We released a small but significant (at least to some of our customers) improvement today.
Previously, when embedding Deftform on pages other than your homepage (root domain), the response would not use the complete URL as referrer. Now, we show the full URL of any page where your form is embedded, making it easier to track form locations and improve your site analytics.
Please note that it's not possible to make this work for existing submissions, only for new ones.
Ever since we launched the "Business" add-on, some of our customers have asked us to introduce a credit system for profile enrichments and email validation. While we think the pricing for the "Business" add-on is fair, we understand that subscriptions are not for everyone.
That is why we caved and are happy to introduce "Profile enrichment credits". It's essentially a way to top-up, via a one-time payment, credits that are used to enrich data and validate email addresses.
Profile enrichments are best suited for business contacts / email addresses and can be enabled within the form settings.
How to purchase
Head over to the "Access / Billing" section and find the "Profile enrichment credits" section. You can choose between 250 and 500 credits for now. We may introduce higher packages with volume discounts at some point, but we'd like to see if people are actually really interested in this.
This one has been requested quite a few times and we're happy to finally release v1 of our multi-page functionality. You can now split long forms into multiple pages to make it easier for your users to go from page to page instead of being hit by a wall of fields to fill out.
We'd like to emphasize on the v1 here. There are plans to improve certain things and maybe change how pages are created in the form editor. We're looking forward to any kind of feedback from our customers. What do you like, what not, what could be better. Feel free to use the contact option in the lower left corner when logged-in.
We added the option to add an affiliate link to our "Powered by Deftform" backlink. So instead of removing the backlink altogether, consider taking part in our affiliate program to earn 40% per sale.
Head over to the workspace settings and paste your affiliate link.
Additional fonts
3 new fonts were added that can be selected when creating or updating a custom style:
To conclude the update, we also updated the underlying software and systems to their latest versions and fixed a couple of bugs that were reported in the last few weeks.
We also silently removed the "Math" captcha a couple of days ago because it was causing errors under certain circumstances and since we were relying on a third-party solution, we were not able to provide a fix. For most people, the ALTCHA solution is the best and most privacy-friendly option and we recommend enabling this instead of Google reCAPTCHA.
For existing forms that had the math captcha enabled, we automatically migrated those to the ALTCHA captcha.
Many of our customers noted (and partially complained) that webhooks are not sent in real-time, but with a delay. It has been like that ever since we introduced webhooks. This delay was on purpose and only lasted up to 1 minute.
But we get it, you want the data to be transmitted instantly and today we'd like to report that this is now the case. We hope you like this small, but for many, important change.
While we were at it, a bug has been fixed that would prevent webhooks from being sent if a prior webhook event in the queue had failed. Also, we now send email notifications to admins if an event failed and mark the failed endpoint with a warning (and the error message, if one was given).
We added some additional styling options so your forms can be further tweaked. Here is a demo of a wider form area, different font, no border radius and more: https://share.deftform.com/3F7jPn
Additional fonts
You can now select a different font if our default one (Inter) is too boring for you. For now, we added 10 additional fonts to choose from. We will likely add new fonts every once in a while.
If you want us to add a specific font, head over to https://fonts.bunny.net and pick the one you like. Let us know via in-product chat. Please note that we will not add fonts that are very hard to read.
Making form frame wider
We also added an option to make the form area wider. You can choose from 5 additional widths now.
Padding option for embedded forms
Due to popular demand, we also added an option to add padding to embedded forms. You can choose between 4 different values.
What else
We also added options to change the border radius for fields and buttons and also added an option to set the active color for checkboxes and radio boxes ("Single select" and "Multi select").
And last but not least, we added an option to upload a custom CSS file.
🔧 Small bug fix
A bug was fixed that would prevent Stripe products from being added due to the length of the product description.
I know you're likely tired of us introducing add-ons but we're trying to bend to the wishes of many of our customers with this one. The "Extended" add-on is sort of a light "Business" add-on, but not paid as a subscription, but via a one-time payment.
As with all our one-time payments, once purchased, it's available to all workspaces in an account.
The "Extended" add-on includes the following features:
Sell multiple products
Remove "Powered by" backlink
Remove report badge
No 2-minute limit
Send emails from custom domain
If you already purchased the backlink removal and / or the custom SMTP settings, feel free to get in touch with us for a dedicated discount.
What about the "Business" add-on?
The "Business" add-on remains as a subscription because we do have running costs ourselves with some of the included features. The "Extended" add-on is simply for those who don't need all the features of the "Business" add-on, which also includes:
Profile enrichment
Email validation
Data retention control
Custom workspace logo in backend
That being said, we also lowered the pricing for the "Business" add-on from €24/month to €18/month.
Ever since Deftform launched in April 2024, it was possible to archive responses. Those responses could not be accessed anymore and our customers had no option to restore them in any way. It was planned to build this option soon after launch, but we were occupied with other things involving the platform. And zooom, almost a year has passed and we finally got to it... phew!
To be fair, many other, more important things were added in between.
In addition, responses can now be permanently deleted. Before that, only we as platform owner were able to fully delete those archived responses upon request by our customers (nobody ever asked us so far).
Today, we added an option to categorize and search forms.
Form tags and favorites
Creating tags
To create tags, head over to the workspace settings. You can create as many tags as you want and rename them whenever needed.
Assigning tags
To assign tags, open any of your forms. At the bottom, you will see a new option to add a tag.
After you assigned tags to your forms, you can use the new filter on the forms overview page. We also added a search bar to quickly find a form by searching the title.
Save as favorite
You can also save a filter as favorite to quickly access the forms from within the main navigation.
Today we fixed an issue where uploading images from within the backend area would result in a server error (Error 500). Thanks for reporting and sorry for the short interruption.
Today we added a new captcha option to protect your forms and also a new validation option for upload fields.
ALTCHA captcha
We've introduced a new captcha option: ALTCHA. This self-hosted solution ensures that no data is transmitted to third-party vendors, offering a privacy-friendly alternative to our existing Google reCAPTCHA option.
We also plan to add support for Turnstile (via bring your own key) within the next couple of weeks.
MIME validation
We also added a new validation option for the upload field. You can now define which formats are allowed for people to upload.
This rule validates the MIME type of the file by reading the file's contents and guessing its MIME type. When creating this rule, you only need to supply the extension, e.g. jpg,webp,png and the rest is done behind the scenes.
We're happy to release this highly requested feature: you can now choose to send a PDF export of a submission directly to admins via email. No more manually downloading the files from our platform.
This is a per-form setting and disabled by default. To enable it, open the form settings and within the "After submit" tab, scroll down to the "Admin notification" section.
Since more and more customers are using webhooks to connect with third-party services, we have received several requests that require us to implement changes potentially leading to a breaking change.
New options for webhooks
We added two new options to webhook deliveries:
Include non-filled fields in webhook response
Default: false
When this is enabled, non-filled fields are send with the webhook. By default, only filled fields are send.
Include file names of uploaded files
Default: true
When this is enabled, uploaded files are send like that:
So the original file name separated with a pipe | and then the file url. It has been like that since we introduced webhooks. If you disable this option, only the file url will be send.
⚠️ Breaking change
Files are now send as arrays, not strings, even if only 1 file was uploaded.
Before the change, files would be added at the end of the payload. Files are now in line with the sorting of the form fields. To prevent "artificially" adding more fields if multiple files were uploaded, the new data array looks like this:
