Getting Started

Getting started

FormGenius is free to use with no account required. Go to formgenius.co.uk and click Create New Form — you’ll go straight into the editor.

To save your forms and return to them later, you need a paid subscription. Sign-up happens as part of subscribing — visit the pricing page to get started. Payment details are only collected at the point of upgrade.

Understanding your tier

FormGenius has four tiers:

A full comparison is on the pricing page and compare page.

The dashboard

When you sign in, you land on your dashboard. This is where all your projects live.

From the dashboard you can create new forms, open existing ones, see submission counts, and manage your account settings.

Creating a new form

From the home page, click Create New Form to go straight into the editor with a blank form. If you’re signed in, clicking New Form from your dashboard instead opens a choice of three ways to start:

• Blank Form — start from scratch. You’ll be asked to choose a form name, page size, orientation, margins, snap-to-grid, and document language (the language attribute on the exported PDF, which screen readers use to apply the correct pronunciation rules — defaults to your browser’s language).
• AI Generate — available on Growth and Business plans. Describe the form you need in a sentence or two and FormGenius builds a complete, accessible form for you. See below.
• Import Document — available on Growth and Business plans. Upload an existing Word document (.docx) or any PDF — fillable, scanned, or photographed — and FormGenius maps it into an accessible form for you. See below.

Once you land in the form editor, your form is saved automatically every 5 seconds if you’re on a paid tier. On the free tier, your form exists for the current session only — complete and export your PDF before leaving the editor.

AI Generate

Describe the form you need in plain language and FormGenius builds it for you — a complete set of accessible fields, sensible groupings, and a real heading structure, ready to review and adjust on the canvas.

• How it works — tell it who the form is for and what it should collect (e.g. “a volunteer sign-up form for a community food bank, collecting contact details, availability, and any food handling certificates”). FormGenius invents a sensible, complete set of fields — you don’t need to list every field yourself.
• Tier — Growth and Business plans only.

The AI only ever decides what your form contains — labels, field types, options, grouping, sections. A deterministic layout engine places everything on the page, the same way every time, so an AI Generate form is exactly as reliably accessible as one you build by hand. Since there’s no source document, any image you mention (like a logo) starts as a placeholder sized to fit — drop the real picture in once you’re on the canvas.

Importing an existing document

If you’ve already built a form in Word, Google Docs, or Acrobat — or you only have a paper form you’ve scanned or photographed — Document Import maps it into an accessible FormGenius form so you don’t have to rebuild it from scratch.

• Supported formats — Word documents (.docx) and any PDF: fillable, scanned, or a photo of a paper form. If you built your form in Google Docs, export it as a .docx file first.
• Tier — Growth and Business plans only.
• Processing time — please be patient; this can take up to a couple of minutes for longer or more complex forms.

Document Import reads the actual look of your document, not just its text: your fields, labels, headings, paragraphs, sections, and reading order come across, along with a sensible read on the page’s background colour, accent colour, and font style. Real images — a logo, a photo, a diagram — are brought across at the right proportions with alt text drafted automatically; a purely decorative graphic (an accent flourish, a coloured divider) is recreated as part of your form’s design instead of an image, so it never needs a description. Accessible defaults still win over pixel-perfect fidelity — layout, spacing, and page breaks are always recalculated for accessibility rather than copied exactly — so review the result and add any extra images or decorative shapes the import didn’t pick up.

After importing, you land straight in the editor with a usable form and a summary of what was done — including anything structurally ambiguous in the original (for example, a row of checkboxes that really meant a single choice), any image that needs you to drop in the real picture, and any colours nudged slightly to stay readable. This summary is different from a full Accessibility Wizard audit, which checks your whole form against WCAG 2.2 AA at any time.

Keyboard shortcuts

The form editor is fully keyboard-navigable. Use these shortcuts to work faster. Ctrl+S saves to the cloud and only applies on paid tiers.