Setting Up the Continue Forms Later Feature in Card Forms

April 20, 2024

The Continue Forms Later, also known as Autofill or Save and Continue Later, lets your users save their progress in the form and return to it later to complete their submission. It’s similar to Classic forms which require users to select Save on the form to get a unique Session URL for their progress.

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To enable Continue Forms Later in Card forms

  1. In the Form Builder, go to Settings at the top.
  2. Select Show More Options at the bottom.
Steps to view more options in Jotform Form Builder
  1. Set Continue Forms Later to Enabled.
The Continue Forms Later option in Jotform Form Builder

The save feature is now enabled on your form.

The save button on a Card form

Note that this feature doesn’t work on forms with less than four fields. Also, the save button will only appear once the user fills out a field on your form. All saved progress or sessions are listed as Incomplete Submissions in Jotform Tables.

How Does This Work?

For users who are logged in to their Jotform account, selecting Save will automatically send the session link to their registered email address. A confirmation message will also appear where your form fillers can choose to resend the email or get a shareable link.

The Save as a Draft dialog

For users who are logged out or do not have a Jotform account, selecting Save will show a dialog where they can sign up or log in to Jotform to save their session link. They can also select the Skip Create an Account link at the bottom to get the session URL.

The login dialog for logged out users

Selecting the “skip” link shows a dialog where your form fillers can choose to have the session link sent to their email or copy it directly.

The Save as Draft dialog for logged out users

Customizing the Save and Continue Later Email

To customize the email containing the session link sent to your form fillers, select the Customize Save and Continue Later Email link under the Continue Forms Later option.

The Customize Save and Continue Later Email link in Jotform Form Builder

This will open the template editor where you can edit the email content and subject header.

The email template editor in Jotform Form Builder

The option to change the sender email can be found under the Advanced tab. For more information, check out the following guides:

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