Standalone forms

Not every form needs to gate a file. Any form built in the Form Builder can be used entirely on its own, free on every plan including Lite, for appointments, registrations, waitlists, or any other lead capture that doesn’t involve a download.

Making a form standalone

A form’s Purpose, File Access or Standalone Form, is chosen when you create it in Forms → Form Builder → Add New. A standalone form gets its own shortcode instead of being referenced by a file’s [acquis_download] shortcode:

[acquis_form id="3"]

A native Gutenberg block is also available for placing it without touching a shortcode at all.

Display style

Standalone forms can render Embedded directly in the page, or as a Popup Modal triggered by a button, set on the form itself or overridden per-instance:

[acquis_form id="3" display="embedded"]

Pro adds a third option, Floating Button, plus a dedicated Elementor widget and Bricks element for placing standalone forms directly in either page builder.

What happens on submit

Submissions are stored and synced to any connected ESP exactly like a file-gated form, but skip the file-delivery email entirely since there’s no file to send, that email would never make sense here. Pro can target a standalone form’s submissions with an email sequence, or charge for the form using the same checkout flow as a paid download. See Payment emails for the paid variant.

See Custom form builder for building the form itself, and Shortcode basics for the file-gating shortcode.