Versions and returning visitors
Change the form. Keep the history.
A form that has been live for a year has answers behind it that were given to a different set of questions. PopzIQ keeps every published version and ties every submission to the one it answered, so editing today never rewrites last spring.
And when the same person comes back, they should not have to type their email again. That part is deliberately careful. This page says exactly how careful.
On every plan, including the free one
How it works
Six things that are true of every form
Three about the form, three about the person filling it in.
Publishing makes a version
Your draft is the one thing you edit. Pressing publish takes a numbered copy of it. That copy is never written to again by anything.
A submission knows its version
Every stored answer points at the exact version of the form it answered. Add a question in March and a January submission still reads as the form somebody actually filled in.
Publishing is instant everywhere
Every site running the tag serves the currently published version. There is no deploy on your side and no cache to clear. The version before it stays readable.
A returning visitor presses a button
A link you send can offer to fill the form from what you already hold. Nothing personal is on the page until they ask for it, so a link forwarded to somebody else shows the empty form.
A half-finished form comes back
A long form can be left and resumed. The answers are kept against a secret that lives only in the browser that started it, expire on their own after fourteen days and create no contact until the form is actually submitted.
Ask only for what you are missing
A returning visitor can be shown the questions you have no answer to instead of the whole form again. A required question they never answered is asked anyway. A stranger sees every question.
The known visitor
What we will and will not fill in for somebody
Most tools solve this with a cookie and fill the form on page load. That means a shared computer, a forwarded link or a borrowed phone can show one person what another person told you, with nobody involved ever knowing it happened.
PopzIQ will not do that. Recognition rides in a signed link you send, it lasts a day, it works once and nothing personal renders until the visitor presses a button that says what is about to happen. There is no email address inside the token, only an opaque id. None of this works inside an embed at all.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What identifies them | A signed token in a link you sent them. Not a cookie and not a fingerprint. |
| How long it lasts | 24 hours |
| How many times it works | Once, with a fifteen minute grace so a double press is not a failure |
| When answers appear | After a deliberate press, never on page load |
| What can be filled | Email, first name, last name, phone and company. Five keys. No others exist. |
| What is never filled | A consent checkbox, a hidden field, a file and a payment. Never any of them, on any form. |
| Where it does not work | Inside an embed on your site. Hosted pages only. |
| Off or on | Off, until you switch it on for a form |
Where this stops
A published version cannot be edited. That is the point. It is also the constraint: fixing a typo means publishing again, which makes a new version. The old one stays readable because a submission points at it.
A consent tick is never carried forward. Consent is an act, not a stored preference to be re-presented as one. A returning visitor ticks it again or they do not consent.
A partial answer is not a submission. A half-finished form creates no contact, records no event and writes no submission row. It is answers waiting for their owner and nothing else. It is deleted after fourteen days whether they come back or not.
Erasing a contact reaches all of it. The partial answers, the prefill source and the submissions. There is no corner where a copy survives an erasure.
Publish, then keep improving it
The version history is on from the first form you publish. Nothing to switch on and nothing to remember.
No card to start. No trial clock. The free plan runs the whole loop.