The E-Signature widget is the easiest way to complete an electronic signature on your form. The Widget allows your form users to draw their signatures using their mouse, touch screen device, or any other input device that will allow them to draw their signature on your form as a confirmation or verification of consent.

In just a few clicks, you can create a non-disclosure agreement and have it signed with the e-signature widget. You can also create an on-boarding contract, an approval form, a request for information form, a payment requisition or even a service contract or agreement and have it signed with the e-signature widget.

More than 40 countries around the world, including the United States, have standards that accept electronic signatures as legally binding. By appending an electronic signature to an electronic document or process, you will validate a legal precedent, allowing all participants to sign documents with confidence.

The e-signature widget requires no additional configuration, and you can resize it to fit your form layout, allowing you to get digital signatures for your form quickly, accurately and with ease.

The Terms and Conditions widget adds a link on your form that lets people read and accept the guidelines which come with your service. Customers or users are usually satisfied when what they expect is delivered in an efficient, timely manner. In order to set this expectation, the Terms and Conditions widget is an excellent choice.

If you create a form that helps you sell custom branded t-shirts, you might need to set expectations on size approximations, materials, colors, packaging and delivery timelines. Some of these details can be quite specific; for instance, there are different packaging instructions for different places around the world you might ship your t-shirts to. You might need to specify the type of chemicals used in branding, the type of textile material used to develop the t-shirts, regional and international standards for textile imports among other stipulations. Your Terms and Conditions helps you articulate these details.

Terms and conditions not only indicate to your customers or users precisely what to expect of your service, but you can outline legal stipulations which keep your customers, users and the services you offer safe.

The Terms and Conditions widget is easy to add to your form and customize. All you need a link to the website page where your terms and conditions are published, and that's it!

The Smooth Signature widget adds an electronic signature field on your form, with a helpful bezier algorithm that makes realistic strokes as you draw the signature on the form. The hand-drawn signature looks realistic and matches a pen-drawn signature to a tee. The smooth signature augments the reality of signatures, giving you the best of both worlds.

Paperless business processes have gained steam over the years. Currently, over forty countries now legally support electronic signatures, a validation of the progress that technology has made in replacing paper-based transactions. The advancements made with electronic signatures provide a pivotal augmentation of technology towards more paperless business processes. The smooth signature, as a hallmark of paperless technology, provides a simple form field which can be drawn by mouse, electronic pen or finger.

The smooth signature can be used on contract forms, notarizing and initialing legal forms, accepting terms of service, authorizing internal requests and processes, on-boarding forms, non-disclosure agreements, debriefing forms, governmental service application forms among hundreds of other use cases.

No additional settings are required when you drag it onto your form, it fits snugly wherever you'd like the signature to appear. Users are able to redo their signatures as many times as they wish if the first or second try was insufficient. A horizontal guide line helps the signatory to orient their directional accuracy, this also augments the conventional presumption of signing on the dotted line.

The Unique ID allows you to stamp your form with a unique alphanumeric key which can be used to identify the form with precision.

It’s easy for two documents or two users to have the same name or the same reference. This creates a less than ideal situation for business processes which require a unique identifier for every reference. The Unique ID widget makes sure that all your forms retain referential integrity; a peculiarity of every submitted form.

The Unique ID allows you to add a standard prefix, which is appended with a serialized number that starts exactly where you want it to. This allows you to create unique serial numbers for different things, for instance, your invoices could have a series that looks like INV001929, while your successful delivery references could look like DL001928.

There are many documents that are generated by your online forms which need a Unique reference. Such documents include receipts, invoices, estimates, registration forms, booking forms, payment forms, support forms, evaluation forms, surveys and questionnaires, polls, purchase orders among many others. Each of these forms will generate documents which will require the Unique ID widget to provide a referential distinction.

The Unique ID is very easy to use, just drag it on your form from the widgets tab, Add your prefix, the starting index for the serialized number, and the padding; which represents how many documents will be in the series by appending zeros in front of your serial number, for instance, 00000789. The Unique ID is generated when the form is submitted, which ensures that no duplication occurs.

The SMS Confirmation widget is powered by Twilio, an excellent Voice, SMS and MMS service.

You can get a Trial Twilio Account to get you started.

All you need is to do enter the required credentials from your Twilio account in the widget settings, and your form users will receive a text or call with a verification number that they can use to confirm through your form.

Sounds really cool, right?

The SMS Confirmation widget is useful in almost any form that needs extra verification when collecting contact information.

A common mistake in form filling is spelling, especially for email address fields.

Email correctness widget makes sure that the email entered is in the correct format and spelling.

It also makes typing suggestions based on the most common email service providers like Gmail® or Yahoo®.

You can list additional email domains which the widget can autosuggest to your users as they enter their email address.

Its a great way to make sure you get accurately entered email addresses.

Terms and Conditions or Terms of Service is an essential part of your form. It helps you define your limitations and privileges when offering services to your form users.

Your Terms and Conditions Text may not fit on one page, and you would not want to use all that space on your form anyway.

The Short Scrollable Terms allows you to save on vertical space, generating the requisite check-box, and a scroll-able section where all your text will be displayed.

It is incredibly easy to configure, and looks great on your form too!

Electronic signatures or e-signatures are a widely accepted way to validate a document or agreement among involved parties.

In many places around the world, e-signatures are legally acknowledged.

