Formstack Forms vs. GoCanvas

GoCanvas

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Formstack Forms	Score 7.9 out of 10	N/A	Formstack is an online form building solution. Its drag-and-drop web form creator gives digital marketers a tool for online data collection and engagement. Users can collect payments and pass form data to popular marketing apps through third-party integrations. With Formstack, users can capture responses, store the information and share it with their teams.	N/A
GoCanvas	Score 8.1 out of 10	N/A	GoCanvas in Reston offers their suite of electronic forms applications to entities in manufacturing, professional services, retail, wholesale, healthcare, and other areas, emphasizing pre-built templates and the ability to customize forms to suit your specific needs, boasting automated workflows on the Professional and Enterprise editions.	$45 per user/per month

Pricing

Formstack Forms

GoCanvas

Editions & Modules

Enterprise: Contact sales team

Business: $45
per user/per month
Professional: $55
per user/per month
Individual: Free
Enterprise: Contact sales team

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Formstack Forms	GoCanvas
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

Plans start at $50/month (billed annually), including: 20 Digital Forms 1,000 Submissions Per Form 14,400 API Calls Per Day Drag-and-Drop Form Builder Custom Themes Payment Integrations Salesforce Integration SSO User Management Form Prefill

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Community Pulse
	Formstack Forms	GoCanvas
Considered Both Products	Formstack Forms Verified User Anonymous Chose Formstack Forms SurveyMonkey, Constant Contact and HubSpot Marketing Hub Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Formstack Forms I haven't used SurveyMonkey in a while, but in my recent experience, Formstack Forms offers great functionality and ALSO integrates with the other Formstack products we have, such as Formstack Documents and Formstack Sign. This additional perk of integrations makes the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Formstack Forms Cheaper than most alternatives and very easy to use Other systems can be more complicated to setup The system can be access from most anywhere Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Formstack Forms I feel like Formstack is Google forms on steroids. They both serve the same purpose and I have more experience using Google forms but feel like I have more resources at my disposal with Formstack. Honestly, these are 2 only products I would use in this category, with Formstack … Incentivized Helpful? Shreyas Mecheri Associate Director Chose Formstack Forms Wufoo and Formstack are very similar - almost as if they were built by the same company or ex-employees. Except Formstack UI was better and modern at least when we selected it. While the team was happy with Wufoo and Surveymonkey, our IT team picked Formstack based on their … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Formstack Forms We used Survey Monkey previously and the process of pulling data, reporting, and integrating the data was much easier and faster. The page logic let us shorten the end-user experience, and the layout and design were significantly improved. Our end-users reported a better user … Incentivized Helpful? Laurance J. Specht Manager of Personalized Learning and Dean of Instruction Chose Formstack Forms Flexibility, tools and ROI are the reasons we chose Formstack. Data being exportable to other tools and systems we use also helped to make this determination. The level of complexity and conditional logic it has even at its most basic levels gives it an edge over most … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Formstack Forms I found Blackbaud NetCommunity to have a much steeper learning curve, and to be fairly expensive. I opted to use Formstack instead, which meant exporting/importing data with some regularity. Incentivized Helpful? Patrick Stephens Director Of Communications Chose Formstack Forms Formstack just had more versatility. We had to start in a rush and they gave us what we needed to hit the ground running. They didn't delay or bog us down with complicated sales pitches, and didn't leave us in the dark on what to do. We didn't need to google how to use the … Incentivized Helpful? Brett Doucette, ABC, MBA Digital Marketing Manager Chose Formstack Forms I am not aware of other competitors out there to FormStack other than modules or plug-ins deployed on WordPress or Drupal built sites. I do think that forms deployed through marketing automation platforms (HubSpot, Marketo, Pardot) are better alternatives due to the if-then … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Formstack Forms I didn't evaluate any other products. Incentivized Helpful? Tim Roe Project Manager, Web Services Chose Formstack Forms Formstack proved to be more robust, easier to use and friendlier to work with when questions/issues emerged. Incentivized Helpful? Nicole McCormick Project Manager Chose Formstack Forms Formstack was much easier to use. Drag and drop creation made organizing and reorganizing easy. Forms were easy to brand and looked professional. Easy field creation and the breadth of field options made Formstack the forerunner. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Formstack Forms I have never used anything like Formstack before! Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Formstack Forms I have began switching over to Form Assembly for our new sales cycle but have not started using it yet. I cannot give a good product evaluation or comparison because Formstack is the only product I have used. Incentivized Helpful? Mitchel Laman Consultant Chose Formstack Forms For run of the mill data collection, I have used Google Forms, Office 365 Excel Forms, and SharePoint lists. And in WordPress I have used Gravity Forms. Google Forms and Office 365 are nice tools with not nearly the same feature-set available from Formstack. While they are … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Formstack Forms We have found that no other software gives us the freedom that Formstack does to be creative in our form building. Formstack has by far the most user-friendly interface of any other product we have used. We especially like the Digital Signature, SubAccounts and Calculating … Incentivized Helpful? Jason Fluegge Sponsorship & Special Projects Manager Chose Formstack Forms Drupal is a much more customizable platform, however you must have someone build the forms first and then you can work with them if you do not have the programming knowledge. If you have any changes to make, it can sometimes be both a time consuming and difficult process. … Incentivized Helpful? Sarah Meerschaert Proposal and Technical Writer Chose Formstack Forms Formstack allows for multiple users and provides a cleaner UI with richer features and automatic data analysis. GoogleForms is a free alternative, but offers none of these features. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Formstack Forms I've created multiple webforms from scratch & the Formstack API is much more efficient in both creating and managing/updating forms. When I was initially evaluating products (about a dozen or so), Formstack had the cleanest interface and most third-party integrations (payments, … Incentivized Helpful?	GoCanvas Niares Hunn LMS Instructional Design Specialist Chose GoCanvas We have used Salesforce App Cloud because other departments were using this app. It was okay but was not beneficial for our department because Salesforce is more suited for sales. It was not always customization to track the things that we needed within our department but it … Incentivized Helpful? Daryl Pollak Project Manager - QC/Engineer of Record Chose GoCanvas I tried a couple of other options like Proforms and one other that I don't recall. Because I have moderate computer knowledge and we had the need for customization and flexibility, GoCanvas couldn't be beat. They also worked with us on flat pricing for a bulk rate of licenses … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose GoCanvas GoCanvas is much easier to use and customize than Google Forms. We have used Google Forms in the past, but seem to find that GoCanvas works better for our company and what we do. The reports are cleaner, more professional, and easier to use than Google Forms. I feel that it … Incentivized Helpful? Danielle Thompson Information Specialist Chose GoCanvas Zapier and Google Forms Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Formstack Forms

