Comparison · updated 2026-07-04
Pledgely Forms vs Formstack for Salesforce (2026)
Formstack is a mature product with a genuine Salesforce-native tier, and on that tier your data really does stay in your org. Credit where it is due. The differences that matter show up in everyday use: whether every answer is a record you can report on or one you have to go digging for, whether a busy day can run into a submission ceiling, and whether you can read the price without booking a sales call. Every Formstack claim below is footnoted to a public page with the date we captured it.
| Capability | Pledgely Forms | Formstack for Salesforce |
|---|---|---|
| A real free tier | Included.Builder, public forms, and multi-object mapping at $0. A tier, not a trial. | Not included.14-day free trial only; current pricing lists no always-free tier. [1] |
| Answers you can report on | Included.Every answer is saved as a typed, reportable record the moment it arrives. | Partial.Mapped answers become records; anything unmapped stays inside a stored submission you have to open to read. [2] |
| No daily submission ceiling | Included.No submission caps from us, on any day of the year. | Not included.Submissions are capped every 24 hours to match your org’s edition limits. [3] |
| Published pricing | Included.Public pricing page, no quote gate. | Not included."Custom Pricing" for the Salesforce product; their general Forms plan is $83/mo billed annually. [4] |
| Talk to a person in real time | Included.Support from the people who build the product. | Partial.Ticket and chat only, no phone; live chat 8 AM to 5 PM EST, Monday to Friday. [5] |
| Data stays in your org | Included.Forms writes directly to Salesforce. Pledgely stores no separate copy and has no standing access to your org. | Included.On their NativeCloud edition, submitted data stays in your org too. [6] |
| A nonprofit discount you can see | Included.25%, applied to a price that is already public. | Partial.25% as well, but on a price that is not published for the Salesforce product. [7] |
[1] https://www.formstack.com/select-trial , captured 2026-07-04
[2] https://help.formstack.com/hc/en-us/articles/44593041940371-General-Input-Fields , captured 2026-07-04
[3] https://help.formstack.com/hc/en-us/articles/44593169657491-System-Limitations , captured 2026-07-04
[4] https://www.formstack.com/pricing , captured 2026-07-04
[5] https://help.formstack.com/hc/en-us/articles/44979002302867-Our-Support-Channels , captured 2026-07-04
[6] https://help.formstack.com/hc/en-us/articles/44593122640147-Compliance , captured 2026-07-04
[7] https://www.formstack.com/nonprofit-discount , captured 2026-07-04
Details change. Verify current pricing and features with both vendors.
Where your answers end up
Both products can land submission data in your org. What differs is the shape it arrives in. With Pledgely Forms, every answer becomes a typed, reportable record the moment it is submitted, right alongside the mapped records the form creates, all in one all-or-nothing save. When an auditor or a board member asks what someone actually submitted and where it went, that is a report you run, not a stored file you have to open and read by hand.
Your busiest day, uncapped
Every Formstack submission spends from the same pool of Salesforce requests your other integrations rely on, and submissions are capped every 24 hours to stay inside your org's limits. Pledgely Forms never touches that pool: the whole product runs inside your org, so a year-end giving day or a big campaign can't run into a submission ceiling set by anyone but you.
Rebuild one of your forms, live
Bring a real Formstack form to a 30-minute demo: we'll rebuild it in your org, mapping included.