Stop losing potential leads and frustrated users who abandon your forms halfway through. The Everest Forms Save and Continue add-on is the ultimate solution for long, complex, or multi-step forms, allowing your users to pause their progress and return exactly where they left off. By removing the pressure to complete lengthy submissions in one sitting, you significantly increase your conversion rates, improve user experience, and ensure you capture the data that matters most to your business.
Key Features
- Seamless Progress Saving: Users can save their form entries at any point with a simple click, ensuring no data is lost if they need to step away or encounter a connection issue.
- Unique Resume Links: The plugin generates a secure, unique link for the user, allowing them to return to their partially completed form at their convenience.
- Email Notifications: Automatically send the resume link directly to the user’s email address, making it effortless for them to pick up where they left off without needing to remember a URL.
- Customizable Save Buttons: Easily integrate a “Save and Continue” button into your existing Everest Forms, keeping your form design clean and professional.
- Flexible Expiration Settings: Maintain control over your data by configuring how long saved entries remain available before they expire, helping you manage database bloat.
- User-Friendly Interface: Designed specifically for the Everest Forms ecosystem, this add-on requires zero complex coding to implement, allowing you to enhance your forms in minutes.
Use Cases / Who It’s For
This plugin is essential for any website owner that relies on forms to collect detailed information. If your forms require more than a minute to complete, you are likely suffering from abandonment issues that this tool can solve.
Educational Institutions and Training Centers: For long student registration forms or course enrollment applications that require gathering documents or specific personal details, this plugin ensures applicants don’t lose their progress.
Human Resources and Recruitment: Job application forms are notoriously long. By allowing candidates to save their progress, you ensure that top-tier talent doesn’t abandon their application simply because they didn’t have their resume or certification details immediately on hand.
Service Providers and Agencies: If you use intake forms to gather project requirements, budget details, or technical specifications from new clients, the Save and Continue feature makes the onboarding process feel less like a chore and more like a professional collaboration.
E-commerce and Membership Sites: Whether it is a complex vendor application or a multi-page membership profile setup, providing a way to save progress reduces friction and boosts your completion rates.
Setup / How It Works
Implementing the Save and Continue functionality is designed to be straightforward for any WordPress administrator.
- Install and Activate: Ensure you have the core Everest Forms plugin installed, then install and activate the Save and Continue add-on.
- Enable in Form Settings: Navigate to your specific form within the Everest Forms builder and locate the Save and Continue settings tab.
- Configure Options: Enable the feature and customize the button text to match your site’s tone. You can also configure the email template that sends the resume link to the user.
- Save and Deploy: Once configured, save your form settings. The “Save and Continue” button will automatically appear on your form, providing an immediate, seamless experience for your visitors.
Similar Plugins
If you are looking for alternatives within the WordPress ecosystem, several other form builders offer similar functionality through their own proprietary add-ons. These include the Gravity Forms Save and Continue feature, the WPForms Save and Resume addon, and the Ninja Forms Save Progress functionality. Each of these is tightly coupled to its respective form builder, so your choice typically depends on which primary form plugin you are already utilizing on your website.