Forms On Fire - Avis

Solid, dependable and powerful

Commentaires : I have built a fully comprehensive digital paperwork system with Forms on Fire for a client. It has transformed their business, automating many manual tasks and saving dozens of hours every month ongoing. The return on investment is off the charts. I also love the fact that the support is so responsive and helpful, even when it's a complex question I rarely need to explain more than once, and answers are timely and helpful, often going the extra mile.

Avantages :

The best thing about Forms on Fire is the flexibility. It's a blank canvas, you can create any type of form you require. With a little bit of technical knowledge it can be made extremely powerful. I appreciate the fact that it isn't aimed at consumers, as other form builder tools are, so it goes straight to the powerful functions needed in a business environment.

Inconvénients :

The built in data dashboards and analytics are adequate but not amazing. However these can be bypassed by exporting data to another platform using the integrations or API, and custom dashboards and reporting can be built there.

Streamline Your Data Collection with Forms On Fire

Commentaires : Overall, Forms On Fire is a great tool for businesses or individuals looking for an efficient way to collect and manage data. The intuitive interface and comprehensive feature set make it an ideal choice for those looking to streamline their data collection process. The cost may be a barrier for some, but the powerful features justify the investment.

Avantages :

Forms On Fire is a powerful and intuitive data collection platform. It offers a wide range of features, including drag-and-drop form building, customizable workflows, and a comprehensive reporting system. The user-friendly interface makes it easy to set up and manage multiple forms quickly and efficiently. It also integrates with existing systems and allows for easy data sharing with third-party applications.

Inconvénients :

Although Forms On Fire offers a comprehensive set of features, it may be too complex for some users. The user interface can be a bit intimidating for those who are unfamiliar with web-based applications. Additionally, the cost of the premium version may be too steep for smaller businesses or individuals.

Smooth interface but technical issues frequently come up

Avantages :

The software is easy to use, clean interface, and alerts me when I am missing required information

Inconvénients :

There are frequent problems whenever we try to make an update, things don’t seem to work how we expected them to. Also the documents this platform generates seem to be missing items and we can’t figure out how to fix this.

Easiest to Implement!

Commentaires : Very pleased with the ease of developing our forms, distributing, updating, and collecting the uploaded data . The drag and drop interface for forms is outstanding and the help files make it easy to develop any workflow you can imagine, very powerful!

Avantages :

Our team especially liked the openness of the software programming interface, the associated help files, and the superb customer support whenever we had a question. We knew going in that we would have some "special tasks" we would need to implement and Forms On Fire appeared to have the best programming system in place to easily make that happen using our own personnel and not requiring the software company to handle everything at additional cost. The system is so easy it just doesn't require that much support, but if you need it, they are there to help!

Inconvénients :

I think the website interface could use a few minor improvements like having data view columns maintain their positions between sessions or refreshes, and perhaps a little more development on the dashboard, although we'll probably develop our own that most of the vendors for this type of software simply don't offer.

Alternatives envisagées : Certainty Software, iAuditor, GoFormz, FastField, ProntoForms, PaperLess et Jolt

Pourquoi passer à Forms On Fire : We chose Forms On Fire over the competition based on the following: 1- Best Responses to our RFP documentation 2- Wide number of platforms the software will run on 3- Ease of developing the required forms and their ongoing maintenance as our products evolve 4- Most open development environment and help system in place allows us to do what we want, when we want, and not have to have the software vendor do it for us, unless we need them to! 5- Price is one of the best out there and provides excellent value per dollar

It's our secret weapon; I'm hesitant to even tell you about it.

Commentaires : I've been using FOF for over five years after assessing a number of "industry" solutions. They all sucked because they had to be built as a one-size-fits-all solution to apply to any of their customers. This is agile and fast. Everyone on the team loves it and it has generated a ton of cash for us, both in savings on labor/time/decision making, but also in billables that we weren't getting before through damages that lacked supporting documentation. We use this for everything.

Avantages :

It allows us to see what's happening in the field (all of the fields) in real-time. It's completely customizable per site so I don't have to build some awful one-size-fits-no-one monstrosity. It's agile, can be changed on the fly, and is super easy to use. It's also affordable and adapts to fit whatever niche needs I may have in my organization. It's a true game-changer and one that's made my life 100x easier than it should for the cost and effort involved.

Inconvénients :

The learning curve at the start is decent. It took a few days of trial/error and exploring to unlock the full potential and abilities of what it can do. As it is fully customizable it's not an "out of the box" solution but that's truly a good thing. You make up for the initial learning effort by what you can eventually do with it. Spend the time, get to know it, and it will alter your operation in every way.

