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Set up email alerts for form submissions

Set up email alerts to receive a notification when a form is submitted.

Written by Gareth Burroughes

Learn how to set up email alerts for form submissions, so you and your team are notified when a form is completed, or an automatic response is sent to the respondent.


Before you start

  • Your page or form must have form inputs to set up alerts.

  • If you plan to send a response from a custom from address, you must already have a triggered campaign set up.


Set up form alerts for yourself and your team

  1. On the form editor, expand the Form options drop-down menu and select Email alerts.
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  2. For Send to yourself, select Yes.

  3. Enter one or more email addresses to receive alerts every time the form is completed.
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    If you're entering multiple email addresses, press the Enter key and add each address on a new line.
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  4. Select the Include responses checkbox to include the form's responses in the alert.

  5. Select Apply.

Using a shared mailbox?

If you use a shared mailbox to receive form responses, note that anyone who has access to that mailbox can view all responses and any attached files.


Send a response to the respondent

To send a response to the respondent after they successfully complete your form:

  1. On the form editor, expand the FORM OPTIONS drop-down menu and select Email alerts.

  2. For Send to respondent, select Yes.
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  3. Expand the Email type drop-down menu and choose either New message, a simple text email; or Triggered campaign, a triggered campaign that you previously created.

    • New message (simple text) alerts can include the form responses, whereas a triggered campaign cannot.

    • New message (simple text) alerts are sent from a Dotdigital system domain. If you want the response to come from your custom from address, select a triggered campaign to send. You can set the from address in the Create step of building a triggered campaign.

  4. If you're setting up a New message, select Edit message and enter your message text.

  5. If you're setting up a Triggered campaign, select Select and choose your campaign.

  6. Select Apply.

You can use a triggered campaign instead of a basic email alert to enable advanced features, such as using a custom from address and sending richer, personalised messages.

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