Online form builder
The online form builder that turns visitors into leads in your CRM.
Contact, quote, callback and booking forms generated for your industry — every submission lands as a structured lead in the CRM built into the same dashboard. No embed code, no Zapier glue, no separate domain.
Free to build · No credit card · Pay when you publish
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The AI website builder that actually knows your industry
Tell Zarla what you do and where you’re based. In about 30 seconds, it builds a complete, professional website — with real copy written for your trade, SEO built in from day one, and everything you need to start getting customers from Google.
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Every form submission becomes a lead in your dashboard
- Form lives on your own domain — not formbuilder.com/r/abc123
- Submissions become structured CRM leads with source attribution (Google, GBP, social, direct)
- Industry-aware defaults: a plumber's quote form asks different questions than a salon's booking form
- Multi-step forms with progress bars and validation included
- Per-form email notifications and IP-based spam protection on by default
What is an online form builder?
An online form builder is a tool that turns a set of questions into a working web form — collecting names, emails, phone numbers, files, payments or whatever you need to ask — without writing code.
Most online form builders give you an embed code or a hosted link. Zarla's online form builder is different: it's built into your website, so the form lives on your domain, in your brand, beside the rest of the site. And submissions don't disappear into an inbox you forget to check — they route into the CRM that ships in the same dashboard.
Why it's different
Other form builders give you a form. Zarla gives you a working website.
The form lives on your site, not theirs.
Jotform, Typeform, Tally — they're all separate products. You build the form there, you grab an embed snippet, you paste it into your site, and visitors fill out a form inside an iframe wearing someone else's branding. Zarla generates the form INTO your site. Same domain. Same typography. Same brand. No iframe.
Every submission becomes a lead in your CRM.
Other form builders email you a notification. The lead sits in your inbox. You forget. Zarla routes every submission into the CRM that ships in the same dashboard — with the source tagged (Google search, GBP, direct, social), the form data structured for filtering, and instant email + SMS notifications. The follow-up happens, because the lead is sitting where you already work.
What you get
Everything an online form builder needs to do
Pre-configured by Zarla. Edit any field, label, or question by chatting with the editor.
Industry-aware by default
A plumber's quote form asks Service Type + Urgency + Property Type. A salon's booking form asks Service + Preferred Stylist + Date. The questions are picked for your trade — no template hunting.
7 pre-built form types
Contact · Quote Request · Service Inquiry · Callback · Event Inquiry · Newsletter · Booking. Each one drops onto the site as a block — change which questions get asked just by chatting with the editor.
10 field types
Text, email, phone, dropdown, radio, checkbox, multi-line, date, file upload, hidden. Validation built in — required fields, email-format checking, phone-format checking, file-type allow-list — without writing a line of regex.
Multi-step forms with progress bars
Long forms convert worse than short ones. Multi-step forms beat both — each page asks for one chunk of information, with a progress bar showing how close they are to done. Zarla builds them by default for quote requests and event inquiries.
Submissions land in your CRM
Every form submission becomes a structured lead in the Zarla CRM — name, email, phone, the full form_data payload, the page they submitted from, and the source they arrived through. No Zapier, no glue work, no separate $30/mo CRM subscription.
Spam protection, on by default
IP-based rate limiting, honeypot fields, and per-form throttling protect every form from bots — no reCAPTCHA banner to friction-tank your conversion rate. Notifications fire by email per submission so you respond inside the golden first hour.
See the form Zarla would build for your business
Type your business name and industry. Zarla picks the right questions and builds the site around them.
Free to build and preview · Pay only to go live · Cancel any time
Three steps to your first form
From describing your business to collecting your first lead
Describe your business
Tell Zarla what you do in one sentence. Zarla picks the form types your industry actually needs — contact + quote for trades, booking + service-inquiry for salons, reservation + event-inquiry for restaurants.
Takes 30 secondsAI generates the right form
Zarla writes the questions, picks the field types, sets the validation rules, and drops the form onto the right page of your site — already wired to your CRM, your email notifications, and your domain.
About 8 secondsPublish and start collecting
Hit publish. Your site goes live with the form working from the first visitor. Submissions land in your inbox AND your CRM, tagged with the source so you know which channel is paying off.
InstantSee what Zarla builds for your business
Describe your business in a sentence. Zarla generates a full website — homepage, about page, services, contact form — in about 30 seconds. If you don’t love it, you haven’t lost anything.
How Zarla compares
Zarla vs other online form builders
| RecommendedZarla | Jotform | Typeform | Tally | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost when you publish | From $9.99 | $34+ (monthly) | $25+ (monthly) | $0 free / $24 Pro |
| Generates the website too | ||||
| Submissions routed to a built-in CRM | Integration | Integration | Integration | |
| Industry-aware form defaults | ||||
| Form lives on your own domain by default | Paid plan | Paid plan | Pro plan | |
| Native Stripe + email + SMS | Via Zapier | Via Zapier | Limited | |
| Edit form fields by chatting with AI | Limited AI | |||
| Multi-step + conditional logic | ||||
| Spam protection on by default | ||||
| Free to build and preview | Branded forms | Branded forms |
Real results
Used by real small businesses
From business owners like you.
