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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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  • How to Generate New ideas For Your Business

    September 22, 2016

    If you’re a business owner or work for a small business, then you already know just how important it is to never stop innovating. Whether that means adding new features to your product, expanding your product line, or keeping up with emerging trends, we all need to stay ahead of the curve so we don’t get left behind. However, generating new ideas for your business can be easier said than done. Sometimes it’s hard to know where to start! Here are some concrete ways to explore how you can improve your business, and keep the ideas flowing. 

  • Create JotForm Payment Forms Using Square

    September 20, 2016

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    Do you use Square to collect payments for your business? You can now integrate your Square account with JotForm to create powerful, easy-to-edit payment forms. 

    Square works perfectly with forms you use to sell products, collect donations, register event guests, or any other type of payment form you might use. And JotForm is proud to be the first online form builder to integrate with Square.

  • What Has Been New With JotForm Lately?

    September 09, 2016

    JotForm has been continuously building our core product for over a decade. We took a simple idea, making it easy for anyone to make online forms, and never stopped building upon it. The result is that JotForm users can solve so many different problems, integrate with so many different products and tools, and create custom online forms that do exactly what you need them to do. We’re far from finished, but let’s take a look at what’s the latest from JotForm.

  • Introducing the JotForm DocuSign Widget

    September 08, 2016

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    Need a fast, easy way to collect legally-binding signatures through JotForm? Then check out our new DocuSign widget, allowing you to add a DocuSign signature field to any form. 

    DocuSign is a leading Document Transaction Management service, famous for helping you simplify electronic signatures and approvals. It’s perfect for all sorts of contracts, like for nondisclosure or employment agreements. 

  • Easily Track Survey Respondents with Online Forms

    September 01, 2016

    Forget the needless paperwork and hassle that comes with mail surveys. They take too long, there’s a risk of loss in the postal system. And conducting surveys over the phone? Talk about inefficiency. Probably more than a few hang-ups and voicemails that you want to deal with. Take your surveys online! Use JotForm to create surveys, and to easily track survey respondents. Read on for how to get started  creating a survey so that you can easily track respondents online. 

  • Upcoming Changes to JotForm Starter & Guest Plan Users: September 19, 2016

    September 01, 2016

    Thank you for being one of our more than two million users! We’ve continued to focus on making JotForm the leading online form creator. As we’ve gotten requests from our users, we’ve developed new features and integrations to make JotForm an even better experience. As always, our goal is to continue to improve our product and ensure it is easy to use. At the end of the day, we want to give our users the most powerful form-building features to help your business.

  • Strategies to Increase Volunteer Turnout for Your Nonprofit

    August 31, 2016
    Great staff members can be hard to come by, but what can be even more difficult is getting a steady stream of dedicated volunteers. Whether it’s for a specific event or a weekly schedule of helpers, volunteer recruitment is crucial. Here are some volunteer recruitment strategies to reach more people and get more helping hands. 

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  • 10 Reasons You Should Use JotForm for Collecting Payments

    August 25, 2016

    JotForm Payment Forms

    If you’re tired of searching for easy ways for your business, nonprofit, or school to get paid, look no further. You can turn any one of your JotForm forms into a powerful payment tool for event registration fees, the products you sell, member subscriptions, donations, or even borrowing money from your friends -- the choice is yours! 

    With that in mind, there are 10 reasons you should use JotForm for your payment forms. 

  • How to Add a Fill-in-the-Blank Form Field to Your Online Form

    August 23, 2016
    Do you want to add a fill-in-the-blank option to your online form? It comes in handy if your defined form field don't encompass all of the potential responses. Leaving an alternative option is great for keeping your data more clean and accurate, as respondents aren't forced to choose random answers. Find out how to add this simple field to your online form. 

  • New Feature: Attach Files to Autoresponder Emails

    August 18, 2016
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    We’ve heard your requests! You can now attach files to Autoresponder Emails simply by uploading it to the setup wizard. Whether you’re a teacher who wants to send supplemental information to your students or a business who wants to automatically send a whitepaper to new mailing list contacts, this new feature should come in handy. 

