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How to choose the right field type?

Zoho Forms provides you with a variety of form fields to get data from your respondents. Knowing which field to use is crucial to obtain the right data.

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If you want to get a short amount of text from your respondents, such as name, company name, etc., you can use the Single Line field , which can take up to 255 characters as input.

Single Line


If you are looking to collect a large amount of text from your respondents, like description, comments, feedback, etc., use the Multi Line field.

Multi Line

              

To collect a numeric value (without a decimal point), such as age, quantity, number of people, etc., use the Number field. If you wish to accept numeric values with decimal places, such as scores, use the Decimal field.

Number

              

If you are looking to collect a date or time from your respondents, like their date of birth, date and time of arrival, etc., you can use the Date, Time, or Date-Time fields.

Date

 

We also have dedicated fields for name, address, phone number, email address, website, and currency.

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How to decide which choice-based field to use?

When you want your respondents to choose an option from a long list of choices, such as a list of countries, you can save the space on your form using a Dropdown field.

If you want your respondents to choose an option from a few options, like Yes or No, use the Radio field.
 
If you want to let your respondents choose more than one option from the list of choices, use the Checkbox or Multiple Choice fields.

Checkbox


Looking to learn about your customer experience or conduct a satisfaction survey? Choose the Matrix Choice field as a way to ask several questions!

 

Want to sell products with their images in your order form? Use the Image Choices field.

Image Choices

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To allow your respondents to enter a true/false or yes/no response, or to let them select if they agree/disagree with your terms, use the  Terms and Conditions field. 

Terms and Conditions                         


Let your users upload necessary files and images, like resumes, photos, screenshots, etc., using the File Upload and Image Upload fields.

File Upload

              

Having a long form with a lot of questions? The form can look unorganized if you keep adding questions without breaking them up into sections and pages. Break your form into sections, using the Section field, and organize the sections into separate pages using the Page Break field to provide a clean form filling experience to your respondents. Learn more about multi-page forms.

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Collect multiple line items in your form with the Subform field. Create repeating sections with one Subform. For example, it can be used in order forms, booking forms, application forms, etc., to collect additional details associated with the primary form. 
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Want to collect payments with your form? Use the Payment field to process the payments through third-party merchants. You can also configure formulas to calculate the payment amount using the Formula field and trigger workflows only on successful payment.

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Let customers rate your products and services with the Rating or Slider fields.

Rating

 

Provide more information about your service or product in a few lines using the Description field.

Description

 

You can get your respondents to sign application forms, enrollment forms, etc., using the Signature field.

Signature

 


Generate unique identification numbers for each form entry using the Unique ID field that helps identify individual submissions. This field is great when it comes to keeping track of your orders. It remains invisible to the customers when they’re filling out the form, but when they hit Submit, you receive a unique reference number for the form submission along with the information that the customer filled out.

 

Explore more about the fields available in Zoho Forms!



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