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Ask anybody - any question - by email or web -
place answers in your database - produce web based reports

Fast - Easy - Simple - Affordable!

EForm is the easiest way to collect any kind of response by email or web. It also contains a web based survey publisher. NOT JUST SURVEYS - EForm will send forms to any email address - collect results - and place them in your database.

EForm allows you to design a data collection form or survey, send it to any email address in the world and collect responses into a database.  A web version of the form is attached to the character based email to offer greater flexibility in form design.   Responses are tracked using an encoded ID number and reminders can be sent to those who don't respond.  There is no need to program or install complex CGI scripts - our server does it all for you. Web based survey reports are automatically generated and uploaded to your web server via FTP. 

Ask anybody and question - publish results on the web.

We have placed a copy of EForm's help system on the web - you can view it by visiting our Support page.  Browsing the online help system will help answer more technical questions.

Features:

  • Free-Form design - What you see is what you get form design
  • Email forms are compatible with all email addresses and clients
  • Web forms are attached to emails, more choice better response rates
  • Respondent tracking allows you to send reminders to those who don't respond
  • Web based survey reports are automatically generated and published on your ftp server
  • Easy integration to other systems - interface any of your databases to the internet with powerful APIs
  • No web server or CGI scripts required - our server encodes responses and emails you the results

Perfect for:

  • Course Evaluations
  • Benefits or Employee record updates
  • Tests
  • Company Polls
  • Student Elections
  • Market Research
  • Windows95.com  and Tourbus.com survey subscribers to boost advertising rates.
  • Integrating any application to the net via email or web.

Don't take our word for it - see what our customers have to say.

The following is a step-by-step description of how design and process a form. It contains many screenshots - download a free evaluation copy of EForm and follow along.

Simple One Step Form Design

The integrated word processor like form designer makes it possible to design forms in seconds. Just enter text as you would in any word processor and use hot keys to indicate questions and response areas.

  • Full drag and drop support for quick text import and export
  • Text coloring to highlight questions and responses
  • Automatic response targets
  • What you see is what you get form design
  • Automatically creates reports as the form is designed

EForm can send a form to any email address in the world.  In order to do this you must focus on the lowest common denominator - character based forms.   EForm has a built in text editor that allows you to design the text version of your form.  Enter your form into the text editor and indicate the location of questions and responses.  These are the green and blue rectangles below. Free form design means you can make the form appear any way you like.

Change question types and response delimiters just as you would change a font in a word processor.

Email and Web Forms - Choice!

After designing your form it is sent to your participants. Participants receive a character based email form that can be completed by any email program in the world. But there is more, A graphically pleasing web version of the form is attached to the email message. You can redesign the attached web form with any web editor and you don’t need a web server, use ours for free!

Don't take our word for it - Visit our samples page to request a sample by email.

  • Character based forms work with all email clients
  • Attached web forms are a click away and can be edited with any web editor
  • No web server or CGI script needed - our web server processes, encodes and emails the responses to you.
  • Responses are tracked and reminders are automatically sent
  • Verification forms ensure data accuracy

Character Based Form

If your participants have access to the web they can complete the attached web form.  You can edit and enhance the default attached web form with any web editor.  Just open the default form with your web editor and save it with the same name as your form but change the extension to htm.  No web server or CGI script is required because responses are processed by our web server and emailed directly to you.

Web Based Form

Mail and Processing

EForm is designed to suite the needs of the small and large scale user.  You can run EForm any time you want to send, receive and process forms, or you can tell it to automatically check for new forms to process.  Every time a form is received the web based survey report will be updated and published on your web server. There is no need to setup another email account - EForm will check your inbox for forms and import only those intended for EForm.  You may wish to create a new account if the volume of forms would interfere with your personal mail.

  • Email account sharing - no need to create new mail accounts
  • Automatic background processing
  • Automatic report processing and FTP uploading

Web Based Survey Reports

EForm is the perfect solution for collecting any kind of information, especially surveys!  That is why we integrated a powerful survey reporting system.  The reports are web based.  This means the the reports can be viewed with any web browser.  Reports can be kept on your machine, shared with co-workers over your LAN or automatically uploaded to your web server. View a real survey!

  • Web reports are automatically generated each time a response is received
  • You will need a web server to share web results, compatible with all servers
  • Text/Written comments are displayed on separate page
  • Response distributions for single and multiple choice questions
  • Color satisfaction graphs highlight positive, neutral and negative responses
  • Reports can be automatically sent to your web server with built in FTP software.

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Database Access

EForm is an open system - this means you can export, import or link data with any other program.  With a few lines of code in almost any programming language you can connect your applications to the internet.  The following is how the data looks from within Access.

  • Browse responses with most programs like Excel, Access, Visual Basic...
  • Connect databases to the internet with a few lines of code

That's it!

As you can see - form design, processing and reporting is simple, visual and fast.   Download your copy today and see for yourself.

Thanks for your time, Contact us if you have questions.

 

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