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  • Online application forms streamline the submission process, making it efficient, accessible, and easier to manage for both applicants and organizations.
  • To create a form, use a form-building platform or software to design the fields, customize the layout, and integrate it with data storage and processing tools for efficient submission management.
  • Online application form templates save time by providing pre-designed structures, ensuring consistency, and reducing errors in form creation.

Whether you’re hiring employees, admitting students, or evaluating potential tenants, managing applications is a big part of the process. People need an easy way to find and fill out your application form. You also need to be able to follow up with qualified applicants quickly.

Building an online form to collect applications is a great first step. Keep reading to learn how businesses use online forms to streamline their applications and stay organized. You can also see examples, and get tips and templates, to start collecting applications with confidence.

You can use online application forms to make your business more efficient and accessible. Here are a few examples:

  • Standardize your hiring process. Applicants can easily answer your questions and even upload a résumé. And you stay organized because your applicant information and documents live in one place.
  • Streamline student admissions. From preschool to college, a form makes collecting student applications or online registrations easy. Parents can fill out important contact and health information. Older students can submit college essays or answer questions so you can evaluate them for admission.
  • Simplify your rental applications.  Ask potential tenants for contact information, and other important lifestyle and occupational details so that you can fill your rentals faster.

You have several different options for creating online forms. Here’s a quick overview of how to make an application form so you can start collecting responses immediately.

If you’re ready to get started on a form, you can sign up for a free SurveyMonkey account or log in if you already have one.

  • Go to the header menu, choose Create survey, then Start from scratch.
  • If your questions are already written, choose a question type and copy and paste your text into the question fields.
  • If you don’t have questions ready, you can search our Question Bank for questions written by experts. With a few clicks, you can easily include them in your form. 

To create a form using AI, make sure you have a goal for your application form. The rest is easy.

  • Go to the header menu and choose Create survey, then choose Build with AI.
  • Type in a prompt that includes what you want to achieve with your form.
  • SurveyMonkey will generate a form that meets your goals. You can make edits or use the form as-is.

SurveyMonkey has dozens of online form templates you can use to start collecting applications today.

  • Go to the header menu, choose Create survey, then select Start from template.
  • Choose Forms from the drop-down menu.
  • Click any template to preview it. When you’re ready, choose Use this template to create that form in your account. You can customize the form how you want.

Need some inspiration? Here’s a list of some of our most popular online application form templates you can use.

Speed up applications, approvals, and payments for your members-only organization. This template includes questions great for admission to private clubs, gyms, and more.

Here are a few ways you can use a membership application form:

  • Ask for employment or salary information
  • Learn if someone is interested in a free trial
  • Describe different plans or levels of membership

Give potential employees an easy way to apply for a job at your company. Include this form on your website and ask for important information so you can follow up with qualified candidates.

Ask employees to:

  • Include their full name and contact information
  • Provide a URL to their website or LinkedIn profile
  • Upload their résumé or portfolio

Quickly evaluate potential tenants and follow up with the most promising leads. Include a rental application form template on your website or send it to interested applicants via email.

You can ask for:

  • Important personal details, including name, phone number, and current employer
  • Lifestyle details like if they smoke or have pets
  • Rental history and if they authorize a credit check

Recruit talented interns for your business. Use the internship application form template to communicate your company’s entry requirements and ask applicants for information like:

  • Current school or education
  • Cover letter
  • Work experience or availability

Standardize your scholarship application and review process with an accessible online form. Customize a scholarship application form based on your award criteria and the type of scholarship you’re offering.

You can ask questions that will help you evaluate candidates, including:

  • What makes you a good candidate for this scholarship?
  • What are your career goals?
  • What extracurricular activities are you involved in?

If you manage and award grants, use a form to convey important information, like grant amount, application deadline, name of the grant manager, description of the award, and more.

Collect important information from grant applicants, too, like:

  • Project lead contact information, timing, and budget
  • Project description, including what problem they’re addressing
  • How they’ll measure their project impact

Recruit volunteers for your nonprofit, charity, or business. Your volunteer application form can ask for important details that’ll help you coordinate volunteers, including:

  • Relevant special skills or experience
  • Which role or project they’re interested in
  • General working availability

Decide which students will attend your private school. Collect key information about potential students, like:

  • Student name, age, gender identification, date of birth, and address
  • Parent or guardian information, including occupations
  • Student medical information

Collect and organize camper information. The summer camp application form is especially important because it accounts for crucial information that will help you keep campers safe, happy, and healthy.

Ask parents to answer questions about:

  • Camper name, age, and guardian contact information
  • Any allergies or medications the camper has
  • Camper T-shirt size

Make it easier for people to apply when you embed a form into your website or email. They can fill out the form right on your site without navigating elsewhere. We also found that embedding the first form question into an email can boost response rates by 22%.

For most online forms, you will ask for basic contact information like name and email address. Before you build your form, write down what you’re trying to achieve with your application. This will help you stay focused when adding questions to your online application form. People are less likely to complete lengthy forms with irrelevant questions.

Some applicants may not be able to complete your form all at once, especially if it has a lot of questions or asks for information an applicant may not have with them. You can choose certain settings for your form so it’s easy for applicants to save their progress, exit the survey, and return to keep filling it out where they left off.

Are you collecting résumés or other documents? Use a file upload field so applicants can submit them along with their application rather than having to send documents separately. That way, all your applicant information and documents live in one place. To build trust with your applicants, tell them why you need their documents and how you will keep their data secure.

There’s nothing worse for an applicant than spending a lot of time filling out your form only to hit Done and not know if their submission went through. Confirming that you received their application can make them feel at ease and give them important information on what to expect next. Here are some ways you can tell applicants you received their submissions.

  • Choose your survey end-page experience. You can use the default option to confirm their submission is complete and thank them for filling out your form. 
  • If you don’t want to use the default survey end page, you can redirect the applicant to the URL you want. This can be a web page that confirms their application submission and gives them more information about the next steps.
  • Automatically send a confirmation email to anyone who fills out your form. This email lets someone know you received their application and includes a link applicants can use to see their answers.

Screen applicants and follow up with qualified candidates even faster. Choose the application form template you need, customize it, and embed it into your website or email. Applicants can upload files and give you important information, which you can access all in one place. 

Learn how SurveyMonkey makes building and maintaining applications for your business easy.

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