How do I add a contact form to my site?

You already have one. Every site is built with a Contact page carrying a ready-to-use form (Name, Email, Message), linked from the footer of every page. Responses go to Form Submissions, under Account tools. Open it in the page editor to change the wording or the fields.

To build another form: go to your site's Pages & Content, then Contact Forms and press + New form, at the top of the page or under the list. Give it a name, then under Add A New Question pick the kind of question and press + Add question, in any order. Text, Message, Email, Phone, Date (visitors pick from a calendar), Multiple Choice (visitors pick one of the answers you list, shown as boxes two to a row, with an optional note under them), Pick Several (the same boxes, and visitors can pick more than one), Dropdown (one answer from a menu), Number, Yes / No, Star Rating (1 to 5 stars), and Text Only (your own words between the questions; it asks nothing). Each field has a label, an optional placeholder, an optional help line under the label, and a Required switch; drag rows to reorder and delete any field. You can also style the submit button (label, alignment, full width; colors follow your site's button style). Then place the form on any page with the Form block and pick it.

Every form also has its own page on your site, shown under Own Link in the builder (for example yoursite.com/forms/contact), to share anywhere. To open a form from a button or menu link, pick A form in the link and choose the form.

Pages are optional. A longer form can have them, as a multi-step form: under Pages (Optional), press + Add page and your fields so far become Page 1, with an empty Page 2 to fill in; visitors see one page at a time with Next and Back buttons and a Step 2 of 3 line. Under each page, After This Page sets where people go next: rules such as "If Which best describes you? is I am a teacher, go to Teacher" (a rule needs a Multiple Choice, Dropdown or Yes / No question on that page), and where everyone else goes, the next page by default. Drag fields between pages, or drag a page by its grip to reorder. Only the pages a person goes through are checked and saved. A link to a form with pages can also open it already on a path: pick A form, the form, then Start At. Preview, at the top of the builder, opens the form as it is on screen, saved or not, so you can click through every path; Send is off there.

Under After Someone Sends It: What They See is a thank-you message or one of your pages. Email Me Each Submission can go to the form's own Send To address; a new address gets an email with a link and is used once it confirms (until then, and when it is empty, messages go to the address in Site Settings, Contact, or your login email). For people who can manage website settings, Default Email Settings beneath Send To opens the website's default delivery address. Leaving Send To empty uses that default. Email Them A Thank-You sends the person your own words with a copy of their answers, from your website's name, when Email is on for your account. If your newsletter is on Substack, turn on Newsletter Tick (Substack) under Mailing List Checkbox: people who tick it see your Substack subscribe box on the thank-you screen and finish there with one click. Checkbox Words changes what the checkbox says.

In an unpaid preview, you can fill in the fields, but Send remains unavailable. Hover over Send or reach it with the Tab key to read the explanation.

Responses land in Form Submissions, and each form can also email you every submission, replying straight to the visitor when the form asks for an email. When Email is on for your account and the form has an Email field, visitors also get a join-the-mailing-list checkbox with the same confirmation step as your signup forms. Spam protection (an invisible captcha and a honeypot) is built into every form, and each form's messages download as a CSV with a column per field.

Pick a website in Form Submissions to see its responses as a table. Pick a form or a quiz in the From menu to get a column for each of its first questions; a form with pages also gets a Path column and a Path filter (Teacher, Leader...). Filter by date, search any answer, and Open a message to read every answer or delete it (you type DELETE to confirm; tick several rows to delete them together). Download CSV downloads what the table is filtered by. Picking a quiz also shows how many people got each result. People who send a form with pages are tagged in Contacts with their path, for example Connect with Betsy: Teacher.

Already have the form in Tally? On the Contact Forms page, press Copy from Tally and paste the link people use to fill it in (it looks like tally.so/r/abc123). You see what came over: its pages, questions, paths and newsletter tick, and what did not (Tally's colors and font, since your site's theme is used, and its ?path= links, which become Start At links in Podspun). Open in builder saves it as a new form to check and adjust. Only Tally can be copied for now.