Forms & Pages
Every submission starts with a form - it’s the first touchpoint between you and your applicants. A great form makes a strong impression, communicates your opportunity clearly, and sets the right expectations. With Dapple’s powerful form builder, you can create beautiful, customised forms in minutes, not hours.
Describe it. Dapple builds it.
Write your grant, award or open call in a sentence and get a ready-to-edit application form, or start from a complete project template with stages and review rounds set up.
Set up forms in a flash
Set up forms in a flash
To get you off to the races, we have ready-to-use, industry-specific templates to choose from. Select a template, tweak the fields where needed and then add some imagery to make it your own.
- Smart Form Generator: Use the smart form generator to create forms from a prompt.
- Easy to use: Add a description, hit generate and watch your form come to life.
- Templates: Save hours of setup by using our expansive library of project templates. Choose one, tweak the fields, edit the copy and you're ready to go!
- Duplicate: Copy your existing projects and all the accompanying forms in a single click.
Create the forms you want
Create the forms you want
With lots of options to customise, you can build bespoke forms to suit your exact needs.
- Customise fields: Choose between different types of fields, such as short or long text, dropdown lists or checkboxes
- Add rules: Make fields mandatory, add placeholder text and instructions for each field and then drag and drop them into the correct order.
- All files: Accept any file type and large file sizes for videos or high-res imagery.
- Unlimited fields: Create an unlimited number of form fields. No limits here.
- Payments: Set up single, multiple or conditional payments for any type of entry or submission fee.
Make your own
Make your own
Our forms look modern and fresh, and can be configured to suit your brand needs.
- Brand your forms: Add background colours, images, header images and change the transparency of fields.
- Introduce your rules: Add introductions, submission guidelines and terms and conditions with mandatory opt-in if necessary.
- Public and private forms: Create private forms for discounts, fee waivers or solicited material.
- Advanced Rules: Customise the Thank You message or the amount of times an applicant can submit.
- Hide Fields: Remove specific fields from your Review Rounds to remove bias for blind reviews.
Add all your links on one branded page
Add all your links on one branded page
With Pages, you can offer multiple opportunities, running simultaneously, displayed in single branded listings pages. Add these links to your website, social media or campaigns and manage everything directly in Dapple.
- Brand pages: Add background colours, images, header images and branding.
- Customise URLs: edit the links to fit with your brand.
- Set page rules: Add introductions, submission guidelines and terms and conditions.
- Customise projects: Reorder project order or hide from the page
- Display info: Display open/close dates and payment information on each project.
- Multiple pages: Create multiple pages for different locations.
Advanced Features
Advanced Features
Smart, flexible form features that give you total control behind the scenes—without making things complicated for the people filling them in.
- Conditional logic: Show or hide questions based on someone's answers, so applicants only see what's relevant.
- Images: Drop images into your forms to give visual aids or extra branding
- Image galleries: Embed galleries of images in your forms, perfect for showing past winners, example work or the space applicants are applying for.
- Youtube videos: Embed Youtube videos in your forms. Perfect for promos or tutorials.
- Form versioning: This allows you to update forms in real time, preserving any previously submitted data to older forms.
- Steps: Breakdown long forms into easily manageable steps to increase conversion rate.
Frequently Asked Questions
Most organisations have a form ready in minutes. Start from a ready-made template, describe your opportunity to the Smart Form Generator and let it build the form for you, or duplicate a form from a previous project and tweak it.
Applicants can upload any file type, including high-resolution images, video, audio and PDFs. The upload limit per file depends on your plan: 100MB on Starter, 1GB on Growth and unlimited on Pro.
Yes. Conditional logic shows or hides fields based on earlier answers, so applicants only see questions that apply to them. Conditional logic is available on every paid plan.
Yes. Form versioning lets you fix a typo or add a question while a call is open, without breaking or losing the applications already submitted.
Pages are branded listing pages that show several open opportunities in one place, each with its dates, fees and a link to apply. Share one link on your website or social media instead of a separate link for every call.