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21 multi-step form examples worth copying in 2026

We researched hundreds of multi-step forms and picked out the best 21 forms worth copying, plus what we like and what we'd test next.

Harvey Carpenter Updated 6 min read

We've been building multi-step forms for over 15 years, so we have an almost instinctive sense of what works. Even so, we learned a few things from the deep research project that inspired this post.

Rather than going deep into the research here, this post synthesizes our experience and explains what makes a winning multi-step form effective, from the right question order to carefully designed progress bars.

As far as we know, it is the most thoroughly researched and comprehensive list of multi-step form examples on the internet.

Start with the patterns the best forms share, then pick your industry below. Your competitors just might be in there.

The 9 secret ingredients of winning multi-step forms

We identified 9 multi-step form best practices that just kept showing up in the best forms.

We'd recommend reading these first, so you know what to look for when you get to the examples.

1. Offer users something of value before you ask who they are. Hand over a dollar figure, a matched firm or even a plain "you qualify" before the contact fields, and asking for a phone number becomes less of an ask. In our examples, Peddle prints a cash offer before it asks for an email, and SuperMoney names the firm it matched you with before it asks for any contact info at all.

2. Offer a reason for every piece of personal information. People answer faster, and more honestly, when they know why you are asking. In psychology, giving a bad reason is more persuasive than giving no reason at all (the famous Xerox machine study). Zillow does it on all twelve of its screens, and NerdWallet drops a helper line exactly where a business owner would otherwise freeze.

3. Make the first question a drag or a tap. This is the foot in the door. One easy action, taken before the visitor has consciously decided to fill in a form, makes finishing feel like the natural next step. In our examples, Freedom Debt Relief opens with a slider in the homepage hero, and Palmetto then collects two answers from the middle of a blog article.

4. Use their answers back at them. The pet's name, the car's model, the visitor's own roof from above: writing these into later screens costs nothing and turns a form into a conversation about Biscuit or the 2015 Corolla. Pumpkin heads its second screen with the pet's name, and WindowsEstimate puts the visitor's house behind the questions. Growform does this with callouts, which drop an earlier answer into any later heading or paragraph when you type @.

5. Let the progress bar tell the truth. A progress indicator is a promise. Catch it lying once and the visitor stops believing anything else on the screen. In our example library, HomeLight promises eight questions and asks eight, and EnergySage lets its counter fall as branching removes questions. It's not exactly revolutionary, but it is important.

6. Use pictures when the answer is a matter of taste. Nobody can define "dated", but everyone can point at the kitchen that looks most like theirs. Matching a photo is faster than judging a word, and it can get more honest answers too. Opendoor grades four rooms this way, and our roofing template opens with photo cards of roofing materials.

7. Ask for the phone number last, on its own, with a reason. The phone field is the one people fear, because it means a call. Put it on its own screen, after everything else has been invested, with a sentence saying what the call is for, and it reads as the last step rather than a trap. HomeBuddy and LendingTree both do exactly this. In our experience, most form testing should happen around this field, since it's the highest-resistance ask.

8. Break the one-question rule when the job calls for it. One question per screen keeps the load light, but when questions belong together, splitting them adds unnecessary friction without adding focus. From our examples, Orkin gets an address and three house facts into a single sentence, and TrueCar groups one topic per screen under a named stage.

9. Name who will call, and say what gets sent. The last reason to abandon a form is not knowing what happens after the button. Name the caller and the timeframe and that reason disappears, along with the people who never wanted a call in the first place. AskLegally spells out exactly what submitting sends, and Vivint promises a named person within 24 hours.

The counts behind these nine, across every form we checked, are in the research write-up.

Multi-step form examples by industry

How long a form should be, what it should ask first and when it should ask for a phone number all depend on what is being quoted, so we've grouped our lead generation form examples by industry.

Pick yours, or scroll on and read them all.

