How to Add Time and Response Limit to Your Form

July 13, 2024

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 or expiration date to your form. For other options, see Unique Submissions and Unique Questions.

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To conditionally disable your form

  1. In the Form Builder, go to Settings at the top.
  2. Open Form Status.
Steps to conditionally disable a form in Jotform
  1. Choose your desired option from the dropdown menu.
Steps to conditionally disable a form in Jotform

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 your desired date and time in the EST timezone.
  • Disable at submission limit — Close your form after collecting a certain number of entries. Settings Submission Limit to zero or empty stops the form’s response count checks.
  • Disable on specific date or at submission limit — A combination of the two, whichever comes first.
Steps to conditionally disable a form in Jotform
Disable on specific date
Steps to conditionally disable a form in Jotform
Disable at submission limit
Steps to conditionally disable a form in Jotform
Disable on specific date or at submission limit

When setting up the expiration date, an offset of at least minus five 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.

Selecting any of the “Disable” options allows you to set a warning message for your form fillers when your form is disabled.

Steps to conditionally disable a form in Jotform

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. See How to Remove or Reset Your Form’s Expiration Date for more information.

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