Describe your shop and customer decisions. Makeform creates a taxidermy intake form for contacts, specimen details, condition, mount style, pose, habitat, and follow-up.
Send new job details to Google Sheets, Slack, and Zapier.
Sample prompts for the builder
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Audience
Deer shoulder-mount customers
Format
Guided pose and habitat intake
Prompt size
308 chars
Example form structure
Guided pose and habitat intake
Customer contact and preferred method
Species, tag number, and harvest details
Cape and antler condition
Turn, head, ear, and mouth choices
Reference and condition photos
Suggested routing tags
New intake
Selections needed
Ready for pickup
Repeat the specimen section for multi-piece jobs so tag numbers, photos, and poses stay separate.
Step 1
Identify
customer, specimen, tag, and condition
Step 2
Specify
mount type, pose, habitat, and references
Step 3
Review
shop checks details and follows up on gaps
Step 4
Track
status, customer updates, and pickup notes
A cleaner handoff
Connect the physical specimen to customer selections in one structured record.
Keep the shop tag, species, date, measurements, accessories, and photos together.
Record pose, position, base, habitat, and plaque wording as structured choices.
Route responses to the shop, then follow up using the tag and selection in question.
Built around the job
Show each customer only the questions relevant to their specimen and display.
Show pose, turn, position, base, and habitat options after mount type.
Use standing or flying to reveal wing, head, perch, and placement choices.
Prioritize measurements, catch details, direction, and color-reference photos.
Repeat specimen questions while keeping one customer record.
Intake workflow
Generate, tailor, collect, and route the details your team needs.
List the specimens, mount styles, measurements, design choices, and internal notes you use.
Add your poses and habitats, require identification, and branch by project type.
Share before drop-off or complete it at the counter. Images stay with the response.
Send responses to the inbox or spreadsheet, set status, and follow up.
Digital form vs loose notes
A specimen-specific form keeps received condition and display decisions together.
Field guide
Record who owns the job, what arrived, the desired result, and the next action.
Customer record
Collect contact details once and ask how the shop should follow up about choices, review, or pickup.
Specimen identity
Give every specimen a shop tag. Identification and measurements connect the response to labels and storage.
Received condition
Combine common condition checkboxes, open notes, and photos for review before work begins.
Mount design
Use mount type and display location to reveal relevant choices, plus notes for custom requests.
Base and finishing
Collect base, habitat, panel, plaque, and available-space details for design review.
Shop tracking
Separate customer answers from shop-only status, assignment, storage, payment, and contact fields.
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Open toolFAQ
Practical answers for taxidermists organizing specimen drop-offs, customer decisions, and shop records.
It records the customer, specimen, received condition, and requested display. It can also hold photos, tag numbers, estimate notes, contact preferences, and review status in one place.
Include customer contact, shop tag, species, received date, condition, useful measurements, and photos. Add mount type, pose, habitat, dimensions, plaque wording, special instructions, estimate and deposit records, and pickup notes as needed.
Yes. Collect customer details once, then repeat the shop tag, identification, condition, photos, measurements, mount choices, and notes for each specimen. Each piece retains its own specifications.
Yes. Add uploads for condition, color references, poses, habitat ideas, or the display space. Label the specimen connected to each file on multi-piece jobs.
Ask for project type first and show a conditional section. Deer might reveal turn and ear choices, birds reveal flight and wing options, and fish replicas reveal measurements, curve, direction, and color photos.
You can show your schedule, change, storage, communication, and pickup policies beside an acknowledgment. Use wording appropriate to your shop. Makeform records the response but does not determine its legal effect.
Yes. Makeform includes unlimited free forms and responses. You can generate, edit, publish, and use the form without a response cap; the paid tier removes the Makeform badge.
Responses arrive in the Makeform inbox and can connect to Google Sheets, Slack, or Zapier. Add status, assignment, missing-information, and next-contact fields if intake starts your production tracking.
Give every specimen a clear starting record.
