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Self email notifications

Formware offers two types of email notifications: self email notifications and respondent email notifications. With self email notifications, you will receive an email each time someone submits your form.

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Self email notifications are available for free to all Formware users.

Formware Pro users can fully customize email notifications.

How it works

Go to your form settings and click on Self Email Notifications tab. Here you can turn on the Self email notifications toggle to receive emails whenever someone submits your form. Once done, click on the Submit button at the bottom to save your preferences.

Toggle Self Email Notifications On/Off
Toggle Self Email Notifications On/Off

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Formware Pro users can customize every email field by simply typing text or clicking @ to insert data from their form.

Customizing email fields

An upgrade to Formware Pro is required enable the customization of email fields for self email notifications. Below are the different email fields you can modify.

To field

The email address of your Formware account is used as the default email address for receiving email notifications. To add new email addresses, simply paste a comma separated list or type the email addresses one by one.

Reply to

This field will be empty by default. If you have added one or more email question in your form, you can select it to set the Reply To value dynamically based on the respondent's answer. This will allow you initiate a conversation with your respondents easily from your inbox by simply replying to the incoming email notifications.

Subject

The default subject is New Formware Submission for @Form_Name. Emails are usually grouped by subject in a thread in your inbox. To split them up, insert a unique value in the subject, by typing @ and selecting an appropriate field from the list of form data.

From name field

By default, the emails are sent from Formware and the domain [email protected]. You can customize the name of the sender, but the email domain of the sender is not customizable yet.

Email body

All questions and answers are inserted in the body of email by default. Customize the content as you like and type @ to get a list of form data.