You will need the Full Write Forms permission to perform these actions.
Once a form is designed, you're ready to start collecting submissions. There are three ways to share it: from the in-app Forms listing, via a direct public link, or by embedding it on your website. Whichever method you use, the form must be active (set to accept submissions) before anyone else can submit an entry.
Within One Church Software
To make a form discoverable to people signed in to One Church Software, the form must be set to Public and Listed. Open the form, go to the Settings tab, toggle Is Public? and Is Public?, and Save Now. Once saved, the form appears for users who navigate to Forms in the left-hand navigation menu.
Via direct link
A direct link is useful when you want to share the form by email, text, social media, or anywhere else outside of One Church Software. Open the form and look at the right-side widget panel. The form's public URL appears at the top with a Copy button — click it to copy the link to your clipboard, then paste it wherever you need.
The public URL follows the pattern:
Embed on your website
Embedding the form gives you a fully branded experience where you control the page design around the form. The embed is a small JavaScript snippet — no iframe required — so it sizes itself to the form content and matches the surrounding page.
To get the snippet:
Open the form. In the right-side widget panel, click Web Embed. The Form Web Embed pop-up opens with a live preview and a code block at the top.
Click show embed options to open the Embed Design section. Two settings are available:
Primary Color - the main accent color used by the form. Pick from the swatches or enter a hex value (default
#3b82f6).Show - checkboxes that toggle whether the form's Image, Name, and Description appear above the fields in the embed.
Use the preview below the options to confirm the result looks right.
Copy the code from the gray code block at the top and paste it into your web page in the spot where you want the form to render.
Tip: Some platforms (like Squarespace 7.0) load page content dynamically, which can stop the embed from appearing. If that happens, move the <script> tag from the snippet into your site's <head> section and leave the <div> where you want the form to render. The pop-up shows the same note inline.
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