ChatBots versus Forms for Data Input

I’m building a website for a client, and they have a lot of forms. Most of them are for basic info, including personal info and details about the service they want.

The client has a lot of forms, and I was going to use a form generator (open source or paid) that uses a setup to make the forms. Then I thought, maybe it’s easier to build a chat-based way to do it using open ai or something else that can make questions based on the setup and then fill in the info by looking at the user’s answers.

What do you think? Do people like using chat-based ways to enter data or regular forms, either with a step-by-step process or one big page with sections? I’d like to offer both, but because of time and money, I’d like to choose one.

WHAT’S YOUR NAME?

YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS?

Haha. It’s so weird.

Filling out forms with autocomplete will be much faster.

Chat is very annoying.

Pacey said:
WHAT’S YOUR NAME?

YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS?

Haha. It’s so weird.

Filling out forms with autocomplete will be much faster.

Chat is very annoying.

To start the form or chat, the user has to give their email and name so they can finish it later.

But I know what you mean, asking questions in a chat for each part of the form gets slow and tiring.

Thanks for the help!

The only thing worse than making me fill out a chatbot chat to complete a few forms would be if you told me I had to do it over the phone.

Whitney said:
The only thing worse than making me fill out a chatbot chat to complete a few forms would be if you told me I had to do it over the phone.

Don’t give them any ideas…

You could use AI to help sort auto recommendations for the form inputs based on your data that updates as needed for the user to make it faster for them, but talking to a chat bot for lots of specific data input is probably annoying for most people.

Just make a form. Forms are super easy, and people still make them too complicated with bad validation and other stuff.

AI chatbot? No, thanks. No one wants things that are hard to guess in their forms.