Export Submissions to CSV & PDF
Fillin Forge keeps every submission in your WordPress database, searchable and filterable in the admin. But sometimes you need to hand off data to someone else — a spreadsheet for a colleague, a PDF for a client, a CSV for an external analytics tool. Fillin Forge exports both, per-submission or in bulk.
CSV export
Per-form bulk export
From the Submissions view of any form, click Export CSV to download every submission for that form (test submissions are left out) as a single CSV file. The first row contains the column headers: ID, Date, Status, IP, then the field labels. Each subsequent row is one submission.
What is included
The export has no filters and no column choice: you get every submission of the form, abandoned drafts too (see the Status column). Filter and hide columns in your spreadsheet.
UTF-8 encoding
CSVs are exported as UTF-8 with a BOM so Excel and Google Sheets open them correctly — no garbled characters for names with accents, emoji in free-text fields, or non-Latin scripts.
Large exports
The CSV is built as the download starts, in a single request. There is no background job and no notification, so a very large export can be slow on a small server.
PDF generation
Per-submission PDF
Every submission in the admin has a PDF link that generates a printable PDF version — form title, submission ID, date, and every field value in a readable layout. Styled with Fillin Forge’s design system and your form’s branding.
How PDFs are generated
On a site with Fillin Forge Pro, the fields of the submission are sent to our API (the Forge API, api.avakode.com), which builds the PDF and sends it back. We relay this data and do not store its content. If our API cannot be reached, Fillin Forge builds the PDF on your site.
The Print / PDF button of the Submissions toolbar builds its file on your site.
Bulk PDF
The Print / PDF button on the Submissions toolbar (next to Export CSV) puts the submissions of a form into one PDF. Abandoned drafts and test submissions are left out, and one run covers up to 500 submissions.
PDFs are not attached to notification emails, and visitors have no “Print submission” view: PDF and CSV are tools for the admin.
Use cases
- Agencies exporting client form data for monthly reports
- Job boards downloading application data for hiring managers
- Event organizers exporting attendee lists to share with vendors
- E-commerce stores archiving order forms for accounting
- Healthcare providers generating PDFs of intake forms for patient files
- Legal firms creating PDF records of consultation requests
- Educational institutions exporting student registration data
Ready to export your form data?
CSV export and the PDF download of a submission are included in every version of Fillin Forge, including the free one.