Google Forms for Website or Church Connect

Google Forms is a free way to collect registrations, sign ups, or information from a diverse group of people, without requiring them to create an account or be otherwise previously known to your church, ministry or organization.

Google Forms allows you to collect any amount of information from users while providing you with 1) a unique stand-alone link to complete the form, 2) iframe code to embed the form on your website or within your ChurchTrac Church Connect app, and 3) a dedicated spreadsheet to collect all of that information with automatically created charts and graphs to display the results of your form.

The biggest limitation of Google Forms is that you can’t easily collect payment. If you’re collecting registrations for a paid women’s conference, for example, you may want to look at other options.

Here’s what you’ll need to do to create a Google form:

• have (or create) a free Google account
• decide what information you’d like to collect
• decide where you’ll post your form online (ie. a page on your website, a Page Card in your Church Connect app, or just using the direct link to your form)

Let’s get started!

1. Create your Google Form. Visit https://forms.google.com, log in and create your form. This is a very intuitive process, but if you’re unsure, watch this video to get started.

2. Select the destination for your Google Form responses. Click Responses at the top of the screen, and then click the Google Sheets icon to choose where the responses should go.

3. Copy the Embed code. Click Send, then click < >, then Copy to capture the iframe code. If you’d like to adjust the sizing, you can do so here. Ideally though, we’ll make this form responsive (so that it will adjust to any size screen) when we paste it in your website or app instead.

4. Paste this code into your website using the code viewer or an insert code block. Read on to find out how to use this in your Church Connect app!

How to Embed Google Forms in Church Connect App

1) Log into your ChurchTrac.com account, and navigate to the Church Connect section (click Settings, then Church Connect).

2) Start a new Page Card, or click on one that you’ve previously created.

3) Click Edit Page Content.

4) Click the </> Code View button.  

5) Paste the iframe code from your Google Form.

6) Replace width=”640″ with width=”100%” to allow your form to adapt to any size screen.

6) Click Save Content

Now you can direct people to the form on your website or Church Connect App. To view responses, log back into your Google Forms, select the correct form, and click Responses. Here you’ll be able to view the responses by Summary, Question, and Individual, depending on the view you prefer. You can also print from the Responses tab.

Show off your form — post the link to your Church Connect app or website in the comments below!