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What do you like best about Form.io?

Form.io can be implemented in our cloud so we can very quickly create and edit forms. We also like Form.io's custom service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Form.io?

Our customers print the forms to give to their drivers. Because we use Form.io in this unique fashion, it would be good to have finer control over the size of the form entitites and the fonts used in the forms. This is somewhat buried in building custom CSS for each form. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Form.io solving and how is that benefiting you?

We chose Form.io to replace an older report builder that was genearing our forms to print. We can now update forms very quickly, without needing a developer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What is Form.io?

Form.io is an enterprise class form-building and data management API creation platform for developers who are building form-centric, data collection, mobilized business process applications. The Form.io platform also provides non-developer form-builders, offline mode, fillable PDF forms, complex conditional logic, validations, and workflow, and can deploy API servers directly into customer on-premise or private cloud environments, providing 100% control of their form submission data.

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Form.io is an enterprise class combined form and API data management platform for developers who are building their own complex form-based business process applications.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

In the contect of a "Make vs. Buy" technology evlauation, the Form.io platform presents as the equivalent of a "Make" solution without having to make it. The Form.io platform is deployed entirely within customer on-prem or private cloud environments, providing them 100% control of their forms, and form submissions at all times. Form.io also creates dynamic JSON driven forms and APIs that can be updated without making changes to the app or the servers and databases, and enable dynamic mobilized "progessive" business process web applications.


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Form.io
Year Founded
2015
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"Amazing product"
Form.io provides flexibility beyond any other product that is competing in this space.
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"Great Product With Many Options"
Not too hard to get up to speed and plenty of options for customisation
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"Flexible and capable solution for embedding forms functionality into a SaaS application."
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Paul N.
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What do you like best about Form.io?

Not too hard to get up to speed and plenty of options for customisation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Form.io?

data export flexibility - would be nice to be able to combine data from multiple forms as an export Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Form.io solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our old supplier folded and we needed a new solution with flexibility and allows users to get up to speed quickly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Form.io?

Ability to pick and choose from a deep set of features (security, post-actions, etc..).

Ability to augment the existing feature set using a variety of control customizations to fit our very specific needs.

UI was easy to grasp for our less technical employees. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Form.io?

Nothing sticks out in my mmind as being immediatly dislikable. All the "difficult" parts are just typical of development work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Form.io:

Be sure to do your homework in ensuring Form.io will fit your needs. There are a lot of features baked into the product already and simply describing what you are looking for to the Form.io team often results in an existing solution. Do note that many of these features are optional, and the ability to customize the usage of Form.io in your environment will let you further expand the already robust feature set. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Form.io solving and how is that benefiting you?

We had the task of replacing our custom Form Management in a new Angular environment. Our choice was to rebuild what we had already or look at the market for another option.

Finding Form.io, we not only saw a product that nearly matched our custom development, but it had taken things a step further with augmentations such as PDF Forms, a robust control customization system, as well as PDF generation of submissions. Some features had been lacking from what we had previously. However, with the level of customization immediately available, we were able to rebuild said features. Examples of these features includes:

- Dynamically build a form by inserting other templates on the fly

- Pre-populating our thousands of generic forms with specific data from our system.

With all the above in place, we have a robust form delivery and management system that integrates seamlessly with our products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Justin S.
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What do you like best about Form.io?

The form.io design is intuitive and easy to use but also has the advanced capabilities needed for our more complex client requirements. I've never run into a situation (like you do with form.io competitors) where the platform is too limiting. It is great for both quick jobs and complex integrations where multi-device compatibility and complex calculations are required. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Form.io?

I haven't found anything yet. Support is quick to respond if I have any questions and I've never been told what I need to do can't be done. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Form.io:

Try your next project with Form.io, I guarantee you won't look back. There is minimal ramp-up time, great support resources, and a clear ROI from day one. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Form.io solving and how is that benefiting you?

Form building to work with desktop, tablet, and mobile has always been a challenge. There are solutions out there but if you need to do anything more than a few simple text fields you hit roadblocks. Form.io allows us to quickly build forms like in other simple tools but has every feature we need, whether it is pulling in data from an API, performing complex calculations for sales applications, or sending form input to a variety of clients system. Tasks that took our team hours or days to get right are being done in minutes with form.io. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vanrick S.
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What do you like best about Form.io?

Very secure, easy and fast to setup compared to a traditional database and backend. As a developer and entrepreneur, I can easily build MVPs and get to market faster than competition. With its very user-friendly drag and drop tools, one can easily build screens and at the same time build the backend infrastructure all in one pass. The APIs that gets generated are available to you soon as you click 'save'. Just like that you can blaze through the building of your infrastructure with just a few clicks. Front-end, back-end and database all found in one solution. I am an engineer but I definitely would think you won't have to be on to be able to use this. This service definitely would give companies especially startups and very significant boost when trying to get solutions out the door. Oh, and they have really good customer service and tech support! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Form.io?

Slows you down when you use it for more complex projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Form.io solving and how is that benefiting you?

It a great solution to get an MVP out the door fast. Its a database, backend, and front end UI all in one. Also if you have your own front end framework you can easily use the generated APIs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Denise Kay of Form.io

Thank you Vanrick! We appreciate your feedback. We would love to hear more about what is slowing you down with the more complex projects as we are constantly looking at ways to improve the experience.

