What is Microsoft Forms Pro?

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Microsoft Forms Vs Forms Pro

Microsoft Forms has been around for about 6 years, so you might already be familiar with this. However, last year Microsoft announced the arrival of Forms Pro, a step-up from standard MS Forms and essentially a professional version with additional functionality. There are some key differences between Forms and Forms Pro, which we go through below… 

1. Interacts with Microsoft Dynamics 365:

When you work with Forms pro and Dynamics 365 together, the data from the surveys (invites and responses) comes back into Dynamics and is stored against the contact or record (e.g. a case or an order). This means that the data around your customers is captured in one common platform and removes any data silos that other surveying tools create. 

2. Multiple ways to send surveys In Microsoft Forms, the sharing options are limited:

The sharing options available are: Share a link , Get a QR code, Embed the form on a page, Send an email – If you choose this option, a message in your Outlook is pre-populated with text and a survey link.

In Forms Pro, the sharing interface is much more comprehensive, as you can see in the image below.

You’ll notice that the same options are available as they are in standard MS Forms, but there are a couple of differences.  In Forms Pro, there is the option to share a survey using Power Automate (previously called Microsoft Flow). This means that businesses can automatically send out surveys based on certain triggers in Dynamics 365, or other Microsoft Applications. For example, when an order is fulfilled or delivered, the contact on the system would automatically send the client a survey, and then the response would come back into Dynamics on the order and against their contact record. 

The other difference is the email template builder, which allows you to customise the message which is sent. You’ll notice in the image below, the email also features a logo, which is automatically pulled from your survey. 

3. Increased Analytics:

Forms Pro allows you to gain enhanced insight into the responses. In MS Forms, the response analysis looks like this: 

It does what you need for basic response analysis, however, Forms Pro gives you a lot more insight into the responses: 

In addition to the standard analytics with Forms Pro, you can also use Power BI, to visualise and gain better insights into the survey data. 

Benefits of Microsoft Forms Pro

• Gain insights into the satisfaction of your customers – Gather instant feedback from your customers around how happy they are with your company, products and services and get an understanding for the overall satisfaction of your customer base. 

• Quick response to negative feedback – Get notified of negative feedback from a response so that it can be dealt with promptly and professionally. For example, if negative feedback is received, an email can be sent directly to a manager, or a task can be put into someone’s task list for them to follow up. 

• Identify trends and improvement areas – The responses could shed light on a particular trend that occurs at a certain time of year, season, time of day, etc. You can also identify improvement areas around products, services, or even employees within the company that need some extra training. 

• Reduce admin around survey management – With the extra capabilities to automate sending surveys and analysing responses, this saves on time which would usually be spent manually administering surveys.

Microsoft Forms Pro Pricing

Microsoft Forms Pro is included with D365 Enterprise licenses (Sales, Customer Service, Field Service or Project Service Automation), with capacity up to 2000 responses per month / per tenant.   Additional capacity can be purchased at a cost of £75.40 per month for an extra 2000 responses.  It is important to note that although Forms Pro integrates with Dynamics 365, it can also be used standalone. However, you would not be able to leverage some of the key features and the interaction with D365. 

Microsoft Forms Pro Features

1. Question branching & logic

Surveys can be dynamic, so questions can be shown or hidden based on other answers to questions. For example, if a question asked for a rating and the response was less than 3 stars, a group of questions could appear to gather additional information around this.

2. Personalise Surveys

You are able personalise surveys with variables. For example, you can insert the name of the person, or specific case ID.

3. Integration to Microsoft Dynamics 365

The integration between Forms Pro and Dynamics 365 allows the invites and responses to be captured and stored against the contact or the record (e.g. case or order) in the system. As we stated earlier in this blog, this feature means that all data is stored in one place and removes any data silos that other surveying tools create.

4. Gain insight into survey responses

Standard dashboards and reports which we can gain insight from, but can also leverage Power BI on top of this to get a greater understanding into the feedback data. 

Microsoft Forms Pro Demonstration

We recently hosted a webinar around Microsoft Forms Pro, demonstrating how to create and send surveys, and then analyse the responses. Watch it here: 

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