Question types

Add a question with the + between fields (or Add field on an empty form). The picker lists questions in the groups below, then Structure: page breaks, a welcome screen, the review screen and Content blocks. Every question also has the common settings: title, short name, required, description, and when it shows.

Text and contact

Text Input

A typed answer, Single line or Multi line, with an optional placeholder. Length limits and required formats are in Field validation.

Email

An email address. Respondents get a “Did you mean…?” nudge for common typos. On Pro, Verify email address makes them confirm it with a 6-digit code before submitting; see Email verification.

Phone

A phone number with a searchable country picker, formatted as they type. The country starts from the respondent’s browser. Numbers are stored in full international form, like +31 6 12345678.

Website

A web address. https:// is added if the respondent leaves it out.

Address

Street, city, region and postal code, laid out the way each country writes addresses, with a region dropdown where the country has one. Settings:

• Default country, and Lock to the default country for forms that serve one country.
• Detect country from the browser when there’s no default.
• Allowed countries, to limit the picker.
• Show address line 2 for apartment or suite.
• Address autocomplete: suggests addresses from Google Maps as the respondent types the street, and fills in the rest. Pro includes 1,000 lookups a month; on any plan you can connect your own Google key instead.

Country

A country picker. Answers are stored as country codes, so they’re easy to filter on.

Choices

Multiple Choice

Lets the respondent pick one option, or several with Allow multiple answers. Display style sets how options look: List (stacked, with a radio or checkbox), Dropdown or Buttons. Add options one by one or with Bulk add (one per line), and drag to reorder. Renaming an option later doesn’t break conditions or workflows that use it. With several answers allowed, you can set a minimum and maximum (see Field validation).

Database choice

The rows of a Notion database, an Airtable table or a Google Sheets tab as the options, kept up to date. In Notion, the pick can be linked as a relation. See Database choice.

Yes/No

Shown as Buttons (two side by side), a Single checkbox, a Toggle or Thumbs. An untouched checkbox or toggle counts as No; when the question is required, it has to be ticked.

Rating

Stars, Hearts or Numbers, on a scale of 3, 4, 5, 7 or 10. With Numbers it’s also the question for a linear or opinion scale (“On a scale of 1 to 10…”) and for NPS.

• Label for the lowest and Label for the highest: optional text under the first and the last button, such as “Not likely” and “Very likely”.
• Start at 0: with Numbers, the scale runs from 0 instead of 1 (0 to 10, for example). Stars and hearts always start at 1.
• Net Promoter Score (NPS): turns the question into the classic NPS question: 0 to 10 in numbers, labelled “Not at all likely” and “Extremely likely” unless you wrote your own, and titled “How likely are you to recommend us to a friend or colleague?” if it had no title yet. While it’s on, the style and the scale stay fixed. In Summary the question shows its NPS score: the percentage of promoters (9 or 10) minus the percentage of detractors (0 to 6), from -100 to +100, next to the counts of promoters, passives (7 or 8) and detractors.

Numbers and dates

Number

A number, formatted as you choose: Plain number, Whole number, Decimal, Currency (18 currencies) or Percentage, with optional Min and Max. The respondent sees thousands separators and the currency symbol or % as they type.

Date

A date picker, with an optional time (Include time). Earliest date and Latest date limit what can be chosen.

Calculated

A value computed from other answers, like a total or a score. See Calculations.

Files and signing

File Upload

Respondents attach files by choosing or dragging them. Set Max files (1 to 10), Max file size (up to 10 MB on Free, 100 MB on Pro) and Allowed types (PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, CSV, text, images including HEIC, and ZIP; leave empty to allow all). The form tells respondents the limits. Files are stored with the response; open them from Responses.

Signature

The respondent draws their signature with a mouse, finger or pen, or picks Type instead to type their name, which is written out in a handwriting font. Clear starts over. A tap alone doesn’t count as signed.

The signature is saved as an image with the response. It shows in Responses and on the approval page, and goes to Notion and Airtable as an image, like an upload. Places that show text (emails, Google Sheets, the export) say Signed.

A signature is a simple electronic signature: Nextforms doesn’t record IP addresses or devices with it, or sign documents.

Payment

Takes a payment through Stripe when the form is submitted. See Payments.

Content

Text, headings, images and embeds between questions, with no answer. Its Label is only for you, to find the block in the builder. Content can include earlier answers (see Question settings) and can be shown or hidden by conditions like a question.

Embeds

The Embed button in the content toolbar shows a video, a map or a booking page in the form. Paste a link, or the embed code the site gives you:

• Video: YouTube (including Shorts), Vimeo (including unlisted videos) and Loom.
• Map: a Google Maps place or search link, or the code from Share then Embed a map. Short maps.app.goo.gl links can’t be used; open them and copy the full link.
• Booking page: Calendly and Cal.com. The respondent books right in the form. The booking stays in Calendly or Cal.com and isn’t part of the response.

Embeds work in content blocks, on the welcome screen and in the thank-you message. Links from other sites can’t be embedded. YouTube videos play from YouTube’s privacy-enhanced domain.

Limits

A form can have up to 100 pages and 500 fields per page, and a question up to 500 options.