Web Forms Frequently Asked Questions

Yes, every web form includes a pre-built form landing page. Just click on the URL of the web form when editing it.  

To create a web form, you must have either an email address or mobile number field as part of the form. We must have one or the other to be used as the unique identifier for the contact record.

When a visitor submits a form the contents of the form are sent to DailyStory. The visitor is redirected to another page, typically a thank you page, or shown a simple inline thank you message. They are then added as a lead to the campaign the web form is hosted in.

Once you've created a web form in DailyStory you have several options for publishing it. The recommended method is to either host it in a DailyStory Landing Page or use the native integration with popular CMS applications, such as WordPress.  

To include a web form in a DailyStory landing page create a web form and then select the form when creating or editing the landing page. Next, you'll need to use the `*|FORM|*` tag in your Landing Page to specify where the form is displayed.  

• Ensure your web form has a thank you page.
• Asking for First Name and Last Name as separate fields, rather than asking for a full name as one input.
• Sends an email to confirm receipt.

Sending a thank you email has the added benefit of validating the email address that the visitor provided. If the email address is invalid, you can remove them from the campaign.

  Yes, please see styling your web form.  

When a visitor submits a form, they are then added to the campaign the web form is hosted in as a 'lead'. You can also see who has submitted the web form itself by going to Inbound>Web Forms and selecting the 'people' icon.

If you are using a form by itself or in a page hosted on the forms.dailystory.com domain, you can use the support for reCAPTCHA in the form. If you are using. If you are embedding the form on your website or using a custom domain, you will need to register for and enable Google reCAPTCHA. 

For example, Robert Evans Mouse III, Robert would mapped as the first name and then everything after the first word will be mapped to the last name.  

Phone numbers will always get converted to a standard telephone format. For example (718) 999 4242 would be converted to E.164 format: +17189994242. The same is true if numbers are entered with dashes, as a whole number, with a country code, etc.