“Optimized for local service-based businesses. Easiest website build I've experienced. The AI-based build is the way to go instead of clunky theme-based websites. Get the site built and get out of the weeds with Zarla!”
“Quickly built my website from scratch. No hiccups. Would highly recommend Zarla for someone with no experience who wants to start a polished business website.”
“Beginner-friendly, efficient, and designed for business owners who want a professional website without dealing with complicated technical steps. I'd recommend it to anyone who wants a simple, reliable way to get online.”
Your first lead could land tomorrow
Build the site, ship the forms, watch the leads come in. No card to start.
Free to build and preview · Pay only to go live · Cancel any time
Online form builder — common questions
An online form builder is a tool that turns questions into working web forms — contact forms, quote-request forms, booking forms, surveys — without writing code. You pick the fields you need (name, email, phone, dropdown, file upload, etc.), and the builder produces a form you can collect submissions from.
For a small business, the best online form builder is one that comes with the website and the CRM in one product — not three subscriptions stitched together. Zarla bundles forms + site + CRM into one plan (see pricing). Compare that to Jotform ($34+/mo) + a separate CRM ($30/mo) + a website host (Wix $16/mo) and the math is clear.
Yes — Zarla is free to build. You can generate a full site with working forms and preview everything before you decide to publish. You only pay when you're ready to publish to a live domain — see our plans. Compare that to Jotform ($34+/mo monthly), Typeform ($25+/mo), and most form builders that charge separately on top of your website host. Try it free — no card required →
Yes — Zarla's free tier does not watermark, brand, or footer-tag your forms or your site. Jotform's Starter plan adds Jotform branding to every form. Typeform's free plan adds Typeform branding to every form. Tally is one of the few competitors with no-watermark free use, but the form still lives at tally.so, not your domain. Zarla is no-watermark and on-your-domain (once you publish).
Yes — Zarla is a Jotform alternative built for small businesses that need a website AND a form, not just a form. Jotform gives you a form you embed on a website you built somewhere else. Zarla generates the website and the form together. If you currently use Jotform on a Wix or WordPress site, Zarla replaces both — for roughly the cost of Jotform alone.
Yes, with one difference. Typeform's wedge is the one-question-at-a-time conversational form for marketers running surveys. Zarla's wedge is the multi-step lead-capture form for a small business that wants leads in a CRM. For surveys with thousands of respondents, Typeform is the better tool. For getting more callbacks and quote requests on a small-business website, Zarla wins on bundle + price.
Yes — Zarla and Tally both offer no-watermark free use, but Tally is a standalone form tool (forms live at tally.so/r/... or behind a paid Pro plan on a custom subdomain). Zarla generates the website too, so the form lives on your own domain from day one, with no Pro tier required to look professional.
No — and that's by design. The point of Zarla is that the form lives ON your Zarla site, not embedded inside a different site as an iframe. If you currently have a WordPress or Wix site and just want an embed, Jotform or Tally is the right tool. If you want a website + forms + CRM in one product, that's Zarla.
Yes. Every field can be added, removed, renamed, or reordered by chatting with Zarla's editor — "add a budget dropdown", "make the phone field required", "change Service Type to include carpentry and tiling". You don't open a separate form editor; you describe the change in plain English and Zarla applies it.
Zarla ships 7 pre-built form types: contact, quote request, service inquiry, callback request, event inquiry, newsletter signup, and booking. Each one comes with industry-aware defaults — a plumber's quote form asks different questions than a wedding photographer's quote form. You can also add custom form blocks built from any combination of the 10 field types.
Every submission lands in three places at once: your email inbox (so you respond fast), your Zarla CRM (so the lead is structured and trackable), and optionally your SMS (for emergency-style inquiries). The CRM tags each lead with its source — Google search, Google Business Profile, social, direct — so you know which channel earned the lead.
No. Zarla includes a built-in CRM that captures every form submission as a structured lead — name, email, phone, the full form data, the page they submitted from, and the source they arrived through. You can filter, mark as contacted, add notes, and export to CSV. There's no separate CRM subscription required. See your leads dashboard →
Three layers, all on by default: invisible honeypot fields that catch bots without showing a CAPTCHA to real users, IP-based rate limiting that blocks brute-force submission attempts, and per-form throttling that prevents a single source from flooding your inbox. No reCAPTCHA banner — those tank conversion rates and aren't necessary at small-business volume.
Yes. Multi-step forms break a long form into smaller pages, each with a progress bar. Zarla builds them automatically for quote-request and event-inquiry form types, because both convert noticeably better as multi-step. You can also add steps to any custom form by chatting with the editor.
Yes. Every form submission lands in the Zarla CRM as a structured lead, and the CRM has a one-click CSV export — name, email, phone, all form fields, source attribution, submitted-at timestamp. Drop the CSV into Google Sheets, Excel, Numbers, or any other spreadsheet tool. You own your data.
Get the online form builder your business deserves
Build your site with the right forms already on it — generated from your industry, routed into your CRM, owned by you on your own domain. Free to build. Pay only when you publish.
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