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Freeform offers you the most reliable and battle-tested form building solution available! It's packed with powerful and convenient features, allowing you and/or your clients to build forms effortlessly! There's no doubt Freeform will win hands down in any comparison to other form plugins, but sometimes the site you're working on doesn't need all the features of Freeform, or is on a tighter budget. For this scenario, we've built the Express Forms plugin.
The chart below will help you easily compare the following plugins to determine which solution is the best for your needs:
Craft
- Craft Contact FormXF Lite
- Express Forms LiteXF Pro
- Express Forms ProFF Lite
- Freeform LiteFF Pro
- Freeform Pro
Pricing & Support | Craft | XF Lite | XF Pro | FF Lite | FF Pro |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cost | Free | Free | $49 | $99 | $149 |
Renewal (optional) | N/A | Free | $$29/yr | $49/yr | $79/yr |
Craft Compatibility | 3.0+ | 3.1+ | 3.1+ | 3.4+ | 3.4+ |
Support Options | GitHub Issues | Helpdesk, GitHub Issues | Helpdesk, GitHub Issues | Helpdesk, GitHub Issues | Helpdesk, GitHub Issues |
Support Level † Typical support ticket first response time within this timeframe or sooner, based on business days. | N/A | 3-5 days† | 2 days† | 1-2 days† | 1-2 days† |
Forms | |||||
Form Builder | ✓ Simplified | ✓ Simplified | ✓ Premium | ✓ Premium | |
Unlimited forms | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
GDPR compliant | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Multi-page forms | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Save & continue form later | ✓ | ||||
Multi-column layouts (automated) | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Built-in AJAX | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Conditional Rules logic | ✓ | ||||
Attach forms to entries | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Build User registration forms | ✓ | ||||
Custom statuses | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Fields | |||||
Unlimited fields | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Field types | ✓ Basic | ✓ Basic | ✓ Basic | ✓ Basic+ | ✓ Premium |
⎼ Text | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
⎼ Textarea | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
⎼ Number | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
⎼ Checkbox | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
⎼ Checkboxes | ✓ | ✓ Options type | ✓ Options type | ✓ | ✓ |
⎼ Radios | ✓ | ✓ Options or Text type | ✓ Options or Text type | ✓ | ✓ |
⎼ File upload | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
⎼ File upload Drag & Drop | ✓ | ||||
⎼ Hidden | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
⎼ Select | ✓ | ✓ Options or Text type | ✓ Options or Text type | ✓ | ✓ |
⎼ Multi-select | ✓ | ✓ Options type | ✓ Options type | ✓ | ✓ |
⎼ Dynamic recipients | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
⎼ Date & time | ✓ | ||||
⎼ Phone | ✓ | ||||
⎼ Table | ✓ | ||||
⎼ Rating | ✓ | ||||
⎼ Opinion Scale | ✓ | ||||
⎼ Signature | ✓ | ||||
⎼ Invisible | ✓ | ||||
⎼ Regex | ✓ | ||||
⎼ Website | ✓ | ||||
⎼ HTML block | ✓ | ✓ | |||
⎼ Rich Text block | ✓ | ||||
⎼ Confirm | ✓ | ||||
⎼ Password | ✓ | ||||
Populate fields with Element data | ✓ Manually | ✓ Manually | ✓ Manually | ✓ | ✓ |
Populate fields with Predefined options | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Populate fields from URI query string | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Set field attributes inside form builder | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Set required fields & validation | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Inline error handling for all fields | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Email Notifications | |||||
Unlimited email notifications and template choices | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
⎼ to Admin | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
⎼ to Submitter | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
⎼ to User-defined email | ✓ | ✓ | |||
⎼ Dynamic Admin recipient(s) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
⎼ Dynamic at Template level | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Email notifications saved as HTML files | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
HTML Email body | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Text Email body | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Include Reply-to, CC and BCC | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Attach predefined Assets/files to be included | ✓ | ||||
Retroactively resend email notifications | ✓ | ||||
Email Alert (notify of failed email notifications) | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Submissions | |||||
Save submissions to database | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
View, edit and delete submissions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Display submissions on front end | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Edit submissions on front end | ✓ | ||||
Limit form to 1 submission per user | ✓ | ||||
Limit number of submissions per form | ✓ | ||||
Map submission data to Craft Elements | ✓ | ||||
Relate submissions to Craft Elements | ✓ | ||||
Automatically purge submission data | ✓ | ||||
Exporting | |||||
Export submission data | ✓ CSV | ✓ Excel, CSV, XML, JSON | ✓ CSV | ✓ Excel, CSV, XML, JSON, Text | |
Export profiles (pre-configured) | ✓ | ||||
Export email notifications | ✓ | ||||
Spam Protection | |||||
Built-in Honeypot | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Javascript Enhancement for Honeypot | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Spam folder | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Spam keyword/email blocking | ✓ | ✓ | |||
reCAPTCHA v2 Checkbox | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
reCAPTCHA v2 Invisible | ✓ | ||||
reCAPTCHA v3 | ✓ | ||||
hCaptcha Checkbox | ✓ | ||||
hCaptcha Invisible | ✓ | ||||
Templating | |||||
Automated templating | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Demo templates | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Popular framework examples | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Formatting templates as HTML files | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Integrations | |||||
CRM API integrations | ✓ | ✓ | |||
⎼ Salesforce Lead | ✓ | ✓ | |||
⎼ Salesforce Opportunity | ✓ | ✓ | |||
⎼ Pardot | ✓ | ||||
⎼ HubSpot | ✓ | ✓ | |||
⎼ ActiveCampaign | ✓ | ||||
⎼ Pipedrive Deals | ✓ | ||||
⎼ Pipedrive Leads | ✓ | ||||
⎼ Zoho Lead | ✓ | ||||
⎼ Zoho Deal | ✓ | ||||
⎼ Infusionsoft | ✓ | ||||
⎼ Insightly | ✓ | ||||
⎼ SharpSpring | ✓ | ||||
⎼ Freshdesk (helpdesk) | ✓ | ||||
Email Marketing integrations | ✓ | ✓ | |||
⎼ Mailchimp | ✓ | ✓ | |||
⎼ Campaign Monitor | ✓ | ✓ | |||
⎼ Constant Contact | ✓ | ✓ | |||
⎼ ActiveCampaign | ✓ | ||||
⎼ dotmailer | ✓ | ||||
⎼ Craft Campaign plugin | ✓ | ||||
Webhooks | ✓ | ||||
⎼ Slack | ✓ | ||||
⎼ Zapier | ✓ | ||||
⎼ Generic | ✓ | ||||
POST Forwarding | ✓ | ||||
GraphQL | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Accept Payments (Stripe) | ✓ | ||||
Usability | |||||
CP Permission controls | ✓ Basic | ✓ Basic | ✓ Premium | ✓ Premium | |
Dashboard widgets | ✓ 1 widget | ✓ 5 widgets | |||
Translatable | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Rename plugin | ✓ | ✓ | |||
Developer | |||||
Developer-friendly | ✓ | ✓ Extensive | ✓ Extensive | ✓ | ✓ |
Developer events | ✓ | ✓ Extensive | ✓ Extensive | ✓ | ✓ |
*NOTE: Several features not available natively to these form solutions are likely possible with custom development.