Is there any better feeling than that of unboxing a new purchase? Unwrap the package, open the box, take a deep breath and feel the brand new smell…just thinking it makes me want Christmas to be back again. So if you haven’t yet, bring a fancy sparkling wine because there’s a lot to celebrate on Platinum.
Platinum comes with a lot of new features thought to exceed your needs, and help you reach your goals in the most efficient way. So, if you haven’t yet, these are the 7 things you must try at the Platinum club:
1. Payments
No business with online presence can lack a way of collecting payments online. But sometimes getting paid online can turn out to be very challenging: it needs to be fast & easy, but it needs to be safe. Luckily we just got you the pill for that headache. Payment integration allows you to receive money online in a secure and streamlined way.
Whether if you’re running a retail business, you need to charge for your professional services or you’re collecting donations for your NPO, there’s a trustworthy way to do it. You can integrate your form with either PayPal or any other of our 11 payment processors and offer your visitors a wide variety of payment options. Best of all? You’ll get paid in real-time!
Moreover, to make sure you provide your customers with a great buying experience, you can set price calculations to show the aggregate price of your order form in real time, create & offer discount coupons or set recurring payments for the cases of subscriptions or regular donations.
How to do it?
Settings → Payments
2. SalesForce integration
Salesforce is the world’s #1 CRM. Small, medium and large companies all over the world use it to improve their sales processes, marketing actions, support and help desk operations and many other purposes. Combine its power with the one of your forms to automate your business processes, being smarter, faster and more efficient.
With our Salesforce integration you will be able to automatically send leads, events, tasks, contacts, documents or any other variable from your form submission to your Salesforce account. It will speeding up the data transfer, boost your efficiency and drive success across your entire company faster.
Other Platinum apps integrations to improve your business processes are VerticalResponse and Marketo, together with our other +30 applications already available.
How to do it?
Settings → Applications
Salesforce → Add
3. SSL Encryption
If you just wondered ‘What on Earth is SSL encryption?’ I’m so glad you asked. SSL is a cryptographic protocol that provides communications privacy and integrity over a computer network. ‘Wait…what?’. Put it simple, SSL encryption gives security, making all the information sent through your forms unreadable for any person or robot trying to intercept it.
If your online forms are embedded in a webpage that takes part in Google Adwords campaigns, make sure you encrypt them to avoid penalties. Hint! When SSL is enabled for your forms, their URLs start with https:// instead of http://.
How to do it?
Publish → Connection Type
Secured SSL
4. Domain Aliasing
Another great news of your service plan, is that you can run your forms on your own website, avoiding any kind of reference to 123ContactForm. What does it mean? Your forms will no longer have a 123contactform.com URL address, but they will show a subdomain of your own domain instead, making it more personal and professional.
In order to use domain aliasing, you will have to create a subdomain on your own domain and to add a new CNAME record to your DNS.
Hint! For an extra fee, you can combine domain aliasing with SSL encryption. The benefit? Besides having the 123contactform.com reference hidden from the form link, it will also be https secured.
How to do it?
Publish → Use Your Domain
Enabled
Remember Platinum offers unlimited forms and 20,000 submissions a month, providing you with endless possibilities to create forms and surveys, so that you can squeeze your plan and implement the forms you need in every step of your business, having everything managed at one place.
5. Rules
Rules are the first step towards form smartness and automation. They will allow your form to react to respondents’ answers. Based on their input, your form will be able to hide or show certain fields in real time, redirect your visitors to different web pages after submission, or even send them different autoresponder emails!
You can benefit from unlimited rules on your Platinum plan, so start implementing them and take your visitor experience to the next level!
How to do it?
Settings → Rules
6. Useful Fields: Upload Fields & HTML Blocks
Probably the most useful field in the Editor, the Upload Field allows your respondents to send you almost any kind of file through your form, keeping it safely stored in your account. Documents, images, videos or audio files, you can just request them through your form and manage the uploads whenever your want.
At the same time, if you’re looking for some deep customization, you can add HTML blocks to your form, which will allow you to integrate HTML and CSS code to it. Add your custom text, color, images, tables or even audio files on your form, for a fully brandable and personalized experience.
Unlike other plans, Platinum gives you 2GB of space for uploads and unlimited HTML blocks.
How to do it?
A)
Editor → File Upload
B)
Editor → HTML Block
7. Reports
Reports are the key to understand the information you receive through your forms. In the end, what’s the purpose of having your desk full of papers if you can’t read them? The Platinum plan helps you with your data analysis, to get a deeper understanding of your business. You can create unlimited charts and reports, to have a visual representation of your respondents choices, both in absolute numbers and in percentage. Plus, you can now create and apply unlimited filters, to see only the results you’re interested in.
But your reports are the final step after submissions are made. Remember you can approve or reject submissions, allow your visitors to save their partial answers and resume them later, as well as edit their reply after submitting it. All in all, you get complete control of your data, at the reach of your fingertips.
How to do it?
A)
Reports → New Report
B)
Settings → Advanced
Submissions
Finally, remember Platinum provides you with unlimited forms and 20,000 submissions a month, giving you endless possibilities to create forms and surveys. So squeeze your plan and implement the forms you need in every step of your business, having everything managed at the same place.
For doubts and questions, feel free to visit our Help Center or contact our Stellar Support Team via online chat or at support@123contactform.com.
To your success!
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