Flexible, Intuitive and It Does Math!

Was very pleasantly surprised to find that Ninja Forms does math – just set up a complicated Banquet reservation post for a non-profit who didn’t want to use card processing but preferred checks in the mail. Was able to provide a form that felt very much like a PayPal shopping cart, enabling all kinds of options – purchase a whole table at one price, purchase tickets for “x” couples at another price, for “y” individuals at yet another price, buy raffle tickets at multiple prices and quantities, donate memberships to others, etc. The email confirmation details all the options, prices, and produces sub- and grand totals, including tax (not applicable here, but an available additional calculation), along with a reminder where to send the check, for how much, and serves as the receipt for will-call tickets at the door. The one area that’s counterintuitive to me is stock response actions (emails, confirmation screens, etc.). First, they don’t seem to be be available in brand new forms, and must be created from scratch (not hard). If the new form is a copy of an old one, then responses can be reused and edited. Second, on the example forms, which already include example emails, the user interface confused me – there’s a list of actions with checkboxes next to each – my interpretation was that they could be activated via checkbox. In actuality, they are all activated if they are there, and the checkboxes are used to perform bulk actions on them, such as bulk delete. IMHO the bulk actions could be eliminated and it would be clearer that these aren’t global actions from which to choose to activate, but are indeed actions that exist and will be effected each time this particular form is used. NONETHELESS NINJA FORMS IS FABULOUS!!