---
title: "Forms"
description: "Build contact, inquiry, quote and signup forms, place them on your store and read what customers send."
url: "https://docs.poltura.com/en/online-store/forms/"
lang: en
alternates:
  en: "https://docs.poltura.com/en/online-store/forms/"
  hu: "https://docs.poltura.com/hu/online-store/forms/"
---

# Forms

Build contact, inquiry, quote and signup forms, place them on your store and read what customers send.

- Where: Online store → Forms

Forms let customers send you something from your store: a message, a question about a product, a quote request or a newsletter signup. You build the form, publish it and place it on a page. Every submission is stored under the form's **Responses**.

![The Forms list with two published forms, Newsletter and Contact, each with its number of fields and the date it was updated](https://docs.poltura.com/screenshots/en/online-store/forms.webp)

_Click a form to edit it or read its responses._

## Find your way around the list

Open **Online store** and choose **Forms**. The list shows each form's **Name**, **Status**, number of **Fields** and when it was **Updated**. The tabs **All**, **Draft**, **Published** and **Archived** filter by status.

- **Draft**: not on your store yet.
- **Published**: the store serves the published version.
- **Archived**: the store no longer serves the form.

## Create a form

1. Open **Online store** and choose **Forms**.

2. Choose **Create form**.

3. Pick a starting point and choose **Use this template**:

   - **Contact**: a message to your team. This is not a marketing signup.
   - **Product enquiry**: questions about a product.
   - **Quote request**: quote details and optional files.
   - **Newsletter**: email signup with an explicit consent checkbox.

4. The editor opens with the template's fields. Change them as described below.

5. Choose **Save draft**, then **Publish**.

6. A notice confirms the form is published. Now place it on your store, see [Put a form on your store](https://docs.poltura.com/en/online-store/forms/#place).

## Edit a form

Click a form's name to open the editor. It has four tabs: **Fields**, **Appearance**, **After submission** and **Responses**. The **Preview** beside the editor shows the form as customers will see it.

### Fields

1. On the **Fields** tab, choose **Add field**, or select an existing field.
2. Choose the **Type**: **Text**, **Email**, **Phone**, **Long text**, **Dropdown**, **Radio**, **Checkbox**, **Multi-select**, **Number**, **Date** or **File**.
3. Fill in the **Label**, and if you like a **Placeholder** and **Help text**.
4. Switch **Required** on if the customer must fill it in.
5. For choice fields, add the **Choices**. For a file field, set the **Accepted types**, **Max files** and **Max size (bytes)**.
6. Drag the fields to reorder them.

Two options stay folded away until you need them:

- **Show only when** shows a field only if another field **Equals**, **Does not equal** or **Contains** a value. Otherwise the field is **Always visible**.
- **Split into multiple pages** turns the form into **Steps**. Give each step a title and choose its fields. A field can belong to one step at most.

### Appearance

Set the **Internal name** you see in the admin, and the **Title** and **Description** customers see above the form. Every form asks for a CAPTCHA check before sending. The editor has no switch for it.

### After submission

- **Success title** and **Success message**: what the customer sees after sending.
- **Redirect URL**: send the customer to another page instead. Leave it blank to show the success message.
- **Send to Inbox**: turns the submission into a conversation in your [Inbox](https://docs.poltura.com/en/inbox/). This never subscribes anyone to marketing.
- **Email recipients**: addresses that are notified, separated by commas. This works independently of the Inbox.
- **Marketing consent field**: choose a checkbox field of the form. Only a ticked box records marketing consent.

### Translate a form

Choose a language at the top of the editor. In your default language you edit the original wording. In any other language you edit the translation in the same fields, with the original shown as a hint. **Auto-translate** fills the missing translations without replacing what you wrote. Wherever a translation is empty, shoppers see the original text.

### Save, publish and archive

- **Save draft** keeps your changes without touching the store.
- **Publish** makes the current draft the version the store serves. The store keeps that version until you publish again.
- **Archive** takes the form off the store. Save it as a draft again to bring it back.

> **Good to know**
>
> Draft edits are not on the store until you publish.

## Put a form on your store

A published form can appear in three ways, all set in the [customizer](https://docs.poltura.com/en/online-store/customizer/):

- **As a section.** Choose **Add section** and pick **Form**, then choose the form. It sits in the page like any other section.
- **From a button.** Select a button, set its action to **Open form**, choose the form, and pick **Popup** or **Right side panel** and a width. **Preview form** tries it without saving a response.
- **On the contact page.** The contact page of your store uses the published contact form.

Only published forms can be chosen. Forms take the colors and fonts of your theme.

## Read responses

1. Open **Online store**, choose **Forms** and click the form's name.
2. Open the **Responses** tab.
3. Use the tabs **All**, **New**, **Read**, **Spam** and **Archived**, or search.
4. Click a response to see the **Answers**, the language it was sent in and the **Delivery** state.
5. To keep the list tidy, open the menu at the end of a response row and choose its new status: **New**, **Read**, **Spam** or **Archived**. The same status field is in the opened response.

- **Delivery** shows whether the response reached the Inbox or the email recipients: **Queued**, **Sending**, **Delivered** or **Failed**. **Retry failed delivery** sends it again.
- Files a customer uploaded can be downloaded from the response.
- **Export CSV** downloads the responses as a spreadsheet file.

> **Warning**
>
> **Delete** removes a response for good. This cannot be undone.

## Good to know

- Every submission is stored before it is delivered, so nothing is lost if a delivery fails.
- The CAPTCHA check, spam traps and rate limits are active on every form.
- Sending to the Inbox needs a plan that includes the Inbox.
- The footer newsletter signup is a theme setting, not a form. See [Theme settings](https://docs.poltura.com/en/online-store/theme-settings/) and [Newsletter](https://docs.poltura.com/en/marketing/newsletter/).
- A form's name must be unique.

## If something goes wrong

- **"Someone else saved this form. Reload, then save again."** Another person changed the form while you were editing. Reload the page and repeat your change.
- **"Archived forms cannot be published until they are restored by saving a draft."** Choose **Save draft** first, then **Publish**.
- **The form is not offered in the customizer.** Only published forms appear there. Publish the form.
- **A response shows Failed under Delivery.** The response itself is safe. Check the recipients on the **After submission** tab, then choose **Retry failed delivery**.

## Related

- [Customizer](https://docs.poltura.com/en/online-store/customizer/)
- [Inbox](https://docs.poltura.com/en/inbox/)
- [Newsletter](https://docs.poltura.com/en/marketing/newsletter/)
- [Pages, blog and content](https://docs.poltura.com/en/online-store/content/)
- [Translations](https://docs.poltura.com/en/online-store/translations/)