# Client onboarding form template for digital projects

> Use this client onboarding form template to collect project goals, scope, owners, approvals, access needs, content, and launch dependencies.

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This client onboarding form template gives you 15 questions to start a digital project with shared facts, not a stack of attachments no one has read.

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## Business and project context

Keep sensitive credentials out of the form. Collect them later through an approved access method, with the smallest permissions the work needs.

1. What is the business name and the main contact for this project?
2. What customer problem should this project help solve?
3. Which audience and customer journey matter most right now?
4. What exists today, and what must remain unchanged?
5. Which services or deliverables are in scope? What is explicitly out of scope?

Ask for links to the current website and relevant public material. Do not ask a client to paste account passwords into a text box.

## Content, systems, and dependencies

1. Who owns the existing domain, hosting, CMS, brand assets, and analytics accounts?
2. What content is current, and what needs writing, verification, or permission?
3. Which forms, booking tools, payments, email systems, or other integrations are involved?
4. Are there legal, privacy, accessibility, industry, or internal review requirements that affect the work?
5. What assets or approvals must arrive before design, build, or launch can progress?

For each dependency, name an owner and a way to confirm completion. “We will send it later” is not a usable production plan until someone knows what “it” includes.

## Decisions and communication

1. Who supplies source facts? Who gives feedback? Who is the final approver?
2. How should feedback be consolidated so the team does not receive conflicting direction?
3. What decision must be made early, and what can remain flexible?
4. What are the desired milestones, and what makes those dates realistic or uncertain?
5. Who will operate and maintain the result after handoff?

What happens if the person who can approve the work is unavailable? Agree on a backup or a pause rule rather than guessing approval.

## First working session

Use the completed form to confirm the outcome, scope, key risks, evidence gaps, and next action. Record the decisions in a shared project brief. Revisit them when the project changes. A form is not a contract and does not replace an approved scope or access process.

If the project includes brand work, use the [branding questionnaire](https://scayverstaging.1wp.site/freebies/branding-questionnaire/). For a site release, use the [website launch checklist](https://scayverstaging.1wp.site/freebies/website-launch-checklist/). [Talk to a specialist](https://scayverstaging.1wp.site/talk-to-a-specialist/) if you want to discuss the project path with Scayver Graphix.

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