Paperform Alternative for WordPress

The Paperform Alternative That Never Closes Your Forms

While Paperform meters your submissions, payments and storage, WPForms runs on your own WordPress site, where every form stays open through your busiest month and collects unlimited entries and payments. That’s why 5+ million websites never wake up to a form that stopped working.

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WPForms vs Paperform

Everything in this comparison comes back to whether your form is still open when the next visitor arrives. Paperform decides that with plan meters, WPForms leaves nothing to count.

Feature	WPForms	Paperform
Submissions	Unlimited on every license, free Lite included	30 a month on Free, 100 on Essentials, 1,000 on Pro, 10,000 on Business
Payment submissions	Unlimited. There’s no cap on how many people can pay you	5 a month on Free, 20 on Essentials, 250 on Pro, 2,500 on Business
What happens at the cap	Nothing. There is no cap	Forms stay active for a short grace period, “after which they will be closed until the situation is remedied”
Stored submissions	Every entry stays in your own WordPress database (Basic and up)	100 / 1,000 / 10,000 / 100,000 per account; forms close when storage is full until you delete entries or upgrade
Users	Unlimited on every paid license	1 on Free and Essentials, 3 on Pro, 5 on Business plus $9 a month per extra user
Where the form lives	Inside your WordPress site, as a block in your own pages	On Paperform’s servers, embedded into your page or opened at a paperform.co link
Branding on the form	Yours only, on every license	“Free Paperform branding” on Free, “Minimal” on Essentials, removable from Pro
Your own domain	Always. It’s your website	paperform.co links by default; a custom domain is $20 a month per domain on Pro, one included on Business
Form analytics	Views, interactions, errors, drop-off and time spent for every field, plus conversion goals and AI chat (Pro)	Pro and Business only: views, starts, submissions and completion rate, plus a drop-off list built from 30-day partial submissions
Payment gateways	Stripe, PayPal, Square and Mercado Pago (Pro), Authorize.Net (Elite), with Apple Pay and Google Pay through Stripe	Stripe, PayPal Business, Square and Braintree, with Google Pay; Apple Pay isn’t supported on web forms
Platform fee on payments	No platform fee from Pro upward. The free version carries a 3% fee	No platform fee. Payment submissions are capped instead
Custom CSS	Included from Basic	Pro and Business only
Spam protection	reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha, Cloudflare Turnstile, Akismet and built-in anti-spam	reCAPTCHA
Yearly cost for analytics and fee-free payments	$199.50 for Pro, unlimited users, up to 5 sites	$588 for Pro with 3 users, plus $240 a year for a custom domain

What Changes When You Switch From Paperform

Your forms move onto a site you own, where entries land in your WordPress dashboard and nothing expires with a billing cycle. Here’s what the switch looks like, feature by feature.

Sales Without a Meter

Paperform’s pitch is forms that run your business, and its plans put a counter on exactly that. Payment submissions are metered separately from ordinary submissions.

5 a month on the free plan, 20 on Essentials, 250 on Pro. Cross the line and, in Paperform’s words, “only forms that include the affected feature will be closed.”

WPForms has no count, and you can accept payments through Stripe, PayPal, Square on Lite, where as upgrading to paid plans unlock Mercado Pago, Authorize.net and add recurring subscriptions and coupon codes on the same form.

The Paperform alternative with no payment cap: a take-a-number ticket dispenser feeding an unbroken roll of WPForms order tickets

Unlimited, Not Metered

Every Paperform plan meters three things at once: submissions, stored submissions and upload storage.

Its help center adds that the storage cap doesn’t reset with your billing cycle, so at 1,000 stored submissions on Essentials you delete entries or upgrade.

WPForms measures none of these, so you get Unlimited forms, unlimited submissions and unlimited users come with every license.

A tape measure extending past fixed hosted-plan rulers to show WPForms has no submission, storage or seat limit

See Where Buyers Stop

Paperform Analytics is a Pro and Business feature, and it reports the form as a whole: views, starts, submissions and completion rate, with a drop-off list built from partial submissions.

WPForms Analytics, included with Pro at $199.50 a year, works field by field. For every field you see views, interactions, errors, abandonments and the average time people spend in it.

