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Running an online business – or pretty much any business these days – requires making it easy for customers to place orders online. If your website doesn’t have a storefront or another solution for placing orders directly, using Google forms for work orders is convenient and a simple approach that most customers are comfortable with. Tiny Fish Printing points out that you can use the Forms section of Google to do this in an intuitive fashion, but if you want additional functionality, such as an automatic calculation of the total cost that the customer can see, you may be better off using Google Sheets.

Google Forms for Placing Orders

Create a Google Forms purchase request if you want to complete the task in the simplest way you can. Go to “Docs” from a Google page by clicking the grid of dots at the top right side of the page to bring up the list of apps. Then, click the three horizontal lines in the top left corner to open the menu. Select “Forms” to go to the main page for Google Forms and from there, choose “Blank” to create a completely unpopulated form.

You can also use the templates listed by Google if you find something appropriate, but the options are limited, so it’s better to make a blank one for most purposes. You can highlight the part that says “Untitled form” and change it to something more appropriate: “Order form for [product/company]” or something similar, for example. There’s also space for you to add a brief description of the form if it is useful, which you can also use for any additional information you want to give customers.

Creating the Form Body

You create the form below this, with one “Untitled Question” automatically appearing on the blank form. Write out your question in place of “Untitled Question” and use the drop-down menu at the side to select a format for responses. For example, you’ll need some information – such as your client’s address – to fulfill the order, so choose “Paragraph” to give customers space to enter their addresses. Choose “Dropdown” or “Multiple choice” to give customers a space to choose between set options like sizes or colors. There are also check boxes if you have a question or prompt where customers can choose more than one option, such as a product list.

Google Support’s guide to editing forms points out that you can use the “+” icon to add a new question to your form. This creates another question that you then fill out in the same way. Google also details how you can direct customers to different questions based on their answers to previous ones. Split the form into sections by clicking the “Add section” button to make another and then select “Go to section based on answer” to bring up the option. You can also do things like add images to your questions using the options on the toolbar on the right.

Work through the whole process in this way until your form is ready. Use the palette icon to choose a theme color, background color and font style for the form. Select the “Settings” gear icon to collect email addresses from each respondent and give respondents the option to edit after submission. Click “Send” when you’re ready, and if you go to the link or “<>” tabs, you can share a link on your website or embed the HTML for customers. Responses go into the “Responses” tab.

Google Spreadsheet for Orders

An alternative approach to using Google Forms is to use Google Sheets for your orders. The Google Workspace Learning Center has a complete guide if you aren’t familiar with the program. The main advantage of this is that the customer sees an automatic calculation of the cost. Go to “Sheets” from a Google page and either create a blank sheet or click “Template Gallery” to expand the options, navigate to “Work,” and then choose “Purchase Order.” If you use the latter approach – which is the closest you can get to a Google Docs purchase order template – everything has been done for you. All you need to do is fill in the details, such as your company name and address, as required.

Make sure you update the item number (if applicable), name and unit price to suit your company. With this form, the customers choose the quantity for the products they want, and the other fields update automatically based on the unit price. If you need to add extra rows, put in the product and price details; then, in the “Total price” section, type “=product(F[row number]: G[row number]” to automate the calculation, putting the appropriate row number where it says “[row number].” The rest of the sheet updates automatically.

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