Marg Formidable Forms

If your are a programmer, you can do about everything you need related to forms with Formidable. There is a rich set of features and functions making everything possible.

There use to be a powerful support site with public Q&A available on which we were able to search on a subject and often find an answer, since a similar problem had been solved already. Also, the team support was small but terrific. Today, there is no such public Q&A database available and the support is correct but no longer awful. Also, the pricing is discouraging for small businesses, particularly when you need some add ons which are available in higher end packages.

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What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

The interface is super easy to use and the view feature allows for easy display of results on the WordPress site without having to use the WP_Query or PHP to pull from the database.

There are some times when Formidable doesn't seem as robust as other form creator plugins on the WordPress platform. Gravity forms seems to have more plugin options.

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What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

There's so much to like: 1) Immensely flexible product - for all levels, but especially for more technically inclined, 2) The support is fantastic. Quick response times, very helpful with finding solutions...seem to really want to make sure they help as much as possible, 3) It works. A polished product has so much value in that I don't have to waste time figuring out if there's a bug or a mistake that I've made.

The only real complaint I have so far is the lack of any kind of community. For a product that is very developer friendly, I would think there would be some type of forum to allow users to share examples and ideas, maybe even quick troubleshooting. I realize this means someone would have to monitor the activity, and I'm not sure how big the team is, but I would love to have access to that.

I'd also love to see a pricing model slightly more usage-based (esp for startups where every dollar counts), but I can't complain too much since it's not overly expensive for the year.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

Response from Steph Wells of Formidable Forms

Hi Ryan,

Thanks for the review! Did you know we have a community Slack group? You can join here:

https://formidableforms.com/join-the-slack-community/

There is much to like about Formidable Forms. From the drag and drop interface to the many developer hooks for creating your own custom features, this tool suits the needs for absolute beginners to the most advanced developer and everyone in between.

With Formidable, you can create posts and, If you have the Pro version, it integrates nicely with ACF. There's also an add-on that will allow you to build custom WooCommerce Forms. Other features include:

Display Form Data with Views

Multi Page Form with Progress Bar

WordPress Front End Editor

Create a Graph and Chart Form Data

Cascading Lookup Fields

Powerful Calculated Fields

Conditional logic

Formidable just works and works very well.

The support team is highly responsive and the end users that volunteer on the community forum are gracious and wonderful.

There's not much to dislike about Formidable. On rare occasions, the developers have released upgrades that have caused problems, but these instances are few and far between.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?