Forms are how most contacts enter a business’s records in Antigua and Barbuda today: a villa enquiry from a website, a crew registration for a regatta party, a customer signing up for a supermarket’s loyalty club, a client uploading details to a professional firm. Mailpro’s form builder lets you create these in minutes and connects the answers directly to your email and SMS lists.
Forms that island businesses actually use
- Booking and availability enquiries for hotels, villas, yacht charters and tours, with date fields, number of guests and preferred contact method.
- Event registrations for Sailing Week parties, Carnival fete tickets, cricket hospitality or charity galas.
- Newsletter and SMS sign-ups on websites, social media profiles and a tablet at reception.
- Job applications ahead of the winter season, when hospitality businesses hire.
- Client intake for law firms, insurers and CIP agents, collecting only what the first conversation needs.
How Mailpro’s form builder helps
Drag fields into place, set which are required and choose where the answers go. With branching logic, a form can ask different follow-up questions depending on earlier answers, so a guest who selects “yacht charter” sees questions about boat size, while one who selects “villa” sees bedroom options. Form-to-contact synchronisation adds each respondent to the right list automatically.
Share the form by link, QR code on a restaurant table or a flyer at the marina, or embed it in your website. See sharing options for details, and follow results with form statistics.
Consent built into the form
Antigua and Barbuda’s Data Protection Act, 2013 requires consent to process personal data and, under section 6, asks you to tell people why you are collecting it and who may receive it. On a form, that means:
- a short purpose statement near the submit button;
- a separate, unticked box for marketing emails, and another for SMS if you plan to text;
- a link to your privacy policy;
- only the fields you really need. A tour enquiry does not need a passport number.
If your visitors come from the EU, the UK or Canada, the same approach satisfies the consent requirements they are used to at home.
Designing forms for phones
Most people in Antigua and Barbuda, and most of your overseas visitors, will fill in your forms on a phone. Keep forms short, use drop-downs and date pickers instead of free text where possible, and set the phone field to accept the international format with the country code. Test on a slow mobile connection, since a form that stalls on submit loses the enquiry.
From form to follow-up
A form is only the first step. Decide in advance what happens after someone submits: an instant confirmation email, a notification to the right staff member, and, if they opted in, a welcome email a few minutes later. For a villa enquiry, a reply within the same day matters, especially when the guest is comparing several properties. Mailpro can trigger these messages automatically, so a weekend enquiry from Toronto does not wait until Monday for an acknowledgement.
Where the data lives
Section 8 of the Act asks you to consider where personal data is stored. Mailpro stores form responses on private infrastructure in Switzerland, outside US jurisdiction, with TLS 1.3 encryption in transit, and never sells or rents them.
Get started with how to create an online form in Antigua and Barbuda, or go straight to creating a subscription form.