A patient-monitor style readout of per-field vitals for a WPForms order form, with the Add-Ons field at 33% drop-off and 1:09

A Block, Not an Embed

A Paperform form lives at a paperform.co address. To show it on WordPress you paste Paperform’s embed code, use its iframe fallback, or install its plugin.

That plugin’s WordPress.org listing shows version 1.0.0, last updated five years ago and tested up to WordPress 5.7. WPForms is the opposite.

The form is a native block in your own editor, styled by your theme, saved to your database, and readable by every other plugin on your site.

A paint roller painting a WPForms form directly into a WordPress page, next to a framed third-party embed

Your Domain, Included

On Paperform, the brand on your form depends on the plan: “Free Paperform branding” on Free, “Minimal” on Essentials, removable only from Pro. The address depends on the plan too.

Forms open at a paperform.co link unless you buy a custom domain for $20 a month per domain on Pro, or move to Business where one is included.

WPForms forms need none of that. They live on your own domain because they are pages on your own site, and no WPForms badge appears on any license, free Lite included.

A house-number plaque showing your own domain beside a doorbell, with a WPForms order form visible through the open door

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Everything Your Forms Keep When Nothing Is Metered

Six reasons switching from Paperform to WPForms is easier than it looks, and why the form you end up with does more than the one you left.

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Accept Every Payment, Never Close the Form

With WPForms Pro there is no counter for how many submissions or payments you can accept.

Every order runs through Stripe, PayPal, Square or Mercado Pago, subscriptions and coupon codes work on the same form, and the only fee is the processor’s own.

Refunds and subscription changes happen from the Payments screen inside WordPress, so nobody opens a second dashboard to look after a customer.

Find the Field Where Buyers Give Up

When an order form has plenty of visitors and too few checkouts, WPForms Form Analytics shows the reason in one table.

You see the exact field buyers abandon, the average time they spent fighting it, and whether it threw an error first. From there the fix is usually small.

A form-level completion rate only tells you that people left. Field-level data tells you where they stood when they did, and that’s the difference between guessing and fixing. It’s included with Pro.

The Paperform alternative with field-level analytics: a footprint trail across an order form that stops at the Add-Ons field marked 33% drop-off and 1:09

An archery target with arrows landing at 15.8% on the way to a 22% ring, beside a WPForms AI chat answer

Track a Goal, Then Ask the AI What Changed

Set a conversion goal on any form and WPForms tracks it in real time, so a form climbing toward its target becomes a scoreboard the whole team can read.

When the number moves, a built-in AI chat reads your real form data and explains why in plain English, with fixes to try.

Ask why completions dipped last week and you get an answer that names the field.

Meanwhile every report exports to CSV or prints for a client, scoped to the last 7, 30 or 90 days or any custom range.

Every Order Lives in Your Own Database

Hosted builders store your submissions in their account and count how many they’ll keep.

WPForms writes every entry to your own WordPress database on every paid license, with no storage ceiling to manage.

Search, filter and star entries, add notes, export to CSV or Excel, and keep uploaded files attached to the entry they came with.

Your privacy policy lists one processor fewer, retention follows your own rules, and deleting an entry deletes it. If you ever move hosts, the entries move with the site.

A home safe with its door open, holding WPForms entry rows and an Export CSV button

A zipper joining a Paperform CSV export to a WPForms order form, with 3,118 orders imported

Bring Your Order History With You

Switching doesn’t mean starting from zero, since you can export your submissions from Paperform as a CSV, then use the WPForms Entry Importer to map each column onto a field in your new form.

Most migrations take an afternoon, and your year-over-year reports still line up. The Entry Importer is included with every paid WPForms license, from Basic upward.

Plus you can leave the old form live while you test, then swap the embed for the WPForms block once you’re happy.

Switch With a 14-Day Safety Net

Every WPForms license carries a 14-day money-back guarantee, so the switch is a test drive, not a leap.

Install the plugin, rebuild your best-performing form from one of 2,100+ templates or let WPForms AI draft it from a description, import your history, and run both forms side by side.

