Foldr Forms collects what you need and files it where you keep everything else. Publish a public link or send it to named people; every response lands as a file in the folder you choose, inside the permissions, search index and audit trail you already run. No third-party form database, no exported spreadsheets, no seat for every respondent.
Forms behaves like the rest of Foldr: addressed against the same directory, scoped to the same permissions, indexed into the same search, audited into the same activity log. The response is a file in a folder, not a record in someone else’s database.
Every submission is written into the share and folder you pick as a real document, a PDF, a Word file, Markdown or structured data, alongside anything the respondent uploaded. Your retention rules, your backups, your permissions. Nothing is held hostage in a vendor database you rent access to.
Map any answer to a custom field on the filed response. It is indexed the moment it lands, so Search filters on it and Grace reasons over it exactly like every other document in Foldr. A form is the quickest way to put structured data into your file estate.
Publish an open public link, or send the form to colleagues and groups from the directory you already use. External responders get a magic-link with no account to create, group membership expands at send-time, and every recipient is tracked from invited through to submitted.
Show and hide questions on a condition, make a field required only when it matters, compute one answer from others, validate before submit and jump between pages based on what someone picked. Bad data never reaches the folder.
Tell the owner the instant a response arrives, and send the responder a receipt, even an anonymous one, by nominating the field that holds their email. Cap the number of responses, open and close on a schedule, set a per-recipient deadline.
Attach an existing shared file to a form as a reference: a policy to read, a contract to review, a brochure to download. The link resolves live, so a rename or an expiry on the source shows up the moment someone opens the form.
The form, the responses, the uploads and the audit trail all live in Foldr, alongside everything else.
Add fields, text, email, phone, choice, dates, ratings, a slider, file uploads, even a signature, and arrange them across pages. Set the conditions and the validation. Point the form at the share and folder its responses should land in, and map the answers you care about to custom fields.
Flip the form to published and share the public link, or send it to people and groups from your directory. Set a close date, a response cap, a per-recipient deadline. Each recipient gets their own link and is tracked from invited through to submitted.
On submit, Foldr writes the response into the folder you chose, files any uploads alongside it, writes the mapped answers to custom fields, indexes the lot, and sends the notifications and receipt you set up. There is nothing to export and nothing to reconcile later.
Who has responded, who hasn’t, how close to the cap, how close to the deadline. Resend a single invite, close the form, or let it close itself on the date you set. The whole thing sits in the same activity log as the rest of Foldr.
Conventional form tools keep the form, the responses and the uploads on their own servers, then hand you a spreadsheet export and a seat-based bill. The data lives somewhere you don’t control, under someone else’s retention and access rules, disconnected from the documents it’s actually about. Foldr Forms inverts that. The form lives in Foldr, the responses are files in your folders, and they’re governed by the same shares, permissions, audit and search as everything else you keep. The intake is part of your file estate from the very first submission, not a copy you have to chase down and import later.
A responder who can’t see the destination share never gains access to it; they only ever touch the form. Internal responders come through Foldr’s normal login; external ones get a single-purpose link scoped to the form alone, and no broader access. The filed response inherits the folder’s permissions the instant it lands, so the right people can open it and nobody else can.
Because every response is a file with structured fields, the rest of Foldr can act on it the moment it lands. Search finds it. Grace answers questions across a whole season of responses. Captur reads anything that was uploaded. MaSH routes it, reconciles it against a system of record, or kicks off whatever comes next. Forms is the front door to your file estate; the rest of Foldr is what happens once someone walks through it.
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