bernard · forms
Every kind of form, on one pottery site
A demonstration site. The forms below are examples, made to show what bernard can do.
Each form on this page shows different things a bernard form can do. Every form saves its answers as a contact and emails the owner. You ask for a form in your own words; Bernard builds it in your site's own style as a draft.
What a form can ask
| Always on every form | |
| Short answer | A name, a town, anything short |
| Phone | A phone number |
| Long answer | A message box |
| Drop-down list | Choose one option |
| Tick boxes | Tick any of several options |
| One tick box | A yes or no answer |
| Accept conditions | Must be ticked to send |
| Marketing consent | Permission to email, never pre-ticked |
Form 1 · waiting list
A waiting list: the shortest form
Only an email address and a consent box. Use it when a course or workshop is full, or not open yet.
The person ticks the box themselves. Bernard then sends a confirmation email, and only a person who clicks the link in it can get your emails.
Add a waiting list for the next Raku weekend to my forms page.
- The consent box always starts unticked. Bernard cannot build a pre-ticked one.
- The form has its own label (raku-waitlist), so you can email only these people later.
Hear when the next Raku weekend opens
Six places each time, and they go fast. Leave your email and we will tell you first.
Form 2 · enquiry
An enquiry: a short answer, a phone number, a drop-down list and a message
A commission request needs a little more. This form asks for a name, a phone number, one choice from a drop-down list, and a message.
There is no consent box. An enquiry is not permission to send marketing email, and Bernard does not pretend it is.
Add a commission enquiry form: name, phone, what they want made (tableware, a one-off piece, a gift or something else) and a message.
- The drop-down list starts on "Choose one", and "Choose one" can never be sent as an answer.
- Options are saved exactly as written, so you can sort and filter by them later.
Ask about a commission
Tell us what you have in mind. We reply within two working days.
Form 3 · registration
A registration: tick boxes, a yes or no box, and conditions to accept
Signing up for an open studio day. The visitor chooses a session from a drop-down list, ticks what they want to try, answers one yes or no question, and accepts the studio rules.
The form cannot be sent until the rules box is ticked. The submission keeps the exact sentence they accepted.
Add a sign-up form for the open studio day: which session, what they want to try, whether they are bringing a child, and they must accept the studio rules.
- Studio rules: closed shoes in the studio; children under 12 stay with an adult; glazes are not food-safe until fired; cancel 48 hours ahead so someone else can have your place.
- "Accept the conditions" is not marketing consent. A form can have both, as two separate boxes.
- "Bringing a child" is a yes or no tick box. It is saved as "yes" when ticked.
Book a place at the open studio day
Saturday 21 November. Free, but places are limited.
Form 4 · free download
A free download: questions and marketing consent together
A lead form offers something free, here a glaze guide, in return for an email address. It can ask questions, and it can ask for permission to send marketing email.
The interests are tick boxes, so later you can email only the people who ticked "Raku", for example.
Add a form for the free glaze guide. Ask their name and what they make, and ask if they want the monthly studio letter.
- A tick box such as "Keep me posted" is only an answer. Permission to email comes only from the consent box.
- Each form has its own label, so each list of sign-ups stays separate.
Get the free glaze guide
Twelve glazes we use every week, with the recipes. We email you the guide.
After someone sends a form
Where the answers go
- Your contacts. Each person becomes a contact, or their contact is updated if they are already there. The email address is the key.
- Your inbox. You get an email with every answer.
- Ask Bernard. "Who signed up for the open studio day?" lists each person, their answers and what they agreed to.
- Can I email them? Bernard answers from a single check: did they tick the consent box and click the confirmation link? He never guesses.
- Old forms after a move. A form from your old WordPress site can send its answers nowhere. Bernard finds these and lets you choose: send them to your email tool, save them as contacts here, or remove the form.
Not available yet
What a form cannot do yet
- Round option buttons (radio buttons). Use a drop-down list for one choice.
- File uploads, such as a photo of a pot.
- A pre-ticked consent box. This one is on purpose: the law needs the visitor to tick it themselves.
- Making someone a buyer or a student. Only a real purchase does that, so nobody can fake one with a form.
Bernard says so when you ask for one of these. He does not build something by hand that only looks the same.