JB
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What do you like best about Form.io?

Ease of use in creating content. The system is intuitive and easy to make your content look great.

The service at Form.io is excellent. One time we had a reasonably severe production issue, and the team at Form.io jumped in quickly to help us run down the problem and bring a resolution to it. They were professional and caring about the issues we were having. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Form.io?

In our configuration, we have made it more complicated than it needs to be. We did not get the test and prod environments set up quite right, and we are also using it in somewhat of a nonstandard way where we keep all of the responses in-house. It has been a bit challenging to configure and get right. If we had set it up differently, many of these problems would not be an issue.

These are likely issues you will not run into if you're setting up everything in a more standard or thoughtful way than we did. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Form.io:

Take a look at the product. It is a strong product that could make some of your custom development go a lot easier. Also, make sure you take the time to get everything set up correctly. It can be challenging, but it will bear the fruit you need it to later in not changing any of the other configurations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Form.io solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use the tool to make it easier to create custom data collection points, with the intent of allowing some lower-level technical users to create their forms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Paul R.
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What do you like best about Form.io?

Form.io is incredibly easy for business users to produce incredible high-quality results forms and productive end-user experiences. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Form.io?

We have not come across any shortcomings in the product so don't have anything to highlight as a dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Form.io:

While Form.io is an excellent tool for rapidly designing and developing pixel-perfect forms, but it is even more valuable because it also automatically generates the backend APIs required to build into a production-ready application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Form.io solving and how is that benefiting you?

Previously, we had to spend software developer's time and money to develop high-quality forms. Further, enabling the business to design and develop the Forms on their own has eliminated a lot of time and frustration having to go back and forth between development and business. The business is now empowered to rapidly develop and maintain the forms exactly how they are needed to meet the business requirements. Empowering our business partners has dramatically improved our time to market and the overall quality of our solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Form.io?

How easy it is to generate a given form on our website Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Form.io?

The editor is awful! We have some forms with lots of questions, and we can't insert new questions in the middle of the form. We have to move all the rows below the new question one by one.

Not every time, but sometimes when we save a form, it doesn't save. We have to save it multiple times before it actually saves.

If you want to copy and modify a current field or set of fields to create a similar set, you can't. You have to create a new field or set of fields from scratch.

If you want to move a form from one region to the next, you have to move ALL forms from that region to the next (e.g. Dev -> QA -> Prod). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Form.io:

Before choosing Form.IO or any of its competitors, thoroughly test drive creating forms and modifying forms. No matter how well a product works, if it is difficult to work with, you will be unhappy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Form.io solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are collecting stats from employees in the field. We have been able to centralize our data collection. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bharat G.
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Core Architect
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What do you like best about Form.io?

The development sdk of formio for custom rendering has been very helpful for us to theme and easy to stylize forms for end-users Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Form.io?

The Documentation for building custom plugins has not been beneficial in building our custom plugins

Also the react form io is very outdated.

Plugin examples needs to be updated more frequently.

Larger forms with nested data grids can be very perfomance heavy on the browser and backword compatibility is not clean. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Form.io:

Improve the development SDK for developers to help with day to day activities,

The form rendering capabilities needs a way for rendering custom themes, currently defining them at a form level is not straightforward through direct implementation.

Mobile has become a quick way for data collection to come into systems,and there is a need for some good documentation to implement easy form rendering capabilities.

Custom Plugins need some more examples on implementation as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Form.io solving and how is that benefiting you?

We were trying to avoid building custom form renderer and rewriting a custom form builder,

Through form io we have been able to successfully build a customized interface to generate and view forms and make a dynamic library of plugins to make data collection for our customers easier.

Apart from delivering a unique interface for every implementation we have also been able to easily manage data with more than 800 fields easily and store information very wel Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

NG
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Form.io?

Speed to market for setting up a form or application. Form IO allows us to set up a form with easy front end validation and business logic, instant API accessable database. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Form.io?

Moving the product through SDLC can be a challange. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Form.io:

Form IO was used with the State of Ohio during the pandemic to stand up forms for the public within a matter of hours: From Ventilator count, case counts, long-term care facility cases, and PPE. The Governor's office would make requests and mandates to collect information in order for the State of Ohio to make policy decisions off of. Form IO was used to stand up a form, host it, enter in strict front end business logic restrictions, store and present the data with an API so our Data Analytics team could consume it to generate the Dashboards on the Coronavirus.ohio.gov website. The fact that our development team never had to worry about web hosting or database management allowed us to stand up forms in record time. Form IO was the go-to technical solution during the Pandemic in the State of Ohio.

Outside of the pandemic, Form IO is used for all forms within our web hosting services. Form IO allows us to segregate forms into a separate service instead of hard-code HTML forms across our 100 websites. It encourages an API first, de-centralized web development system, which overall is easy to manage when an organization has hundreds of websites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Form.io solving and how is that benefiting you?

Speed to market for setting up a form or application. Form IO allows us to set up a form with easy front end validation and business logic, instant API accessable database. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

David H.
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Head Of Quality Control
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Response from Denise Kay of Form.io

Very excited that you are enjoying your experience with Form.io. Feel free to reach out to us directly as you explore the latest versions as we are happy to answer any questions for you. Thanks again!