Calculated Fields Form Tutorials

Tips and cases of use for a successful WordPress website with calculated forms.

Category: Add-ons

Tutorials / Add-ons

Calculating download prices in the "Easy Digital Downloads" plugin at runtime

Categories: Add-ons, Integration with Third-party Plugins

There are different alternatives for selling digital products and service in WordPress, "Easy Digital Downloads" plugin is one of them. But selling services whose prices depend on many options could be complex (and sometimes impossible). The integration with the "Calculate Fields Form" plugin would solve this weakness.

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Cases of use for a delivery project, transportation or any other project based on distance calculation

Categories: Add-ons, API & Services Integration, Calculated Field Operations, Form Features

How to determine the price of a service that is based on the distance between addresses.

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Cases of use for a delivery project, transportation or any other project based on distance calculation with Bing Maps

Categories: Add-ons, API & Services Integration, Calculated Field Operations, Extending Forms

Calculating the price of transportation service based on distance.

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Contacting the customers by SMS

Categories: Add-ons, Automation, API & Services Integration, User Communications

In many parts of the world SMS is still the most popular form of communication with customers, and sending the results of forms by SMS to their mobiles is very important and would be a plus.

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Controlling the access to the forms

Categories: Add-ons, Form Features, Security

There are many situations where it is needed to keep some forms private, accessible only for some users or users' roles, and not public for everyone. Or situations where you want the users can access to their submitted information, or modify it. The "Users Permissions" add-on, distributed with the Developer and Platinum versions of the plugin, has the answer.

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Generating new SalesForce leads

Categories: Add-ons, Automation, API & Services Integration

Generating new SalesForce leads, with the users information collected by the website's forms.

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Generating PDF files at runtime with PrintFriendly

Categories: Add-ons, API & Services Integration, PDF Generation

Generating runtime PDF files with the information collected by the form, using the PrintFriendly API, and send the files to users via email.

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Generating PDF files at runtime with the information collected by the form using FormStack (formerly WebMerge)

Categories: Add-ons, Automation, API & Services Integration, PDF Generation

Integrating the form with the FormStack documents service (formerly WebMerge) to generate PDF files at runtime with the information collected by the forms. The post describes a case of use: the generation of purchase invoices.

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How to identify the user location from the form?

Categories: Add-ons, API & Services Integration, Extending Forms

Getting the user's country and region.

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HubSpot Integration

Categories: Add-ons, Automation, API & Services Integration, User Communications

HubSpot is define itself as a marketing, sales, and service software that helps your business grow without compromise. The CFF - HubSpot add-on allows to integrate the forms on website with the HubSpot service, to create/update contacts in HubSpot with the information collected by the forms.

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Implementing a posts filter using the Calculated Fields Form plugin

Categories: Add-ons, Calculated Field Operations, Data Sources, Extending Forms, Integration with Third-party Plugins, WooCommerce

The adaptability of the "Calculated Fields Form" plugin allows to use it for replacing even basic WordPress features, like a search box for filtering the website's posts, pages or custom post types (as the WooCommerce products)

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Is it possible to collect the user information without submitting the form? Not by default....but yes, you can.

Categories: Add-ons, Automation, Calculated Field Operations, Extending Forms

This post responds to the questions:

  • How to send the information collected by the form to the server without submitting it?
  • How to send this information by email?
  • How to manage this information safely?
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MailChimp Integration

Categories: Add-ons, Automation, API & Services Integration, User Communications

Mailchimp is a marketing automation platform and an email marketing service. Our plugin allows add new members into the MailChimp audience lists, with the information collected by the website's forms.

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PDF Generator add-on, tips and tricks

Categories: Add-ons, PDF Generation

The PDF Generator add-on allows to generate PDF files directly on the web server, it does not need third party services. The contents of PDF files are defined using HTML tags.

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Server Side Equations

Categories: Add-ons, API & Services Integration, Calculated Field Operations, Form Features

The server side equations are the alternative to use server side code or the server resources in the equations, access to external APIs or services, and hide the business logic.

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Storing the information collected by the form in a CSV file and import the file into Google Sheet

Categories: Add-ons, API & Services Integration, Data Sources

The post responds to the following question: * How to store the information collected by the form in a CSV file? * How to use the information in the CSV file from Google Sheet?

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Unique Fields Values

Categories: Add-ons, Form Features

Using the Unique Fields Values add-on to avoid duplication.

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Verifying users' emails by sending them a verification code

Categories: Add-ons, Security, User Communications

The post describes how to check that the user enters a real email address, and has access to it.

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WebHook Add On

Categories: Add-ons, Automation, API & Services Integration

The easiest way to access to hundred of services through a simple URL. Case of use: Integrating the form with Google Sheets using Zapier as connector service.

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WooCommerce and the Calculated Fields Form plugin

Categories: Add-ons, Integration with Third-party Plugins, WooCommerce

There are very complex products and services where the attributes and variations in WooCommerce are not sufficient to estimate their prices at runtime, and a plugin like Calculated Fields Form becomes a must.

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