Top notch customer support

Avantages :

We were able to develop and deploy baseline functionality on our first project to help support what soon became a multifaceted, company-wide deployment of FOF across our enterprise. Ease of integration with tools like Salesforce and a responsive customer support team make this product a winner for anyone who needs to deploy a specialized field service app for construction, industrial, or environmental projects.

Inconvénients :

The mobile design patterns are useful and utilitarian but they are somewhat limited and not customizable. This is the not the product to use if you want to highly customize the UI. This may be the case with most no/low code mobile app platforms as I do not have familiarity with many others.

Alternatives envisagées : Salesforce Field Service, BarCloud et GoCanvas

Pourquoi passer à Forms On Fire : Flexibility to support our unique business needs.

Great mobile forms solution

Commentaires : Switched form another mobile forms platform. Needed stable pricing for our business. Switch was seamless and made team more productive immediately.

Avantages :

Implementation was intuitive and straightforward. Form building was easy to understand. Having a windows version made implementation and use more efficient.

Inconvénients :

In depth training opportunities would be helpful

Technical Surveys

Commentaires : We needed a way to capture survey information from our engineers and have that data distributed to our designers and sales people to assess the results - many of our customers are in rural areas with no internet coverage, so the ability to work off-line was critical.
We use the software on a regular basis and are able to instantly update the survey forms with engineer feedback for re-use within minutes.
It has helped us conform to industry documentation requirements as well as provide consistent data for our designers to work with.

Avantages :

Easy to use and create sophisticated data entry forms for our engineers to capture customer data. The killer feature for us is the off-line ability to capture data and then upload automatically when next connected. Customer support is amazing!

Inconvénients :

It does a whole lot more than we need, so it would be good to be able to use a simpler cut-down version

Great and easy to setup app type forms for use in any industry

Avantages :

Loved the easy way to setup our workflow and the form we needed and the easy way of finding our data

Inconvénients :

I really don´t have many cons for the type of tool that forms on fire presents itstelf. it does what it says

Alternatives envisagées : Google Forms

Pourquoi passer à Forms On Fire : much more options and functionalities that fit our business

Evaluating this software

Commentaires : No sure, I just test it on a trial version and still on evaluation

Avantages :

easy to implement, low code or no code, streamlining processes

Inconvénients :

No sure, I just test it on a trial version and still on evaluation

Alternatives envisagées : Fulcrumapp.com, GoFormz et ProntoForms

Pourquoi passer à Forms On Fire : No sure, I just test it on a trial version and still on evaluation

Forms on Fire Review.

Avantages :

In one word: flexibility. Basic forms can be developed by almost anybody. More advanced forms can be developed by getting a little creative, though you may need to reach out to Forms on Fire to help implement your desired solution.

Inconvénients :

Forms on Fire can be incredibly complex, requiring users to do a lot of learning.

Great software and Costumer service

Commentaires : The mobile experience is great overall. We got problems with specific form when we tried to get a task done.
The mobile version is pretty much intuitive. Users learned very quickly by themselves.

Avantages :

This software has multiple features. The form builder offers you any kind of options you’d have and needs. Their customer service and technician quickly reply to your questions and problems. Detailed users management.

Inconvénients :

The form builder is a bit tricky to learn. If your needs are basics features it’s quite simple, but since you get in more complex forms then you’d probably need their help to get it work properly.

Excellent Platform

Commentaires : Mobile option helped us stay informed with weekly, monthly and yearly sales at all of our assigned store locations.

Avantages :

Ease of use with platform. I visit stores daily and use this tool to keep track of previous visits, sales data has been incorporated into the tool, as well as relevant information to help keep stores and my on track. This software was modified to fit what the Territory Managers with my company needed and required of the tool.

Inconvénients :

Excellent initial product, but needed modified to fit my job.

Great Customer Service and pretty easy to use

Commentaires : It was a little difficult learning how to create my first form, but after talking with their support staff for an hour. I was able to build my custom form from scratch. I have since created many other custom forms on the same platform giving my business the leading edge over my competitors. thank you form on fire for a great software.
Cheers

Avantages :

once the form is created its very user friendly for my employees to fill out in the field

Inconvénients :

its difficult to build the back end of the form. Especially if I want to add in some more in depth logic .

We have had a couple glitches mostly with time issues, but overall the product has worked well.

Commentaires : Ease of doing forms online in the field

Avantages :

Once you learn the program it is easy to use. The setup is easy to use with tablets in the field.

