Formstack offers two methods for changing a form's URL:
- Subdomains
- User-friendly URLs
Subdomains
Subdomains allow you to customize your form URLs for better brand recognition and a more secure customer experience. Subdomains are the same as form aliases, and they appear before "formstack.com" in a form's URL.
For example, if ABC Company adds "abccompany" as a subdomain, all of the forms on the company's account will have a URL like this: https://abccompany.formstack.com/forms/.
For more information on subdomains, check out this feature page.
If you're looking to change your subdomain, navigate to My Account and select "URLs." Here, an account admin may update the subdomain. Once you select Update, URLs for all forms in your account will be changed to the changed subdomain. The final URL for the form can be viewed from the Share tab of the form builder.
Note: Formstack branded URLs (e.g., www.formstack.com/forms/?1234567-ABCD) will still work even though they do not contain your subdomain. However, if you change the subdomain after it is initially set, URLs referencing prior versions of a subdomain URL will be deactivated. If you link to a form with a set subdomain anywhere and later change this subdomain, you will want to replace that old URL with the URL that includes the new subdomain.
User-Friendly URLs
Updating the end of your form URLs to make them more user-friendly allows you to further customize the names of your forms for easier recognition. These URL changes appear after formstack.com/forms/ and affect only the end of the form URLs.
The user-friendly URL can be set from the Settings tab of each individual form, and only the form being edited is affected.
Go to Settings > General, and enter your customized URL string in the "URL" section. In the example below, the user-friendly URL is "settings".
For ABC Company mentioned under Subdomains, the form URL from the example image above will display as https://abccompany.formstack.com/forms/settings. If someone is completing your form via a form URL, this is the URL that person will see.
Note: If your forms are embedded on your website, your users will not see your form URLs. However, if you make changes to your subdomain or the user-friendly URL for an embedded form, you will need to re-embed the form using the embed code found in the Publish Tab under QuickStart.
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