GoCanvas

Survey Format & Appearance

Comparison of Survey Format & Appearance features of Product A and Product B
	Formstack Forms 7.2 Ratings 10% below category average	GoCanvas 10.0 Ratings 23% above category average
Survey templates	7.50 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Themes	4.50 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Custom logo/branding	9.50 Ratings	10.00 Ratings

Survey Content

Comparison of Survey Content features of Product A and Product B
	Formstack Forms 7.5 Ratings 13% below category average	GoCanvas 10.0 Ratings 16% above category average
Changes to live survey	5.50 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Question design help	8.00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Multiple question types	9.00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings

Survey Logic

Comparison of Survey Logic features of Product A and Product B
	Formstack Forms 6.6 Ratings 22% below category average	GoCanvas 10.0 Ratings 19% above category average
Survey logic flexibility	6.60 Ratings	10.00 Ratings

Survey Reporting & Analytics

Comparison of Survey Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
	Formstack Forms 8.2 Ratings 1% above category average	GoCanvas 10.0 Ratings 20% above category average
Response tracking	10.00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Data export	10.00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Standard reports	5.60 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Custom reports	5.60 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Analytics	10.00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings

Survey Administration & Security

Comparison of Survey Administration & Security features of Product A and Product B
	Formstack Forms 10.0 Ratings 14% above category average	GoCanvas 10.0 Ratings 14% above category average
Access controls	10.00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Compliance	10.00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings

