Caldera Forms: Build Powerful WordPress Forms with Ease
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Caldera Forms is a powerful and simple form builder with more features in the free version.
Caldera Form gives the most powerful visual editor that makes your task simpler and easier to create forms. From the simple contact form to the credit card payment form, Caldera does a very good job.
The free version of this plugin has immense features like conditional logic, calculation fields, multi-part forms, date-picker, file uploads, and column layouts. so no need to go for a premium version if you want the aforementioned functionality. Other form builders like Gravity forms and WP Forms provide these features in their premium version.
Caldera Form Builder Interface
Caldera Form Builder has a drag and drop interface, The builder design is simple and UI is user-friendly, if you spend some time on it you’ll be good to create a form.
No need to add any Styling to the forms it will adapt from the theme itself.
With the help of a column-based builder Caldera makes forms as mobile responsive automatically, This gives the best way to collect different ways of data if that is simple contact information or any reviews or any files, etc. hence it acts likes a data collection solution for your website.
Handling any complex information flow is easier with this fully responsive builder.
You can check out the demo forms from their Official website.
Caldera Forms Add-ons
By adding some extensions to the forms you can achieve much more functionalities with Caldera Forms. Currently, Caldera Forms gives 32 addons for their premium users based on the subscription plans.
There are plenty of payment gateway addons you can use any of them based on your requirement. You can integrate credit card payments and eChecks using Authorize.NET, If you want to create a recurring credit card payment option Braintree is the best option, For bank transfers, Calderas gives Dwolla an addon. Caldera forms has PayPal Express, PayPal Pro, and Stripe payment gateway options too.
The add-on package includes so many marketing tools so you can integrate your favourite too and miss no leads.
Marketing addons provide by Caldera Forms are AWeber, ConvertKit, Google Analytics, Mailchimp, Members, Nexmo, Slack, and Zapier.
Caldera Easy Pods add-ons give builders the to create complex queries and simple tools for displaying the result. Easy pods give the option to create custom post types, taxonomies, or any other custom fields.
YouTube Signup form, PDF Form Submissions, Entry Limiter makes Caldera Forms more flexible to fulfill the user requirements.
Caldera Form Free V/S Pro
The free version gives you more features that are not included in any other form builders so you can create a complex form easily with the free version itself. Check out the documentation of the free version features.
Premium Add-ons make the form builder even smoother by integrating with different marketing tools, payment gateways and API’s.
Free Features
- Conditional logic
- Date picker fields
- Multi-page forms
- Honeypot and CAPTCHA spam protection
- Track entries in the database
Pro Features
- Email marketing service integrations
- Payment gateway integrations
- A/B testing for forms
- Postmatic integration
- Trigger WordPress actions based on form submission
- SMS notifications of form submissions
- Email deliverability service to ensure emails don’t end up in spam folders
- Stats for the emails that your forms send
- Form to PDF functionality
Pro’s and Con’s
- Free major features
- Powerful add-ons
- Easy to create complex forms
- Adding complex query and getting rresult from database
- 24/7 Support
- User Ibterface is not so much user friendly
- No WPML support
Pricing.
Compare to Gravity forms and Wp forms Caldera Form is budget-friendly, the free version only gives the major features but to integrate with marketing tools you need to go with the pro version, Caldera From premium version comes in three different packages Toolbelt, Toolbox, and Toolchest.
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Final Verdict
If you want a free form plugin that needs to serve all your requirement then Caldera Form is the best option, you will get a free version at WordPress.org you can try that out, To integrate any payment gateway or Marketing tools you need to go for the pro version, which is quite affordable and delivers high value for money.
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