The Form Status option in the Form Builder allows you to automatically disable or close your form on a specific date and time or after receiving a certain number of submissions. This can be useful if you have forms with limited slots, items, or time offers.
This guide is for limiting form fillers by adding a submission limit and expiration date to your form. For other options, see Unique Submissions and Unique Questions.
To conditionally disable your form
- In the Form Builder, go to Settings at the top.
- Open Form Status.
- Choose your desired option from the dropdown menu.
Note: The first two Form Status options are for manually disabling or enabling your form. See How to Enable or Disable Your Form to learn more.
Here are the available options for automatically closing your form:
- Disable on specific date — Schedule your form to close on a specific date and time.
- Disable at submission limit — Close your form after collecting a certain number of entries.
- Disable on specific date or at submission limit — A combination of the two, whichever comes first.
Selecting any of the “Disable” options allows you to set a warning message for your form fillers when your form is disabled.
Notes:
- Settings Submission Limit to zero or empty stops its response count checks.
- The time is US Eastern Standard Time in a 24-hour format.
- An offset of at least minus 5 hours to your expiration time is recommended in case of delays. For example, if your form needs to close at 17:00, set the expiration time to a minimum of 5 hours before that which is 12:00.
- To re-enable a disabled form, go to Settings and set Form Status to “Enabled.” Or you can reconfigure and adjust your expiration date or submission limit depending on your requirements.
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84 Comments:
25 days ago
Hola, se puede deshabilitar el formulario para una IP que haya realizado 5 respuestas del formulario?
45 days ago
Is there a way to disable form status for a certain time of day vs. a date or number of responses? We need it to stop the form after a certain time of day each day.
Thanks.
117 days ago
Thanks a lot, this will help us build a better booking form.
More than a year ago
What is the max number of responses I can have per month with the paid account?
More than a year ago
If I want to have one form with multiple date selections and have the form stop taking submissions when a date selection reaches 25, but still show the other date options to choose from how would you do this?
For example, a meeting is happening with choices on April 17, April 18 , April 19. Once April 17th has 25 submissions that choice goes away, but 18th and 19th stays available.
More than a year ago
Is there a way to disable the form within a condition based the number of submissions?
If the there have been x number of submissions with answer y, then disable?
More than a year ago
Using a form (multiple choice) for voting. I have it set where once on the form they are limited to one choice per section, but how do I ensure that a person doesn't vote over and over and over. I want to limit the use of the form to a person for 1 time only.
More than a year ago
Setting a 10 submission limit on a long form. Wondering if a pre-qualification short form and then link to long form until max reached is a good idea? I’m afraid that users will be kicked out because #10 filled while user answering all questions and be upset. There is a big chance 100 people could hit submit all at the same time, so I don’t want to waste their efforts.
More than a year ago
Once a form is closed, do we have any control over the message that displays when the form is no longer accepting submissions?
More than a year ago
A couple of questions...
1. Is it possible to trigger another form once this submission limit for this form is reached, and not simply display the URL to the different form (which is poor UX)?
2. If I manually delete one or more submissions to a form and the total of submissions for that form goes back below the limit, does the form become available for submissions again automatically?
More than a year ago
I suggest you add the "US Eastern Time" to the settings page next to the time we are setting. I had to spend time trying to find the information as to which time zone the system uses (I am not in ET zone).
More than a year ago
Hello,
Can you set a submission limit for a field within a form? So for example, our registration form has spots for parents to sign up campers for individual days of the camp season. I want to limit 20 spots per camp day, and once that day is filled we don't want anyone else to be able to select it. However, other days may still be available so the form still needs to be enabled. Thank you!
More than a year ago
Hi
Kindly advise how can I can set a number limit to date & multiple choice options.
More than a year ago
Is there a way that a user can be re-directed to a different form if the current form's maximum number of submissions has been reached?
For example, I'm doing a registration form but limiting the number of submissions to 24. I'd like for the users after that to be sent to a waiting list.
Is that possible?
Many thanks.
More than a year ago
Why is my form not allowing a user to submit their form for multiple family members? When the form is filled out and submitted there is a button allowing the parent to fill another form out for an additional patient. They can fill the form out but once they click the submit button for the second child they are given a warning that this form does not allow multiple submissions. Please advise, thanks!
More than a year ago
Is there a way to send a form that a recipient can only fill out and submit once? Like for elections?
Sincerely,
Valerie Burkett
More than a year ago
hi!
can I use the time limit in specific date for enable & disable?
for example, I want to set the form to be enabled start at day 3 and disabled the form at day 7.
thanks!
More than a year ago
What happens when the Submitted limit has reached and then 1 submission is deleted. Will the counter reset. e.g. Your form had a submission limit of 25 and the form did get 25 submissions. Now the new status of the form will be disabled. Now one of the admissions have backed out, so you go in and delete a submission. Will the counter adjust to accept one more submission?