Inconvénients :

There is a learning curve on creating the forms. When there is an error in your form it is not always easy to trace back. I also think that the program is the most glitchy when I am creating a large form.

Value for money

Commentaires : My business has become 100% more organized thanks to this app; I got exactly what I wanted for a much cheaper price than what others quoted me; the Forms on Fire staff are very friendly, caring and responsive.

Avantages :

It was customized specifically for my business through one on one consultations and design planning. The price was very affordable compared to the regular cost of developing and maintaining an app.

Inconvénients :

Look of the menus, etc could be updated to be a little more modern looking but it's not a big deal. Also more data sorting options can be added.

A great platform to put mobile data in the hands of your users

Commentaires : [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN] at Forms on Fire helped us to build a mobile app to support all of our merchandising representatives visiting retail stores across the country. They have up-to-date store data at their fingertips as well as all the notes they took the last time they visited.

Avantages :

The platform provides the standard infrastructure along with incredible flexibility to build the app that your business needs.

Inconvénients :

I only wish I was able to spend the time learn how to do more of the programming myself.

Our experience with forms on fire has been nothing but positive right from the start.

Commentaires : We chose to move to electronic forms because our tech lost the occasional work order and this incurs costs for our company and we wanted to eliminate losses from that department. With forms on fire there is no reason to ever lose a form again.

Avantages :

Price: We're a small business so we didn't want to spend huge amounts of money on this solution and the folks at forms on fire have been able to give us everything we wanted at a very fair price. Work performed: The work they put in our forms was astounding and the effort to meet our deadlines was impressive ( we met the deadline btw). The end result is a very intuitive form that we're proud of showing off to our customers and that our employees love.

Inconvénients :

As far as I'm concerned there are no cons, you could argue that the software has a bit of a learning curve but I would argue back that any powerful ( feature packed) software has a steep learning curve.

This Program is User Friendly

Commentaires : Creating templates that are easy to follow and use as a end user that help productivity for the company with a minimum chance of workflow stoppage has to be something to special. My overall experience has been really great at this point. Very impressed!!

Avantages :

It is simple to use and I'm not that tech savvy. My company uses this program and it was new to me but the initial introductory into learning and navigating through it was not too difficult as I started to use it. The ease of navigation is what I would say I like most about it.

Inconvénients :

I used the app for my mobile which is overall good app and gets the job done also. However, it did clamp on me at one point but I'm not sure if it was my network on my end or the app. This was not a big deal because it did pick back up. Which goes to say I that my least issue was not that much of a issue.

design and set up process made easy by good team

Avantages :

I like the ease with which my field reps can do their inspection reports. And its fairly easy to program the pages once I learned how. I've also been able to upload some reference materials that field reps can view and share with store owners and that is very convenient.

Inconvénients :

Data Entries Table View is cumbersome. I'd like to be able to sort the columns by relevance so I can see at a glance the info I need. Or it would be helpful if I could freeze pane so I can keep the left column stable while scrolling through the next 20 columns.

Great app for getting feedback as forms

Avantages :

- The software is packed with lots of features so that I can get almost any type of data from the user - The elements that can be used in the doc is extensive, and I can build great richer forms

Inconvénients :

- There is not freemium model and the pricing seems to high - The knowledge base provides tutorial for the basic level of data. But we need to figure out on out own for more advanced features. - Lots of bugs in the features

Excellent Choice for Mobile Application Development

Commentaires : We are using Forms on Fire to digitise engineering inspection processes in the rail industry.

Avantages :

- Lots of options for form field types - Lots of flexibility with integrations to other systems and external data connections (G drive etc) - Great usage of offline data storage and gps tracking - Designed in such a way that lots of simple building blocks can be used to create quite sophisticated data entry applications. - Support is great and ver

Inconvénients :

- Support is mostly centred around US timezones (we are Australian)

Easy to use

Commentaires : Very easy to use

Avantages :

Forms on fire combined all of the information needed to make my job better

Inconvénients :

Nothing it’s great koppens construction really easy to use for work

Nice peace of software

Commentaires : We use forms on fire as work intructions/reports of the technicians on site.

Avantages :

The software can be customizable. It allows to create the forms directly from your requirement, don't need third parties.

Inconvénients :

They are pieces of the software that I haven't yet review. But so far I would say the dashboard could improve.

Service tech perspective

Commentaires : Capability to create forms in the field instantaneously.

Avantages :

Having categories and subcategories to tap and go easily.

Inconvénients :

Some of the categories don't have all the features needed. For example, the tech sales form doesn't have the ability to choose specific options from a technicians available services. Not having cell service at all locations, could have an offline version.