How to create merchandise forms

How to create a merchandise form, add commercial fields into it and share it with your participants.

Are you looking to sell race T-shirts, hats, hoodies or other items in your forms? Here is a detailed guide on how to create a nice looking merchandise form and share it with your participants.

1. Which field types to use

In a merchandise form, you can use many types of fields, such as:

Radio button field or dropdown menu: the participant can select only one option
Checkbox field or advanced multi-select: the participant can select one or multiple options
Marketing opt-ins: add a field with several questions and several answer choices
Shop field: add a paid option
Donation field: add an option to make a donation
Text field or text area: the participant can write a response to a question
Content field or accordion: display custom content and/or images
Carousel field: display images or videos

2. Creating your merchandise form

As part of the registration journey, or after registration via emails and dashboards, you can offer your products to your participants:

either by using fields in an existing form
or by creating a dedicated merchandise form for your products

To create a new form, go to:

Setup > Forms > click on Add form > name the form and choose the role ‘additional form’.

2.1 Adding a shop field

In your form, add a new basic field, choose a shop field. If shop field isn’t an option for you, you may be missing the module so just head to the store to install the shop field module.

Edit your field:

add the label
choose to hide or display the quantity
adjust your visibility settings to define which competitions see this field, and if it’s required or not
in the advanced settings tab, click on ‘Commercial mode’ and activate it - add a description of the item, and add a photo if you have one
in the settings tab, define your price, the available quantity (if applicable), the minimum and maximum quantities available to select

2.2 Adding a select field

In your form, add a new basic field, choose a select field.

Edit your field:

add the label
add your options with their prices and quantities
adjust your visibility settings to define which competitions see this field, and if it’s required or not
in the advanced settings tab, click on ‘Commercial mode’ and activate it - add a description of the item, and add a photo if you have one

If you would like to direct your participants to your merchandise form after they have registered — via email and/or their participant dashboard — you can easily do so.