Gravity Forms Review

You must be all set with your new website on WordPress and ready to carve a niche in the digital marketing world, but to reach your website’s full potential you need to interact with your audience in the most efficient way. Forms act as a bridge between your audience and your website by collecting their information, surveys, Questionnaires etc that too without having to deal with any complicated software. WordPress is equipped with several Plugins to build a form according to your needs, out of which Gravity Forms is one of the best option.

Gravity Forms, launched in August 2009, is now among the top four WordPress Form Plugins which allows users to create simple to multipage forms to collect various information. It is not just a form builder but is enriched with many additional features like spam filters, performance calculations and insights, file uploading and saving, third-party integrations and partnerships etc. It is open source and GPL licensed.

How to get started with Gravity Forms?

System Requirements: Gravity Forms have the same technical requirements as WordPress, namely, PHP v5.6+, MySQL v5.5+ and the latest version of WordPress.

You can follow the following easy steps to set up your Gravity Forms:

1. Purchase and Pay for a Gravity Forms license key, among three different pricing plans, and add it to your Gravity Forms account.
2. Download Gravity Forms Plugin from your account and Install.
3. Enter your license key when prompted and complete the installation process.
4. Create your form, preview it and finally embed it into your WordPress website.
5. You can further explore more options like setting up notifications and confirmations, add-ons and third-party app integrations.

Features

Let’s have a walkthrough of some important Gravity Forms Features:

• Responsive and Easy-to-use Design

Gravity Forms’ visual form editor and its built-in tools make building configuring and embedding WordPress Forms to your site easier than ever.

• 30+ Form fields

It offers more than 30 field options for you to choose which enables you to build tailor-made forms to suite your needs.

• Conditional logic

This feature gives your user the best form filling experience by logically controlling which fields, sections, pages or Submit button to show/ hide based on the user response.

• Spam filters

Gravity Forms keeps you inbox free from spam submissions using reliable and powerful tools such as Google reCaptcha, Really Simple Captcha and Akismet (Spam comments filtering Plugin).

• Email notifications

Gravity Forms keeps you updated of every form submitted and also sends auto-generated Email responses to each submission.

• File uploads

With this feature your users can easily upload documents or images in the prescribed size and format which gets automatically saved to your server, once submitted.Save and continue. Your user can conveniently fill forms partially and save them to be finished later using this feature.

• Calculations

Gravity Forms also performs advanced calculations based on the data filled by your user in the form fields.

• Limit and Schedule Forms

You can schedule posting of a form for later and even limit the number of submissions for each form.

Integrations

Gravity Forms has an endless array of third-party integrations and Add-ons to run your WordPress-powered website smoothly and seamlessly. Some of these integrations include:

 Zapier; to integrate your forms with over 1000 different online services like Salesforce, Basecamp, Gmail etc,

 PayPal, Stripe, Authorize.Net etc; to  automatically capture credit cards and enable end users to make secure and effortless payments and transactions,

 HubSpot; to integrate all your marketing needs under one umbrella,

Signature; to capture Digital signatures,

Mailchimp, Campaign Monitor etc.; automatically collect and add subscribers to Email marketing list), Slack (for instant notifications when a form is submitted

And many more…

Pricing

Gravity Forms offers three different Licenses based on the following pricing plans:

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Customer Support

The Gravity Forms website offers guidelines and support through FAQs, Video Demos, Documentations and Blogs. They also have a customer support service working from Monday to Friday, 9Am to 6PM US Eastern Time.

They do not provide support for 3^rd party Plugins or Add-ons but have outsourced services for customizations to Codeable.

Our Verdict

Gravity Forms is the most feature-rich WordPress Plugin available for form building. It provides many features at lower prices as compared to the counterparts such as WPForms. However you can make the best out of it if you can afford the Elite License.