Create your first form
Building a form, choosing what happens after someone submits it, and putting it where people will see it.
- forms
A form collects an email address and does something with it. That something is up to you: add the person to a list, send them a file, show them a thank you message, or all three.
Forms live under Landing Pages & Forms, on the Forms tab. The free plan includes two forms. Creator and Growth are unlimited.
Press New form and pick a starting point
Four presets: General form, Waitlist, Contact form, and Lead magnet. They differ in which fields are there to start with and what the submit button says.
Pick the closest one. Everything is editable afterwards.
Set up your fields
The left panel is your field list. Email is always there and cannot be removed, because a form with no email address is not much use.
Add a field and you get a menu of types: short text, long text, name, phone, number, date, time, URL, single choice, multi-select, dropdown, rating, linear scale, ranking, checkbox, a hidden value field, plus headings and text blocks for wording between questions.
Each visible field can be set to Off, Optional or Required. Ask for as little as you can get away with. Every extra required field costs you signups.
Choose what happens next
The right panel is titled The outcome. Three cards.
Add them to an audience. This is the one that matters most. Pick an existing list or type a new name. If you ever want to follow up automatically, this must be filled in, because a list is the only thing an automation can watch.
Deliver a freebie. Upload a file if you are trading something for the email address.
After they submit. Your thank you message, an optional confirmation email, and an option to email yourself every time someone fills it in. A third choice, Purchase, opens checkout right there instead of the thank-you screen: pick one of your products and submitting the form charges for it. Only an owner or admin can turn this on, and you need at least one product to sell.
Publish
Press Publish at the top right. Drry checks a few things first and tells you exactly what is missing if something is: a freebie with no file attached, a choice field with no options, or a freebie with no way to reach anyone.
When it goes live you get the public link and a copy button.
When a form sells something
Choosing Purchase pauses the freebie and the confirmation email for that form, since neither makes sense on a form that is charging somebody. Whoever fills it in becomes a contact in your chosen audience only once they have actually paid, not the moment they submit the form.
Multi-step forms and conditional logic
A form does not have to be one long page. Split it into steps and each one gets its own screen with a Next button: shorter screens feel like less work, and someone who stops partway still leaves you the answers from the steps before it.
Any step after the first can carry a show-if rule: it appears, or is skipped entirely, depending on an earlier answer. Ask which service somebody wants first, and only the branch of questions that actually applies to their choice is shown, so nobody reads past questions that were never meant for them.
Give it a look
Under Design, a form has its own accent color and a layout: accent, card or plain. Set a width (narrow, medium or wide) and, if you want one, a cover image across the top. The form page card in the right panel also has a Show your logo switch. While it is on, a Logo size choice of Small, Medium or Large sets how big your logo or wordmark is at the top of the form page. Medium is the default. This is separate from your community's own theme, so a form embedded on somebody else's site still looks like yours, not theirs.
Quizzes and scored outcomes
Give the options on a choice-style question a point value, and Drry totals the score as the form is answered. Instead of a single thank-you screen, add several outcome screens and set the score range (or the audience) each one is for. A "which plan is right for you" quiz can send a high scorer to a book-a-call screen and everyone else to a free guide, all from one form.
Prefilling a field from the link
Add the field's key as a URL parameter to your form's link (for example ?utm_source=newsletter onto a hidden field, or a name straight onto a visible one) and Drry fills it in before anyone starts typing. Pair it with the new hidden field type to carry something through invisibly, such as which email or page sent the click, without asking the person anything.
Where to put it
Once published, your form is reachable four ways.
Its own page. Your community address followed by
/f/and the form's name. Good for sharing in a bio or a DM.On a funnel page. Open a funnel, add a Form section, pick this form.
On your bio link page. Add it as a lead magnet item.
On your own website. The Published menu has Copy embed code, which gives you a snippet that works on Squarespace, Wix, WordPress and anything else that accepts HTML.
Common questions
Where do submissions go?
Two places. The person becomes a contact under Emails, on the Audiences tab. Their actual answers are on the form's own Responses tab, which you can export as a CSV. The Responses tab also has a Drop-off card showing which question people stopped at, so you can tell where a long form is losing people.
Can I split a long form into steps and skip questions that don't apply?
Yes. Add steps from the field panel, and put a show-if rule on any step after the first so it only appears for the people an earlier answer says it applies to.
Can I score a form and route people to different outcomes?
Yes. Give choice questions a point value, then add outcome screens and set which score range (or audience) each one is for. Whoever submits lands on the outcome that matches their total instead of one fixed thank-you screen.
Can I pre-fill a field from the link, or pass something through invisibly?
Yes. Add the field's key as a URL parameter on the link you share, or use the hidden field type to carry a value through with nothing for the person to see or fill in.
Can I stop taking responses after a certain point?
Yes, under the form's Settings: a close date, a maximum response count, or both. Past either one, visitors see a message you write yourself instead of the live form.
Can I change the form's web address after publishing?
You can, but every link you already shared will stop working. There is no redirect from the old address. Drry warns you before you save.
Does Drry stop spam submissions?
Yes. There is a hidden field bots fill in and humans do not, a rate limit per visitor, a bot check, and a rejection of temporary throwaway email addresses. Addresses at domains that cannot receive mail are refused with a spelling suggestion.
Can I use a form for something other than opt-ins?
Yes. The Contact form preset plus "Email me each response" makes a perfectly good enquiry form or a survey.