More than a year ago
Can I put a limitation that will only allow people to submit the form once every week from the same device/ip?
More than a year ago
Hi,
can i reset the form automatically each week? My form need to allow for limited unique submissions each week with a thursday cut off?
More than a year ago
Hi,
Is there any facilities in Jot Form, based on particular column user can fill the form sing in a day, if he try to fill got stop message
More than a year ago
I would like to disable my forms as soon as the sum of a certain field in all submissions reaches a predefined value. Is that possible?
Example: The form contains a field "Number of persons from my family that will attend"
Disable the field as soon as 50 attendees are reached.
More than a year ago
Hi,
how can I limit the number of times an individual submits a form?
More than a year ago
how to limit it to 1 response only? please answer
More than a year ago
You need to add "Enable on date and time".
This has been requested for years, since 2014 at least.
More than a year ago
Ho to disable every day from X time to Y time ?
More than a year ago
My form has 7 different mini-form blocks, each with a 2 submission limit ( 7 classes, each with space for two clients max )
If the submission limit is reached for one of the blocks, doesn’t your system shut the entire page down?
How do I shut down registration for a single block when the submission limit for one block is reached?
Thank you.
More than a year ago
I need to know if I can limit the submissions based on individual responses to each question. So when option one is selected 25 times, I need that choice option to say "Limit Reached" beside it and disable that answer choice. Is that a possibility?
More than a year ago
I read that the submission limit is reset every month is that correct? Any way we can change that? Thank you
More than a year ago
Hi there,
I would like to have different limits:
I have a checkbox with 7 options, and wish to have 20 max.submissions with option 1, 5 submissions with option 2, 10 submissions with option 3 of that checkbox, and so on...
How can I create such a form?
Mario
More than a year ago
How to limit submission per day with expired date
More than a year ago
What happens when the Submitted limit has reached and then 1 submission is deleted. Will the counter reset. e.g. Your form had a submission limit of 25 and the form did get 25 submissions. Now the new status of the form will be disabled. Now one of the admissions have backed out, so you go in and delete a submission. Will the counter adjust to accept one more submission?
More than a year ago
Hi Jotform,
I would like to limit the number of submisisons per choice. Is this possible?
Thanks!
Form ID: 80092112284448
More than a year ago
Is there a way to limit the number of responses per month?
i.e. one of my forms (for budget reasons) we only want 50 responses each month. On the first day of each month, we'd like to go back to resetting the submission amount to zero.
More than a year ago
I use the Forms as an entry to our dog events for our club. We often have 2-6 potential classes that an exhibitor can enter. So, lets say I have 2 classes entered on a form. I need to know when the grand total of classes entered is 30. How do I or can I set up the "Disable" function to reflect that we have a total of 30 entries instead of 30 submissions? But, sometimes a competitor will only enter 1 class while the next competitor will enter 2-4 or more. Is there a way to do this?
Thank-you for your help.
Victoria
More than a year ago
Can I limit submissions on each option?
More than a year ago
Hello Team,
I have created the form. Please find the link below:
In the time slot, i having 5 slots(i am using the option single choice element)
In Each slot Maximum of 20 people will be taken in one slot.
Please help me out how to do it. If everything works i will buy it.
Thanks & Regards,
Yaswanth k
8892571333
More than a year ago
Hello,
Is there a way to limit number of submissions per week? Thank you.
More than a year ago
hello ... while setting up the booking form.... if one person as selected a particular time in a given day... how to limit that the next person who takes the same time , should not be able to select the same time ??
More than a year ago
Hello
How can I limit 3 submitions per User?
Best Regards
More than a year ago
Hi - I'm trying to set a form to disable at a date and time. I (and all of my users) live in Australia (Adelaide). Do I need to calculate the time to be US Eastern Standard Time, or can it be the time zone that my account settings are set to? I've tried testing this tonight but it still appears to be available.
Thanks in anticipation.
More than a year ago
I don't seem to have the Preferences button on the top toolbar at all. Am i missing something?
More than a year ago
Muchisimas gracias
More than a year ago
Is there a way to show the warning message before filling in the form when the form has reached the limit of submissions?
More than a year ago
Is there a way to limit the form by views? So, for example, someone can open the URL / view the form 10 times, after which the limit is reached and the form can't be viewed anymore?
More than a year ago
Is there by any chance a limit of how many submissions can be made per day, week, or month? I'd like a cap which resets after a time.
More than a year ago
My form has four dates the user can select from and each date needs to have a limit of 15. These are workshops. Once 15 of our employees has selected a date/location - that option should close and not allow anymore to sign up. However, the other 3 dates/times should remain open until they also have 15 sign ups. How can I accomplish this?
More than a year ago
Is there a way to limit by submissions AND date. For example, I only want 20 submissions for each date, and there are three different dates. How do I do that?
Thanks!
