Partial Responses help you recover useful answers from people who started a form but did not submit it. Published forms save valid in-progress answers in the background, so Pro teams can review meaningful incomplete responses alongside completed submissions.
What gets saved
Section titled “What gets saved”Fomr saves meaningful in-progress answers from published forms. If a respondent refreshes the page or returns in the same browser session, Fomr can restore those answers.
Partial Responses are not a cross-device save-for-later feature. Closing the browser ends the resume session. Respondents do not see a saved indicator, and autosave issues do not block final submission. If saved progress is invalid, expired, already submitted, or deleted, the form starts fresh automatically.
Free vs Pro access
Section titled “Free vs Pro access”| Plan | Partial Response access |
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| Free | See Partial Response counts and an upgrade prompt |
| Pro | Open Partial Response rows, view captured answers, filter rows, export status, and control future capture |
Free organizations cannot open, export, delete, disable capture, or otherwise manage Partial Response rows.
Review Partial Responses
Section titled “Review Partial Responses”Partial Responses appear in the Responses table for Pro organizations.
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Open your form in the editor
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Click the Responses tab
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Look for rows marked as partial
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Open a row to review the answers that were captured
Unanswered fields are left blank, so you can tell which parts of the form the respondent reached before leaving.
Filter Partial Responses
Section titled “Filter Partial Responses”Use response filters when you only want to review completed submissions. This keeps your response table focused when you are exporting final records, reporting on complete answers, or following up only with submitted forms.
Export Partial Responses
Section titled “Export Partial Responses”Pro CSV exports include a Response status column. Use that column to separate completed and partial responses in spreadsheets, dashboards, or follow-up workflows.
Turn off future capture
Section titled “Turn off future capture”Save partial responses is enabled by default. Turning it off affects the live form immediately, does not require republishing, and stops future partial capture without deleting existing meaningful Partial Responses.
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Open your form in the editor
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Go to Settings
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Open General > Behavior
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Turn Save partial responses off
You can turn the setting back on later if you want the form to capture new Partial Responses again.
When to use Partial Responses
Section titled “When to use Partial Responses”Partial Responses are especially useful for:
- Longer lead forms where someone may abandon after giving contact details
- Applications and intake forms with multiple required sections
- Feedback forms where early answers still carry useful signal
- Sales or support forms where incomplete answers can still identify intent
Treat Partial Responses as incomplete records. They can reveal intent, friction, and abandoned-but-useful answers, but they are not the same as submitted responses.
Best practices
Section titled “Best practices”Keep capture enabled for longer forms. Longer forms have more abandonment risk, so Partial Responses can recover useful context.
Use filters for reporting. Filter out partial rows when you need only completed submissions.
Check response status in exports. Use the Response status column before importing data into another system.
Review sensitive forms carefully. If a form collects sensitive information, make sure Partial Response capture matches your data handling expectations.
Related features
Section titled “Related features”Related
- Collect responses - View submissions and export response data
- Form publishing - Publish forms before collecting responses
- Fomr Pro - Learn about Pro plan features
Need help?
For additional assistance with partial responses, check our FAQ section or contact our support team.