FormSpring

After posting a frustrating experience with new technology the other day I thought I’d post about a “so far, so good!” experience that I’m having. On Monday we opened registration for Krazee Arts Camp which is happening this summer and one thing we knew we needed to do was to build a registration form that would store data for us online rather than sending us individual emails with the registration info needing to be copied/pasted in to Excel.

None of our people in house were able to design that and we didn’t have the budget to hire someone to take care of it so I started hunting and eventually found a new product called FormSpring that seemed to be able to do exactly what we needed. I did some testing of it and we found out that it would be a great choice for us.

Basically we needed our solution to do three things – store all of the registration online, notify us when new registrations come in and give people the option to pay online by credit card. FormSpring does all of these things and does them beautifully.

We went live on Monday morning and we had our first registration just after 6:00 AM – people were definitely eager to get their kids signed up! We had to do some finessing to distinguish between people who are wanting to pay by credit card vs. cash/cheque but for right now we’ve found a system that works as advertised, that’s reliable and that’s easy for people to use. This is a great product and I think we’ll be using it again and again!

Check it out for yourself – www.formspring.com

3 Responses to “FormSpring”

1. Travis Thompson says:

   April 25, 2008 at 8:49 am

   Dude – you are hooking us up with some cool resources! This looks awesome!

   Have a great weekend . . .

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2. mandy says:

   April 27, 2008 at 4:19 pm

   wow….
   VERY interesting.

   my friend was showing me that google-apps has an online form thingy as well.
   might need that one day!

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3. Dean says:

   March 8, 2009 at 9:34 pm

   Formspring is the best! Glad that it is working out for you – they keep improving the product and it’s one of my main web “weapons” of mass construction.

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