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How to create a contact form
How to create a contact form

How to create, edit, and publish a contact form

Updated over 3 months ago

The HoneyBook contact form is a widget that you can customize and embed on your company website or share through a direct link. It helps you collect information from potential clients—name, contact info, what they’re interested in booking, etc.—and funnel that information directly into your HoneyBook account.


Create a new contact form

  1. From the top navigation bar, click Clients > Contact forms

  2. Click to open the default form we provide

    • Or, create your own by clicking the form icon in the sidebar > Add Contact Form

  3. Name your contact form by clicking the title in the top left corner

  4. Edit or remove any pre-populated questions by clicking on a question itself, then:

    • Select the text to edit

    • Click the trash can icon to delete

📣 Note

The Email Address and Full Name fields can be edited but cannot be deleted.

Some questions will note that they are connected to specific fields. When these are filled out by your leads, the answers will automatically populate into the project details fields of the inquiry that gets created. You can determine which questions are connected to which fields by hovering over a question, then hovering over the link icon.

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Add question blocks

  1. Click the plus (+) button to add a block > select the Questions tab within the block selector

  2. Select the question type

    • You can choose the Custom or Suggested tab for different question types

  3. Enter the text of your question, and if necessary, the answer options (as in drop-down menu questions, multiple choice questions, etc.)

  4. Click the gear icon that appears when you hover over a question to toggle whether or not the question is required

    • Clients will not be able to submit their answers to the contact form—the Submit button will not activate—if a required question is left unanswered

  5. To continue adding questions or other blocks, hover over an existing question and click the plus (+) button that appears

  6. Rearrange the order of questions by hovering over the content you’d like to move and using the 6-dot icon that appears to drag and drop the content into a different order

📚 Tip

To make sure that every inquiry has a project type associated with it, you can either:

  • Add the Suggested project type question

    • This allows leads to select their project type of choice

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  • Set a default project type in the Settings tab of your form

    • All leads that come in through this contact form will have that project type assigned

Project types can be tied to automations, so it's important that you either add the suggested project type question or set a default project type from the Settings tab of your form.

You can update your project type options under Company Settings > Preferences.


Add content blocks

  1. Click the plus (+) button to add a block > select the Content tab within the block selector

  2. Select the formatting for the content block you’d like to add: text, image, or a combination

    1. You’ll be prompted to select your image and/or enter your text based on the block type you’ve selected

      • Image content can be uploaded on the fly, or selected from your Library

      • Text content can be formatted with options such as font, size, color, and alignment by highlighting the text in question and making your edits

        Update the background color of the block by hovering over the block and clicking the pencil icon

  3. To continue adding content or other blocks, hover over an existing content block and click the plus (+) button that appears

  4. Rearrange the order of blocks by hovering over the content you’d like to move and using the 6-dot icon that appears to drag and drop the content into a different order ​


Customize the design

To customize things like fonts, text size and color, and background colors, click the design icon in your sidebar.

  • This will open the formatting options section

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From the colors section, you can customize:

  • Font color

  • Your questions' input border color

  • Your questions' input background color

  • Your send button's text color

  • Your send button's color

  • Entire form background color

From the font section, you can customize:

  • Font style (for questions & send button)

  • Text size (for questions & send button)

  • Bold/not bold (for questions & send button)


Adjust the settings

To customize things like inquiry recipients, form redirects, and default project types, click the settings icon in your sidebar.

  • This will open the settings section

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​Select inquiry recipients

From the settings tab, you can choose which team members will be notified of incoming inquiries, as well as which team members will be automatically added to the projects that are created.

Under Incoming Leads Recipients, click Select team members. Then, you can choose to assign:

  • A project owner: this selection is required and is denoted with a crown icon. The project owner will be notified of new inquiries via email, and inquiries from the contact form will be assigned to the owner so they can manage the project from there. There can only be one project owner selected per contact form.

  • Workspace participants: these team members will receive all incoming inquiry notifications via email, and will also be automatically added as participants to the newly-created projects. You can add multiple team members as workspace participants.

  • Leads recipient: these team members will receive all incoming inquiry notifications via email, but they will not be automatically added to the projects that the form submissions create. You can add multiple team members as leads recipients.

​Set form redirect location

From the settings tab, you can choose where leads will be directed once they've submitted the contact form.

Under After Form Completion Redirect To, either:

  • Choose if you'd like leads to see a default thank you message upon form submission

  • Input a custom URL which you'd like to redirect leads to upon form submission

Set a default project type

Selecting a default project type under Automate Contact Form means that any inquiry submitted through this particular contact form will automatically have the chosen project type assigned. This is perfect if you use different contact forms for each area of your business (and therefore don't need to ask about project type in the form itself).

📚 Tip

If you'd rather have leads select their own project type, use the Suggested project type question instead.

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You can update your project type options under Company Settings > Preferences.


Publish your contact form

Once you've updated your form navigate to the bottom and click Publish.


Share your contact form

There are two ways to distribute your contact form:

Once you've shared your contact form, leads coming in from your form will automatically create new projects in the inquiry stage of your HoneyBook pipeline. You can even automate responses to inquiries— sending emails and more—using automations.

Still have questions? Feel free to send us a message by clicking the Question Mark icon on any HoneyBook page. Our team is always happy to help!

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