A giveaway form is the simplest entry form there is, a name and an email and a box agreeing to the rules, and giveaway forms get complicated only when the business tries to make the entry do something else: follow, share, buy. Each of those is a rule the giveaway's own terms and the guidance linked below have something to say about, and this site does not give legal advice on which are allowed where. What it does is build the form so the record is right: who entered, when, what they agreed to, and whether they are eligible. This page keeps the giveaway form to three fields, puts the rules where they must be agreed, and reads the form against the free contact form design sheet so the entries a month are a figure.
Three fields and the rules box
Name, email, and where eligibility depends on it, the state or the age, then a box beside a link to the rules that is not ticked in advance. Three or four fields at nine seconds is 27 or 36 seconds on the contact form design sheet, and only the email and the rules box are required. The rules page says what the prize is, when the giveaway ends, how the winner is drawn, and how they will be told. The button says enter the giveaway.
What not to attach to the entry
A purchase, a paid upgrade or a required social action changes what the giveaway is under the rules that govern it, and the consumer guidance linked below is the reference for the line between a giveaway and something else. A business that wants those things asks for them on the confirmation page, after the entry is counted, as an option. The form's consent to marketing, if any, is a second box, separate from the rules box, because agreeing to rules is not agreeing to a newsletter.
Entries a month, and the draw
A giveaway page with 1,200 visitors, 5% starting and 60% finishing, produces 36 entries on the sheet's worked example, and a giveaway's start rate is high because the page is the offer. Each entry is a sender with a status from entered to eligible to winner in Shortcodo Pro, the duplicates are visible as the same sender, and the draw is made from the eligible list on the closing date. The winner's entry keeps the date and the agreement, which is the record if it is ever asked for.
Questions people ask about giveaway form
Can a giveaway form ask entrants to follow or share?
As an option on the confirmation page, after the entry counts. Making it a condition of entry is the kind of thing the rules on giveaways address, and this site does not advise on it.
How do I stop duplicate entries?
The same email is the same sender in the register, so a one-per-person rule is a count on the list rather than a field on the form.
Should the form collect a phone number?
Only if the winner will be called. Most giveaways tell the winner by email, and an unused phone field costs finish rate.