A live form is a published widget that collects submissions: a contact form, a
waitlist, a signup, a feedback box. Free gives you one. Not one at a time, one
total.
That is deliberate, and it is the honest reason most people upgrade. One form covers
a contact page. The moment you want a contact form and a waitlist, or the
same form on two client sites as separate collections, you have hit the wall. Basic
raises it to three, Creator to fifteen.
Everything that does not collect submissions stays unlimited on free. Countdowns,
pricing tables, galleries, menus, accordions, and every other widget can be
published as many times as you like without touching this limit.
Every form emails you when something lands, on every plan including
free. By default the alert tells you a submission arrived and links to it, one per
widget per 15 minutes, so a form having a good afternoon does not turn into fifty
emails. Your visitors' answers stay behind your login.
If you would rather read the submission in the email itself, open the collection's
menu in the Database tab, choose Email settings, and tick
Include submission contents. That switches to one email per submission, up
to 20 an hour. At the ceiling it sends you a note saying so rather than going quiet,
because a notification system that silently stops is worse than one that never
started.
Caught spam never emails you, either way. It goes to the Spam tab for review,
because a filter that still pings you for every blocked message has not saved you
anything.