Hosted forms

A hosted form is a complete, Formward-hosted public page for collecting submissions, with no website of your own required. Instead of pointing your own HTML <form> at an endpoint, you enable a hosted page, give it a slug, and Formward serves a ready-made form at a public URL you can share anywhere:

https://formward.eu/s/your-slug

It is the quickest way to start collecting submissions when you do not have a site to embed a form into. The form is rendered, styled, and submitted by Formward, and every submission lands in the same dashboard as your embedded forms.

Enabling it

Open the form you want to publish and go to Settings → Hosted form. Turn on the hosted-page toggle, then set:

Slug — the last part of the public URL. Your form becomes available at formward.eu/s/<slug>. Slugs are lowercase, use hyphens, and must be unique.
Title — the heading shown at the top of the hosted page.
Description — an optional line of intro text shown under the title to explain what the form is for.

Once the toggle is on and a slug is set, the page is live immediately at its public URL. Turning the toggle off takes the page down again without deleting the form or any of its submissions.

Editing fields

The hosted page uses a simple field editor: you add the fields you want, label them, mark them required or optional, and reorder them. There is no markup to write. The supported field types are:

Text — a single-line input for short answers like a name or subject.
Email — an email input, validated as an address.
Phone — a tel input for phone numbers.
Textarea — a multi-line box for longer messages.

You can also set the success message shown after a visitor submits, so the confirmation reads the way you want.

Sharing the link

Because the page is a normal public URL, you share it like any other link: paste it into an email signature, a social bio, a QR code, a printed flyer, or a chat message. Anyone who opens it sees your form and can submit it, no Formward account required on their side.

https://formward.eu/s/contact-us

How submissions are processed

A hosted form posts through the exact same ingestion pipeline as an embedded form, so it gets the same protections and ends up in the same place:

Honeypot. A hidden field catches naive bots, the same way it does on embedded forms.
Rate limiting. Floods are blocked using a limit keyed on a hashed IP, so raw addresses are never stored.
Turnstile. If you have enabled Cloudflare Turnstile for the form, the hosted page shows the challenge too.
AI spam scoring. On plans with AI features, each submission is scored so borderline spam is flagged rather than silently dropped.
Stored, emailed, retained. Accepted submissions are stored in your dashboard and emailed to your notification recipients. Your form's retention settings apply, and submissions count against your plan's monthly submission limit just like any other.

Privacy & data residency

Submitter data from a hosted page is processed identically to data from an embedded form. Everything stays on Formward's EU-hosted stack: submissions are stored on Swedish-hosted Postgres, notification email is sent through EU providers, and any AI scoring runs on a European model provider. IP addresses are only ever stored pseudonymised as a hash, the same as everywhere else in Formward. No part of the hosted-form pipeline sends your visitors' data outside the EU.

Limitations vs embedding

Hosted forms are deliberately simple. If you need more control, embedding a form on your own site is still the richer option. Compared with embedding, a hosted page today does not include:

No drag-and-drop builder. Fields are configured in the simple list editor, not a visual canvas.
No conditional logic. Every field is always shown; fields cannot appear or hide based on previous answers.
No payments yet. Hosted pages collect submissions only; they cannot take payment.

When you outgrow a hosted page, the form itself does not change: point your own <form> at its endpoint and you keep the same submissions, recipients, and history.