Cognito-forms – Collecting weekly/daily numbers with Cognito Forms

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I work for the Federal Govt and FormsCentral has allowed me to collect stats (numbers only) of people housed, applications submitted this week/day, etc. It collects them in an easy to read/neat spreadsheet with column headings. My staff can send weekly/daily updates from a smart phone, tablet, or computer and it will collect the responses for me. Does Cognito have this ability?

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Cognito Forms has most of the features found in FormsCentral, as well as a lot of unique innovative features like powerful calculations and repeating sections. Check out my blog post, which provides a detailed feature comparison of Cognito Forms versus Adobe FormsCentral:

http://blog.cognitoapps.com/feature-comparison-adobe-formscentral

Cognito Forms is designed to work well on computers, tablets and phones, both for submitting and managing entries. You can view submitted data in a grid, though it is not an editable spreadsheet view like Adobe had. You can also view and manage entries on your phone, as well as export data to Excel with a single click.

Feel free to write us on our home page if you have any other questions, or just sign up and starting using Cognito Forms! You can quickly import your forms from Adobe FormsCentral here:

https://www.cognitoforms.com/l/Adobe-FormsCentral-Alternative

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Cognito-forms – Browser Compatibility with Cognito Forms

Cognito Forms supports IE 8.0 and above for form submissions (links or embedded) and IE 9.0 or above for managing forms, entries and payments. However, it is important that the browser not be running in quirks mode (as can happen when embedding in older websites).

We perform testing in IE, Chrome, Firefox & Safari, as well as mobile platforms since our forms and administration site work great on phones and tablets too.

If you are encountering a problem with a specific form that is not working in IE 8.0, please submit a bug report and we will take a look!

Cognito-forms – Repeating section in Cognito Forms with variable costs

There are a couple of ways to handle this in Cognito Forms:

Include the camper registration fee of $60 for each camper as part of the repeating section. Then add a Price field for the multi-camper discount below the repeating section, using a calculation like =Campers.Count() > 1 ? (Campers.Count() - 1) * -30 : 0. You can hide this Price field or make it only appear when the discount is not zero. This would produce a receipt like:
```
Camper 1   
    James Philips        $60.00 
Camper 2   
    John Cartin          $60.00 
Camper 3 
    Parker Owens         $60.00
Multi-Camper Discount   ($60.00)
--------------------------------
Subtotal                $120.00
```
You could also charge $30 for each camper and have a separate $30 registration fee that applies to each application. I definitely prefer the first option since it clearly identifies the discount on the receipt.

Long term, it sounds like you would benefit from being able to use the Index of the item in the repeating section within calculations. We are looking at ways to make additional information like this available to calculations. In the mean time, hopefully these suggestions will meet your needs.

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