When someone submits a form on your site, the entry usually lands in an email inbox or your WordPress dashboard. If nobody checks either one for a few hours, a warm lead cools off fast.
In this guide, I’ll show you how to send WordPress form entries to a Slack channel automatically, so your whole team sees every submission the moment it comes in.
You just posted a job, and the applications are already piling up in your inbox. Resumes come in as attachments, cover letters get pasted into emails, and good candidates are easy to lose track of.
You do not need to buy a separate hiring platform to fix that. You can build an applicant tracking system right on the WordPress site you already run.
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.
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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.
The Paystack addon brings card, bank transfer, and mobile money payments to your forms for buyers in Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, and Kenya.
Buyers click submit and pay in the Paystack popup in naira, cedis, rand, or Kenyan shillings, with no new field to add to your form.
Bank transfer and mobile money payments are saved as Pending, and WPForms can hold your notification emails until Paystack confirms the payment, then completes the order on its own.
Every Paystack payment shows up in WPForms » Payments, and full refunds can be issued without leaving WordPress.
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.