Add Custom Questions to your Sign Up

There are two ways to collect extra information when someone signs up, and they are on different plans. Start here so you pick the one you can use:

What it does Plan
Custom Message Renames the single optional message box that every form already has — "Your child's name", "Dish you're bringing" Engage and above
Custom Questions Adds as many questions as you like: text, dropdowns, checkboxes, waivers, section headings; each can be required Empower and above

If you are on Engage, Custom Questions will show an upgrade prompt rather than opening. Custom Message is yours and gets you most of the way for a single piece of information.

Custom Message — rename the existing message box

Every sign-up form already has an optional Message field. You can change what it is called:

  1. Edit → Settings, scroll to Customization.
  2. Turn on Custom Message.
  3. Type the label you want, for example "Your child's name".
  4. Done.

Guests now see that label instead of "Message". It stays optional, and answers come through on your results list.

Custom Questions — add as many as you need

  1. Edit → Settings, scroll to Customization.
  2. Turn on Custom Question to open the editor.
  3. Add any of:
    • Text — a free-text answer
    • Dropdown — you supply the options, e.g. small / medium / large
    • Checkbox — e.g. "I have read and agree to the media release"
    • Description — not a question, just text. Use it for a waiver, terms, or to break a long list into sections.
  4. Drag the handles on the left to reorder. Click the red asterisk beside a question to make it required or optional.
  5. Done, then Done again on settings.

Guests fill in the normal sign-up, click Continue, and get a details step with your questions. Required ones block submission until answered.

Seeing the answers

Open Results. Click a row to expand it. For the full picture use Print / Export — the CSV gives each custom question its own column.

Can I approve or screen people before they sign up?

No. There is no approval step between someone signing up and their name appearing on your form, on any plan.

What you can do is collect what you need to judge it and follow up yourself — a required Custom Question (Empower) or the renamed Custom Message field (Engage) — and then remove an entry under Edit → Results if you need to. If keeping numbers down is the real goal, you can also limit how many people can sign up or close the form.

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