Online forms are really a wonderful way of collecting information: from potential adopters and volunteers, from community members who want help from your organization, or really, any purpose for which you need to gather contact information and other data.

Online forms (primarily adoption forms) can save you enormous amounts of time over using paper forms or sending forms in email. They enable your visitors to fill out the form and submit it to you without a phone call or email asking for a form, thus eliminating a step in the process and making it easier to adopt. You can set alerts to inform you when a form is completed, so you can immediately respond.

Using the Online Forms service, you can create custom online forms such as adoption, volunteer, and foster home applications. You can export a form as a PDF, and easily review forms submitted to you. 

Using the Online Forms service, you can cut the time and effort it takes to provide and view applications and other forms, and you can quickly access the forms which have been submitted. You can track the progress of the form through your system, and you can assign the form to a volunteer for follow-up.

Some major benefits of using Online Forms:

• The entire form (questions and answers) stays on your website.
• Volunteers are immediately alerted (via email) when a form is completed.
• You can choose to either receive just an alert or an email with the form contents.
• We keep submitted forms indefinitely.
• You can easily add comments to a form, change the status of a form, assign the form to a volunteer to follow up, and track the progress of the form!

You can create as many forms as you need for your organization. Some common forms are Adoption Applications, Foster Applications, and Volunteer Applications.

When you create a form, certain information is automatically captured without your having to create questions:

• First name
• Last name
• Address, City, State, Zip/Postal Code
• Home Phone
• Work Phone
• Cell Phone
• Fax
• Email Address

Your organization's forms will appear to the visitor on their Forms page and on your site menu. If your visitors have registered on your site, any forms they have started will appear on their My Rescue page.

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collection of questions you ask a visitor to your website who is interested in something from your organization. For instance, if you are an adoption agency, you'll certainly want an adoption application so that those interested in adopting one of your rescued animals can give you some answers before you interview them. And, you'll be able to keep this form in your database for future reference. Maybe you're a feral cat trap-neuter-vaccinate-return organization. You will want a form for visitors in the community to request your help, as well as one for people who want barn cats. 

Forms help you to collect answers and keep the information in a usable, easily accessible form.

When you create a form, you collect the questions into what in the past would have been a hard-copy form clipped to a clipboard. Now people can simply go online and fill out the form. And your volunteers can do the same when they review the forms or do an interview.

With the Online Forms service, your volunteers, such as an adoption coordinator, can review a form and add comments, and volunteers can change the status of the submitted forms to reflect where they are in the process. Volunteers can get email alerts when a form is completed and submitted.

You can create your Online Forms easily by following these instructions: https://userguide.rescuegroups.org/x/lYB

If you would prefer to have us create your Online Forms, please open a support ticket, include your forms, and we will provide you with a quote.

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