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Unbelievable Form Statistics and Facts

101+ Unbelievable Online Form Statistics & Facts for 2024

Want to learn more about online forms and how they can help your business succeed?

There are tons of reasons to use online forms on your business’ website. But to make sure your forms are a success, you need to understand how to design them to maximize successful completions.

In this post, we share over 101 facts and statistics about forms and how they can help grow your company. We take a deep dive into form abandonment and using forms for lead generation, and offer some valuable insights that will help you build better forms!

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Google Business Profile Closing? Replace it With a Website!

Is Google shutting down your business profile?

The solution is simply to replace your profile with a website. It’s a lot easier than you might think. In fact, one page and a contact form are really all you need.

And I can show you how to do it!

In this article, I’ll walk you through the process of replacing your Google Business Profile with a website. It takes only a few steps. 

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How to accept payments in WordPress

The Ultimate Guide to WordPress Payment Processing

Wondering how to use WordPress payment processing to transform your online business and start bringing in sales? You’ve landed in the right place!

If you’re running an eCommerce store, you probably already know that customers can abandon their carts at any stage of the checkout process.

This could be because of complex procedures, lack of trust, or payment issues. Either way, understanding the nuances of payment processing is crucial.

In this guide, we will dive deep into the mechanics behind WordPress payment processing to harness the full potential of efficient online transactions.

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eCommerce Statistics You Must Know

101+ Useful eCommerce Statistics You Must Know in 2024

Are you thinking about starting an online store this year? Or do you want to boost sales and grow your existing eCommerce business?

We’ve read all the latest reports and data and compiled the most important eCommerce statistics into this roundup to save you time. From the overall growth of the eCommerce industry to trends in mobile commerce and social selling, we’ve got all the data you need to ensure you’re focusing on the right things in your eCommerce business.

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how to send wordpress emails with gmail

How to Set Up WP Mail SMTP With Gmail (2 Options)

As someone who relies on WordPress for managing my website, I know how crucial it is to ensure emails from my site actually reach my audience.

WP Mail SMTP connects WordPress to Gmail with One-Click Setup on Pro plans, or with a Gmail API app you create in Google Cloud Console on the free version.

Both methods work with free Gmail accounts and Google Workspace, and neither one asks for your Gmail password. I’ll walk you through both methods step by step, then show you how to fix the most common Gmail errors.

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Introducing WPForms 1.8.7 - User-Friendly Order Form Upgrades

Introducing WPForms 1.8.7 – User-Friendly Order Form Upgrades

Great news for anyone selling products or services online!

With our latest update, we’ve added some simple but powerful features to improve the eCommerce functionality of WPForms. You can now enable product quantities in your order forms with a single click. We’ve also added an order summary so shoppers can see a full breakdown of products, quantities, and discounts at a glance before they check out.

Find out more about how we’ve improved the experience for both you and your customers.

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New Feature Payments

Start Your Stripe Subscriptions With a Trial Period

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A Stripe subscription sold through WPForms can now begin with a trial period: the subscriber signs up today, and their first payment waits until the trial is over.

The card is collected and checked at signup, held by Stripe, and charged automatically on the day the trial ends.

The length is a number of days, weeks, months, or years, chosen in the form builder’s Payments tab for each Stripe subscription you sell.

Each trial shows up in WPForms » Payments with a Trialing status until that first payment lands.

Improvement

Weekly Email Summary

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The weekly summary WPForms emails you now opens with stat tiles for entries, views, and spam, each marked with how it moved against the previous week.

Beneath them, a table gives every form its own line, and when the data earns it the headline changes to call out a best week, a milestone, or a form that has gone quiet.

A single button takes you from the email back into WPForms, so the thing worth checking is one click away.

Integration New Feature Payments

Paystack Addon

Introducing the WPForms Paystack Addon: Accept Payments in Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, and Kenya

The Paystack addon brings card, bank transfer, and mobile money payments to your forms for buyers in Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, and Kenya.

Buyers click submit and pay in the Paystack popup in naira, cedis, rand, or Kenyan shillings, with no new field to add to your form.

Bank transfer and mobile money payments are saved as Pending, and WPForms can hold your notification emails until Paystack confirms the payment, then completes the order on its own.

Every Paystack payment shows up in WPForms » Payments, and full refunds can be issued without leaving WordPress.

New Feature

WPForms Dashboard

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The WPForms Dashboard is a new home screen that opens the moment you click WPForms in your admin menu. Stat cards across the top total up your forms, entries, payments, views, and spam across the whole site.

An Entries widget charts activity over your chosen date range with a per-form table of entries, views, interactions, and conversion rate, and a payments widget totals everything collected once a gateway is connected.

With the Geolocation addon active, Top Locations ranks the countries your visitors come from, and a Suggested Next Steps panel points to features worth turning on.

Nothing to install, as it comes with every plan, including Lite!

New Feature

WPForms QR Code

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Every form now has its own built-in QR code generator, with nothing extra to install or buy.

Open a form’s General settings, choose the page the form lives on or paste its URL, and click Generate QR Code to copy it or download it as a PNG or a print-ready SVG.

Put it on menus, packaging, event badges, or business cards, and every scan opens your form instead of a page that only hands people something to read.

Included with every plan, including Lite; Pro and Elite plans can keep, remove, or replace the WPForms logo in the center with their own.