Paperform
Document-style forms that look like landing pages, with payments and e-signatures built in.
About
Paperform is an Australian form builder founded in 2016 that deliberately does not look like a form builder: you type in a document-style editor and the result reads like a designed landing page. Underneath that are 25+ question types, guided mode, conditional logic, and an Excel-style calculation engine for pricing and scoring. Payments run natively through Stripe and PayPal, and the same subscription covers Papersign for e-signatures and Stepper for workflow automation. Independent comparisons put the plans at roughly $20-24 per month for Essentials, $40-49 for Pro, and $135-159 for Agency, with Enterprise on quote and a 14-day trial instead of a free plan. The company describes itself as bootstrapped and profitable, and lists SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, and CCPA compliance, though not HIPAA.
What it can do
- Document-style editor with themes and custom CSS
- Excel-style calculation engine
- Native payments via Stripe and PayPal
- Papersign e-signatures and Stepper workflows
- Conditional logic, guided mode, and 3,000+ integrations
Setup
Start the 14-day trial at paperform.co, build in the doc-style editor, then publish or embed the form.
Prerequisites
A paid subscription (there is no free tier); a Stripe or PayPal account for payments.
Use cases
Works with
Trust score — 8/10
Scored 8/10 (metrics tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: 2016 founding, Australian base, plan pricing, and compliance posture all corroborated across independent comparison writeups and the vendor's own pages. Strengths: distinctive document-style UX, real calculation power, and payments plus signatures plus workflows in one subscription from a bootstrapped, profitable company. Docked for: (1) no free plan, so evaluation needs the trial; (2) fully proprietary with no self-hosting; (3) not HIPAA-compliant, which rules out some healthcare use. License: proprietary.
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 7.0/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 8.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 2.0/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 9.0/10
- · Founded 2016 in Sydney, Australia; describes itself as bootstrapped and profitable
- · Document-style editor; 25+ question types; Excel-style calculation engine
- · Native Stripe/PayPal payments; Papersign e-signatures and Stepper workflows included
- · 3,000+ integrations; 700+ templates (per comparison writeups)
- · manual review: no free plan; fully proprietary; no HIPAA compliance
Sources
Every fact above was checked against these sources. Where a claim comes from the provider and couldn't be independently verified, the text says so.