Custom forms have arrived!

Asking parents and participants to fill in forms is a form of communication. And since communication is at the core of Activity Messenger’s business, it is only natural to give you powerful forms management. Today I’m proud to announce that Custom Forms have arrived to Activity Messenger.

Many of you have already been using liability waivers with electronic signature to capture consent. Especially related to the assumption of risks related COVID-19. You’ve asked me to give you more flexibility by adding extra fields. With Custom Forms, you now have the full power to create:

• Registration forms
• Surveys
• Daily Screening Checklists (COVID-19)
• Liability waivers
• etc

Standard fields

Waivers and Custom Forms now allow you to specify which standard fields to use. Standard fields cater to sport & leisure and schools. These are:

• Respondent name, gender, date of birth, email, mobile, other phone and address
• Child name, gender and date of birth
• Other guardian/parent name, email and mobile
• Event or activity name
• Checkbox to allow respondent to opt-out of marketing communication (email and text message)
• Capture an electronic signature

Fields can be toggled on, be made optional or required.

Standard fields appear like this to respondents:

Extra questions

If you need to ask more questions, you can add extra questions in the Terms and text section. Placeholders are available to insert these types of fields:

• Required or optional checkboxes
• Required or optional free text inputs
• Radio buttons

For example here we have an optiona text input, a pair of radio buttons and a required checkbox.

Extra question placeholders render like this in your form:

Forms have many more features. Including the ability to send them by email or text message, and powerful reporting. Read the docs to find out how to use forms in Activity Messenger.

Shout out to Alberta Gymnastics clubs for their help in building forms. And to Nicole from Summit Academy for helping me adapt forms to school needs. Should you wish to have more features in forms, please reach out. I’m here to help!

–Martin