Forms by CaptainForm – Form Builder for WordPress

Version: 2.5.3

Version : 2.5.3

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Version: 2.5.3

Drag and drop form builder. Create payment forms, order forms, registration forms and requests, applications, subscriptions, receive uploads and more.

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CaptainForm is a user-friendly form builder plugin that provides advanced functionality in an easy to use, drag and drop interface. The plugin requires no add-ons and all of the features are built-in. The form builder is ideal for building any type of responsive form or survey such as: order forms, payment forms, registration forms, request forms, application forms, job applications, appointment forms, support request forms, contact forms, lead generation forms, quote requests, newsletter subscriptions, feedback surveys, quizzes, user-submitted posts and more. CaptainForm’s visual editor offers a friendly environment to build any type of form with ease. Captain Form is integrated with many apps and payment processors, such as Google Drive, Dropbox, MailChimp, Active Campaign, SalesForce, PayPal, Stripe, Authorize.net, Braintree, Sage Pay and many more. You can also create any type of upload form to receive file attachments through your forms. Stellar customer support through live chat and email, and advanced data security are provided on all service plans, including the free one. This WordPress form builder and survey builder is useful for lead generation, online registration management, payment collection, market research and more. Creating user-friendly forms is easier than ever before! Some of CaptainForm’s superpowers: Build fully customizable forms and surveys using our drag & drop form editor with more than 25 field types: name, email, phone number, address, website,...

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Minimal impact on memory usage Learn more how we collect the data
Minimal impact on pagespeed Learn more how we collect the data
No PHP errors, warning, notices Learn more how we collect the data
No Javascript issues Learn more how we collect the data
Latest PHP 7.2.16 compatible Learn more how we collect the data
Latest WordPress 5.3 compatible Learn more how we collect the data
Optimized database footprint Learn more how we collect the data
No activation errors Learn more how we collect the data
No resource errors Learn more how we collect the data
Frequently updated Learn more how we collect the data

All the plugins are tested on the same server with exactly same configuration via test script that automatically activates and logs the data WP Hive shows.

All the scripts run on a VPS with 8 CPU cores and 8 GB of RAM.
The test sites are hosted on Google Cloud VM instances, one site/plugin per instance. The machine type is n1-standard-1. The server is a 8 core CPU with 8GB of RAM.
The test sites are hosted on Apache/2 server and they are tested on PHP 7.2.16 & WordPress 5.3.
The database server is MySQL 8.0.15 and the default PHP memory limit is 256MB.

264K

Total Downloads

10K

Active Installation

6 years

On WordPress

0.0%

Growth Rate

2

Support Thread

193

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About Forms by CaptainForm – Form Builder for WordPress

Description

CaptainForm’s visual editor offers a friendly environment to build any type of form with ease. Captain Form is integrated with many apps and payment processors, such as Google Drive, Dropbox, MailChimp, Active Campaign, SalesForce, PayPal, Stripe, Authorize.net, Braintree, Sage Pay and many more. You can also create any type of upload form to receive file attachments through your forms. Stellar customer support through live chat and email, and advanced data security are provided on all service plans, including the free one. This WordPress form builder and survey builder is useful for lead generation, online registration management, payment collection, market research and more. Creating user-friendly forms is easier than ever before!

Some of CaptainForm’s superpowers:

Build fully customizable forms and surveys using our drag & drop form editor with more than 25 field types: name, email, phone number, address, website, choice fields (checkboxes, radio buttons, dropdowns), file upload (single or multiple), digital signature, star rating, terms of service, Google map, Likert scale, social buttons etc.
Create responsive forms and surveys from scratch or import one of our 30+ form templates: contact form, order form, payment form, file upload form, feedback form, event registration form, donation form, job application form, business demographic survey, newsletter subscription form, customer satisfaction survey, booking form, quote request form, loan application form and many more. You can create engaging forms with multiple pages for an easier navigation, and also place multiple fields per row.
Receive files through your forms. Users can upload attachments such as images, PDFs and any other type of files through your upload forms. You can also choose to enable single or multiple file uploads.
Benefit from an add-on free form builder – all 3rd party apps and payment integrations are built inside the core plugin.
Collect payments through popular payment gateways. Create credit card payment forms, PayPal forms, PayPal Pro forms, PayPal Payflow forms, Auhorize.net forms, Stripe forms, Braintree forms, Sage Pay forms, PayU.ro forms, Sisow forms, PayFast forms and FreshBooks forms. It is fast, simple and no form add-ons are required.
Use the form builder to send collected data automatically to a wide range of external services through 3rd party integrations: MailChimp, Dropbox, SalesForce, Campaign Monitor, Active Campaign, Evernote, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Zendesk, ExactTarget and many more.
Secure your web forms and submissions with advanced security features such as CAPTCHA, reCAPTCHA, SSL Encryption, data encryption, IP and country filters – available on all plans within the form builder.
Publish your WordPress forms and surveys in multiple ways: in posts, in pages, as popups, in widgets or using the function call.
Set up multiple recipients so that more people receive notifications when a form submissions is made, send emails only to specific recipients based on the content of the submission and customize the content of the submission.
Trigger custom autoresponders (confirmation emails) and redirect your form users to a custom “Thank you” page (success page) after submission.
Receive collected data as PDF form submissions. PDF notifications come in two different ways. The PDF can have the layout of the regular form submission or the layout of the form.
Use your own SMTP connection details so that data is sent through your email server.
Enable your customers to save their progress for later and continue filling out the form at a later date with our save and resume feature.
Create smart forms with complex calculations that include mathematical operations and link them to payment gateways, when needed, with just a few clicks.
Sort, filter, analyze or export all collected data as CSV, EXCEL or PDF. Data can be manipulated in various other ways. For example, you can generate charts and reports.
Use CaptainForm on WordPress multisite networks.
Get free of charge quality customer support service by email and live chat – available on all plans (free and premium).

