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Decimal point numbers in a number question


Hello,

I'm thinking about creating a typeform for an e-commerce site, where users will be able to create a complaint about their orders, however, not all products are sold as integer values, some of them are sold by weight, and so, I need a number question to allow people to enter things like 1.7 or 2.3.

I this possible on Typeform? I wasn't able to find a way to do so.

Best answer by Liz

Hi @Carlos Bernal thanks for stopping by! We don’t currently support decimals, I’m afraid, and the only workaround for this would be to change the numbers to whole numbers. :( Though, thanks for sharing your use case here because this helps give us a better understanding of how you’re using decimals in the form!

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Liz
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  • February 25, 2021

Hi @Carlos Bernal thanks for stopping by! We don’t currently support decimals, I’m afraid, and the only workaround for this would be to change the numbers to whole numbers. :( Though, thanks for sharing your use case here because this helps give us a better understanding of how you’re using decimals in the form!


Merrik
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  • February 25, 2021

Can this be changed to accept decimals, currency, and/or percentages? I am using a number field that I would like to format to pre-format to accept USD values, but it looks like it only takes whole numbers.

Example:

Question:

How much do you spend on car insurance each month?

Answer: (pre-formatted with USD/decimals)

$


Liz
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  • February 25, 2021

@Merrik Added your question to this post here to be updated should we add support for decimals! :) 


  • Navigating the Land
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  • May 7, 2021

Just adding a +1 to this. Being able to accept decimal numbers would be very helpful!


I would also like to see decimals added as they are such a vital part of price calculation.  Thanks!


  • Navigating the Land
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  • May 16, 2021

Can I also please request this!? Has this been an absolute oversight? How can you do calculations without decimal points? :face_palm_tone2:


Liz
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Thank you all for the feedback and requests - we’ve shared them with product. :grinning: While I don’t have any updates at the moment, when I do, I’ll comment back here!


  • Navigating the Land
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  • May 24, 2021

This is also a problem for us. We need decimal. Text is a problem for integration and for the customer that can give us a data that is not only a number. @Liz please, tell Product that this is a completely must! Thanks a lot


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I also need to be able to use decimals - only whole numbers seems way too basic for an otherwise very useful tool - I have to instead use a short answer option and then of course there is no option for calculations… :(


  • Navigating the Land
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  • July 12, 2021

En efecto, poder introducir decimales es una funcionalidad básica que echamos en falta de este maravillosa plataforma. ASAP! 


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  • Navigating the Land
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  • July 17, 2021

Another +1 


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  • July 17, 2021

+1 for me too please


  • Navigating the Land
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  • July 22, 2021

Likewise - not having the option to add a decimal number is a feature we would have expected in 2001, not 2021.


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  • July 22, 2021

Yes - we would like to add decimals also. In fact what we are really looking for is a currency field but a number field that allows decimals would work.


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  • August 6, 2021

Adding decimals means we can do more accurate money and percentage equations - the equation/calculation functionality is SO important!!


  • Navigating the Land
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  • August 11, 2021

Hi, bugger I’d love to use Typeform but cannot as I need decimal points in number calculations.


  • Navigating the Land
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  • August 13, 2021

+1 for us as well, we really need decimals!


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  • August 24, 2021

Is there any reason; business or technical why decimals can’t be allowed in this field? It is a major drawback not having this feature as anytime I want to capture a number with a decimal I have to use a text box.


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Tristan wrote:

Is there any reason; business or technical why decimals can’t be allowed in this field? It is a major drawback not having this feature as anytime I want to capture a number with a decimal I have to use a text box.

 

I’m asking this question internally on your behalf @Tristan. I’ll revert back once I hear from the Product Team. 


  • Navigating the Land
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  • August 25, 2021

Yeah we need decimals. This might be a deal breaker and force us to use a different service because of it. As much as I love type form.


  • Navigating the Land
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  • August 25, 2021

@Liz looks like you guys have been talking about adding something for this for 7 years now? Any updates? Here’s a link to that tweet from 2014…..

 

(20) Typeform on Twitter: "@TheOTown decimals are in the pipeline. You can use a short text field to accept decimals, but it won't run validation. -S" / Twitter

 


  • Navigating the Land
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  • September 3, 2021

much needed!!!!!! I can never give my customers accurate information without decimal points.


Liz
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Ok, all, I have some good news! I did discover from our product team that you can use decimals in other fields, such as short text fields. The reason it isn’t currently possible in the Number field is because the field is set to check that the respondent’s answer is a number and thus, it’s harder to check that with the decimals. 

Though, the developers did say they will look further into adding support for decimals in the number field, and in the meantime, you can use a short text field. :grin:

@Ziwzih @egw @Tristan @Alex Chapman @ryno 


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  • September 6, 2021
Liz wrote:

Ok, all, I have some good news! I did discover from our product team that you can use decimals in other fields, such as short text fields. The reason it isn’t currently possible in the Number field is because the field is set to check that the respondent’s answer is a number and thus, it’s harder to check that with the decimals. 

Though, the developers did say they will look further into adding support for decimals in the number field, and in the meantime, you can use a short text field. :grin:

@Ziwzih @egw @Tristan @Alex Chapman @ryno 

This doesn’t really resolve the issue as using text fields to enter numbers means it pulls up a text keyboard as opposed to a number keyboard on mobile which is much less user-friendly. It also means for answers expecting a number that text can be entered and mess up any calculations. Did the developers say when they could look into adding 1 . to support decimals?


  • Navigating the Land
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  • September 7, 2021

Small text doesn't allow you to use the advanced logic and calculation functions such as “greater than and equal to” etc. It only allows you to use functions like “contains” and “equal to”