What is Caldera Forms?

Caldera Forms is a unique WordPress form builder that offers a comparatively more functional free version, unlike any other form builder. Its drag and drop visual editor and a dynamic grid-based design that includes multiple columns and additional pages to redesign the layout make form-building easy and relaxed. It allows the user to create forms that are visually responsive and interactive.

Caldera Forms offers a wide range of field types that assist in making your forms look more communicative. It helps in capturing more audience and result in the growth of your website. These field types include Auto-complete, Star rating, Date and color picker, File upload, HTML, Checkboxes, etc.

The visual editor of Caldera forms also offers a conditional logic feature that allows you to create forms with essential information and fields that make the forms adapt according to the respondent's input without any redundant information.

It also consists of an anti-spam system by default using a highly-effective honey pot that prevents spam, unlike any other form creators.

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Some of the extensions and add-ons for Caldera forms include ActiveCampaign, Stripe, Zapier, Slack, MailChimp, and many more.

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Caldera Forms integrates with a collection of applications that elevate your online forms. These integrations are classified into CMS and CRM integrations, Marketing automation, File sharing and storage, Payment processors, Data management applications, Antispam applications, and Emailing applications.<strong> </strong>Some of these applications are LSX Zoho CRM, Salesforce, Caldera Forms PayFast, WP eSignature, FileTrip, CleanTalk Anti-Spam, WP HTML Mail, ConvertKit, etc.

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Caldera forms do not have a partial submission feature but have a special add-on called Connected Caldera Forms that allows the user to create a connected form with a sequence of multiple forms. When the respondent starts to fill the form, it collects the data in a series that can be viewed in the entry viewer once the form is submitted. But it also offers an active option that shows the users the partial submissions from the respondents in the entry viewer when activated.

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Caldera Forms contains two types of email responders; an incorporated auto-responder processor and email notifications. Email notification informs the user when the forms are submitted, whereas an autoresponder processor notifies the respondent with one or more emails. This auto-responder processor also allows the user to send separate emails to different respondents with different messages.

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