in one year. Submitted data is encrypted via AES-256, only workspace admins (and invited team members) have access to data submitted by respondents. And we don't use any tracking like that: https://cloud.ivymayhem.io/0dxjcbdV They are required to use a cookie consent for this, but it seems they don't care and send data to Google and CrispChat without asking your permission.
Does that answer your question?
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Verified purchaser
Yes I do use it thats why I know what I said.
Verified purchaser
Good points about their gdpr opportunity to comply better. Regarding the data entered into the fields though, security and privacy are the concerns that a self-hosted option absolves. Can you speak to that, beyond saying it's encrypted&private is there something you can say about your willingness to agree to never access the form fill data we host, which our users trust us with?
Uhm, "willingness to agree..." ? :D What an odd phrase. We have absolutely no desire or need to access any submitted data – never have, and never will. We simply want to offer an alternative to all the bloated and over-priced form builders that exist. We don't share or sell any data with any third-party, neither yours, nor those of your users.
Verified purchaser
glad to hear that! Yea to explain the word: agree, on a sales page, refers to the representations and warranties that an offering comes with. if you state you will protect our privacy then it is an agreement, thats why I ask for statements on the subject. in the US there are consumer protection laws, not sure about your country if it's just GDPR but Germany is probably similar.
Q: Matrix and payment
Hi Andrea,
I have been working on the forms and getting to migrate my other forms. I have a quick question. Most of my form questions are usually required. Is it possible to make the entire questions compulsory and then switch off those we don't want to be compulsory individually?
Do you plan to have the Matrix input type? You know the type where I add questions in a row and options in columns. Best for when I am comparing several inputs on a scale.
See example output on question four of this template https://tally.so/templates/upgrade-pricing-insights-survey/wvB8Qw
Also, are you considering adding quiz mode in the future?
Is this possible?
andreas_ivymayhem
Mar 31, 2025A: Hi there, it's currently not possible to make all fields mandatory by default. You will have to make them mandatory individually. But I added this request to the backlog.
We currently don't offer a "Matrix" table, but this has been requested before and we plan to built support for that later this year (there a quite a few other things scheduled before that).
As for quiz mode, this has been requested as well before but when asking 3 of those who suggested it, we got 3 very different answers of what they'd expect how it works. It's planned to offer this at some point, but we still need to figure out what the best approach for this will be.
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Q: Dropwdownlist
How many options in the dropdown list?!
andreas_ivymayhem
Mar 29, 2025A: As many as you need.
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