If it isn’t the right fit, you get your money back. Most people never ask. WPForms holds 4.8/5 stars from 13+ thousand reviews on WordPress.org, and every paid license includes support from the WPForms team.

A parachute lowering a WPForms form safely onto a WordPress page, with a 14-day money-back guarantee tag

What Comes Uncapped From Day One

Nothing below waits on a higher tier or a busier month. Everything comes with the license and treats your ten thousandth entry exactly like your first.

Unlimited Submissions

No monthly or yearly cap on entries, on every license including free Lite.

Unlimited Payments

Accept as many orders as your customers place. Nothing counts them down.

Unlimited Users

The whole team signs in with WordPress accounts. No per-seat pricing.

Your Own Database

Every entry is a row on your own site, exportable to CSV or Excel anytime.

Field-Level Analytics

Views, interactions, errors, drop-off and time spent, for every field (Pro).

Conversion Goals

Set a target rate per form and watch the dashboard climb toward it.

Built-In AI Chat

Ask what’s hurting conversions and get plain-English fixes from your own data.

Five Payment Gateways

Stripe, PayPal, Square, Mercado Pago and Authorize.Net, with recurring payments.

Entry Importer

Bring your CSV export in and keep your order history intact.

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Frequently Asked Questions and Resources

Weighing a Paperform alternative for your WordPress site? Here’s what people ask first.

Is WPForms a good Paperform alternative?

WPForms is a strong Paperform alternative if your website runs on WordPress. Instead of a metered hosted account, you get unlimited forms, unlimited submissions and unlimited users on every paid license, and the form lives inside your own site.

The trade is honest: Paperform works on any website, and WPForms is built for WordPress. If WordPress is where your business lives, you gain field-level Form Analytics, payments with no cap and no platform fee on Pro, and entries in a database you own.

What are Paperform's submission limits, and what happens when I hit one?

Paperform meters submissions per plan: 30 a month on Free, 100 on Essentials, 1,000 on Pro and 10,000 on Business, pooled over the year on annual billing. Payment submissions and appointment submissions have their own smaller caps, and stored submissions are capped at 100, 1,000, 10,000 or 100,000 per account.

Paperform’s help center says that after a short grace period your forms “will be closed until the situation is remedied, or your usage limit resets.” WPForms has no submission, payment or storage cap on any license.

Is WPForms free like Paperform?

WPForms Lite is free in the WordPress plugin directory, with unlimited forms and submissions, notification and confirmation emails, spam protection, WPForms AI and no branding on your forms. Paperform’s free plan allows 30 submissions and 5 payment submissions a month and carries Paperform branding.

The honest caveat: Lite doesn’t store entries in your dashboard, and conditional logic and file uploads are paid features. Those start with Basic at $49.50 a year. Lite can accept Stripe and PayPal payments with a 3% platform fee that disappears on Pro.

Can I embed a Paperform form in WordPress, and how is WPForms different?

Yes. Paperform gives you embed code, an iframe fallback and a WordPress plugin whose block takes the form URL and loads the form from paperform.co. The form still runs on Paperform’s servers, and the plugin’s WordPress.org listing shows it last updated five years ago and tested up to WordPress 5.7.

WPForms is a native WordPress plugin. The form is a block in your editor, styled by your theme, stored in your database, and available to every other plugin on your site.

Does WPForms have form analytics like Paperform Analytics?

WPForms Form Analytics measures more than Paperform Analytics and costs less to unlock. Included with Pro, it reports views, interactions, errors, abandonments and average time for every field, tracks a conversion goal you set, exports to CSV, and answers questions through a built-in AI chat. All of it is stored in your own database.

Paperform Analytics is a Pro and Business feature that reports form-level views, starts, submissions and completion rate, plus a drop-off list built from partial submissions kept for 30 days. See the Form Analytics guide for the full breakdown.

Does WPForms accept payments like Paperform, and are there fees?

WPForms accepts payments through Stripe, PayPal, Square and Mercado Pago on Pro, and Authorize.Net on Elite, with one-time and recurring payments, coupon codes and conditional payment logic. Stripe’s Payment Element also offers Apple Pay and Google Pay when the buyer’s device supports them.

