# Close a form or cap responses

Stop a form taking answers now or on a date, cap how many responses one share link accepts, and limit how often one person can submit.

## Close the form

Open **Settings** (the gear icon) and the **Submissions** tab. Under **Accepting submissions**, pick **Closed** to stop taking answers now, or **Until a date** to close the form on its own on that date. Until then, the form’s status badge reads _Closes_ with the date. To reopen the form, pick **Open**.

![The Submissions tab of form settings: Accepting submissions with Open, Until a date, and Closed, then Delete submissions, After someone submits, and Let people change their answers](https://formstep.io/docs/images/building-forms/settings-submissions.png)

Settings, Submissions tab.

### What closing does

The form stays published and its links keep working, but:

- Visitors see “This form is closed”.

- People who already started cannot submit either.

- Reminders for unfinished answers stop.

- You cannot create new [requests](https://formstep.io/docs/requests/creating-requests/), and request links show the closed page.

## Cap responses on a share link

Each share link has its own response limit. Open **Public link** at the top of the form page, pick a link, open **Limits**, and turn on **Limit response slots**. Enter the number of responses, at least 1.

Use it to cap a workshop registration at 30 seats, or give each link its own cap, such as 50 for your newsletter and 200 for social media. The form as a whole has no cap, so to stop it at a count, set a limit on every active link.

### When a slot is taken

A slot is taken when someone starts the form, not when they submit, so 200 people cannot all start a 30-seat registration and lose their answers at the end. If someone starts and leaves, their slot comes back after about an hour. A submitted response keeps its slot.

### What respondents see

When a link is full, new visitors see “Response limit reached”. People who already started can still submit. Your other share links stay open.

For “the first 100 people, and only until Friday”, set both. The date closes the whole form; the limit closes only that share link.

## Limits per respondent

By default, each person submits once. To let people answer again, open **Settings**, **Submissions**, and under **After someone submits** pick **Offer another response**. It shows a **Submit again** button, and **Maximum responses per respondent** caps how often one person can submit.

The cap is strict for signed-in respondents. For anonymous ones, Formstep remembers them in their browser, so a new device gets around it. If the count matters, use the [authentication gate](https://formstep.io/docs/sharing-publishing/authentication-gate/). To limit how often someone can change a sent answer, see [Edit after submit](https://formstep.io/docs/submissions-analytics/edit-after-submit/).

## Next steps

[Share links](https://formstep.io/docs/sharing-publishing/sharing-embedding/) — Create a link per channel

[Redirect after submit](https://formstep.io/docs/building-forms/custom-thank-you/#redirect-instead) — Send respondents to a custom URL on completion