Registration form

What is a registration form?

A registration form collects the details someone provides when they want in - typically a name, an email, and the credentials or preferences that go with a new account. It is the first handshake between a person and your product, and it sets the tone for everything that follows.

One thing to be clear about up front: Formpaste is a form backend, not an authentication provider. This template captures what a registrant types and delivers it to you, but it does not create login accounts, hash passwords, or manage sessions. Think of it as the front door that gathers the details, then passes them to the system that actually does the account creation.

When to use it

Reach for a registration form when you need to gather signup details on a static page or a front end that has no backend of its own yet, and you want to route those details somewhere you control. It fits early-stage products, course or program signups, and internal tools where a lightweight collection step is all you need before a human or a webhook takes over.

It is the right tool when the real account creation lives elsewhere - your auth provider, your CRM, your own API - and you just need a reliable, spam-filtered way to collect the initial details and forward them on. If instead you need genuine login, password resets, and session management out of the box, that is a job for a dedicated auth service, and this form should feed it rather than replace it.

What to include

This template ships with four fields: full name, email, a password, and a password confirmation. Name and email are the identity basics every account needs. The two password fields exist so you can match them in the browser and catch typos before submission, which spares your registrant the frustration of a mismatch they only discover later.

Because passwords are involved, handle this template with extra care. Never let raw passwords land in an inbox. Forward the submission to your own signup endpoint over a webhook, or better still, collect only the non-secret details here and let your auth provider set the password on its own secure screen. The confirm field is there to improve the client-side experience, not to make the form a safe home for credentials, which it is not.

Tips for a smooth registration

Validate in the browser first. Require a real email format and check that the two password fields match before the form submits, so people fix mistakes in place instead of bouncing off a server error. Formpaste still filters spam on the server, but good client-side validation is what makes the form feel effortless.

Keep passwords out of your inbox. Route the submission to a webhook that hands it to your auth system, and treat any inbox delivery as unsuitable for credentials. If you can avoid collecting the password in the form at all, do - let the auth provider own that step.

Ask for the minimum. Every extra field on a registration form is a reason to abandon it. Collect what you genuinely need to create the account and defer everything else - profile details, preferences, avatars - to after the person is already in.