We’ve just released custom email templates, a feature that enables you to receive notifications customized in terms of content, layout and appearance. You can create new email templates in your Settings → Notifications → Customize Emails section.

Click on Manage to open the customization lightbox and press Create New to set up a new email template. When the Preview is OFF, you can view and edit the HTML code of the notification template. Let’s go over several common customization options.

1. Less submission content. When you don’t want to include all user input in the notification email, delete the form fields that you don’t need. What you see in the customization lightbox is the code for the HTML table that holds the notification email content. Form fields are contained in individual rows, which are marked by the <tr> and </tr> tags (beginning and end). Delete the code for the rows that you want out and save the new email template.

2. No submission content, just an alert message. We started working on this feature when one of our users told us that he wanted to receive only an email alert and then to access the submission in his 123ContactForm account. Now you can achieve this by deleting the entire predefined content of the notification email and typing the alert message instead. Quick note: If you want to insert a line break, use the tag <br /> instead of pressing Enter.

3. Message containing user input. You can create notification email templates consisting in more elaborate alert messages that contain user input elements. Use the codes listed on the right side of the customization lightbox to do this. Example: [%Name%] has just filled out your form and can be contacted at [%Email%]. Such codes can be used for each of the form fields and bring user input into the notification message.

4. HTML/CSS customization. If you like to play around with HTML and CSS, you can change and style the default submission table to brand the email template in the way that suits your company image best or you can start setting up an email template from scratch.

To visit the Users section, click on the newly added tab in your main menu. The section is structured much alike your My Forms section, only that – instead of forms – it lists users.

You can create subusers, edit their information and manage permissions. Subusers will access their accounts like any other 123ContactForm users and they will be on the service plan that you are on. Their login data will be sent to them via email, together with basic information on how to use the 123ContactForm platform.

How much control will subusers have over their forms? It is up to you. There are three permission levels – No access, View only and View & Edit – that you can set, separately, for the sections Form Editor, Settings, Submissions and Reports.

How many subusers can a master account create? It depends on the plan that you are on. On the Platinum plan, you can create 5 subaccounts. On our new Diamond plan – 20 subaccounts. If you need more than 20 subusers, contact us.

Read more about how to set up 123ContactForm subaccounts and get to work – your clients will be thrilled!

The kangaroo has arrived on the 123ContactForm main page with two major updates (other than its very presence): 123ContactForm subaccounts and a new service plan!

You are now able to create subusers and grant them access to viewing and editing the forms you’ve set up for them. Subusers will access their accounts like any other platform users and will be on the service plan you’re on. We’ll get into more detail in a future post. Meanwhile, learn more about 123ContactForm subaccounts in our Help section.

Our new Diamond plan allows for creating 20 subaccounts. It is meant especially for web designers and agencies. It starts with a 15-day free trial.

In fact, from now on, all paid plans – Gold, Platinum and Diamond – start with the two week trial. Upgrade your account and start exploring them! And keep close – the kangaroo has unveiled only half of its suprises.

Take our survey and help us help you! First, tell us how you use 123ContactForm web forms. Second, check the platform features you appreciate most. Third, go over our list of to-do features and prioritize them for us. All of them will be implemented; their order depends on your answers.

Tomorrow’s newsletter is also centered on this survey. It won’t take more than two minutes to fill it out – it’s all radio buttons, checkboxes and Likert scales. Usability is our thing, so you’ll find our feedback survey quite enjoyable – promise. And thank you for your cooperation!

Update December 5^th: The entire team thanks you warmly for taking the time to fill out our survey. Our developers are most thrilled – new 3^rd party apps and improved charts & reports are on their way!

How to build online registration forms?

With the 123ContactForm event registration software, cool online registration forms can be created – as usual – as quick and simple as 1-2-3, with no coding skills required. Drag & drop fields into your forms, customize them and choose or create a theme that best matches your event.

In the first part of your event registration form, you may want to insert a brief presentation of the event.

• What & When & Where. Use customized HTML blocks to introduce information about the event.
• Google Maps. To be more specific on the where part, add a Google map to your registration form.

After you’ve given data about the event, it’s visitors’ turn to provide their registration information.

• Name, Phone, Email. Request basic registration information using the predefined contact data fields provided by our event registration tool.
• Checkboxes, dropdown lists, radio buttons. Use simple or multiple choice form fields to request details concerning visitors’ preferred food or beverage, the number of persons that will be joining them and any other information you may find helpful in the event organization process.

