The built-in questionnaire covers what every wedding needs: ceremony details, family, vendors. Your studio almost certainly asks for a few things beyond that, and custom questions make those a normal part of the form instead of a follow-up email.
Adding your own questions per section
There are two places to add a question, depending on how widely it should apply:
- Add one to your questionnaire template (under Questionnaires, in the template editor) and it applies to every wedding created afterward. This is the standard place for anything you ask every couple.
- Add one directly on a single wedding's Questionnaire panel and it only applies there. This is useful for something specific to that couple's venue or plans.
Either way, a new question belongs to one of the same three sections the built-in questionnaire uses (Details, Family & Wedding Party, or Vendor Team) and shows up alongside the standard fields in whichever section you place it, rather than as a separate list the couple has to notice on their own.
Field types
Each question is one of ten types: Short answer and Long answer for open text, Phone, Time, Link, Yes / no, Number, Multiple choice, Location, and Section header for breaking a long section into labeled groups without collecting an answer at all. A Location question can also ask for a companion time in the same field, useful for something like an after-party start, where the address and the time belong together as one answer rather than two separate questions.
Picking a real type instead of defaulting everything to short answer matters beyond how the question looks: a Location answer carries a real address Daymarked can use elsewhere, and a Time answer is a real clock value rather than however the couple happened to type it.
Where answers land on import
Custom questions also give an imported answer somewhere to land instead of being dropped. When a wedding is created from a submission (see creating a wedding from a questionnaire), Daymarked checks whether an incoming answer's label matches a custom question you already have: a match fills that question's value directly, and anything unrecognized becomes a brand-new custom question on the wedding instead of getting lost. The more your template already has, the more of what comes in on import lands exactly where it belongs rather than as something new to sort through.