Here are a few quick guides on how to build some popular types of forms with our form builder: registration form, booking form, job application form, order form, PayPal order form, donation form, quote request form, feedback form, survey, quiz, poll, contact form, subscription form, auto-popup newsletter subscription form, popup form, WordPress users registration form.

There are 4 different service plans available: a free plan and 3 paid plans, working on an annual subscription basis.

Regular (Free): 3 forms, 15 fields/form, 500 submissions/month, 100MB storage space
Apprentice ($35/year): use on 1 site, unlimited forms and fields, 5K submissions/month, 500MB storage space, 5 native apps
Master ($95/year): use on 3 sites, unlimited forms and fields, 20K submissions/month, 2GB storage space, 14 native apps
Hero ($195/year): use on unlimited sites, unlimited forms and fields, 100K submissions/month, 10GB storage space, 24 native apps, multisite support, payment integration

Features available on the Regular (Free) plan

Real time drag & drop form builder
30+ form templates and the option to start from scratch
25+ types of form fields, including the file upload field which allows you to receive attachments through forms
Required fields and optional fields
Field validation and field instructions that contribute to a good user experience on your forms
Forms with pagination and multiple fields per row
Mathematical operations for advanced calculations
Conditional logic (1 rule)
Predefined form themes and the option to customize form design extensively
Various form publishing options: in pages and posts, in widgets, as popup forms and auto-popup forms, in theme files
Email notifications sent to the form owner
Notification copy and default autoresponder sent to the form user
Custom Thank You page
Submissions archive and export to CSV and Excel
Google Analytics tracking
Various CAPTCHA types: simple, smart, reCAPTCHA
Country filters and IP limitation
Mobile forms (forms are compatible with mobile devices)

Features available on the Apprentice plan ($35/year)

Everything in the Regular plan
Multiple and custom recipients
Custom autoresponder
Custom email notifications
PDF notifications
SMS notifications
Multilanguage forms
Integration with Google Drive, Dropbox, WordPress Posts and Google Groups
Allow users to save and resume a submission
Allow users to preview a submission
Allow users to print a submission
Edit a submission at a later time (for both form owners and form users)
Approval requests that allow you to approve or reject a submission
Conditional logic (3 rules)
Form reports (pie charts, bar charts, line charts etc.) and report filters for the data you collect
Custom SMTP server
Password protection
Quiz functionality (correct answers, quiz score, countdown timer etc.)

Features available on the Master plan ($95/year)

Everything in the Regular and Apprentice plans
Integration with MailChimp, Active Campaign, Campaign Monitor, AWeber, iContact, Get Response, Vertical Response, ExactTarget, Enormail
Conditional logic (unlimited rules)
Custom JS scripts on the form or on its Thank You page

Features available on the Hero plan ($195/year)

Everything in the Regular, Apprentice and Master plans
Payment integration with PayPal, PayPal Payflow, PayPal Pro, Stripe, Authorize.net, Braintree, Sisow, Sage Pay, PayU.ro, PayFast, Freshbooks
Accept PayPal payments or credit card payments
Coupon codes
Integration with Salesforce, Top Producer, Zoho CRM, Marketo, Pipeline Deals, Evernote, Smartsheet, Google Calendar, Zendesk, Desk.com, Webhooks, WordPress Users
Support for WordPress multisite networks

All service plans (including the free one) come with SSL encryption, data encryption and support by email and chat. View our complete Features Matrix.

The CaptainForm forms and surveys work well with all of the popular themes and page builders, like: Visual Composer, Beaver Builder, Live Composer, Divi, Elementor, Uncode, Avada, Site Origin, Themify.
For more information, please visit the official home page of the CaptainForm form builder.

Performance

Memory Usage

Average memory usage is 111.95 KB
This is less than 99% plugins

Page Speed

Average page loading time is
increased by 0.05 s
This is faster than 99% plugins

Speed Test Benchmark

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Change

Average Change

+ 0.05s

/(front page)

- 0.02s

/wp-admin/edit-comments.php

+ 0.09s

/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category

+ 0.03s

/wp-admin/edit.php

+ 0.03s

/wp-admin/index.php

- 0.04s

/wp-admin/media-new.php

- 0.15s

/wp-admin/options-discussion.php

+ 0.04s

/wp-admin/options-writing.php

+ 0.01s

/wp-admin/post-new.php

+ 0.36s

/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page

+ 0.12s

/wp-admin/upload.php

+ 0.08s

Memory Usage Benchmark

Before plugin activation
After plugin activation

Benchmark

Change

Average Change

+ 111.95KB

/ (front page)

+ 4.35KB

/wp-admin/edit-comments.php

+ 15.19KB

/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category

+ 15.36KB

/wp-admin/edit.php

+ 14.37KB

/wp-admin/index.php

+ 15.29KB

/wp-admin/media-new.php

+ 20.21KB

/wp-admin/options-discussion.php

+ 22.24KB

/wp-admin/options-writing.php

+ 8.5KB

/wp-admin/post-new.php

+ 6.75KB

/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page

+ 5.9KB

/wp-admin/upload.php

+ 25.78KB

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The plugin has not been properly activated on PHP 7.2.16. It may not work.

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[13-Nov-2019 20:35:26 UTC] PHP Notice: Undefined property: stdClass::$controls in /wp-content/plugins/captainform/includes/class-captainform-widget.php on line 107

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