In this blog we'll discuss about adding signature in google forms, addons required for it & some other free alternative that is better compared to this.
Google Forms is an online form builder that allows you to create custom forms for surveys, quizzes, registrations, feedback, order forms & many other types of forms.
Google Forms is free to use & that's why worlds most popular form builder. But it lacks many important useful features.
Why we need signature field in a form?
The Signature field allows the users to digitally add their signature in the forms. Through signature user's give their consent in the form. The signature field is used when you require your users to authenticate (by signing) the data they submit through your form.
Adding Signature Field in Google Forms?
Google Forms doesn't have in-built signature fields. You can install many available addonds in google marketplace to add signature field in google forms.
Some of the most popular addons are:
Problems/challenges of adding a digital signature in Google Forms:
Adding of signature in google form is done using addons which has many practical challenges like:
- Hard to setup
- Set up is lengthy and very time consuming process.
- Setup needs bit technical knowledge
- Signature may not be legally binding
- Only a limited number of signatures accepted
- It maybe not work in mobile device
Google Forms alternative with signature field:
Google Forms is not a good option if you need a full customised forms with advance features like signature, collecting payments, design theme & font customisation to match your brand.
FormNX is best popular alternative to google form with not only signautre fied but manay advance features.
Benefits of using FormNX over Google form:
- Collecting Signatures is very easy with FormNX because it has inbuilt signature field.
- Free to use.
- Easy to set up.
- Doesn't needs technical knowledge.
Adding signature to your form with FormNX
In FormNX, inside the form builder you just need to double-click on the Signature element or drag-n-drop the signature element to add the Signature field to your form.
Not just signature field, FormNX provides many other features
Free-form templates: FormNX provides 1000's of free to use professionaly crated template for many different usecases & different profesions. Checkout the template here 1000's of free-form templates
Spam protection: Form spam is when bots or other automated programs fill out web forms with fake or irrelevant information. This can include ads, abusive language, and links to phishing sites or malware. FormNX provides inbuild feature to spam protection using google recaptcha. Advanced spam protection
Integration: FormNX provides inbuild integration with many toher 3rd party for different purposes. Webhook, Stripe & other Integrations
Payment collection in forms: FormNX provides inbuild integration with stripe to collect payment in form. Stripe Integration
Duplicate Submission Check: The "Submission Duplicate Check" feature enables you to implement validation to prevent duplicate or multiple times form submissions by same person.
Quiz Mode: Quiz Mode in FormNX is designed to facilitate the creation of quiz forms, making it easy for educators, trainers, or anyone conducting assessments to build interactive quizzes.
Real-time email notifications: It enables you to automatically send email responses to users who fill out your forms.
Embed Forms on websites: Once you've created your form, you can embed the form on your websites.
FormNX is free to use, give it a try. FormNX