  • Event Planning Without the Stress

    August 16, 2016
    Event planning doesn’t have to be a headache. You can take a lot off your plate throughout the planning process with online forms, which can help you collect information from clients, schedule meetings and showings, register sponsors and guests, and more. By the time it’s the big day, you should be feeling excited but at ease. If you do have to scramble at the last minute, an online form builder like JotForm can help you get what you need quickly. Let’s dive into how you can use online forms to help you plan your next big event, without the stress. 


  • Send JotForm Responses to Insightly CRM

    August 11, 2016

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    Many of our users have figured out how easy it is to collect leads with JotForm, and in turn make it a powerful marketing tool that anyone in your marketing and sales department can learn. The leads captured from your JotForm lead gen form will automatically and seamlessly populate into your Insightly account. 

  • 5 Free Form Themes for the New School Year

    August 09, 2016
    Education professionals, from teachers to administrators, have a lot of organizational tasks that never end. Quizzes, surveys, permission slips, scholarships, registrations, progress reports and more - all of these tasks are made easier and more efficient with the help of online forms. Check out these 5 free JotForm education forms that you can use and customize to fit your exact needs. 

  • Use These Apps to Improve Your School’s Efficiency

    August 02, 2016
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    Whether you’re running a whole department, or just a classroom, technology can help you stay organized and productive. That’s why JotForm offers apps to help make educators' jobs easier, regardless of their role with the school. 

    If you haven’t already, check out the apps we’ve listed below designed to help you save time and money. 

  • Need to Set Up Your Onboarding Process? Use JotForm

    July 28, 2016
    After an exhaustive interviewing process and having a candidate accept a new job offer, now comes the process to onboard the employee. Onboarding can be quite sophisticated, time-consuming, and include many steps since there’s a great deal of information that may you may require. However, setting up onboarding processes is invaluable for a company’s success. Check out these tips for onboarding. 

  • Avoid Making These Costly Donation Form Mistakes

    July 26, 2016
    Whether you work at a nonprofit art school or a soup kitchen for the community, donations play a big role in sustaining your organization. One easy way to collect donations is to use a form that’s easily accessible. Supporters can make a contribution while they’re exploring your website for more information about ways to help. Watch out for these common mistakes when putting together your donation form to make sure you’re making the most of the opportunity. 

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  • Should You Use CAPTCHA on Your Forms?

    July 22, 2016

    You’ve seen them, and maybe they’ve even annoyed you a time or two before -- but not without good reason. We’re talking of course about CAPTCHA, which is a security system designed to tell humans and computers apart by making form respondents identify a short series of letters in a box. 

    You may be on the fence about whether or not to use CAPTCHA on your forms, and that’s totally OK. We’re here to help figure this whole thing out by answering the questions you should ask before determining if CAPTCHA is right for you.

  • Get a Nonprofit Discount With These Companies

    July 20, 2016
    Nonprofit Discount

    In honor of JotForm’s nonprofit discount, we wanted to give you more information on some other companies that offer you great deals in recognition of your efforts. You’ll be happy to know that many of JotForm’s popular integration partners offer really great deals. 

  • Why You Should Add a JotForm Contact Form to Your Company Facebook Page

    July 15, 2016

    Your company Facebook page is a great platform to get the word out about your company, encourage followers to engage, and serve as a direct line of contact. In the modern age of social media, it can be time-consuming to provide customer support across multiple channels including email, a support forum, Twitter, Facebook, phone, and/or whatever mode your company uses. 

    Adding a contact form to your Facebook page can streamline communication with users by funneling messages to your company support inbox. 

  • 9 Ways the JotForm Team Uses JotForm

    July 12, 2016
    JotForm Team

    You might have been able to tell, but we're pretty into online forms here at JotForm. And our form builder isn't just for our users; we believe in it so much that we use it every day. Every single day. It helps us operate faster, smarter, and be more organized. With that, below are nine of the common ways we use JotForm’s form builder on a regular basis. You might even see that it’s similar to how you’re using JotForm as well.
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