Formwell · Help centre

Short guides for the way Formwell actually works.

Two tracks: getting a first form onto a link, and the features you reach for once it is live. Every guide is a page you can read in one sitting.

Getting started

From a blank page to a live link.

4 min read

Your first form, from a blank page

Title the page, write the questions as lines, give each one an input type, then publish a single link.

3 min read

How a question line becomes an input type

Formwell picks a type from the wording of each line. Here is the order it reads them in, and how to overrule the choice.

4 min read

Publishing, and reading what comes back

What a published link is, what a visitor sees, and how to read a response row without opening anything else.

Feature guide

The parts you reach for once the first form is out.

5 min read

The seven input types, and when to use each

Every block you can insert, what it collects, and the question wording that suits it.

3 min read

Choices, help text and required questions

The three small settings on a question that decide whether a form gets finished or abandoned.

3 min read

Starting from a template

Open a template, change the questions, publish under your own title.

3 min read

Drafting a form from a written description

Describe the form in plain text and get back a list of question lines to edit.

Guides

The walk-through, end to end.

The guides above each answer one question. This is the one that starts at a blank page and stops when the link has been sent.