The difference matters, because each one handles half of what should happen after someone hits Submit.
In this post, we’ll break down what confirmations and notifications each do, how to set them up, and how to use them together so no lead, question, or signup slips past you.
Do you want to add a downloadable PDF to your WordPress form confirmation? Handing visitors a resource the moment they submit your form is a great lead generation strategy.
Email notifications are still a great way to keep a record on file, but your confirmation message is the first thing a visitor actually sees, so it’s the perfect place to put the file front and center.
In this guide, you’ll build an auto-graded employee training quiz right on your WordPress site. It scores itself the moment someone hits submit, shows each employee how they did, and emails you the results. You won’t need a learning management system or another login for your team to forget, and the grading handles itself.
You’re running your email marketing through Klaviyo, and you need a signup form on your WordPress site that feeds it. Klaviyo’s own instructions mostly point you toward pasting embed code into your theme.
In this guide, I’ll walk you through a more flexible route, a native WordPress signup form that sends every new subscriber straight to your Klaviyo lists without you pasting a single line of code.
Easy, Fast, and Secure. Join over 6 million website owners who trust WPForms.
You ran a survey on your WordPress site, and the responses are coming in. Now you’re scrolling through a long list of individual entries, trying to work out what they actually mean.
Reading every response by hand gets old fast, and it rarely gives you the big picture. WPForms can turn those raw answers into charts, filtered views, and reports you can share.
Below, I’ll walk you through how to set everything up, get survey responses, reading your results, filtering them, and sharing a clean report.
ChatGPT can already write your emails, plan your projects, and help debug your code. So why not let it build your WordPress forms too?
With the right connection in place, you can ask ChatGPT to create a contact form, add fields, edit labels, and update your form settings, and watch it all happen inside WPForms.
In this guide, I’ll walk through exactly how to build WordPress forms with ChatGPT. It takes a few minutes to set up, and once it’s done, building a form is as simple as describing the one you need.
The WPForms Dashboard is a new home screen that opens the moment you click WPForms in your admin menu. Stat cards across the top total up your forms, entries, payments, views, and spam across the whole site.
An Entries widget charts activity over your chosen date range with a per-form table of entries, views, interactions, and conversion rate, and a payments widget totals everything collected once a gateway is connected.
With the Geolocation addon active, Top Locations ranks the countries your visitors come from, and a Suggested Next Steps panel points to features worth turning on.
Nothing to install, as it comes with every plan, including Lite!
Every form now has its own built-in QR code generator, with nothing extra to install or buy.
Open a form’s General settings, choose the page the form lives on or paste its URL, and click Generate QR Code to copy it or download it as a PNG or a print-ready SVG.
Put it on menus, packaging, event badges, or business cards, and every scan opens your form instead of a page that only hands people something to read.
Included with every plan, including Lite; Pro and Elite plans can keep, remove, or replace the WPForms logo in the center with their own.
The Surveys & Polls addon gains a Ranking field!
Instead of scoring each option separately, respondents drag options (or tap arrow buttons on a phone) into the order they prefer, so one option always has to come first.
WPForms tallies every response into a “Times at #1” count and an average rank for each option, with a chart that makes the winner obvious.
Lay options out as a vertical list or a grid, and use Image Choices or Icon Choices in place of plain text labels.
The Mercado Pago addon brings on-page card payments built for Latin America to your forms.
Buyers enter their card details into secure, Mercado Pago-hosted fields inside the form, choose an installment plan, and pay in ARS, BRL, CLP, COP, MXN, PEN, or UYU without leaving your page.
An approved charge fires your confirmation, notifications, and integrations at the moment money actually moves, and full or partial refunds can be issued from WPForms » Payments.
WPForms takes no transaction fee, and it works with Quantities, Coupons, multi-page forms, Conversational Forms, Lead Forms, and Form Pages.
WPForms 2.0 adds a complete form performance tracking suite inside your WordPress dashboard.
The All Forms page now shows Views, Entries, and Conversion Rate for every form, and each form gets its own analytics dashboard with views, interactions, conversion rate, abandonments, and errors over the last 7, 30, or 90 days or a custom range.
A field-by-field table shows interactions, time spent, errors, and abandonment for every field, so you can see exactly where people give up, and you can set a conversion goal to track progress.
There’s also a built-in AI chat reads your form data and tells you what is working, what is hurting conversions, and what to fix first.