Forms & Surveys
Build your first form
Questions, sections, and sharing it by QR or link.
Forms & Surveys hosts a form at its own URL and gives it a QR code. People answer on their phone — no account, no app — and responses land in your dashboard.
The same builder makes a customer survey, an event registration, a training quiz or a timed exam. What changes is how you configure it, not which tool you use.
Build one
Step 1 — Create the form
Dashboard → Forms & Surveys → Forms → New form. Give it a title. You can start from a template if one matches what you're doing — it's a copy, so you can change anything afterwards.
Step 2 — Add your questions
Choose Add question and pick a type. Every question has a label, an optional help text, and a required toggle.
Keep the first version short. It's much easier to add a question after a few responses than to recover from a form nobody finished.
Step 3 — Preview it on a phone
Use Preview and open it on an actual phone, not just a narrow browser window. Long option lists and dense help text read very differently on a real device.
Step 4 — Share it
Every form gets:
- A link —
drentio.com/f/<code> - A QR code — download it as PNG, SVG or PDF, or print it onto label sheets
The URL is a short, random code rather than your form's title. That's deliberate: titles would be guessable, would collide between customers, and would leak what the form is for before anyone opens it.
Sections
Longer forms can be split into sections. A section groups related questions and, if you turn on multi-page, becomes its own step with a progress bar.
There's also a scenario section — a block of text, an image or a table shown before the questions that follow it. It's what you use for reading comprehension, a case study, or "here are the terms, now answer these".
Settings worth knowing
- Open and close dates — the form refuses submissions outside the window, with a clear message rather than a broken page.
- Success message — what respondents see after submitting.
- Theme and font — match your brand; on paid tiers you can remove Drentio branding.
Submit your own form once before sharing it, then delete the response. It's the fastest way to catch a required question you didn't mean to make required.