Gravity PDF vs IntakeFlow Forms – Multi-Step Form Builder, File Upload & Client Intake

Gravity PDF is the ultimate third-party PDF automation tool for generating digital PDFs using the popular form-builder plugin Gravity Forms. Highly Customizable PDFs Out of the box you get four highly-customizable PDF designs. Within minutes, you can personalize the look and feel by adding your company logo, header, footer, paper size / orientation, font, color and size. If the free designs don’t suit, select from our range of templates in the Template Shop, go bespoke and have a template build by our team, or build your own using HTML/CSS/PHP. Send as Email Attachment Gravity PDF can automatically email the PDF to both the admin and the user as soon as the form is completed. You can combine this feature with a Gravity Forms payment add-on to sell personalized reports, gift certificates, or generate PDF invoices. Privacy, Security, and GDPR Gravity PDF generates PDFs on your web server, and no third-party service receives your sensitive Gravity Forms entry data. Robust security protects your documents, and the plugin is GDPR-compliant for our European friends. Digital document management with WordPress and Gravity Forms just became simple with Gravity PDF! Free Feature Unlimited Use, No Restrictions – There are zero hard limits to the number of PDFs you can configure across all your forms or generate on your entries. Gravity PDF does NOT stamp documents with our logo, limit the number of PDFs you can create per month, or purposefully restrict essential functionality to force you to upgrade to a paid plan. Privacy and Security – your form data is never sent to a third party to generate the PDFs and the documents are generated directly on your web server. Strong access control policies are put in place to prevent unauthenticated access to your PDFs. Multilingual – a multitude of languages from across the globe can be displayed in PDFs, include complex scripts like Hebrew, Arabic, Thai, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean. Additional Fonts – match your branding and enhance the overall look and feel of PDFs by install your own fonts. Columns – use Drag and Drop columns in Gravity Forms and PDFs will automatically mimic that layout. Shortcode and Merge Tags – You can generate a link or URL to PDFs using both shortcodes and merge tags so your users can download the PDF right after form submission. Export Entries – include the direct link to any PDF(s) when exporting your form entries Webhooks Add-on – send the direct PDF link with Webhook requests when using Gravity Forms Webhooks add-on. Gravity Flow – create complex workflows using Gravity Flow and automatically email Gravity PDF-generated documents at any step in the workflow. GravityView – add links to PDFs when building a members area using GravityView + Advanced Filtering add-on. Background Processing – generating PDFs on form submission can be time consuming. Offload it to a background process will ensure form submissions are processed faster. Design PDFs – developers can build their own PDF templates using HTML, CSS, and PHP with the help of our developer documentation. Documentation and Support – there is extensive documentation covering every feature of Gravity PDF that you can comb through, plus we provide free general support to all users. Unlock More Functionality Pay for additional PDF designs and functionality from our online store. New Designs – get access to 9 additional universal designs, 6 certificates, 6 invoices, and 3 letter styles Additional customizations – watermark PDFs with your own logo or text, control fields that should be displayed per PDF, add field descriptions, display all checkbox or radio field options, add notes, show field values instead of labels, and hide the product table On-screen Preview – allow users to preview the PDF before form submission (and optionally payment) so they can see what the end result will be. This is a great feature for capturing e-signatures, selling PDF reports / certificates / gift cards, or providing an on-screen proof before the PDF is sent to the printers (perfect for business cards). Bulk Download – search, filter, and select entries and then zip up all your PDFs and download all together in a convenient zip file Smart Loading Indicator – improve the UX for your users when generating complex PDFs that take time to create. GravityView – turn GravityView into a drag-and-drop PDF builder for your Single Entry View Layouts. GFChart – create PDF reports that display pie, bar, or column charts with aggregate Gravity Forms data using GFChart. 30-Day Refund Guarantee – Purchase with confidence knowing when you buy a product from our store that you can get a refund within 30 days, for any reason. Hire the Experts Need a tailor-made solution for Gravity PDF that solves complex business problems? Our team of experienced developers have helped thousands of businesses like yours to accomplish these goals. We can even fill existing PDFs like government forms, without sending your sensitive entry data to a third-party server! Find out more. Documentation & Support We have extensive documentation on using Gravity PDF, and our friendly support team provides FREE basic support via GravityPDF.com. Contribute All development for Gravity PDF is handled via GitHub. Opening new issues or submitting a pull request is welcome. Keep up to date with Gravity PDF by subscribing to the newsletter, following us on Twitter/X, subscribing to our YouTube channel, and liking us on Facebook. If you enjoy using the software we’d love it if you could give us a review!

