# Forms

Quelle: https://madpublishing.ch/en/help/forms
Stand: 2026-10-15

> On our hosting, your website accepts forms – with the plan «Website – MADLAB hosting» and on the free plan too, without PHP and without a third-party service. Every entry lands in the portal, in your website’s «Forms» tab, and arrives as an email to the owners of your account. Both plans include 100 entries a month; MADLAB hosting with the «Form entries» add-on gives you more.

On our hosting, your website accepts forms – with the plan «Website – MADLAB hosting» and on the free plan too, without PHP and without a third-party service. Every entry lands in the portal, in your website’s «Forms» tab, and arrives as an email to the owners of your account. Both plans include 100 entries a month; MADLAB hosting with the «Form entries» add-on gives you more.

## Building it in

Tell your assistant, for example: «add a contact form». It connects the form to our service – it sends to `/__formular` on your own address – and builds in the spam protection. Then publish, and the form works.

In the **preview**, nothing is stored and nothing is sent. Anyone who submits a form there sees how the entry would arrive instead. After publishing, try it once yourself.

## Where the entries go

- **Into the portal**, «Forms» tab: with the date and the page they came from. From there you download them as CSV or delete individual ones.
- **By email** to the account owners, at the address they registered with. If the form contains an email address, «Reply» writes straight to it.

We **never** send an email to an address from the form – not even a confirmation to the sender. Otherwise any form could be abused to send emails to strangers. A thank-you page on your website shows visitors their message has arrived; your assistant builds it for you.

## Spam protection

No captcha and no third-party service: a hidden field only bots fill in, a minimum time to fill in the form, a limit per visitor and a check for suspiciously many links. Whatever is recognised as spam is quietly discarded. Files can’t be sent through the form.

## When the quota is used up

Once the monthly quota is used up, visitors see a notice instead of a confirmation until the end of the month, and you get one email about it. The «Form entries» add-on under «Plan & billing» gives you more.

## Privacy and retention

What visitors write is stored encrypted on our servers in Switzerland and the EU, on your behalf. After **twelve months** we delete entries automatically – download important ones before then. Your website’s privacy policy needs a paragraph on it; your assistant gives it to you when building the form in.

## With your own hosting

With the plan «Website – own hosting», our form service isn’t available: a form runs through your own hosting there, for example with PHP and your provider’s mail server.