Workaround for Custom Fields Check Boxes or Multiple Choice

Is there any workaround for creating custom fields that use check boxes or multiple choice rather than just text fields? We need clean data for our segmenting and have a lot of audience segments, so having people use the text fields isn't going to work for us. Has anyone found a way around this? We'll need to switch to a different service if this feature isn't added so, but we wanted to se if anyone had troubleshooted this first. Best, J