Write down the questions you want to ask at booking, drag them into order, and see what a client would actually be faced with. Then copy the list for whoever builds the real thing. No account, no email address, no answers collected.
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Your questions
What the client sees
Nothing leaves this browser. Your questions are saved on this device only. This form cannot be filled in by anybody and no answer is ever collected here.
A question, the kind of answer it takes and whether it is required. Eight answer types, which is enough for any booking form and fewer than most builders offer. A booking form with a file upload on it is a form nobody finishes.
Arrows move a question up or down, the cross removes it. Name and contact first, the awkward ones last: a form that opens with three optional questions loses people before it gets to the one that matters.
The right-hand side is the form as a client meets it, rendered rather than described. It is the honest test: count the boxes and ask which of them you would fill in on a phone. Copy the question list hands the result to whoever builds it.
What is above is a planning tool. The preview is a real rendering of the questions, which is what makes it useful, but every control in it is switched off, deliberately, because a form that looks fillable and quietly discards the answer is worse than no form at all. Nothing is collected here and nobody but you can see this.
It also cannot do the four things a working form does. It cannot be published anywhere. No answer arrives with a booking, because there is no booking. It will not make a question required in any way that binds. And it cannot show a question only to the people it applies to, which is how a form stays short.
If you want the next four things
The questions are attached to a real booking
Booking formsThe answers arrive with the appointment
Client recordsThe form sits on a page people can reach
Booking pageIt can be embedded in your own site
Booking widgetForms attached to a real booking are what Picktime does, and there is a free plan rather than a free trial.
Start freeBuild the link that takes somebody straight to the right service, with the awkward bits of a URL handled.
Build a link TEXTThe wording for what you send once somebody has filled the form in and booked.
Get the wording WEEKLay out the week those bookings would land in, and see where two things collide.
Lay out a weekYes, and there is nothing to sign up for. No account, no email address, no trial that runs out and no limit on how many forms you plan. It is free because it is useful on its own, and because some of the people who use it will want the form attached to a real booking.
No, and that is deliberate. Every control in the preview is disabled, because a form that looks fillable and silently throws the answer away would eventually be pasted somewhere and cost somebody a real enquiry. This plans the form; it does not host it.
In this browser, on this device, and nowhere else. Nothing is uploaded to Picktime and there is no account holding it. It does not survive clearing your browsing data. Copy the question list gives you something that lasts.
Copy the question list gives you a numbered list with each answer type and whether it is required: enough for a developer, or for setting the same form up in Picktime, where the answers arrive attached to the booking they belong to.
Fewer than you think. Every extra box is another chance for somebody to close the tab, and most of what people ask at booking could be asked when the client arrives. The preview exists to make that obvious: if you would not fill it in on a phone, neither will they.
Ask your questions where they belong: on the booking, with the answers waiting for you. Free, no card, set up in minutes.
