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Feedback Form · Hugo
Rating + free-text feedback with optional follow-up email. Free for 500 submissions per month — no backend, no SDK, no plugin.

Copy-paste code
Replace YOUR_ACCESS_KEY with your splitforms key, paste into a Hugo page, and ship. No build-time integration required.
<form action="https://splitforms.com/api/submit" method="POST">
<input type="hidden" name="access_key" value="YOUR_ACCESS_KEY">
<input type="hidden" name="subject" value="New feedback submission">
<label for="rating">How would you rate your experience? *</label>
<select id="rating" name="rating" required>
<option value="">Choose…</option>
<option>★★★★★</option>
<option>★★★★☆</option>
<option>★★★☆☆</option>
<option>★★☆☆☆</option>
<option>★☆☆☆☆</option>
</select>
<label for="feedback">What can we do better? *</label>
<textarea id="feedback" name="feedback" placeholder="Be honest — we won't take it personally." required></textarea>
<label for="email">Email (optional, for follow-up)</label>
<input id="email" type="email" name="email" placeholder="you@example.com">
<!-- honeypot — bots fill every field -->
<input type="checkbox" name="botcheck" style="display:none" tabindex="-1" autocomplete="off">
<button type="submit">Send</button>
</form>Hugo + Feedback Form
Hugo's build speed is legendary, but Hugo sites are static HTML — there's no built-in mechanism to process form submissions. Netlify Forms works when the site stays on Netlify; a third-party API keeps the form host-independent. The feedback form on this page posts directly from the browser to splitforms with zero Hugo configuration. It works in Hugo themes, shortcodes, and partial templates — just paste the HTML. Because Hugo's output is plain HTML, the form works on any host without a server-side component.

Feedback Form fields
The posted payload contains how would you rate your experience?, what can we do better?, email (optional, for follow-up). Required fields are how would you rate your experience? and what can we do better?. Rename, remove, or add your own — splitforms accepts any name you POST.

Template playbook
Feedback forms cost almost nothing to ship and pay back disproportionately — every NPS detractor (score 0-6) is a conversation that prevents churn, every promoter (9-10) is a referral or testimonial source. The form is simple: 0-10 rating, an optional comment, and an email. The leverage is in the routing: detractors auto-DM your support lead in Slack within minutes, promoters get a 'mind leaving us a G2 / Trustpilot review?' follow-up, passives go into a digest. Survey tools (SurveyMonkey, Typeform, Hotjar) charge $30-100/mo for the same pattern. The form pattern is 30 lines of HTML.

Setup
Three actions stand between you and your first feedback form submission — no backend, no database, no CAPTCHA library.
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Drop the form snippet into a Hugo page, component, or layout. Replace YOUR_ACCESS_KEY with the key from your dashboard. The form action is a hard-coded URL — no env vars or build-time wiring needed.
Dashboard updates live on Free. Free includes owner email delivery; Starter adds signed webhooks, CSV export, Slack/Discord forwarding, and BCC to your team.
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40 quotes on record — from indie hacks to agency migrations.
“I replaced a Lambda + DynamoDB + SES contact form with six lines of HTML. It took eleven minutes, and the dashboard is better than what I was going to build.”
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“The free plan gave me 500 submissions before I paid a cent, and Pro is five dollars a month. I've spent more on coffee deciding which backend to use.”
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Common questions
Yes. The form is plain HTML with a single POST endpoint, so it runs on any Hugo site without server-side code, plugins, or SDKs. Drop the snippet into a Hugo page or component and submissions land in your splitforms dashboard.
Free for 500 submissions per month — no credit card, no trial. Pro is $5/mo for 5,000 submissions, and there's a one-time $59 3-year plan (15,000 submissions/mo for 36 months). The same pricing applies regardless of which framework hosts the form.
Yes. The template ships with sensible defaults (how would you rate your experience?, what can we do better?, email (optional, for follow-up)…) — add, remove, or rename any of them. Splitforms accepts whatever fields you POST.
A hidden honeypot field catches dumb bots, and a tuned classifier scores the rest. You only see real submissions in your dashboard. No CAPTCHA, no friction for human users — and it works the same on Hugo as on any other framework.
Yes. Webhooks are available on paid plans, with auto-formatted payloads for Slack, Discord, and WhatsApp (via CallMeBot). Or send raw signed JSON to any URL — Zapier, n8n, your own server. Configure in the splitforms dashboard.
Yes — the form posts directly to splitforms from the browser, so no server is involved. Works on Vercel, Netlify, GitHub Pages, Cloudflare Pages, S3, or any plain Apache host.
NPS (0-10) for relationship surveys ('how likely are you to recommend us?') sent quarterly or after major moments. CSAT (1-5) for transactional surveys ('how was this support ticket?') sent right after the interaction. Different questions, different cadences, both common patterns.
Yes — open-link feedback skews toward people with strong feelings (positive or negative). For statistically representative measurement, send the survey via email to a random sample of users. The public form catches the heat-of-moment feedback you'd otherwise miss.
Yes — webhook the JSON. Slack has incoming webhooks (free); Linear and Productboard accept inbound issue creation via Zapier or native APIs. Detractor comments showing up as a Linear issue with the rating prefilled in the title is a powerful workflow.
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