Email Template With Fillable Form

[st_7]

I hope this is the right section to post this query. I have a form that I usually send it to my customers, (in) which they will be filling out their information and resend it to me. I presently have this form in Word Document, but it is ugly & unprofessional. I want to use an email template, where I can put this form in, so that it looks more attractive & professional. Is there such email templates that give the chance to create a form that to be filled by customer with their information & send it back to me.

 

[Fardringle]

The easiest way I can think of to do this is to create the form the way you want it to look in MS Word, then copy/paste the whole document into an email message. Don't attach the file. Actually copy and paste the contents of the document into the email. Save the message as a template/draft, then just send a copy of the draft to customers as needed.

 

[sourceninja]

Realize that it may not look right to everyone like a PDF or word doc might. I for example use plain text only email. So I won't see your fonts, your special characters, your images, colors, etc.

 

[IronWing]

I can't think of a way to do this in email as, as sourceninja points out, it will look very different on different email systems. I can't think of an email system that would present a fillable form though I tend to restrict my email viewing to plain text.

A web-based from is probably the way to go. You can create a nice looking web form and have the backend script email the form data to you structured any way you'd like or have it compiled in a database. My website email operates this way. The reader fills out a form that looks a lot like standard email input and clicks "send". The script writes the email to a log file on the server. The avantage is that my email address is no longer exposed on the website and the volume of spam has dropped better than 99% (this is not an exaggeration, spam dropped from 400+ messages a day to one or two).

 

[postmark]

Like iron wing said web based is probably best. You could send a link to a Google form you setup which is really easy from your Google drive. Or if you wanted you could setup a PDF that will at least be consistent and the forms in there allow the combination of responses. Let me know if you need help setting it up.