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I am looking for a free software of sorts. I am not a big company, only an individual. Paying $300 for a month for any software is not feasible.


I am looking for a form software that is able to use Airtables field linking.


For example, a user can add variations to a product that already exists in the database by clicking on “+Add”.



I considered Jotform because of its ability to have IMAGE CHOICES, as well as being able to better organize a form so its not a mile long. However, it lacks this functionality. 😦


If anyone has any suggestions, I would be glad to hear them. 🙂

​@Deko 

2025 Update:

This is not possible with Airtable’s native forms, but you can get this with Fillout’s advanced forms for Airtable.

Fillout is 100% free and offers hundreds of features that Airtable’s native forms don’t offer, including the ability to link natively to linked record fields, create new linked record on a form, update Airtable records using a form, display Airtable lookup fields & Airtable rollup fields & Airtable attachments & formulas on forms, control access to a form via SSO or email domains, perform math or other live calculations on your forms, accept payments on forms, collect signatures on a form, create multi-page forms with conditional paths, connect a single form to dozens of external apps simultaneously, add CAPTCHAs to your form, and much more.

I show how to use a few of the advanced features of Fillout on these 2 Airtable podcast episodes:

Hope this helps! If you’d like to hire the best Airtable consultant to help you with anything Airtable-related, please feel free to contact me through my website: Airtable consultant — ScottWorld

JotForm should work.


If it doesn’t let people add new linked records that don’t already exist, then you can use an automation tool like Integromat to act as the middleman between JotForm and Airtable. Just be sure to turn on “Smart Links” in Integromat to allow the entry of new linked records.


Alternatively, you can also use the MiniExtensions.com form to do this.


It is not possible with Jotforms. A linked record field does not even show up as a mapable field in Jotform.

​@Deko 

2025 Update:

Fillout is 100% free, and all of this can be done natively with Fillout.

Fillout offers hundreds of features that Airtable’s native forms don’t offer, including the ability to connect to linked record fields, create new linked record on a form, update Airtable records using a form, display Airtable lookup fields & Airtable rollup fields & Airtable attachments & formulas on forms, control access to a form via SSO or email domains, perform math or other live calculations on your forms, accept payments on forms, collect signatures on a form, create multi-page forms with conditional paths, connect a single form to dozens of external apps simultaneously, add CAPTCHAs to your form, and much more.

I show how to use a few of the advanced features of Fillout on these 2 Airtable podcast episodes:

Hope this helps! If you’d like to hire the best Airtable consultant to help you with anything Airtable-related, please feel free to contact me through my website: Airtable consultant — ScottWorld

Then, as I mentioned above, you could use an automation platform such as my favorite Integromat to act as the middleman between JotForm and Airtable. However, it could get pretty tricky to parse the text arrays that JotForm sends to Integromat, so it can get complex pretty quickly.


An easier route that I also mentioned above would be to use MiniExtensions.com as your form software.


Thanks for your suggestions, but miniExtensions is out of my budget.


At this point in time I will just have to deal with the scroll-y picture-less Airtable form.


Thanks!

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