Insurance quote forms

Hippo · Pumpkin · Insurify

Hippo: home insurance quote

Hippo asks for the address up front, which at first glance flies in the face of our "offer users something of value before you ask who they are" advice.

The reason Hippo can be the exception to the rule is that the address is an essential part of getting a quote. It actually signals trustworthiness. After all, how could you get a home insurance quote without the insurer knowing your address?

  1. 1Home address

  2. 2Hippo+ offer

  3. 3Coverage level

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What we like

  • A reason under the hardest question. Right beneath the address fields on screen 1: "We use it to understand your home and customize your coverage." People are far more willing to go along with a request that comes with a because, and this one turns a privacy ask into the first step toward a quote.
  • Option cards that define themselves. Pick "House" on screen 4 and it tells you that means "This is a single-family home, townhouse, or duplex you own, and you are listed on the deed."
  • A contact screen that sounds like buying, not giving. Screen 8 is headed "Whose name will be on the policy?" That is the language of a purchase, not a data grab.

What we'd test

A plain step count across the nine screens, and moving the Hippo+ bundle offer on screen 2 to after the quote. It's a good upsell in the wrong place, and nothing should interrupt the questions.

Pumpkin: pet insurance quote

Pumpkin gets you to the contact screen in two steps, and the very first thing it asks for is your pet's name. Our test dog was Biscuit, and from the second screen onward the form was about him, not about us, which is a lovely bit of design.

  1. 1Pet basics

  2. 2Pet profile

  3. 3Contact details

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What we like

  • Ask for a name you can reuse. Screen 1 wants the pet's name before it even asks dog or cat, and screen 2 is headed "Let's get some basic info about Biscuit." Typing a name is about the easiest first action there is, and seeing it echoed back makes the quote feel like Biscuit's already. A small endowment effect, bought with one text field.
  • Group the questions that set the price. Breed, age and sex share screen 2 because those three facts price the plan. The breed field suggests "Medium mix" or "Chihuahua" so the owner of a mutt knows what to type before they even start.
  • Sell the upsell inside the first question. "Have multiples? Create your first pet's plan, then save 10% on each additional pet." lands before the visitor has invested anything, which is when a discount still reads as generosity rather than a catch.

What we'd test

Marking the phone field on screen 3 optional. The consent text already says a phone number is not required to start a quote, so we would make the field say so too, then watch plan starts against contact rate.

Insurify: car insurance quote

Insurify runs the longest form we captured, and the people who built it clearly know it, because everything on the page is working to make 37 screens feel short.

  1. 1Insured status

  2. 2Policy timing

  3. 3Homeowner

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What we like

  • A progress line that keeps re-selling the finish. It reads "3 minutes until deals. Let's go!" at the start, a saving localized to your state in the middle, and "Thank you! Your deals are ready!" on the phone screen. The progress bar tells you how far you have come. This line tells you what is waiting, and restating the prize right when the questions turn dull is what keeps a form this long alive.
  • Answer labels that sell. Screen 4 tags two cars with "(Save 20%)" and screen 13 tags "25 Miles (National average)". The first is an upsell dressed up as help. The second is anchoring, because nobody has measured their commute and most people will take the hint.
  • An email ask framed as delivery. Screen 36 asks "Where would you like to receive a copy of your quotes?" That is a quid pro quo, not a data request, and it is a far easier question to answer.

What we'd test

Moving the discount checklist on screen 22 ("I'll go paperless", "I'll set up autopay") ahead of the driver-history block, so a screen full of savings cushions the accidents, tickets and DUIs that come next.

Mortgage and loan forms

Zillow · LendingTree · NerdWallet

Zillow: mortgage pre-approval

Zillow has the best question wording we saw, and we'd bet somebody sat down with first-time buyers to write it.

Every one of its twelve screens tells you why the question matters, and the final button names the lender who is going to call.

