Forms are central to our sites, and there’s one frustration for users that is always a concern: form fatigue. If you build Multi Page questionnaires, surveys, and data collection forms, users will have to click the Next button after each section. It’s a problem hiding in plain sight, which the Multi Page Auto Advance plugin aims to solve.
Join me as I introduce you to the Multi Page Auto Advance plugin and give you a reason to investigate this excellent tool further!
What Multi Page Auto Advance Does for Your Forms
The best cure for a flagging conversion rate (or a hefty abandonment rate) is to swat away the tiny moments of friction within your flows and processes. There will likely be many of these in your sales funnel, but I want to focus on wherever you use forms.
The Mayor loves Gravity Forms, although creating multi-page forms will need the user to click Next often—a sliver of friction. Multi Page Auto Advance works to eliminate the need for those clicks and create a smoother, more organic journey for the user.
The plugin auto-directs users to the next page as soon as they complete a field without extra clicks. This will take a minimal number of clicks for you to set up—well worth it to enhance your existing Gravity Forms without the need for technical skills or rebuilding forms.
There are a few areas I can see this type of functionality work well:
- Lead generation. Friction within ‘lead gen’ forms can cost you potential customers. Here, you can move users through qualification questions once they make a selection.
- Surveys and questionnaires. A challenge is to keep participants engaged through multiple survey questions. Multi Page Auto Advance could turn surveys into conversations where participants answer questions and move forward without any interruptions.
- Registration and onboarding processes. Registration forms that spread across multiple pages can be tedious. With Multi Page Auto Advance, you can guide users through the process as they complete each field.
- Quizzes and assessments. These forms rely on momentum, which you’ll lose if the user has to click Next after each answer. The plugin can remove that friction point, and even add transitions that can polish the experience.
Regardless of your form type, Multi Page Auto Advance can remove the barriers between completion within minutes. Let’s look at what the plugin provides under the hood.
The Core Functionality That Will Transform Your Gravity Forms
Multi Page Auto Advance gives you complex functionality that is also simple to use on the surface. For me, there are three key areas that will have a positive impact on your forms, conversions, and abandonment rate.
First, you can choose which fields trigger advancement. For example, this could be a drop-down menu selection or a radio button option:
You could even set up auto-submit functionality when a user completes the final field, which eliminates the need for a final submission click.
Don’t underestimate the impact of some visual polish either. Multi Page Auto Advance can clean up the interface to remove distracting Next, Previous, and Submit buttons. Depending on the form and your needs, you can use professional motions and animations between pages to help guide users forward.
Before I get into pricing, I’d like to focus on Multi Page Auto Advance’s conversational form options and conditional logic. It’s worth digging into this a little further, as it could be central to your own forms.
Using Conversational Forms and Conditional Logic With Your Auto-Advancing Forms
Conditional logic is a part of many WordPress form plugins, and this includes Gravity Forms. However, you can set up auto advancement to help skip irrelevant sections based on how the user responds. It essentially lets you create personalized paths through your forms.
Conditional logic and conversational forms go hand in hand, and Multi Page Auto Advance lets you present questions one at a time in a chat-like interface. This approach makes even complex forms feel approachable and interactive:
Combining the logic and conversational functionality with the extended field support of the premium plugin can help you create a form experience that feels less like filling out paperwork and more like having a guided conversation. Speaking of which, let’s look at those premium options now.
Pricing Structure: Finding the Right Tier for Your Needs
Multi Page Auto Advance has three ways to get onboard, and provides core functionality within a free version that you can download from the WordPress Plugin Directory. This covers the ability to set auto-advancement to drop-down menus or radio buttons, and to auto-submit a form.
If you want more scope, there are two premium tiers to consider:
- Pro. $34.99 gives you three site licenses, interface cleanup options, support for polls, quizzes, and surveys, conditional logic auto-advancement, and transitions between form pages.
- Plus. You get the full functionality of Multi Page Auto Advance here, which includes auto-advancement for checkbox fields, text fields, and number fields. You can also harness conversational form layouts. It costs $59.99 and gives you as many licenses as you need for your sites.
Every purchase comes with a 15-day money-back guarantee, which gives you a reduced risk when trying the premium functionality. Even so, I’d consider the free version to be great if you’re a solopreneur or simply want to test the concept before you buy.
For more complex forms, the Pro tier offers solid value to help you run lead generation campaigns, customer feedback surveys, or interactive quizzes. This will be ideal if you want to enhance the visual experience and use conditional logic to create form journeys with greater sophistication.
Finally, the Plus tier will likely tempt if you’re an agency owner or run multiple web properties. The full functionality makes this perfect for client work demands, for instance. I consider a conversational layout to be a ‘sleeper’ tactic to transform even the most complex registration process, survey, or multi-step application into an engaging interaction. Just as well that you can use this on the Plus tier!
Multi Page Auto Advance: Support and Documentation
When it comes to support, Multi Page Auto Advance provides a dedicated form on its website. I’d appreciate seeing a ticketing system within the plugin for this, but I’m also hopeful that you won’t need much support and guidance:
There’s also no documentation that I can find. Again, I’d like to think you wouldn’t need it based on it being a straightforward Gravity Forms extension. Still, you will have to rely on using the form-based support if you have any questions about Multi Page Auto Advance.
Wrapping Up This Look at Multi Page Auto Advance
Multi Page Auto Advance solves the friction of clicking the Next button within Gravity Forms by creating a click-free progression between your form’s sections and pages. My initial discovery is promising, although I’d want to see more visible documentation and support options.
Do you think Multi Page Auto Advance will find a place on your website? Let me know in the comments section below!
