Formiqa/Templates/Survey Form Template
Free template · 9 fields included

Survey Form Template

A multi-section survey template with radio buttons, checkboxes, dropdowns, and open text questions. Collect structured data from customers, employees, or research participants — without paying for a dedicated survey tool.

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A survey collects opinions, behaviors, and measurements across many respondents so you can spot patterns instead of reacting to the loudest single voice. The problem it solves is representativeness: one angry email or one enthusiastic customer call tells you almost nothing, but forty structured responses tell you whether an issue is systemic. This template ships with two clear sections — an "About You" block (an optional name and a required Age Range) and a "Your Experience" block that asks how often people use your product, rates overall experience on a five-point scale, captures which features they value most as multi-select checkboxes, and ends with an open text box for suggestions.

A well-designed survey earns clean data by respecting how people actually answer. The five-point rating scale here (Excellent, Good, Average, Poor, Very Poor) is balanced — an equal number of positive and negative options around a neutral midpoint — which is what keeps results from skewing. The frequency question (Daily through First time) is worth putting early because usage is the single best predictor of every other answer; a daily user and a first-timer are effectively two different populations, and you will want to segment their responses apart. The checkbox question is deliberately non-required so people who value nothing strongly can move on rather than inventing an answer.

Deploy it by sharing the published URL in an email or in-app message, or embedding it on a thank-you page. Keep the survey open for a fixed window rather than indefinitely — a two-week collection period gives you a clean cohort to compare against the next round, which is how a one-off survey turns into a trend you can track.

Fields included

9 pre-built fields, ready to customize.

#
Field label
Type
Required
1
Name (optional)e.g. Your name
Short text
No
2
Age Range
Dropdown
Yes
3
How often do you use our product?
Radio (single choice)
Yes
4
Rate your overall experience
Radio (single choice)
Yes
5
What features do you value most?
Checkboxes (multiple choice)
No
6
Any suggestions for improvement?e.g. We'd love to hear your thoughts...
Long text
No

All fields are fully customizable — add, remove, or reorder after opening the template.

Use cases

Who uses this template.

Post-launch product surveys measuring whether a new release moved the overall-experience rating up or down versus the prior cohort
Feature prioritization: using the "features you value most" checkboxes to see what actually drives loyalty before committing a roadmap quarter
Employee pulse surveys where the frequency and rating questions are reworded for internal sentiment tracking
Segmenting responses by usage frequency to compare how power users and first-timers rate the same experience
Academic or UX research studies that need structured, exportable responses without a paid survey-platform seat
Onboarding-cohort checks sent two weeks after signup to catch friction while it is still fresh
Best practices

How to get the most from this form.

Keep rating scales balanced, not loaded

The built-in scale runs Excellent to Very Poor with a true neutral midpoint, giving positive and negative answers equal weight. If you edit the options, preserve that symmetry — three positive options against one negative will inflate your average and hide real problems. An unbalanced scale is the most common way survey results end up flattering and useless.

Ask usage frequency before opinion

This template places "How often do you use our product?" ahead of the experience rating on purpose. Frequency is the variable you will slice every other answer by, so collect it while attention is highest. When you export, a daily user rating you "Average" means something very different from a first-timer doing the same.

Cap open text to one question

The single "suggestions for improvement" box at the end is enough. Open-ended questions are expensive to read and slow to answer, so more than one or two tanks completion and buries you in text. Let the closed questions carry the quantitative load and use the open box for the surprises the checkboxes could not anticipate.

Use the section heading and divider as pacing cues

The heading and divider fields split the form into "About You" and "Your Experience," which signals progress and makes a longer survey feel like two short ones. Add a heading roughly every four to six questions if you extend it. Respondents who can see the shape of what remains are far more likely to finish.

Make demographic fields optional, and mean it

Age Range ships as required here, but consider whether you truly need it from everyone — mandatory demographics are a top cause of abandonment on the first screen. Name is already optional, which is correct for anything you want candid. Require only what your analysis genuinely depends on.

Fix your collection window before you send

Decide in advance how long the survey stays live — Formiqa has no built-in close date, so you unpublish it manually. A defined window (say two weeks) produces a comparable cohort, prevents late trickle responses from muddying your averages, and makes round-over-round comparison honest.

FAQ

Common questions.

How is a survey different from a plain form?
A form usually collects one person's specific data to act on it individually — an order, an application, a support ticket. A survey collects the same set of questions from many people so you can aggregate and compare across them. The mechanics are identical in Formiqa; the difference is that with a survey you care about the distribution of answers, not any single submission.
Can I show follow-up questions based on how someone answers?
Yes. Formiqa's conditional logic lets you show or hide fields based on earlier answers, so you can branch within one survey — for example, only revealing the "suggestions" box to people who rated their experience Average or below, or asking power users a deeper question first-timers never see.
How many responses can I collect on the free plan?
The free plan takes 10 submissions per form per month, which is enough to pilot a survey and check that your questions read cleanly. For a real research run you will want Pro at $26.90/month, which lifts the cap to 2,500 responses per form per month — and there are no per-response fees on top, so a large survey costs the same as a small one.
How do I actually analyze the results?
Every response lands in your submission dashboard, where you can read them individually and filter by a field value — for instance, isolating everyone in the 25-34 age range. For real quantitative work, export all submissions to CSV on Pro and pivot the checkbox and rating columns in Sheets, Excel, R, or whatever you use; the closed-question fields come out as clean columns ready to chart.
Can I keep responses anonymous?
Yes. The Name field is optional and there is no login wall, so a respondent can complete the whole survey without identifying themselves. If you want stronger anonymity, remove any identifying fields entirely before publishing — that way even a curious admin cannot tie a submission back to a person.
Can I edit the questions and scales?
Fully. Add, remove, or reword any field, change the rating options, swap the age brackets, or convert the single-choice experience question into a multi-select checkbox. The template is a starting layout — the field types (radio, checkbox, dropdown, long text, plus heading and divider) are all reusable building blocks you rearrange to fit your study.
How do I distribute the survey to respondents?
Every published form gets a shareable URL you can drop into an email, a Slack message, or a QR code, and an embed code that drops the survey straight into a WordPress, Webflow, or custom HTML page — useful for embedding it on a post-purchase thank-you screen where response rates are highest.

Use this template for free.

All 6 fields included. Customize and publish in minutes.