--- title: "Help centre — 26 guides to building forms | formformform" description: "How to build, publish, share and automate forms with formformform. 26 guides, with screenshots of the real editor." url: "https://www.formformform.com/help" type: static generatedAt: "2026-08-23T18:56:58.727Z" --- # Help centre 26 guides covering everything the editor does — building a form, getting it in front of people, reading what comes back, and wiring it into the rest of your stack. The screenshots are captures of the product as it ships, not illustrations. 23 of these articles show you the actual screen. ## Getting started Build and publish your first form. - [Create your first formFrom the New Form button to a link worth sending, in four passes through the editor.](https://www.formformform.com/help/create-your-first-form) - [How the form editor worksThe editor has three parts — palette, form, field settings — and edits to fields save as you make them.](https://www.formformform.com/help/the-form-editor) - [Publish a form and get its linkA form is live the moment you create it — how to check it, copy its link, and close it again.](https://www.formformform.com/help/publish-a-form) - [Start from a templatePick a ready-made form from the gallery, name it, then rework the fields it brings.](https://www.formformform.com/help/start-from-a-template) ## Building forms Fields, logic, pages and validation in the editor. - [Every field type, and when to use itA tour of the palette: what each field type collects, and which one fits the answer you want back.](https://www.formformform.com/help/field-types) - [Required fields and validationTurn on Required, set length, number and date limits, and require a field only when an earlier answer calls for it.](https://www.formformform.com/help/required-fields-and-validation) - [Show and hide fields with conditional logicAdd a rule to a field so it appears, or becomes required, only when an earlier answer calls for it.](https://www.formformform.com/help/conditional-logic) - [Split a long form across pagesAdd page breaks from the Layout palette to turn one long form into a short sequence of numbered steps.](https://www.formformform.com/help/multi-page-forms) - [Collect file uploadsAdd a File Upload field, then preview or download whatever people attach from the submission page.](https://www.formformform.com/help/file-upload-fields) - [Headings, paragraphs and dividersBreak a long form into readable sections using headings, paragraphs and dividers from the Layout palette.](https://www.formformform.com/help/headings-and-layout) - [Hidden fields and prefilled valuesTag each response with where it came from, and start visible fields off with a value already in the box.](https://www.formformform.com/help/hidden-fields) - [Thank-you messages and redirectsSet the confirmation people see after they submit, or send them to a page on your own site instead.](https://www.formformform.com/help/thank-you-and-redirects) ## Sharing & embedding Get your form in front of people — link, QR code, embed or popup. - [Share a form by linkEvery form has a public link from the day it is created — here is where to find it and how to send it.](https://www.formformform.com/help/share-a-link) - [Print a QR code for your formDownload your form's QR code as PNG or SVG, print it at a size that scans, and keep it working.](https://www.formformform.com/help/qr-codes) - [Embed a form in your websitePaste one script tag to draw your form into any page, or use the iframe where scripts are stripped.](https://www.formformform.com/help/embed-in-your-website) - [Popup, slide-in and inline embedsThe same embed snippet sits inline, inside a dialog, or in a panel — the container is yours to build.](https://www.formformform.com/help/popup-and-inline) ## Responses Read, search, export and get notified about submissions. - [Read and search your responsesEvery response lands in the form's Submissions tab, where you can search it and open any one of them in full.](https://www.formformform.com/help/read-your-responses) - [Export responses to CSVDownload every response to a form as one CSV file, and know what each column holds before you open it.](https://www.formformform.com/help/export-to-csv) - [Get an email for every submissionSend every new response to your inbox, and know what the email will and will not contain.](https://www.formformform.com/help/email-notifications) - [Delete a response, and what that meansRemove a submission from the table or from the response page, and understand what goes with it.](https://www.formformform.com/help/delete-a-response) ## Automation & developers Webhooks, the REST API and Zapier. - [Send submissions to a webhookPoint a form at a URL you own and every submission is posted to it as JSON, signed if you want it signed.](https://www.formformform.com/help/webhooks) - [Using the REST APISign in for a bearer token, then read forms, pull submissions and post answers from your own code.](https://www.formformform.com/help/rest-api) - [Connect your forms to ZapierAuthorise your account once, then fire a Zap the moment one of your forms is submitted.](https://www.formformform.com/help/connect-zapier) ## Security & privacy Encrypted forms, data location and account protection. - [How encrypted forms workResponses are sealed in the visitor's browser with OpenPGP and opened only by a private key you hold.](https://www.formformform.com/help/encrypted-forms) - [Turn on two-factor authenticationAdd a six-digit code from an authenticator app to your login, and keep the recovery codes that get you back in.](https://www.formformform.com/help/two-factor-authentication) ## Account & billing Profile, two-factor authentication and plans. - [Plans and billingWhere your plan lives, what the free plan covers, and what changes when paid plans switch on.](https://www.formformform.com/help/plans-and-billing) Longer reads[All posts →](https://blog.formformform.com) - [The forms list is the home screen now, and it tells you what came in](https://blog.formformform.com/your-forms-list-is-the-home-screen) Signing in used to land you on four grey placeholder rectangles. That page was deleted; the five newest responses across all your forms now sit above the list, one click from the answer, with a padlock where an encrypted form would have had a preview. 14 August 2026 - [What end-to-end encryption does not hide](https://blog.formformform.com/what-end-to-end-encryption-does-not-hide) On an encrypted form the answers are sealed in the respondent's browser and we cannot read them. The IP address, user agent and timestamps stored beside them are a different matter, and so are the questions. Here is the boundary, in writing. 9 August 2026 - [Webhooks with a real signature, and the API underneath them](https://blog.formformform.com/webhooks-and-the-rest-api) Point a form at your own endpoint, set a secret, and every delivery arrives with an HMAC-SHA256 signature over the exact bytes we sent. The payload shape, the retry configuration, the token-authenticated API behind it, and the six things it deliberately does not do. 3 August 2026