WPForms Pro charges no platform fee, so you pay only your processor’s rate. Paperform doesn’t add a fee either, but it caps payment submissions at 5, 20, 250 or 2,500 a month by plan. WPForms never counts them.

Can I move my Paperform submissions to WPForms?

Yes. Export your submissions from Paperform as a CSV, then use the WPForms Entry Importer to map each column onto a field in your new form. Your history moves with the data, so year-over-year reports still line up.

The Entry Importer is included with every paid license, from Basic upward, and you can keep the Paperform form live while you test the new one.

Will my forms show WPForms branding or use a wpforms.com link?

No. WPForms never puts its own badge on your forms, on any license, including free Lite, and your forms live at your own domain because they are pages on your own site.

Paperform’s branding depends on the plan: “Free Paperform branding” on Free, “Minimal” on Essentials, removable from Pro. Forms open at a paperform.co address unless you add a custom domain for $20 a month per domain on Pro, or move to Business where one is included.

Which WPForms plan replaces Paperform Pro?

WPForms Pro, at $199.50 a year, replaces Paperform Pro for most businesses. It includes field-level Form Analytics, payments with no cap and no platform fee, Surveys & Polls, Conversational Forms, Save & Resume, Digital Signatures and Calculations, on up to five sites with unlimited users.

Paperform Pro is $588 a year on annual billing for three users, 1,000 submissions and 250 payment submissions a month. If you only need entries in your dashboard, conditional logic and file uploads, WPForms Basic is $49.50 a year. Compare the tiers on the pricing page.

Does WPForms have AI form building like Paperform?

Yes. WPForms AI builds a form from a plain-English description on every paid license, suggests field choices, edits an existing form through Smart Edit, and generates calculation formulas. AI Choices and Smart Edit are available on free Lite too, and you can connect Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor through the free WPVibe bridge to build forms by chatting.

Paperform includes AI form creation on every plan and AI report insights on Pro and Business. Both are real. The difference is that WPForms’ assistants work on forms that live inside your own WordPress site, and its AI chat also reads your analytics.

Paperform Alternative
People searching for a Paperform alternative usually like Paperform, but they just don’t like the meters.

WPForms is the Paperform alternative built for WordPress: unlimited forms, unlimited submissions and unlimited users on every paid license, payments that are never counted down, and entries stored in your own database instead of a capped hosted account.

As a Paperform alternative for small businesses that sell through their forms, WPForms Pro also adds what hosted analytics rarely show, a per-field view of where buyers hesitate, plus a conversion goal and an AI chat, all included for $199.50 a year.

Millions of websites use our WordPress form plugin to accept orders without renting the form, and entry management keeps every submission searchable in your dashboard.

Learn more: Unlimited Free Trial of WPForms · How to Embed a Form on Your Website
Paperform Pricing
Most people looking up Paperform pricing want two answers: what the free plan really covers, and what a cap costs. Paperform’s free plan allows 30 submissions and 5 payment submissions a month with Paperform branding.

Essentials is $24 a month billed annually ($288 a year) for 100 submissions and 20 payment submissions a month, one user, “Minimal” branding and no analytics.

Pro is $49 a month billed annually ($588 a year) for 1,000 submissions, 250 payment submissions, three users and Paperform Analytics, plus $20 a month per custom domain.

Paperform pricing scales with usage; WPForms prices by license. Basic is $49.50 a year with unlimited submissions and users, and Pro is $199.50 a year with field-level analytics and fee-free payments on up to five sites. Compare both on our pricing page.

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Paperform vs WPForms
Weighing Paperform vs WPForms comes down to one question: do you want the form hosted for you with a meter, or inside your WordPress site without one?

WPForms wins wherever the form is part of a WordPress site: unlimited submissions, payments and users on every paid license, a native block instead of an embed, entries in your own database, Apple Pay and Google Pay through Stripe, and per-field analytics with conversion goals and AI chat on Pro.

In the Paperform vs WPForms cost column, WPForms Pro is $199.50 a year against Paperform Pro at $588, before a $240 custom domain. Our Form Analytics and PayPal Commerce pages hold the details behind each row.

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