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Also I recommend @FormidableForms as well for developer audience.

So great to catch up with you! Excited to see your upcoming @BeaverBuilder release.

Gosh, it's probably been years. I'll be there. Can't wait to say hi and catch up.

Not sure I think it was in a test phase. But surely the AI integrations are of interest :)

You guys had a chat bot on Clio site, is it still on or Nat shut it down?

That said, we’re seeing users replace even fairly traditional forms with ioZen successfully.

That’s fair. There’s a difference between collecting intent and completing a formal action. The first often works better as a conversation. The second still needs a structured form, but let’s be honest, forms rarely feel enjoyable.

I believe there’s a better way than forms for many use cases. We redesigned ioZen’s onboarding around intake bots, and the experience feels far more natural. We rolled it out less than a week ago and already doubled completion rates.

Oh yeah absolutely, every client has a different need but forms serve a lot of purposes, including specialized conversions. In *small* presence sites though, maybe SPA style, a contact form *might* be avoided. But forms are mostly here to stay. In fact I'm working on one now :D

In my opinion a chat bot is really useful, but it's not meant to replace forms. There's scenarios that a form is the way to make things happen, like subscriptions, or when you send a contract and you need your client to sign it.

Totally. We discovered that replacing rigid forms with AI conversations can improve completion rates and make the whole experience feel a lot better for users.

Well, in my own websites I've tended to build my own forms in HTML/css with bits of PHP. It's not always but in many cases you need deep customization and so you're ready.

For many use cases, the best “form plugin” is no form at all. That’s the direction we’re taking with @iozenai

Oh they do? I missed that! Then I need to reevaluate it!

Elementor Pro forms have multistep They are quite capable for most sites

Exactly. Multistep forms too.

Yeah usually it’s things like calculations, conditionals, or integrations with other tools which will push us to formidable

I quite love it, especially for multipage but when things get too serious, code creeps in, as usual :) They have several examples though, much appreciated. Tbh, Elementor does it good too for quite a few things!