Publish the calculator your market keeps searching for.

Someone weighing a lawsuit advance wants to know what it will really cost. Three inputs — the amount, the interest type, the months — and one formula give them the number, on a page that explains where it came from.

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SimpleCompound

3% per month · 9 months

Estimated payoff$3,810
Advance $3,000Interest $810

The selected interest type chooses the formula. This example has no added fees.

Illustrative experience

  • Your calculator, on your own page
  • The total updates as they type
  • One formula covers both options

The finished experience

The answer comes from your page, not somebody else’s widget.

Visitors get a number they can act on, and the calculator, the formula and the words around it all sit on a page you publish rather than inside an embed you do not control.

A good fit for
Marketing teams in a niche where the first question is what it costs.

  1. 1

    Ask for the few numbers it needs

    An amount, a rate, a duration and any fees — nothing the visitor has to go and look up.

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  2. 2

    Write one formula, not four

    A conditional formula branches on the option they pick, so simple and compound interest come out of the same field.

    GP Advanced Calculations

  3. 3

    Publish it with the explanation

    The calculator sits in a page that explains each variable, so somebody who does not know the jargon still leaves with a number they understand.

    GP Advanced Calculations

What you’ll need.

Start with Gravity Forms. Add the capabilities this solution needs, then make the experience your own.

Taking it further

Add these optional plugins when your project calls for more.

Before you start

  • A page of plain-language explanation around the calculator.

Get this built.

A plan covers how many of our plugins you run at once, and on how many sites. Here is what this one needs.

Required

  • GP Advanced CalculationsPerks

Optional

Gravity Perks Basic $59 /year

Covers this on one site. More sites need Advanced or Pro.

Gravity Perks Advanced $169 /year Taking the optional perk too makes it 2 in all, which needs Advanced.

See plans for this solution

Every plan renews at the same price, and you can upgrade any time for the difference.

Make it fit
your project.

Does the visitor have to submit anything?

No. The calculation happens in the browser, so the calculator is useful without an entry; add a submit step only when you want the lead as well.

How complicated can the formula get?

Advanced Calculations adds exponents, modulo, rounding, min and max, date and time maths and finance functions to Gravity Forms’ arithmetic, and a conditional formula picks between them — compound interest in a single field is well within it. What it will not do is look values up: rates kept in a spreadsheet or a records table need Populate Anything to bring them into the form first.

Why not embed a calculator from somewhere else?

An embed keeps the calculator, its wording and its styling on another company’s domain and inside their design. Building it in a form keeps all three on the page you publish, and you can change the rate the day it changes.

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Tell us what you are making and we will work out which pieces it takes — or tell you straight if this is not something we can do.

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