Formlogix review
For a while now, I’ve been using Formlogix for several of my websites. This is an online application/website where you can create webforms for your website for your users. Very usefull in lots of ways. For example, you don’t have to worry about spam and you hosting.
As until now, the service has been free to use. It only displayed a button and a link back to it’s website.
But recently they decided to start with a p2p plan, read about it on their blog.
Offcourse this was waiting to happen. They mention the fact that the overhead costs were getting to high for them (It’s only two persons working at formlogix). From their point of view I can understand this change, as an entrepeneur you want to make money with your ideas.
I guess we now have to wait and see if the ads they are about to implement are to disturbing om my sites. Lots of alternatives for free formbuilders out there.
Would Formlogix be worth paying for? Let’s find out.
First thing to mention is the fact that on the Formlogix website, there is little mention of a payplan. Only a small link on the form maker page gets you to the difference between the free and paying plan available.
Creating a form is faily easy. Once you create your account you get access to your datacenter, wich is an overview of all your different forms. You can make a brand new one or choose from templates that other users have shared and made public. This is very well done, extremely usefull and clear. That was the easy part.
After you decide to create a form you can tweak it the way you like. Adding all the different fields necessary for your form can be confusing if you don’t have any previous experience with forms in general. But overall, it’s not to hard. You can edit everything and add lots of features, like for example a spam security feature, a send to page after a submit. Like I said, if you’re new to this, it can get quite challenging, cause there are a ton of features in this tool.
Once a user submits a form you get a nice email with all the data filled in, plus an overview in your datacenter. You can get datareports and everything.
Only downside is that a free plan will only have the benefits of a payplan for seven days. After seven days it gets nerfed hard. No file uploads, no detailed email forms alerts for form owners, no Bcc and Mailing list, no linked forms, no data management toolbox: custom filters, charts, import data, and custom emails, no data entries restore and no data links. Also there will be a small ‘Powered By’ logo in all the free forms, and sponsered ads inside the form carbon copy + sponsered ads in your forms.
This limits the use for a free version. OK, if you use this for your personal website, I guess you won’t mind the ads popping up in your form and mails, but for a business related website, this is a big nono.
The pricing is actually quite surprising, for your first form it’s 0.99$ a month if you subscribe for a year. So that’s not bad at all.
Would I recommend or use the pay to use plan? Hard to say at this moment, they added the payplan only a couple of weeks ago, so it will be interesting to see how this is going to evolve. On their blog they say they are only 2 people working on this project. If the overhead costs are indeed getting to high for them I really would like to know how many users actually upgraded to a paying plan. Would I depend some section of my business on them at this moment? Hard to say…
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