Churches can use Jotform to create a form for just about everything!
Jotform boasts over 400 jaw-dropping templates (yes, really!)—think church membership forms, meal trains, prayer requests, and even donation tracking, all at your fingertips. Jotform seems to have templates for every type of religious organization. It’s easy to see the appeal.
But is Jotform the best tool for churches wanting to create forms and even a church app?
TL;DR: Jotform is great for quickly creating forms or sparking ideas. However, if your church software already includes form-building tools or an app, adding Jotform's church offerings could complicate your workflow and increase expenses.
At the time of my writing... Jotform offers over 401 templates. Impressive really! Here are just some of the notable ones I found...
Use Case: A Vacation Bible School Registration Form is a convenient tool designed to streamline the process of registering children for church programs.
Use Case: A Donation Form makes it easy to accept online donations.
Use Case: A Prayer Request Form allows you to collect and share prayer requests online.
Use Case: This Sunday School Registration Form is used by church organizations to sign up new members for Sunday school.
Use Case: A Church Visitor Survey is a form template designed to gather insights that can help leadership improve its outreach and welcoming efforts.
Use Case: A Church Membership Questionnaire is a questionnaire used by church members to answer questions about their church membership.
Use Case: A Meal Train Signup Form is a form template designed to organize and coordinate meal delivery for individuals or families during times of need.
So yes, it’s a buffet of ready-made forms at your fingertips. You can even customize the template and rearrange form fields. But before you dive all in, let’s hit pause for a second and look at where things get tricky.
Jotform offers a free church app. Much like its form builder, it comes with the same downsides:
Honestly, the best church app is likely the one already built into your ChMS.
Don’t get me wrong—Jotform does have its place. Just not as your main tool.
Here’s when it can shine:
Jotform templates are a great place to spark ideas, even if you end up building the final form in your ChMS.
A quick Jotform template can be used for a men’s retreat or a women’s brunch. I've even seen women's and men's ministries create free mobile apps for their yearly events to include resources and consent forms specific to that event.
Pro Tip: You can still link to your church's existing online donation form or link to an existing church form to collect information from your people in their app.
Sometimes, a volunteer just needs something simple for a meal train or RSVP list. Jotform is great for that. Their drag-and-drop form builder is useful when you need to create custom online forms for small groups.
ChurchTrac is simple, affordable, and built for real ministry needs.
Jotform is a solid tool—and churches are smart to use what works. But once your ministry begins to grow, or you want to tie everything together (members, online forms, communication, giving, and events), it’s worth switching to tools made specifically for churches.
So go ahead and use Jotform to spark creativity or pull off that last-minute event. Just don’t build your ministry systems on it.
You’ve got better tools for that.