In this video, we will explain to you how to add an enquiry form to your site.
Transcript
Hello! In this video, we're going to learn how to add an inquiry form to your website. It's pretty easy because we have an inquiry form builder here. So you can just go to https://www.tourcms.com/support/wizards/enquiry_form_builder/, and you will get to this page here.
An inquiry form can be used for general contact, brochure requests, newsletter sign-up, or other non-product or date-specific requests. This works for any type of information that you want to collect on your website and funnel into your workflow, assign it to a staff member, set a follow-up date, and so on. So, how does it work? Well, we just built a normal web form pointing at the Tour CMS service.
Building Your Inquiry Form
So, in order to create our inquiry form, we just want to add a new field here. So we can select the First Name, for instance. You can then select the input type, the label, and you can put in a default value or a placeholder value, for example. And we can mark or not if this field is mandatory, if it's required. So let's say we choose the first name. Then we can say we want to know the last name.
You have different input types here. It can be a text box in a single line, a multi-line, a select, it can be a password field, a submit field, a radio, or a checkbox. So you can choose which type of input you want to assign to the different fields.
Let's say we put in the first name, the surname, and then we can put in a custom field, let's say a select, and then you can type in how you want to label it. Let's say, "How did you know about us?" And then you can say "Google," "Friends," "Radio," etc., etc. So you'll create a dropdown where people can choose from if you add this form.
So once you do this, you can add any number of fields you want to have there. You can add a gender, which might also be a select thing: "Gender: Male or Female." So you can add these fields here. You can also change the order and how these different fields are presented on the form.
Generating the Code
So once you're done setting up the fields you require, you just need to type in the necessary information:
- Your Tour CMS account.
- Your Tour CMS channel ID.
- The inquiry key is like an internal name you want to give to this inquiry.
- And also the inquiry type it is.
- You need to input a return URL.
- And you can optionally put in a problem URL, so if there's any problem with the form, you will get a report on this URL.
You can choose the basic layout with the form labels and also a title for the form. So once you set up all this, you just generate the HTML code. And now here, it's not too big, we can make it a little bigger. So now, here you can see the code for your form. And this is what you really want to copy and paste into your webpage, wherever you want this inquiry form to be placed.
And it's that simple and straightforward to include an inquiry form on your own website.