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Profile Image Aytekin Tank is founder of JotForm. He currently leads the JotForm development team. He loves to hear from JotForm users. Feel free to shoot him an email at aytekin at jotform.com.

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  • What Factors Contribute to Form Submission Rates?

    August 23, 2017
    Mobile devices allow you to browse online no matter whether you’re at home on the couch or out comparison shopping in the store. 

    While browsing might be more convenient on mobile, entering information can be a far bigger hassle. Typing with the touchscreen keyboard and battling autocorrect are some challenges mobile users face that desktop users don’t have to worry about.

  • New Integration: Collect Payments with a First Data Payeezy Form

    August 10, 2017
    Now you can power your online forms with First Data, one of the largest and most trusted payment companies in the world. Through First Data’s online payment processor, Payeezy, you can drag and drop your way to a great form, then collect the fees, donations, registrations, and orders your business needs. 

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  • 6 JotForm Features to Use for Back-to-School

    August 09, 2017
    From elementary schools to universities, people across departments who work in education use JotForm for their online form needs. Online forms collect permission slips, applications from prospective students seeking admission, and students trying to secure spots in study abroad programs. Information also needs to be streamlined and collected in administrative offices. Students need an efficient way to register for next semester’s classes and extracurricular clubs and activities. Professors and other educators increasingly prefer to collect papers and assignments digitally, by sending out a form where students can upload and send their documents. 

  • Learn How Oru Kayak Collects Job Applications with JotForm

    August 08, 2017


    If you’re a fan of Shark Tank, you’ve probably seen Oru Kayak before. In the show’s fifth season, Oru Kayak’s three co-founders stood before the familiar panel of celebrity investors and unfolded their idea to the sharks. 

    Read more about how they use JotForm to manage their employee applications with forms embedded directly onto their website. 

  • 5 JotForm Widgets to Utilize This School Year

    August 07, 2017
    Being a teacher doesn’t have to mean having an endless tower of paper on your desk at all times. Did you know homework assignments, essays, quizzes, and permission slips can all be collected digitally? Never lose track of a student’s assignment again or lose valuable time rummaging through stacks of loose leaf paper. 

    Check out these 5 JotForm widgets for utilizing and enhancing your online forms in the classroom, allowing you to become an even more effective educator. 

  • 5 Forms that Boost Online Sales

    August 02, 2017

    You never forget your first sale. And for online shop owners, the rush of that digital 'cha-ching' can leave you craving more. More sales, more customers, more growth. Feed your craving—and build your bottom line—by pairing the power of JotForm with your Shopify storefront. Here are a few ideas for building forms that boost online sales.

    forms for your shopify store

  • What Factors Influence Conversion Rates?

    July 27, 2017

    In real life, walking away from a purchase mid-stream is uncommon. Online, it's a different story. It's all too easy to abandon a digital shopping cart or click away from a half-complete payment form.

    The freedom to abandon a purchase is a convenience for customers, but a frustration for merchants looking to close a sale.

    At JotForm, our primary mission is to help our users create and embed forms - including payment forms - on their websites. Additionally, we want to help our users understand what keeps their customers from completing purchases, so we turned to our data. Every time a potential customer loads a payment form on one of our user’s websites, it’s tracked. That information, plus the number of payments submitted, is used to calculate conversion rate - basically, how often a user follows through with a purchase. 

    Read on to learn what factors influenced conversion rates from our data and analysis. 

  • How the University of San Francisco Helps Students Travel the Globe with JotForm

    July 25, 2017
    University of San Francisco employees joke that the school’s acronym, USF, stands for “U Stay Forever.” Allyn Nobles is living proof of that, having not only worked at the university over the past 16 years in two different departments, but also having attended the school as an undergraduate student. 

    University of San Francisco

  • How a Seattle Website Used JotForm to Raise $20,000 for Local Schools and Nonprofits

    July 20, 2017

    Eat Ballard JotForm

    Eat Ballard is a volunteer initiative backed by local restaurants, bars, cafes and breweries.  It consists of a popular website and Facebook page which promise to make you a better lover… of ‘Food, Fun, and Community’ in Ballard, a historic Seattle waterfront neighborhood just north of downtown with population 44,000.