More than a year ago
How make form only availbale in 8am to 9pm everyday
More than a year ago
As of today at this time, I don't see the area to set the submission limit under Preferences with the new interface, please check and instruct.
Thanks,
More than a year ago
How to achieve that a user who has access with password protection to a report with submissions can delete all the entriess after he has received the excel file
More than a year ago
Is there a way to limit the number of submissions in a calendar month?
ie You can submit 15 submissions through this form in the month of January; another 15 submissions in the month of February; another 15 submissions in the month of March without having to manually reset/extend the parameters at the end of each month?
More than a year ago
I love magic. It's fun and awesome!
Nice site @Gary! :)
More than a year ago
Is it possible to set a limit based on the number they select in a certain field on the form? For example, I would like to cap my event at 60 people, but am allowing multiple people to register per registration form.
More than a year ago
is there any way to set limit/quota for each choice in multiple choice question?
More than a year ago
Is there any way to set limit for each answer?
More than a year ago
if i want to set a pop up window to let know about the form is close, and how to set thanks
More than a year ago
So, if I have 4 seats available at 9am, once 4 payments are processed those seats are booked and they will get a message saying "this trip is full"
How can you set it so they can book a seat on the next trip which is at 12pm?
More than a year ago
Is there a way in the warning message to embed or ?? so that they are redirected to a second form that puts them on a waiting list?
More than a year ago
Being able to set a submissions limit is great, but it doesn't work perfectly. My form, to register a limited number of people for an event, asks users to pay a fee via PayPal and they're directed to PP after they click Submit. It seems that Jotform counts toward the submissions limit any instance that the form is filled out and the user clicks Submit -- regardless of whether they completed the PP transaction. For example, I embedded the form on a web page, so when someone reported an issue I sent test submissions sans PayPal payment from four different browsers. What makes this even more frustrating is that after resolving the user's issue, I deleted my test submissions from the "incomplete payment" area, thinking that would ensure they wouldn't be counted toward the limit.
More than a year ago
What time zone is used? How will I know that 17:00 hours is 5 pm MST or 5 pm CST or 5 PM EST, etc. I am in MST time and need the form to turn off at 5 pm.
Thanks
More than a year ago
Is this feature not working? or not available for free plan holders?
More than a year ago
This feature completely failed to work for me. I set a limit of 148 submissions on a form, but the form kept on receiving submissions into the 150s before I realised and manually cut off access.
More than a year ago
Is there a way to set limits on options. For example, 10 people can submit option 1 and then option 1 will be disabled, not the entire form?
More than a year ago
It's Very Very Good...But need also
this kind of same feature for some of form field...or " No " duplicate entry for form field..Date or Time or
Drop Down Box or Radio Button or Check box...ect
More than a year ago
Adding to the above:
Please, oh please reimplement this OR supply alternatives for achieving a similar effect manually.
I don't see how a form can be safe if a user can send limitless replies...
More than a year ago
You guys really need to get this feature back in Jotform! Its the one thing missing from this great script!
More than a year ago
Not having this feature is really making things more difficult for me. Can you give some idea when this will be back?
More than a year ago
Is there still no update on it?
More than a year ago
There are a number of variations on this theme. The original intent was to close a form based on previous number of submissions or date. I'd like to limit submissions within a field and display a message, e.g. "This course is full, you are on a wait-list" but still permit the other fields to be completed.
More than a year ago
Ditto the above. We really need this ability. Although we will deal with the lack thereof. But please hurry.
More than a year ago
Not having this feature is a deal breaker. I am forced to use competing form builder sites which have this feature and Google Doc integration implemented. I will return when Jotform is back on par with the competition.
More than a year ago
Hi!
Any chance we have this feature working in the near future? Thanks!
More than a year ago
Please can you let us know when the feature is going to be re-enabled as we could really do with having this facility. Many Thanks
More than a year ago
Would love to see this feature reimplemented as well.
More than a year ago
Trying to avoid people entering duplicate records in the form, how do i do this?
More than a year ago
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More than a year ago
Is there a way to get on a notification list so that when this feature is activated we will know?
More than a year ago
Can the time free be estimated when the feature will be back up? We are thinking of moving all of our forms from other form builders to jotform, but rely on being able to add some kind of deadline. Thanks.
More than a year ago
The limit submission option remains unavailable. We were counting on this. When will it be remedied?
More than a year ago
I cannot see the limit submission option. Please help.
More than a year ago
Is there a way to make it so a user cannot submit their form if they do not meet specific requirements as defined by the form (in this case it is a job application form - we do not want an applicant to be able to apply if they do not meet our 4 minimum requirements - they are yes/no questions where if the answer is "no" they are not eligible.
Hope that makes sense.
Thanks!
More than a year ago
How to setting No Limit Submissions a Form
Thank
More than a year ago
This feature is especially useful when used with a "Unique Submission" setting of either "Loose Check" or "Strict Check".