  1. 1Location

  2. 2Property type

  3. 3Home use

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What we like

  • A reason under every single question. Each one turns a question into a piece of advice, and advice given freely makes people want to give something back.
  • Reassurance inside the headline. Screen 7 reads "What's your credit score? It's ok to estimate." The credit question is where mortgage forms lose everyone who does not know their number, and four words take the fear out of it.
  • A button that names the caller. Screen 12 ends with "Contact Service First Mortgage Company", and the consent text beneath names the exact lender. No other form in the 21 does this, and a visitor who presses a button with a name on it is a warmer lead than one who pressed Submit.

What we'd test

A simple step count. The form runs twelve screens with no progress indicator at all, and we would expect fewer drop-offs in the middle, where a buyer cannot tell whether three questions or thirty remain.

LendingTree: mortgage refinance

LendingTree's refinance form holds the smartest input in the whole set: you estimate the property value on one slider, and the next screen asks for the remaining balance on a slider scaled to the number you just gave.

The form is working out loan-to-value while the visitor thinks they are just dragging.

  1. 1Property type

  2. 2Property use

  3. 3ZIP code

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What we like

  • Scale the second number to the first. Screen 4 runs from $80k to $2M+ and screen 5 runs from 0% to 100% of that value, with "It's OK to estimate." underneath. LendingTree gets the exact ratio its lenders price on, and the visitor never does any arithmetic.
  • Two lines under every Continue button. "Your information is securely encrypted" and "No impact to your credit score". The credit-pull worry resurfaces on every financial question, so the answer has to be there every time, not once on the first screen.
  • Contact as three one-field screens at the end. Name on 12, email on 13, phone on 14, under the outcome button "View My Rates". Each screen is a tiny commitment that makes the next one feel consistent, and the phone number arrives last, when there is the most to lose by stopping.

What we'd test

Moving the date of birth on screen 8 to after the name screen. It is the most personal question asked before any contact field, and it arrives before the visitor has decided to trust the form.

NerdWallet: small business loan

NerdWallet's small business loan form, run by Fundera, writes a helper sentence exactly where a business owner would stall. The first answer is a drag on a slider, and single-choice screens advance on a tap, so the early going is almost effortless.

  1. 1Loan amount

  2. 2Business start

  3. 3Monthly revenue

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What we like

  • Answer the hesitation in one line. "If you don't remember the month, take your best guess." on screen 2 is typical. Each helper line heads off the reason a founder would open another tab, and once they have opened another tab, the form has probably lost them.
  • Give low-intent visitors an honest answer. Screen 12 includes "Just Shopping", so nobody picks "Today" just to get past the question. That costs nothing in completions and buys lead quality, because the browsers go to nurture instead of wasting a call.
  • Use the name once you have it. Screen 10 takes the name as just another question, and screen 13 is headed "Let's create your account, Test!" in our run. A name with no email next to it feels harmless to give, and seeing it used makes the account feel half built already.

What we'd test

A step count. Thirteen screens arrive before the phone and email with no progress indicator, so the end is close but invisible, and that is the worst kind of close.

Debt and tax relief forms

Freedom Debt Relief · SuperMoney

Freedom Debt Relief: debt relief

Freedom Debt Relief puts its first question in the homepage hero as a slider, so a visitor arriving from an ad is inside the form before they have read a word of the page.

It's the foot in the door done with maximum confidence.

  1. 1Debt amount

  2. 2State

  3. 3Contact details

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What we like

  • A drag instead of a typed number. Screen 1 asks "How much do you owe?" with a slider preset to $25,000 and a live dollar readout, and the Trustpilot score sits right under the Continue button. Dragging commits the visitor without a keyboard, and the social proof lands at the exact point of the first decision.
  • Named stages instead of a count. The bar on screen 2 reads "Debt Estimate", "Personalization" and "Results", so the contact screen arrives as "Personalization" rather than step 3 of 3. A personalized result is something you want. Step 3 is something you get through.
  • A contact screen framed as the way to the answer. Screen 3 is headed "See your results" and the button reads "Click to see your results". Curiosity about a number on your own debt does the rest.