Where to publish my event registration form?

Wherever it reaches your future guests faster! Publish it on your own website, on social platforms (Facebook, Twitter), on blogging platforms (Wordpress, Blogger), on Google Sites pages. You can also host it on the 123ContactForm platform and share a direct link, by email or by messenger, with the interested parties.

How to get my event registration list?

There are various ways of receiving your guest list. You can receive individual entries by email, access them in our database, export them as CSV / Excel files or send them to Google Docs spreadsheets, so you can easily share them with co-organizers.

As you can see, event registration will be a lot easier form now on. And you’ll have more time to take care of other important tasks. Such as testing out desserts. Have fun!

With the 123ContactForm Facebook integration, posting contact forms, order forms, event registrations, surveys or any other type of web forms on your Facebook pages means: selecting the form you want to publish + choosing the page where you want it posted + pressing Add. Yes, it is a 1-2-3 thing.

We’re very happy that you like our Facebook integration and even happier that the application can contribute to the success of your projects. So stay tuned! 123ContactForm has always got wonderful new features on the way.

Visit your 123ContactForm Applications section (found in form Settings), select VerticalResponse in the dropdown list, press Add and get ready to generate contacts for your VR lists.

Type in your VerticalResponse login data and press Save to enable the application. In the Use list dropdown, select the VR list to which you want to send leads. Then, press Customize to establish field associations.

On the left side, you can view the VerticalResponde list fields. Match them with 123ContactForm fields, by selecting in the dropdown lists on the right the corresponding form fields. Press Save and you’re good to go. Data provided by web form submitters will be added instantly to your VerticalResponse lists.

VerticalResponse

VerticalResponse provides email marketing and direct mail services, as well as other features designed for creating, implementing and monitoring email marketing campaigns. The service has got a friendly user interface and helpful customer support.

If you sign up for a Premium package with 123 ContactForm in July, you will get a 50% discount for ONE YEAR on all premium subscriptions from Paymo!

As a special bonus, you can get 20% off the first six months on any Paymo subscription by using the following discount code:

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123ContactForm will help you collect feedback, generate leads and manage data, while Paymo will help you track time, stay on top of your projects and get you paid on time.

If you are a freelancer, you can get a Paymo account for free.

So hurry up and take advantage of this wonderful offer! Contact us to receive your Paymo discount code.

July 6th, 2011. 123ContactForm.com, a European startup, which offers the easiest online form builder, is announcing latest company news. During the last 6 months, the team raised an angel investment round from a local investor, completely redesigned the website and added many new features and integrations with third party services.

Investment. Adrian Gheara, angel investor and entrepreneur, partnered with the 123ContactForm team in 2010 and offered financial aid and expertise. With additional funding, new talent was added to the team, which boosted the business development in the last 6 months, and will further support the growth of the user-base. 123ContactForm will expand its operations from the European & US markets to other international markets. The additional funding allowed the company to quickly enhance the application and add many new features and service integrations, which makes forms very powerful tools for any website owner or administrator.

New features. 123ContactForm has made major improvements to its platform:

• The website was completely redesigned and rebuilt from ground-up for a better user experience.

• A new drag & drop real-time form editor that allows users to view modifications instantly.

• Integration of third party applications (Google Docs, MailChimp, SalesForce, Google Groups, Yahoo Groups, Google Sites, WebHook, and more) that facilitate data manipulation and post-processing. With these integrations in place, forms are much more than just forms. All website owners should take advantage of these powerful tools and link their forms with other business processes.

• A form management application for Facebook which makes it very simple to post forms on Facebook pages;

• Form management plugins for different blogging platforms, like WordPress, Blogger.

• Integration of three payment processors: PayPal, Google Checkout and Authorize.net, that can be used within forms to accept payments from submitters;

• New form field types that ease and improve form-submitter interaction, and a new theme manager to increase the appeal of the forms.

The 123ContactForm service is still free, as it has always been, with the option to scale up and upgrade to premium accounts if needed.

About 123ContactForm

Launched in 2008, in Timisoara, Romania, by Florin Cornianu and Tudor Bastea, 123ContactForm provides complex web form creation services. During the past few years, the 123ContactForm engine has become one of the worldwide most popular and professional platforms in its field. More details about the new platform features can be found on the company blog.

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Florin Cornianu

CEO and co-founder