This guide is for limitting for form responses by adding submission limit and expiration date to a form. For other options, see Unique Submissions and Unique Question.
The Form Status option in 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.
To see the options
- In Form Builder, click on Settings at the top.
- Next, open Form Status.
- Choose one of the “Disable on” options depending on your needs.
Note: The first two Form Status options are for manually disabling or enabling your form. To learn more, see How to Enable or Disable a Form.
Here are the available options for automatically closing your form:
- Disable on date — Schedule your form to close on a specific date and time.
- Disable of submission limit — Close your form after collecting a certain number of entries.
- Disable on date and submission limit — A combination of the two, whichever comes first.
Selecting any of the “Disable” options allows you to set the warning message, for the form fillers, when the 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.
- Apply at least -5 hour offset to your expiration time 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 submissions limit depending on your requirements.
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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?
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.
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.
Once a form is closed, do we have any control over the message that displays when the form is no longer accepting submissions?
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?
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).
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!
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Kindly advise how can I can set a number limit to date & multiple choice options.
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.
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!
Is there a way to send a form that a recipient can only fill out and submit once? Like for elections?
Sincerely,
Valerie Burkett
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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!
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?
Can I put a limitation that will only allow people to submit the form once every week from the same device/ip?
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?
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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
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.
Hi,
how can I limit the number of times an individual submits a form?
how to limit it to 1 response only? please answer
You need to add "Enable on date and time".
This has been requested for years, since 2014 at least.
Ho to disable every day from X time to Y time ?
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.
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?
I read that the submission limit is reset every month is that correct? Any way we can change that? Thank you
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
How to limit submission per day with expired date
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?
Hi Jotform,
I would like to limit the number of submisisons per choice. Is this possible?
Thanks!
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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.
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
Can I limit submissions on each option?
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
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Hello,
Is there a way to limit number of submissions per week? Thank you.
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 ??
Hello
How can I limit 3 submitions per User?
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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.
I don't seem to have the Preferences button on the top toolbar at all. Am i missing something?
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Is there a way to show the warning message before filling in the form when the form has reached the limit of submissions?
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?
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.
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?
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!
How make form only availbale in 8am to 9pm everyday
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,
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
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?
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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.
is there any way to set limit/quota for each choice in multiple choice question?
Is there any way to set limit for each answer?
if i want to set a pop up window to let know about the form is close, and how to set thanks
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?
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?
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.
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
Is this feature not working? or not available for free plan holders?
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.
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?
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
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...
You guys really need to get this feature back in Jotform! Its the one thing missing from this great script!
Not having this feature is really making things more difficult for me. Can you give some idea when this will be back?
Is there still no update on it?
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.
Ditto the above. We really need this ability. Although we will deal with the lack thereof. But please hurry.
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.
Hi!
Any chance we have this feature working in the near future? Thanks!
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
Would love to see this feature reimplemented as well.
Trying to avoid people entering duplicate records in the form, how do i do this?
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Is there a way to get on a notification list so that when this feature is activated we will know?
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.
The limit submission option remains unavailable. We were counting on this. When will it be remedied?
I cannot see the limit submission option. Please help.
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!
How to setting No Limit Submissions a Form
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This feature is especially useful when used with a "Unique Submission" setting of either "Loose Check" or "Strict Check".