What we'd test

Splitting the phone onto its own screen with a line saying what it is for, and shipping the SMS consent box unticked. It is the only pre-checked consent box in the 21, and it is the kind of thing that costs you later.

SuperMoney: tax relief

SuperMoney names the firm you have been matched with before it asks you for anything. This is the endowment effect run as a funnel, and we think it is the smartest sequence in the finance set.

  1. 1Amount owed

  2. 2State

  3. 3Federal or state

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What we like

  • Show the work. Screen 5 ticks through "Reviewing state availability", "Matching on tax case details" and "Compiling tax relief matches". A match that visibly took effort feels computed rather than canned, even if it took no effort at all.
  • Reveal the match before the contact ask. Screen 6 reads "You qualified for a free consultation:" above a card for OptimaTax Relief, already ticked and labeled "Strongly recommended". The visitor is now holding a named firm and a qualification, and the email on screen 7 is simply the price of keeping them.
  • Route the wrong people out early. Screen 1 carries the link "Don't owe any taxes to the IRS?" and the line "Your information is encrypted and private. We're SOC 2 Type II certified." Sending the wrong visitors away at the start keeps every lead that gets through worth a consultation.

What we'd test

The match card on screen 6 unticked against ticked. Our guess is that choosing the firm yourself, even from a list of one, adds a little commitment and lifts the share who hand over an email.

Legal intake forms

Case Connect · AskLegally

Case Connect: car accident claim

Case Connect frames the whole intake as a calculator and tells you that you qualify before it asks your name.

The last button says "Calculate", not Submit, and with that one word the form turns into a tool.

  1. 1Accident date

  2. 2Involved party

  3. 3Medical help

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What we like

  • Open with the easiest question a crash victim can answer. Screen 1 asks "When did this accident happen?" with ranges from "In the past month" to "Over a year ago". Anyone can tap that without thinking, and that first tap is the foot in the door for a form about a painful subject.
  • Put the verdict before the contact fields. Screen 7 opens with "You qualify! Let's calculate your compensation!" above the name and email fields. The visitor has just been told yes, so the fields are how they collect a result they now feel entitled to.
  • Separate the switchers from the settled. The lawyer question on screen 5 offers "Yes, but I'm thinking about switching" alongside "Yes, I already have a lawyer". One extra option turns a disqualifying answer into a qualified lead and tells intake exactly how to open the call.

What we'd test

The reason given for the phone number on screen 8, "To help confirm you're not a robot", against one that promises something, such as a case reviewer calling with the estimate. People give a phone number for a benefit far more readily than for a bot check.

AskLegally: workers' comp

AskLegally is the most transparent form in the set, and for an injured worker who is wary of being sold to, we think that candor is the conversion strategy.

  1. 1Work injury

  2. 2Injury timing

  3. 3Work state

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What we like

  • The line under every question. "Nothing is sent until you submit your contact information." answers the fear most people have about lead forms, that question one has already put them on a list, before they have time to feel it. A visitor without that fear answers honestly.
  • Three expectations in the hero. "Free consultation", "No obligation" and "About 2 minutes" set the cost of the form before it starts, so there is nothing left to discover halfway through that could make someone leave.
  • A contact screen that says what the button does. On screen 6 the button reads "Request My Free Case Review", with a "Review my answers" link beside it. That link says the form is not afraid of you looking, which is worth more than any trust badge.

What we'd test

Counting the contact screen as question 6 of 6. The bar reaches 100% on question five and the contact screen then appears outside the count, which is a small lie at the worst possible moment.

Real estate forms

HomeLight · Opendoor

HomeLight: home value

Before you even reach the first question, HomeLight has already filled in the bedrooms, bathrooms and build date from public records. Plus, the questions themselves have personality.

