Form settings
Settings, the gear icon on the form page and in the editor, has five tabs: General, Public link access, Submissions, Emails, and Danger zone.
General
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Form name | The name in your workspace. Respondents do not see it |
| Form language | The language of buttons and messages. It does not translate your questions. See Multilingual forms |
| Show Formstep branding | Turning it off needs Pro or Business |
Public link access
These settings decide who can open the form through the Public link. Requests skip them, because each request link belongs to one person.
Require sign-in and Password: see Authentication gate.
Spam protection: a Cloudflare Turnstile check before each submission. Always on for Free forms; on Pro and Business you can turn it off. See Bot protection.
Submissions
| Setting | What it does | More |
|---|---|---|
| Accepting submissions | Open, Until a date, or Closed | Scheduled close |
| Delete submissions | Delete answers on a date, or after a number of days. Setting a rule needs Business | Submission retention |
| After someone submits | Show thank-you page, Show live results, Offer another response, or Go to a web page | Thank-you page & redirect, Live results |
| AI summary | With live results on: show the AI summary your team generates on the Summary view above the results | AI summary |
| Let people change their answers | An edit link after submit | Edit after submit |
Settings marked Public link only do not apply to requests.
Drafts
Formstep saves answers as the respondent goes, and restores them when they come back. On Free, drafts from the Public link stay in the respondent's browser. On Pro and Business, they are saved on the server, so a reminder email can bring the respondent back on any device. Request drafts are always saved on the server.
Emails
Each email has its own card with a switch, a Preview, and a subject and body you can change with @ mentions.
| Card | What it sends | More |
|---|---|---|
| Custom domain | Sends every email from your own domain | Custom email domains |
| Notify on new submission | An email to you or your team for each response, with a PDF of the answers if you want | Email notifications |
| Send confirmation to respondent | A confirmation to the person who answered, or to the recipient of a request | Respondent confirmation |
| Send reminders | Reminders for unfinished answers and open requests | Reminders |
| Request invitation | The email that sends a request link | Invitations |
On Free, new-submission notifications go to the workspace owner's address only. See Limits & quotas for what each plan includes.
Emails to respondents use the form's language; translate your own text in Translate. Emails to your team use the workspace's Notification email language.
Integrations and Danger zone
Integrations opens the integrations dialog, also the plug icon next to the gear. See Integrations.
In Danger zone, Delete all submissions and Delete analytics data cannot be undone. Delete form moves the form to Trash for 30 days.