Survey Distribution

Comparison of Survey Distribution features of Product A and Product B
	Formstack Forms 8.0 Ratings 3% below category average	GoCanvas 10.0 Ratings 20% above category average
Vendor-offered crowdsourcing	8.00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Respondent restrictions	8.00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Formstack Forms	GoCanvas
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Medium-sized Companies	Qualaroo Score 6.1 out of 10	Qualaroo Score 6.1 out of 10
Enterprises	Verint Voice of the Customer Score 10.0 out of 10	Verint Voice of the Customer Score 10.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Formstack Forms	GoCanvas
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.1 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	8.5 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Availability	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	4.1 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	10.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Formstack Forms	GoCanvas
Likelihood to Recommend	Formstack makes it easy to create a variety of forms. I have used it for event interest and registrations, email list sign-ups, and surveys. I have found it easy to customize, and easy to export data for import into other systems (e.g., CRM). Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	I believe that GoCanvas is well suited for a company when they have one or two documents that need to be in the system. Also maybe a smaller company with 1-11 employees. For us, it has been somewhat of a challenge with 10-15 employees using it with sometimes 5 different documents and managing that. The customization of the documents is fabulous and we could sign contracts electronically which gave us an edge with our competition. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Formstack allowed us to customize the look and feel of our forms to match our branding. It was easy for our engineers to integrate the forms within our onboarding process to deliver a seamless experience. Formstack integrates well with HubSpot, our marketing automation platform of choice. Formstack offered us a lot of flexibility in the types/formats of questions we could deploy (open-ended text, multi-choice, single choice, etc.). This made it easy to get data the way we wanted and facilitated getting that data into HubSpot. Incentivized Josh Summerhays Marketing Director Read full review	App builder. Drag and drop features. Signature. Incentivized Niares Hunn LMS Instructional Design Specialist Read full review
Cons	Buggy Updates: Formstack tends to make on-the-fly updates that break features. We run into this about once a year Appearance: the forms are starting to look dated compared to some of the competitors (looking at you, Typeform) Dynamic Data: passing data from one field to another is not-exactly doable Paid Add-Ons: the price for Formstack is already an arm and a leg; the fact that they have additional monthly paid add-ons is frustrating User Limits: user accounts barely do anything outside of 'view/edit' permissions, thus the low volume allocated seems a bit greedy at $10/user/mo for more Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Some of their customization of the PDF Report builder is limited, but this is more than likely for simplicity sake. There have been some limitations based on their programming limitations, but we've been able to get around some of them. Tech support is not instantly available and can take up to a day to get back to you. Incentivized Daryl Pollak Project Manager - QC/Engineer of Record Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Our user base has come to rely on Formstack to get forms done. The Formstack tools make it easy to start from scratch or copy an existing form to "quick start" a new, similar form. The price is right and frees up IT staff to do more transformative work. Incentivized Tim Roe Project Manager, Web Services Read full review	No answers on this topic
Usability	I give it this rating because Ali feel like just about anyone can use this. Now with 7 billion people in the work I understand that’s not the case but I feel like Formstack get it pretty simple where a majority of humans could use it and navigate through. The only reason I didn’t give it a higher rating is because I think Google Forms is a little easier to use and that it’s pretty much impossible for any product to get a 10 on usability in my opinion. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Support Rating	Formstack has awesome support! They are always quick to respond and genuinely care for their clients' success. They will work with you to find a solution or let developers know about your feature request. There are a few things on the feature request forum that I wish they would implement sooner, but I am at least grateful that they give clients a space to voice their ideas and take them into consideration. Incentivized Cassie Dull Assistant Director of Communications, Online Read full review	No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating	We implemented on one of the earlier versions. Through continuous engineering improvements, the interface keeps getting easier and more intuitive. Therefore, later implementations keep getting easier and better. Incentivized Mitchel Laman Consultant Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	Formstack just had more versatility. We had to start in a rush and they gave us what we needed to hit the ground running. They didn't delay or bog us down with complicated sales pitches, and didn't leave us in the dark on what to do. We didn't need to google how to use the program! Incentivized Patrick Stephens Director Of Communications Read full review	I tried a couple of other options like Proforms and one other that I don't recall. Because I have moderate computer knowledge and we had the need for customization and flexibility, GoCanvas couldn't be beat. They also worked with us on flat pricing for a bulk rate of licenses which allows us to flexible as our number of inspectors fluctuates up and down, yet we pay a flat rate every year. Incentivized Daryl Pollak Project Manager - QC/Engineer of Record Read full review
Return on Investment	Positive - ability to analyze submission trends - e.g. when a marketing email is sent, looking at increased form viewing and submissions in relation to the sending of the campaign. Immediate response - those that submit forms receive immediate response that their form has been submitted. Incentivized Ryan Spear Associate Director of Admission Operations Read full review	It's helped us saved at least 500 hours in productivity Nearly $20,000 in paper cost savings Incentivized Danielle Thompson Information Specialist Read full review
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