Make a form
Build sign-up forms that grow your list, and questionnaires and waivers people fill in when they book.
Forms are every place a visitor fills something in. The Forms page has two kinds, on two tabs: Sign-up forms collect emails and can start your automated emails, and Questionnaires & waivers ask questions when someone books or anywhere you share them.
Make a sign-up form
- Open Marketing > Forms and stay on the Sign-up forms tab.
- Press Create a form and choose a type: Pop-up, Banner, Inline, Full page, Link in bio, Video, Countdown or Spinner.
- Write the headline and supporting line, and choose what people fill in. Email is always included.
- Under Organize these contacts with a tag, add a tag. Under Send these automated emails, pick a funnel if you want one to start.
- Press Publish form, or Save as draft to finish later.
More on pop-ups and banners: Add a popup or banner.
Make a questionnaire or waiver
- Open the Questionnaires & waivers tab.
- Type a name in New form name and press New form. Make as many as you need.
- Add an Introduction if you like. It shows above the questions.
- Press Add question and choose a type: Short text, Long text, Choose one (dropdown), Choose one (buttons), Checkbox, or Consent / waiver. Switch on Required where you need an answer.
- Press Save form.
- Attach the form to a gathering or a 1:1 session type so people answer it when they sign up. Or switch on Publish this form to give it its own web address.
Share a published form
- Under Link to the form, copy the link and send it to anyone.
- Under Put it in a website, press Copy embed code and paste it into any website, even one not built in ColibriOS. On a ColibriOS page, add a Form section instead.
Good to know
- Everyone who sends a published form becomes a contact, and their answers sit on their profile in Contacts. The Responses card on the form lists every answer, with Download CSV. You also get an email each time.
- For a waiver, use the Consent / waiver question. People must tick it before they can finish.
- Switch on Ask every time for a question that must be answered fresh at every booking.
- + Email-list signup form (ready to publish) gives you a simple list sign-up in one click.
- Want to collect testimonials through a form? Use the Send answers to Testimonials card. See Collect voice testimonials.
- Need a tag to start a funnel? See Use tags to group people and Build a funnel.