Zoho Forms Alternative: Why Choose Formplus

Zoho Forms

The more form fields you have, the more diverse information you can collect from your audience.

While Zoho Forms has basic field options for rating questions, payments, and numerical data, it doesn't cater to your data gathering needs.

For example, you cannot create a table in Zoho Forms. This can be limiting when you want to collect data from people in the same context. Let's break this down. If you're tracking clock in and clock out time for employees, it's a lot easier for them to fill the information into a table—you can sort the data with little or no hassles.

With Formplus, creating tables wouldn't be a problem.

Formplus is a more robust form builder with more than 30 field options, including table fields and emoji rating scales. Whether you're collecting numerical data or ratings, date and time, or ratings, you'd find a field that works for you.

Zoho Forms

Sometimes, you already have form respondents' information in your database, so there's no need to ask for it again.

This often happens when collecting responses from a closed group like your employees, students, or returning customers. So how do you handle this?

Form lookup helps you achieve more thoughtful and precise data collection, and unfortunately Zoho Forms does not have this feature.

Unlike Zoho Forms, Formplus allows you to add the lookup field to your form before it goes live.

This field scans through the current information in your database and pulls out relevant data for your new form. So, form respondents only have to fill in new information.

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Everyone loves a well-customized form. Form customization could be the very thing that makes a respondent view and complete your surveys and questionnaires. So, what do Zoho Forms and Formplus have to offer for customization?

Zoho Forms has limited form customization options. It has a few themes, and you cannot create a custom theme for your questionnaire in the free plan.

On the flip side, Formplus has multiple options for tweaking the look and feel of your form.

You get access to pre-built themes which you can customize, and you can also create a theme from scratch.

You can also add background logos, change the form font and stylize it with your custom CSS.

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Whether you're creating a form for the first time or not, using form templates gives you a head start. For first-timers, templates can guide you on the questions you should be asking in your survey.

Zoho also has a template library with about 57 templates. While this is an excellent place to start from, it means you might not find the template you need and would have to build your form from scratch.

If you're looking to save time or if you're a newbie, Formplus templates work better for you.

Formplus has a rich library with over 1000 beautifully designed templates.

These templates are categorized based on industries so that you can find them easily. In the Formplus library, you'd see templates for market research, proxy forms, and educational research, to mention a few.

Formplus templates are ready to use, and you only need to click a button to preview and use them. If you'd like to tweak the template, you can do that in the form builder.

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Sharing your surveys and questionnaires on social media is one of the best ways to get responses from your target audience.

The good thing is both Formplus, and Zoho Forms get this point and allow you to directly publish forms on social media with their direct sharing buttons.

Formplus also allows you to generate custom social media image cards for your posts, improving engagement and responses.

You can add social media icons at the end of the form; respondents can click on these icons to share your form on their personal social media pages.

Zoho Forms

Formplus and Zoho allow you to automatically generate custom documents like receipts, invoices, and contracts. What’s the big deal?

If you’re sending out contracts at scale, it’s a chore to create each document manually.

However, to achieve this on zoho forms, you will have to integrate it with Zoho Writer.

You can automate contracts and agreements directly in Formplus without the use of any intergrations.

That way it is easier and faster to get the job done.