  1. 1Address

  2. 2Confirm address

  3. 3Home details

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What we like

  • Make a promise and keep it. The entry copy says "Answer 8 quick questions about your kitchen, bath, and upgrades" and the counter runs from "Question 1 of 8" to "Question 8 of 8". A visitor who trusts the counter trusts the estimate that follows it.
  • Prefill what you can. Screen 3 shows bedrooms, bathrooms and build date already filled in, each marked "Fetched from public records". That saves three answers, and a company that already knows your house is one whose valuation feels worth waiting for.
  • Write condition questions the way a homeowner talks. Screen 6 asks "Kitchens can make or break a home's value. How's yours feeling?" and offers "Due for an update" and "Full gut needed" among the answers. The options sound like the homeowner's own inner voice, so picking one is quick and honest.

What we'd test

Showing a broad value range before the contact screen and the refined figure after it. Screen 11 says "We have your home estimate" but shows no number before asking for a phone that will be verified by SMS, which is a lot to ask for a figure you have not glimpsed.

Opendoor: cash offer

Opendoor grades four rooms with photographs instead of words, and its sixteen screens stay calm because every one of them tells you why it is asking.

  1. 1Address

  2. 2Unit and owner

  3. 3Home type

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What we like

  • Photo tiles for subjective answers. Screen 6 asks "How would you describe your kitchen?" with five pictures from "Fixer Upper" to "Luxury", one line under each ("Kitchen needs significant repairs") and the subhead "For these questions, just select the closest match." Matching a photo is faster than judging a word, and "closest match" gives permission to be imprecise.
  • A reason line on the questions that feel nosy. "This question helps us select comps when preparing your offer." under the dwelling question, and "This won't affect your offer. We're here to help with any timeline." under the timeline question. That second line removes any incentive to lie about urgency, so Opendoor gets a timeline it can plan around.
  • A way to leave and come back. The address stays pinned in the header and a Save link sits on every screen, so a seller who has to go and dig out a document can pick up where they left off.

What we'd test

Folding the sign-in gate on screen 15 into the details screen on 16, so the visitor meets one contact screen instead of two.

Home services forms

HomeBuddy · WindowsEstimate · Orkin · Vivint · Growform roofing template

HomeBuddy: walk-in shower

HomeBuddy asks a ZIP code and sixteen questions before a single contact field, and gets away with it because every question is one tap on an icon tile. We suspect the length is deliberate. Every tap is a little more sunk cost.

  1. 1ZIP code

  2. 2Project

  3. 3Replacement

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What we like

  • Icon tiles with an exit. Nearly every screen from 2 to 17 offers "Not sure", so a homeowner who cannot name their water heater keeps moving. An escape hatch on every screen is cheap insurance against the one question that would otherwise end the session.
  • A mascot who marks progress. The cartoon contractor's speech bubble opens with "Let's get started on your walk-in shower estimate!" and changes to "Almost there…" and "And the final step!" near the end. A character telling you the end is close beats a bar saying the same thing.
  • First-person contact screens. Screen 18 asks "Who should I prepare this estimate for?", and screen 19 asks for the phone with the reason "A valid phone number is required to issue a formal estimate." under it and a lock icon inside the field. The phone becomes a condition of the estimate the visitor has just spent sixteen taps earning.

What we'd test

Cutting the lowest-value questions (glass type on screen 12, showerhead on 13) and measuring both completion and how many estimates the contractors actually accept.

WindowsEstimate: replacement windows

WindowsEstimate turns the page background into a satellite photo of your area the moment you enter a ZIP code, and after the address step the view shows the house you typed. It costs no extra question, and nothing else in home services makes a form feel this much like it is about your home.

