Our friends at Mailchimp run an excellent email marketing and communication service. They provide the functionality to build and manage email lists and design HTML email campaigns. Utilizing our recently introduced Server Post functionality, you can integrate your Formsite form with Mailchimp. This integration gives you the ability to build a form and have it automatically populate your Mailchimp mailing lists. You can then professionally send mass communications to the people who have filled out your form.

We provide four payment integration(link) options for automatically collecting payment from your users: PayPal Standard, PayPal Payments Pro, Authorize.net, and Google Checkout. We now have the ability to have email Notifications sent either before, or after, payment is successfully collected via these services. Previously, we always sent the Notification before the user was sent to the payment service to collect payment. This resulted in emails being sent for people who ended up not paying. This option is still available, but you now can wait to have it sent after payment has been received. Many of our users want to provide links, information, or instructions to users only after payment has been received. This new feature makes this possible.

Formsite is donating services to process overflow for American Red Cross donations. Our client, PayByWeb, has been officially authorized by the American Red Cross to collect donations for victims of the Haiti earthquake. PayByWeb utilizes our forms with Authorize.net integration to collect these donations. We have seen a very large spike in traffic since Friday evening (1/15) and continue to see increased volume.

Formsite has committed to donating whatever resources are necessary. If you would like to donate, please visit the American Red Cross.

We are now offering private label versions of Formsite to customers with more than 50 accounts. Our private label version is a custom version of Formsite that runs on the domain of your choice, on a dedicated server, and with your branding. There is no mention of Vroman Systems or Formsite.com anywhere on your site. We provide you an administrative dashboard application that gives you full control over all of your accounts including the ability to add, update, disable, and upgrade accounts.

With a private label version of Formsite, you have control over all external pages. You also have full control over pricing. We have great flexibility and can make customizations to our offering to meet your needs. See the Private Label page for more information.

From day one, performance has been a high priority of ours and we continue to strive to do all that we can do to have a high performance site. For this release, we spent considerable effort upgrading third-party components, rewriting inefficient code, and standardizing visual components across our application. We have also re-worked things so that we can more efficiently add new features next year.

After considerable effort, we are proud to roll out our new layout/design for the external pages of Formsite.com. In addition to a modern presentation, we have added considerable content in an effort to detail all of our capabilities. We have also added “remember me” functionality to the login process. This is now an option on the Login page. In order to implement new security enhancements and to support the new “remember me” function, we have moved the login username and password fields off of the home page onto a separate Login page.

In the spirit of the back to school season, we have added Scoring. Scoring points can be assigned to form items and a total score is calculated on a running basis as the user moves from page to page through your form. At the end of a form, the total score is available and can optionally be presented to the user. You can optionally show the user a scoring summary at the end of the form. We also have added the ability to include "explanations" on an item by item basis. When setting up Scoring, you can define a total point value for each item or you can define a different point value for each of an Item's choices.

Historically, the reports and data downloads from Formsite have used items' question text as identifiers. For example, a question on a form might be, "What is your first name?". Any reports and downloads would use "What is your first name?" as a column header or identifier. With this release, we enable you to define Custom Labels for each item on your form. So, you could define "first_name" to represent "What is your first name?".

In an effort to help our customers automate their business processes, we have added the ability to schedule exports of Formsite data. Scheduled exports can be set up daily, weekly, and monthly and contain either the full data set or results since the last export. You have the same format options as the immediate export including Excel, CSV, tab delimited, and custom delimiter.

Integrations are hot right now and with this release we are introducing Server Post Integration, a way to have your Formsite form post data into another application immediately. So, when your form is submitted, not only is the data immediately stored in the Formsite database, but an HTTP Post is sent to the server of your choice with your data. This enables you to use the front end features of Formsite with your back end. The data posted can be in several formats including name/value pair, CSV, and XML.