Why was my form locked?

We get around… WAY TOO MANY tickets on a monthly basis asking the same question: “Why was my form locked"?”.

Turns out, people don’t read the most obvious things, which makes us sad. When you create a form while having a free, unpaid account, you see this message:

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It’s literally all you see when you create a form with a free account. Please take those 3–8 seconds to read this text.

To prevent bad actors from continuing to exploit free forms, the first form will be locked 2 hours after its creation. This should give you enough time to play around with it to see if Deftform is the right fit for you.


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