Create your first form

This guide takes you from an empty canvas to a published form that collects real responses. You will use the drag-and-drop editor, a live preview, and the Publish toggle — no code, no setup. It takes about five minutes.

New to Formiqa? Start with Getting started for a tour of how the product works and what the free plan includes.

Open the form builder

Go to your dashboard and select New form. This creates a blank form and opens it in the editor, where you will spend the rest of this walkthrough. The free plan lets you keep up to 5 forms at a time, so you have room to experiment.

Add and arrange fields

The editor has a palette of fields on one side and your form canvas in the middle. Building a form is a matter of moving fields from one to the other:

1. 1Drag a field from the palette onto the canvas — for a contact form, that might be a text field for the name, an email field, and a long-text field for the message.
2. 2Drop it where you want it. The field appears on the canvas immediately.
3. 3Reorder by dragging. Grab any field on the canvas and drag it up or down to change the order.
4. 4Made a mistake? Use undo/redo to step back or forward through your changes.

Formiqa offers a wide range of field types — text, email, number, phone, date, dropdowns, checkboxes, file uploads, e-signatures, and layout elements like headings and page breaks. Add as many as you need.

Configure a field

Select any field on the canvas to open its side editor. There you can set:

• Label — the question or prompt shown to the respondent.
• Placeholder — optional greyed-out hint text inside the field.
• Required — a toggle that forces the respondent to answer before submitting.
• Validation — rules that check the answer's format, so you collect clean data. See validation and required fields.

Choice fields — dropdowns, radio buttons, checkboxes — also let you define the list of options here. For the full list of what each field can do, see field types.

Preview as you build

The editor shows a live preview so you can see the form exactly as a respondent will. Every change — a new field, a reorder, a tweaked label — is reflected right away, so there is no guesswork about how the finished form looks before you publish it.

Publish and share

While you build, the form stays private. When you are ready, flip the Publish toggle: its public link goes live and anyone with the link can respond. You can share that link directly, or embed the form on your own site with an iframe — see share and embed a form.

See your responses

Once your form is published and shared, every submission lands in your submissions dashboard, where you can read, search, filter, and export the answers. No inbox to refresh — the responses are there waiting for you.