  1. 1ZIP code

  2. 2Project type

  3. 3Address

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What we like

  • Reflect the address back as soon as you have it. From screen 2 the card floats over a satellite view, and from screen 3 that view is the visitor's own roof. Your own house sitting under the questions makes leaving feel like abandoning an estimate already underway.
  • Set expectations in three lines. "Takes about a minute", "Priced for your home and area" and "Up to 3 vetted contractors" answer how long, how relevant and who will call, before anyone has to wonder.
  • Frame the name as a property check. Screen 6 is headed "Verify this is your home", and email and phone then get a screen each. A name asked for as verification is a much lower-threat ask than a name asked for as contact details.

What we'd test

Shipping the ownership box on screen 6 unticked, since "I am the owner or am authorized by the owner of this home." arrives pre-checked. A deliberate tick would be a real lead-quality signal for the contractors paying for these.

Orkin: pest control

Orkin asks for the address, the bedroom count, the bathroom count and the yard size in one sentence that the visitor fills in, and it reads like speech rather than a form. It is the best argument we have seen for breaking the one-question rule.

  1. 1Address sentence

  2. 2Verify address

  3. 3Help type

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What we like

  • The fill-in sentence. Screen 1 reads "I live at", then an address field, then "My home has 1 bedrooms and 1 bathrooms" with the numbers as inline inputs, then "My property has a..." with the aside "(Maybe a porch, a patio, or nothing at all.)" and three yard sizes. The visitor narrates their own home, which is a lot friendlier than four labeled fields.
  • Pressure taken off the details. "Don't stress over the details. Your Orkin Pro will help verify everything in your initial inspection." says a rough answer is fine, and quietly sells the inspection at the same time.
  • One question that splits intent. Screen 3 asks "How can we help protect your home?" with "I have a specific pest problem" or "I want a pest prevention plan". Name a pest and an illustrated grid follows before the contact screen.

What we'd test

The sentence layout against a standard stack of fields on mobile, where inline inputs inside running text can be fiddly to tap with a thumb.

Vivint: home security

Vivint's quote form does not look like a wizard at all. It is a pill-shaped bar borrowed from travel sites, split into three segments, and pressing Finalize turns the bar into a contact card that says who will call and when. Our guess is that it works because everyone already knows how to use it.

  1. 1Quote bar

  2. 2Residence type

  3. 3Interested in

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What we like

  • A bar that doubles as a summary. The segments "Residence Type", "Interested In" and "Doors & Windows" read "Choose One" or "Choose Any" until answered, then show the answer. The visitor sees the whole job at a glance, so the ask looks small before they start.
  • Steppers for sizing. Screen 4 counts entry doors, garage doors and windows with plus and minus buttons. That is exactly what a rep needs to size a system, collected the way you add guests to a hotel booking.
  • A named caller and a deadline. The contact card reads "A Vivint Smart Home Pro will contact you within 24 hours. Or skip the form and call now", and a "SAVE TIME, CALL NOW" button stays on screen throughout. The 24-hour promise removes the biggest unknown after submitting, and the call button catches the people who would rather just talk.

What we'd test

Question wording in the segment captions ("What kind of home is it?") against the terse noun labels the bar uses now. A question invites an answer in a way a label does not.

Growform roofing template

This one is ours. It is the roofing template from the Growform library, and it earns its place here because it opens the way the best home services forms do, with pictures of the thing the visitor probably cannot name.

  1. 1Roofing material

  2. 2Premises

  3. 3Service

What we like

  • Pictures before words. Screen 1 asks "Which roofing material are you interested in?" with six photo cards, from asphalt shingles to "Not sure / other", and a tap advances with no Next button. Most homeowners cannot name their roofing material but can recognize it instantly, so a photo gets a right answer where a dropdown would get a guess.
  • Taps first, typing later. The address comes fourth, after three taps, and contact waits until screen 6 under "How shall we get in touch?" with the button "GET QUOTE". Three taps are enough sunk cost to carry a visitor through the first typed field.
  • A percentage progress bar under the options and a Back link on every step. The Back link lowers the stakes of every tap, which makes people tap more freely.