IntakeFlow is a secure, GDPR-compliant multi-step form builder and client document collection portal for WordPress. It includes a 100% free, fully featured local submission inbox in wp-admin allowing you to manage, review, and assign submissions to your team without third-party SaaS accounts or expensive user-seat upgrades. Unlike traditional form plugins that lock team collaboration tools behind expensive licenses, IntakeFlow enables assignment and status workflows out-of-the-box, storing all submissions and file uploads safely in your own WordPress database. 🔌 100% Offline-First & Local (SaaS connection is completely optional) You do not need a cloud account to use IntakeFlow. The core form builder, local wp-admin inbox, team assignment queue, email alerts, and the Contact Form 7 / Gravity Forms migrator run entirely within your WordPress hosting environment. An optional account on intakeflow.dev is only required if you want advanced cloud services such as digital signatures, document scanner fields, real-time Stripe/card checkout, or automatic backups. 🔄 Already using Contact Form 7 or Gravity Forms? Convert your existing forms to IntakeFlow in just 3 clicks. Our migration wizard preserves inputs, options, and required rules, generating a clean multi-step form and a dedicated shortcode instantly. 🌐 Clean HTML Rendering (No Bloated Iframes) Forms render natively using pure HTML/JS, inheriting your theme’s active CSS and typography. This ensures lightning-fast page speed, excellent SEO indexing, and perfect mobile responsiveness. Key features Import from Contact Form 7 & Gravity Forms — migrate your existing forms in a few clicks; field types, choices and required rules are preserved. Works with the block editor & page builders — embed via the [xpressui] shortcode, the native Gutenberg block, or the Elementor widget. One-click installation — upload the exported .zip file from the IntakeFlow console directly inside wp-admin. Shortcode embed — [xpressui id="your-project-slug"] works in any page, post, or block-editor paragraph block. The form renders inline, inheriting your theme’s page layout. Submission inbox — all submissions land in a private wp-admin post list with status badges, filtering by project, status, and assignee, and detailed review metaboxes. Status workflow — mark submissions New, In review, or Done from the list or the detail view. Every status change is recorded in a per-submission history log. Team assignment — assign any WordPress user to a submission. The My Queue page shows each reviewer their personal backlog at a glance. Email notifications — configure a notification address per project and receive a plain-text summary email the moment a new submission arrives. Post-submit redirect — optionally redirect the visitor to a thank-you page after a successful submission. Configured per project from wp-admin. File uploads — uploaded files are stored as WordPress media attachments and linked back to their submission. REST API endpoint — submissions are received via a standard WordPress REST route (POST /wp-json/xpressui/v1/submit). No extra server configuration required. Bundled runtime — the XPressUI standard runtime is bundled inside the plugin. No JavaScript is loaded from the uploads directory or external CDNs. Product & booking catalogs (with a Console account) — product and service / time-slot booking catalogs render server-side in WordPress (SEO-friendly, no iframe) with a built-in checkout step; orders are recorded in your submission inbox. Who is this for? Businesses and developers who use the IntakeFlow console to build document-intake or multi-step application forms and want to manage the collected data inside their existing WordPress environment without an external SaaS inbox. The Ultimate Alternative for Team Intake Unlike generic form builders (like Contact Form 7, WPForms, or Gravity Forms), IntakeFlow is built specifically for client intake and document collection. * No paywall on team inbox: Assign submissions to specific WordPress users without upgrading to expensive Enterprise plans (unlike JotForm or Typeform). * No bloated iframes: Forms render natively in clean, fast HTML/JS, inheriting your active theme’s styling. * 100% GDPR-compliant: Your submissions and uploaded files are stored entirely in your local database. No data is stored on third-party servers. External Services This plugin can optionally connect to the IntakeFlow SaaS platform (hosted at intakeflow.dev) to enable real-time cloud synchronization, advanced field types, and centralized workflow management. When connected to IntakeFlow: * The plugin makes outbound HTTP requests to https://app.intakeflow.dev (or the custom console URL you configure under Settings) to verify your subscription status, sync project schemas, and download workflow packages. * Outbound requests include an API Token (X-Api-Token) generated from your IntakeFlow dashboard so the service can identify your account. * When you connect an account, the plugin sends the token to validate it and to look up the owner of the account. * When you use the Form Importer with an account connected, the structure of the imported Contact Form 7 / Gravity Forms form (field names, labels and types — not visitor submissions) is sent to the console to create the corresponding workflow, which is then downloaded back to this site. * No visitor or submission data is transmitted to the IntakeFlow console unless specifically configured by the administrator for cloud backup or webhook routing. * When you use a product / booking catalog with checkout, the order details (cart or chosen slot, and the payment proof or card payment) are sent to the IntakeFlow Console, which owns payment and order status; a copy of the order is also recorded locally in your wp-admin inbox. A connection is required to sync custom workflows. The bundled starter workflow functions fully offline without a connection. Use of the IntakeFlow service is governed by its terms and privacy policy: * Terms of Service: https://intakeflow.dev/terms * Privacy Policy: https://intakeflow.dev/privacy The bundled XPressUI standard runtime (JavaScript) is served directly from the plugin directory — it is never loaded from a CDN or external URL. Privacy This plugin stores data submitted by your site visitors (form field values, uploaded files, and metadata such as submission timestamps). All data is stored locally in your WordPress database and media library. No data is transmitted to external servers. When a submission is permanently deleted, its linked uploaded files are deleted as well. Users may request access to or deletion of their personal data. This plugin integrates with the WordPress Personal Data tools (Tools › Erase Personal Data and Tools › Export Personal Data). For full details on what data is collected and how to manage it, refer to your site’s privacy policy. Source Code The full source code for this plugin is available at: https://github.com/lybaba/xpressui-wordpress-bridge Bundled JavaScript runtime The file runtime/xpressui-*.umd.js is the compiled output of the XPressUI library. The unminified TypeScript source files used to produce this bundle are included in the xpressui-src/ directory of this plugin. To rebuild the runtime from those sources: Navigate to the source directory: cd xpressui-src Install dependencies: npm install Build the runtime: npm run build The output file is produced in xpressui-src/dist/xpressui-*.umd.js.