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Every kind of question

What each kind asks for, what it checks, and what it stores.

Each question has a kind. The kind decides what the person sees, what is checked before the answer is accepted, and how it shows up in your responses and spreadsheet. Every answer is checked on our side, never only in the browser.

Text

Short answer and Paragraph: free text, one line or several. A placeholder can show an example.
Email: must look like an address.
Phone: a country picker that starts on the person's own country (from their device), so "087 123 4567" is read as an Irish mobile and stored as +353 87 123 4567. Typing +44… switches country by itself.
Address: line 1, line 2, city, region and postcode, labelled the way the form's country writes them (Eircode, Postcode, ZIP…), with the postcode's shape checked.
Number: whole numbers or decimals, with an optional lowest and highest value.
Amount: a sum of money in the form's currency, stored to two decimal places.
Link: a web address.

Choices

Multiple choice: one option. Checkboxes: any number. Dropdown: one option from a long list. Options on a choice or checkboxes can carry a picture or a value.
Consent: a single tick, stored as "Agreed", for a permission or a declaration.
Rating: 3 to 10 stars. Scale: a row of numbers, say 1 to 5, with words at each end.
NPS (0–10): the "how likely are you to recommend" question, with the NPS score worked out in the summary.
Ranking: the person drags the options into order.
Grid: rows and columns, one choice per row.

On the page, choices and checkboxes carry letter keys: with the form focused, pressing A picks the first option.

Date and time

Date uses the person's own device picker, in their format; you see "7 Oct 2026". Time likewise.

Files

File upload: any file, photos and images, or documents, up to 10 MB each. Files count toward your plan's storage.
Signature: drawn with a finger or mouse and stored as a picture.

Layout

Heading and text: words between questions, with links made clickable.
Picture: an image between questions, with an optional caption.
New page: starts a page; see pages and layout.
Repeating group: a set of questions asked once per attendee, child or item; see repeating groups.

Advanced

Calculation: a formula over earlier answers, see prices and totals.
Payment: takes a payment through your own Stripe account after the form is sent, see payments.
Hidden field: not shown to the person; filled from the link, see sharing.

Every kind except the layout blocks can be required. A question hidden by a condition is never required, and anything typed into it is dropped.

There's no separate Country question. An Address asks for the country as one of its parts, with the postcode

and region named the way that country names them; for the country on its own, use a Dropdown with the countries

you need; a Phone question has its own country-code picker. The form's own country, in Settings, decides the

currency and the date format.

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