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A powerful form system
I’ve been a heavy Paperform user for a long time and I know that other Sumos are as well. So, I’m going to compare Global Patron to Paperform.
The short answer - This is a good form system for Sumos that like to tweak every aspect of their forms.
The good
- Security seems to be a big deal to them
- You can tweak pretty much everything with some really granular controls (i.e. tweaking a form field down to an individual pixel or setting a custom margin or padding)
- You can make conversational forms (like Typeforms), single page forms, and multi-page forms
- Unlike Typeform, you can have multiple questions on a slide instead of being limited to 1 question per slide
- Unlike Paperform, you can turn off having submissions stored in their database if that's something you don't want
- It already has most of the power features that you would want in a form builder and I'm sure it will just get better
- The conversational forms with a background image have a really nice design
The bad
- In my testing, the forms were slow to load and slow to submit
- The app is slow when loading pages: it seems to work ok after initial load, but the initial load is slow
- Had some issues in Safari: couldn’t change field labels or multi-select options or really anything that involved editing text
- I prefer the form building process in Paperform, but that's just a personal preference
Overall - I really like it and can definitely see a need for using it in some applications.
As part of the AppSumo Early Review program Beta, I received this deal for free in exchange for an honest review.
Riaz_GlobalPatron
May 9, 2024Thanks for the review! Regarding the form load speed, the forms get loaded into a cache automatically after the first time they are viewed by somebody. The cache is per country so if for example you view the form from Germany it will go into cache, then later in the day if someone in the same country checks the form from their phone or another PC in the same country it will load quickly regardless of how big or complex the form is. When the form owner goes to the "build" tab to edit their form the caches for that form get cleared again so that visitors always see the latest version of the form. Most of the time the form visitors will view the cached version of the form, especially if it is a form that is not being edited regularly, (cache is for 30 days) but we are still working on a solution to make the non-cached loads of the forms fast too so that first viewers also see it quickly.