Now with Jotform you can integrate your form with DocuSign, leveraging a powerful, secure and easy-to-use platform for validating and acknowledging agreements or documents of all kinds with your collaborators.

Your form users can sign or acknowledge an agreement using the Docusign widget, even if they do not have a Docusign account.

JotForm is the easiest online form builder, allowing you to quickly create forms that can be filled out and returned to you. It provides a wealth of fields that can be added to collect any type of information necessary. Sometimes you want to turn these forms into binding contracts.

Adobe Sign (formerly known as EchoSign) allows users to sign documents electronically. It's widely accepted and used around the world. This e-signature widget allows you to turn your jotforms into signable contracts. Users can affirm their agreement by adding their signature right within their browser.

It will automatically generate a completed copy of your form, open the generated document in Adobe Document Cloud where your form users will append their e-signature.

It's easy to set up: just authenticate your Adobe Document Cloud account from the widget settings, enter the title of your form and you are ready to go!

The Email Validator widget makes sure that a valid email address is entered on your form through a two step verification process.

The widget sends an email with a verification code to the entered email address, then the pass-code is copied back to the form by the user to verify the email. If the verification code is confirmed as a match, then the email address is verified. Using this widget ensures that you always have valid email addresses from your forms.

This widget allows you to present form questions as fill in the blanks.

If you have a test or exam in the form of a passage you would like your form users to complete, then this is the ideal widget.

It allows you to present the test in a narrative passage, where you can configure where you would like the blank spaces placed as input boxes.

The widget has another cool feature: It allows you to define the correct answer in the settings, and after the form has been submitted, each response will be marked as a pass or fail.

This widget is perfect for evaluation, test or quiz forms.

Sometimes you need to confirm or verify that one of the values that has been entered on your form is correct.

One of the best ways is for your form users to enter the value again into a second entry box, in which case, both values should match.

This widget generates two input boxes that are used to make sure that the value entered in the first input box is the same as the second.

Its easy to configure, where you are able to set the width, the text placeholders that will guide your form users what to enter, and the style, which is basically the orientation of the two fields.

This widget automatically formats the number that is being entered on your form for values like currency, percentage, decimals value among other formats.

If you have a form that requires a specific number format, this is the widget to use.

The configuration wizard allows you to define the precision of the number, the thousand delimiter, the decimal delimiter, the prefix text like a currency symbol and the default number to be displayed.

The widget works much like an automated input mask, that allows the input of numerical values without formatting, and then it formats the entered value into the configured number format.

There is no end to spam submissions, or computers that are programmed to fill and automatically submit your form.

The only way to prevent unsolicited or unwanted submissions is to increase the challenge of filling out the form.

This widget does just that.

It adds a drawing canvas on your form - requiring users to trace the randomly selected drawing.

If the trace is reasonably accurate, the form user is allowed to submit the form. If there is an error, they are encouraged to try again until they get it right.

Many form users sometimes enter the wrong email on your form, either by mistake or intentionally. This greatly reduces the value of the information you receive from your form.

Xverify® email makes sure that does not happen.

Powered by Xverify®s powerful verification engine, this widget will add an email field on your form which check the validity of the entered email address in a single step. All this happens automatically in the background, and it only takes a second. If the email is not valid or does not exist, your form user will get feedback right away, and will enter a valid email address.

The widget requires that you add jotform.com as an authorized domain, as well as your Xverify® API Key in the widget settings.

This widget uses the substring JavaScript function to capture the characters between two positions in the typed text.

Substring reads the targeted input field as the user types it, and captures the characters between the index character positions you will have configured in the widget settings.

Here are a few examples of how you can use the widget:

The need to collect verified information keeps increasing, with even greater possibilities that automated responses may be some of the respondents on your form.

A battle tested method of preventing automated responses on your form is using a Captcha. The Math Captcha widget requires human interaction, such that a mathematical challenge is required before they can submit the form.

The Match Capture widget allows you to increase the difficulty by raising the value of the highest possible outcome.

Using Lob Address Verification Services, you can instantly validate and standardize mailing addresses on your form.

The field will serve to ensure your deliveries are sent to a verified location.

You can also use the field to collect and verify addresses for billing information among other financial purposes.

SmartyStreets® is a premier address verification service which is trusted by fortune 500 companies to check and verify the validity of address locations among other services.

With the JotForm SmartyStreets® widget, you can leverage the same powerful feature on your form.

By adding this widget, a complete address field is added to your form, which will automatically check and verify the validity of all the addresses entered by your users.

You will need a SmartyStreets® account and a website key to successfully verify addresses.

Reading Time allows you to calculate an estimated time the user will take to read the paragraph on your form.

Quite simply to use, just paste in the title and text paragraph and the widget will take care of the rest.

This widget can be useful if you wish to gather information on domains for business purposes

Check the WhoIs information of a domain name by entering the URL in the field provided.

This widget responses simple rather than "Domain Whois Widget" .

There are however some country TLDs that do not have look-up verification

Some of the reasons why you need to create a challenge for form users could be, among other reasons, in a test that rewards winners when they complete the form successfully, an aptitude test form to determine who should go to the next level or a way to determine actual human interaction on your form; preventing spam submissions on your form.

The Tic Tac Toe widget introduces a fun and challenging way of increasing the difficulty of completing and submitting a form.

Should you have a coupon code that you want to share, or you want to place an ad on your form that people can view while they played a fun game, or its part of a survey that tests the aptitude of your respondents; whichever the need for a challenge, this widget would be a great edition to your form.