On a tablet at the front desk
Open the form on a tablet at reception or the check-in table. Each person reads the terms, ticks the box and signs with a finger before their appointment or activity.
Free online consent form generator with e-signature
Describe the consent you need or upload your paper form. Formester builds an online consent form with a signature field, ready to share as a link.
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How it works
How to create an online consent form
Start from a prompt, a template, or the paper form you use today. You can change every field before you share it.
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Describe it or pick a template
Type what the consent covers, upload your current paper or PDF form, or start from a consent form template. The AI turns it into an editable form in seconds.
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Add the consent details
Write the consent text, then add a Terms and Conditions checkbox and a Signature field. Make both required, so nobody can submit without agreeing and signing.
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Share it and collect signatures
Send the link or embed the form on your website. People read, tick and sign with a finger, mouse or trackpad, and each response is stored in Results.
What gets recorded
What a signed consent form captures
Each response keeps the signer's answers and signature together, with the details you need to show who agreed and when.
Signature field
One record for each signer
The signature field lets people draw their signature on a phone, tablet or computer. It is saved with the rest of their answers, so the signature and what they agreed to stay together.
- A drawn signature, with a button to clear it and sign again
- A consent checkbox and required fields, so nobody sends a half-finished form
- Name, date, guardian details or anything else you ask for
- File uploads for a photo ID or a supporting document
- Submission time, IP address and browser details, unless you turn on anonymous submissions
- Version history when your team edits a response later
Phones and tablets
A consent form app for phones and tablets
People sign where it suits them, in person or before they arrive. The form opens in the browser, so there is nothing to install.
On their own phone
Email or text the form link, or print a QR code people scan at the door. They read and sign on their phone, and the response arrives in your Results.
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A signed PDF of every consent
Some consents need to live as a document. On the Business plan, from $45/mo billed yearly, each response can become a PDF with the drawn signature in place.
Your layout or ours
The signature appears in the PDF
Use a ready-made layout that lists every answer, or design your own document in the PDF Editor and place the signature, the consent text and the submission time where you want them.
Design your own consent PDF
Delivery
Send it where it needs to go
Each signed PDF is created when the response comes in. Choose where it goes:
- A copy for the signer, attached to the autoresponder email
- An attachment on your team’s notification email
- A download button on the thank-you page
- A file in your Google Drive folder
- One or many PDFs downloaded from Results
Templates
Consent form templates
Formester has more than 20 ready consent form templates. Each one below already has a signature field, so open one, change the wording to fit, and share it.
Photo and media release
Get permission to use someone’s photos and video in ads, social posts and print.
Use this templateVideo consent form
Collect consent before you film interviews, testimonials or event footage.
Use this templateStudent consent form
Parents give permission for trips, activities and photos from their phone.
Use this templateEvent waiver and media release
Attendees accept the event risks and agree to be photographed in one form.
Use this templateGym membership and liability waiver
New members sign the liability waiver as part of joining.
Use this templateBackground screening consent
Candidates give permission for a background check before you order one.
Use this templateInterview consent form
Participants agree to an interview and to how you will record and use it.
Use this templateDigital consent form
A general consent form you can adapt to your own agreement.
Use this templateUse cases
Consent forms for every team
Marketing, events, schools, HR and research teams use Formester to replace paper consent forms.
Marketing and media teams
Collect a signed release from everyone in a shoot before the photos go into a campaign.
Media release templatesEvents, gyms and studios
Have every participant sign the waiver online before they arrive, so check-in stays short.
Liability release templatesSchools and youth programs
Send each family a link with the student’s name already filled in, so parents only read, tick and sign.
Pre-fill form fieldsHR and recruiting
Candidates sign the consent and upload a photo ID in the same form.
File upload formsResearch and UX teams
Show recording questions only to people who agree to be recorded, with conditional logic on the Personal plan.
Conditional logicClubs, nonprofits and small businesses
Browse every consent form template and adapt the closest one to your own wording.
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Your consent records stay private
Consent forms hold personal details, so your data is encrypted and is never used to train AI.
Encrypted in transit and at rest
Responses travel over HTTPS and are encrypted where they are stored. Backups are encrypted too.
Security overviewNever used to train AI
Formester does not use your form data for analytics, advertising, marketing or product training.
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Consent form questions
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Build it and collect signatures on the free plan. Add signed PDFs with the Business plan, from $45/mo billed yearly.