    Read more to see how JotForm helped them raise $20,000 for Ballard schools and nonprofits. 


  • 3 Widgets That Will Help Increase Form Completion Rates

    July 14, 2017

    The importance of form organization cannot be overstated: better designed forms get better completion rates. So how do you design a better form? Here are a few tips -- group form fields together if they’re in a similar category, break up longer forms so that it still feels bite-sized, and generally make your form more aesthetically pleasing and easier to get through. Read on for 3 widgets that can help increase your form’s completion rate. 

  • New Integration: Create Payment Forms with WePay and JotForm

    July 11, 2017

    At JotForm, we’re always on the search for new integrations to help your forms do more. So what better way to put your forms to work then to help you get paid? That’s where our integration with top United States-based payment provider WePay comes in. 

    jotform and wepay

  • JotForm Now Available on Microsoft Flow

    July 10, 2017
    Microsoft Flow provides a premier service for business automation by connecting you to the services you love and use everyday.

    We’re happy to announce that JotForm is now available on Microsoft Flow, making your JotForm forms more powerful than ever.

  • Learn How an Organic Farm Uses JotForm for Customer Orders

    June 29, 2017

    Located in the heart of California’s wine country, Napa Grass Farmers is on a quest to change the meat industry, offering customers EMS verified beyond organic and non-GMO pig, lamb, chicken, and water buffalo meat -- all raised on their land. They also offer honey from their farm’s bees, and fresh eggs with rich, orange yolks. What’s great is that NGF offers sampler club boxes, where customers can choose a variety of options. 

    Napa Grass Farmers


  • JotForm App Now Available in Zoey eCommerce Marketplace

    June 27, 2017

    Zoey is an eCommerce platform that has changed the way businesses create online stores. Its famously clean interface lets you drag and drop every piece of your website, and before you know it, you’re selling goods and services on your very own, professional-looking website. No coding necessary.

    Zoey

  • Process Payments through Worldpay US and JotForm

    June 15, 2017

    We’re excited to offer our newest integration with Worldpay US, which allows you to process payments through any online form. While Worldpay has long been available as a payment option to our United Kingdom users, Worldpay US makes it an option to all of our US-based users, as well!

    JotForm and Worldpay US

  • 5 Things You May Not Realize You Could Do with JotForm

    June 13, 2017
    With more than 100 integrations, dozens of advanced form field options (or “widgets”), and form functionality that spans across all industries and roles, it’s no surprise that most users don’t use JotForm to the fullest. While there may not be a need to use every single feature, we’ve pulled together a few examples that may apply to you and your organization. Here are five things that you may not realize you can do with JotForm.

  • How an Unconventional Food Company Uses JotForm to Give Back

    June 06, 2017

    Oakland-based Back to the Roots is on a mission to redo food as we know it, offering a line of ready-to-grow and ready-to-eat products found in grocery stores around the country.

    The company was founded in 2009 when UC Berkeley classmates, Nikhil Arora and Alejandro (Alex) Velez, learned from a professor that you could grow gourmet mushrooms using only used coffee grounds. Inspired, the duo set out to offer products that customers could grow themselves with minimal effort.

    Back to the roots

  • How to Make JotForm Your Marketing Automation Tool

    June 01, 2017
    As a marketer, juggling the management of strategic goals with your day-to-day tactical projects can be overwhelming. Even with an able team, sometimes there just isn’t enough time in the day. That’s where marketing automation comes in.

    JotForm accomplishes marketing automation

  • JotForm: The Eventbrite Alternative That Helps Keep Your Ticket Prices Low

    May 16, 2017
    Do you need to sell tickets online, but don’t want your attendees to be dinged by costly fees? Check out JotForm, the Eventbrite alternative that doesn’t charge any extra fees. Keep more of the money you make from selling tickets with JotForm.

  • New Integration: Power Your Payment Forms with PayJunction

    May 11, 2017

    PayJunction’s sophisticated payment processing and Smart Terminal remove a lot of payment-related stress for US-based businesses. And now a new integration with JotForm expands your options for getting paid online. 

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