What we'd test

Moving the free-text question on screen 5 ("Is there anything else we should know?") to after the contact screen, since it is the only screen that asks the visitor to actually write something.

The roofing template is running live below, so tap a roof and watch it go.

Solar quote forms

EnergySage · Palmetto

EnergySage: solar quote

EnergySage's step counter gets shorter as you answer, so the finish line moves toward you instead of crawling away. It is the most honest progress indicator in the set, and we wish more forms did it.

  1. 1ZIP code

  2. 2Property type

  3. 3Ownership

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What we like

  • A counter that recalculates. It reads 1/15 on the ZIP screen, 3/14 after the ownership question and 7/13 a few screens later, which is exactly what conditional logic should do to a progress indicator. A falling total rewards the visitor for answering.
  • Reasons that keep people in the funnel. Screen 9 adds "In some cases, trimming or removing trees can increase your energy generation." A shaded yard feels like a no, and this line turns it into a maybe.
  • A split contact step. Screen 13 asks "Almost done! What's your name?" and screen 14 asks "How do you want to connect with us?" with an email field and a phone field marked Optional. The name alone is the gentlest possible opening, and the wording hands the visitor control of the channel.

What we'd test

The optional phone against a required one, measuring installer contact rates as well as completions. More leads at a lower contact rate is not always a win.

Palmetto: solar savings

Palmetto starts its form halfway down a guide to home battery backups, and the reader hands a solar installer its two most useful answers without ever leaving the article. It is the cleverest placement in the set.

  1. 1Savings widget

  2. 2Find your roof

  3. 3Contact details

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What we like

  • Two questions inside the content. Screen 1 reads "See how much you can save by going solar with Palmetto" with an address field, a bill slider preset to $150 and the button "Calculate My Savings". A reader who has just learned about batteries wants a number for their own house, and the only typing is the address.
  • A loading checklist that names the work. "HOME LOCATED", "SOLAR POTENTIAL CALCULATED", "UTILITY DATA RECEIVED" and "CALCULATING ENERGY NEEDS" tick past before the next screen. Labor illusion again, and it tells the visitor that two answers have already produced something specific to their roof.
  • Questions chained like a conversation. On our first run, with a mapped home, the screens after the map read "First, we need to know: Do you rent or own your home?", one question at a time, like a conversation. The run above hit an unmapped address and went straight to contact.

What we'd test

A step count from the address screen onward, since the widget's "STEP 01" and "STEP 02" labels are the last progress cue the visitor sees.

Car selling forms

Peddle · TrueCar

Peddle: instant car offer

Peddle shows you a dollar offer for your car before it asks for a single contact detail. We love this ordering. Once a seller has seen a figure with their own car's name on it, the email address is just the cost of keeping it.

  1. 1Vehicle

  2. 2Pickup ZIP

  3. 3Ownership

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What we like

  • The offer before the email. Screen 18 reads "Ta da! We'd love to buy your 2015 Toyota Corolla LE for" and then the figure, after a loader that says "Beep bop boop, this'll just take a few secs." Screen 19 is "Create an account", and by then the visitor has a number to protect.
  • The car's name in every question. "Where will we pick up your Toyota Corolla?" on screen 2 and "Do you own the Toyota?" on screen 3. Seventeen questions about "the vehicle" would feel like a government form. Seventeen about your Toyota feel like an interested buyer.
  • Answers as full first-person sentences. "Yes, I own it outright (it's paid off)." and "No, it starts but doesn't drive." leave no option needing a definition, and damage is anything "bigger than a baseball". A seller never wonders whether their situation counts, and the baseball rule gives the buyers consistent condition data.

What we'd test

Showing an offer range part-way through the condition block, so the visitor has something to protect before screen 18 rather than only at the end.

TrueCar: sell your car

TrueCar replaces a block of questions with a plate lookup, groups one topic per screen, and prints the car's estimated value at the top of the contact screen. Three good ideas in one form.

  1. 1Vehicle entry

  2. 2Confirm vehicle

  3. 3Color & options

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What we like

  • Ask for a lookup key instead of five questions. Screen 1 takes a license plate or VIN, a state and a ZIP, and screen 2 opens with "We found your car! Let's confirm a few details." with year, make, model, trim and style already filled in. One field the seller knows by heart replaces a chain of dropdowns.
  • Group one topic per screen. "Vehicle history" on screen 4 asks the title type, whether the car is owned outright, whether it has been in an accident and whether it was ever reported stolen, with "I don't know" on offer. These live in the same mental file, so answering them together is less work than four separate screens.
  • Pay off the work on the contact screen. Screen 11 opens with "Your vehicle's estimated value", then "1 dealer wants to buy your car today!", and the button reads "Looks good, let's sell my car". Phone is the only required field. The value is the endowment, and the dealer line is social proof and urgency in a single sentence.

What we'd test

The grouped screens against one question per screen for this audience, since each Next on the grouped version asks for four decisions at once.

When a multi-step form is the wrong choice

Good multi-step form design starts with knowing when not to use one. A multi-step form earns its screens by qualifying a visitor who has questions to answer.

A newsletter sign-up or a callback request needs one or two fields, and spreading them over three screens just adds taps without adding information. The same goes for a visitor who already knows exactly what they want.

Vivint keeps a "SAVE TIME, CALL NOW" button on screen for people who would rather talk, and for them that button is the right answer.

We left checkouts with live prices out of the study entirely, because someone buying at a stated price is a customer, not a lead.

We generally recommend a multi-step form wherever the answers change the quote, the match or the routing, or whenever you're asking for more than four or five fields.

Multi-step form FAQs

How many steps should a multi-step form have?

As many as the quote needs and not one more.

Among the 21 forms above, the screens before the first contact field run from two at Pumpkin to twenty-nine at Insurify, with a median of nine. The short forms ask only what the price depends on, and the long ones survive because every screen is a single tap and the reason to keep going gets restated along the way. Count the questions that actually change the result, give each one a screen, and stop there.

Where should a multi-step form ask for contact details?

At the end, after the qualifying questions, and ideally in two parts.

None of the forms above asks for a name, email or phone before a single qualifying question, and ten of the twenty where we saw the full contact sequence spread it over more than one screen. The pattern we would copy is name and email together, then the phone number on its own with a sentence saying what it is for, phone validation behind it and the consent text beside the button.

Do progress bars help a multi-step form?

Yes. Or at least, they help when the visitor can trust them. Two in three of the forms above show progress before the contact step, and the best ones keep their promise. A bar that hits 100% and then produces another screen, or a form that says "Finally" with four screens still to go, teaches the visitor to ignore it, and then to doubt the rest of the form.

Is a multi-page form better than one long page for lead generation?

Yes. For lead generation, the companies paying for the traffic have already voted. Of the 90 forms we opened, 66 split their questions over screens, and the rest were long single pages, two-page splits or checkouts.

A long page shows the phone field before the visitor has answered anything. A multi-step form lets them answer the easy questions first and asks for contact details only once they have something to lose by leaving. Our own customers see the same thing. One told us his lead forms now have "probably twice as many fields as our old forms, yet still convert better". The numbers behind the 66 are in our research write-up, and we explain the mechanics in how multi-step forms can increase your conversion rate.

How do you build a multi-step form without code?

Start from one of Growform's 250+ templates, swap in your questions and branding, and paste a single embed snippet onto the landing page you already run. Everything the forms above do, from picture cards and sliders to branching, callouts and a phone screen with its own reason line, is a field or a setting in Growform, with no developer needed. The roofing form on this page was built the same way, and our guide to creating a multi-step form with no code in five minutes shows each step.

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