Feature · Email Notifications
No SMTP server. No SendGrid setup. Owner notification email can send within seconds, with reply-to set to the sender so you can reply with one click.
Your form posts to one splitforms endpoint — no server, API route, or SDK. splitforms is the backend.
Every submission is saved to a searchable dashboard and emailed to you — spam filtered before it lands.
No glue code, no third-party middleman — it ships as part of splitforms and works from your first submission.
Copy-paste ready
Replace YOUR_ACCESS_KEY with the key from your splitforms dashboard. No SDK to install, no build step — the same html you already write.
<!--
Email notifications are ON by default — no code change required.
The form below sends submissions to the email tied to your access
key. Add CC / BCC recipients in the splitforms dashboard.
-->
<form action="https://splitforms.com/api/submit" method="POST">
<input type="hidden" name="access_key" value="YOUR_ACCESS_KEY" />
<!-- Optional: customise the subject line of the notification email.
You can interpolate any submitted field with {{ field_name }}. -->
<input type="hidden" name="subject" value="New lead from {{ name }}" />
<!-- Optional: branded sender name (reply-to is always the user's email) -->
<input type="hidden" name="from_name" value="yoursite.com contact form" />
<input type="text" name="name" placeholder="Name" required />
<input type="email" name="email" placeholder="Email" required />
<textarea name="message" placeholder="Message" required></textarea>
<input type="checkbox" name="botcheck" style="display:none" tabindex="-1" />
<button type="submit">Send</button>
</form>
<!--
curl equivalent:
curl -X POST https://splitforms.com/api/submit \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"access_key": "YOUR_ACCESS_KEY",
"subject": "New lead from Ada",
"name": "Ada Lovelace",
"email": "ada@example.com",
"message": "Loved the demo."
}'
-->How to set it up
How email notifications flows through splitforms — what you do, what we do, and what lands in your inbox.
Create an account, create a form, copy the access key shown on the form's Setup tab. The notification email defaults to the address you signed up with — you can change or add more recipients in Settings → Notifications.
Add a standard <form action='https://splitforms.com/api/submit' method='POST'> with your access_key in a hidden input. Optional: add hidden 'subject' (supports {{ field }} placeholders), 'from_name' (branded sender), and 'replyto' inputs to customise the notification. Configure a thank-you redirect in Dashboard → Form settings → Redirect.
Submissions arrive as a clean key-value email with the form name in the subject, the sender's address in reply-to, and a deep link back to the dashboard for the full submission view (including IP, country, user agent, and any uploaded files). Add CC/BCC recipients in the dashboard if the whole team should be copied.
How email notifications works
splitforms emails you the contents of every form submission within 30 seconds of someone clicking Submit, with zero SMTP setup. There is no SMTP server to configure, no SendGrid API key to rotate, no DKIM record to copy into your DNS. Route the same submission to an email inbox or a webhook at the same time — nothing here is one-or-the-other.
What you get
Every reason below is the boring, reliable kind — the fundamentals of email notifications, built once and tested in production so you never have to.
How SplitForms works
Connect your form, collect every submission, and send data where it needs to go — without building backend infrastructure.
Point your form to your unique SplitForms endpoint. That's it.
We instantly capture and organize every submission in your inbox.
Send data to email, spreadsheets, CRMs, webhooks, and 7,000+ apps.
No credit card required. Set up in under 60 seconds.
Connect & automate
SplitForms works with the destinations you route to and the platforms you build on — from Slack and Sheets to WordPress, Shopify, and Next.js.
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Testimonials
40 quotes on record — from indie hacks to agency migrations.
“I replaced a Lambda + DynamoDB + SES contact form with six lines of HTML. It took eleven minutes, and the dashboard is better than what I was going to build.”
“We migrated 14 client sites off Formspree in a single weekend. The price is a third of what we paid, the API is more honest, and the spam filter actually works.”
“The webhook payload is signed, idempotent, and well-shaped. It reads like code from a competent team, not a CRUD app held together with duct tape.”
“I stopped reaching for Typeform on small marketing sites. splitforms covers 90% of the use case at none of the bloat.”
“I onboarded our whole agency in an afternoon. The MCP integration meant Cursor literally dropped the form straight into our client repos for us.”
“The free plan gave me 500 submissions before I paid a cent, and Pro is five dollars a month. I've spent more on coffee deciding which backend to use.”
“Spam went from forty junk entries a day to zero, with no reCAPTCHA puzzle ruining the form. The honeypot and time-trap just quietly do their job.”
“Point the form action at one endpoint and you're done. No SDK, no client library, no build step. This is how a form backend should feel.”
“Leads land in Slack the second someone submits, and a copy goes to Google Sheets for the sales team. I wired both up in under ten minutes.”
“I run a static Hugo site on a five-dollar VPS. splitforms gave it a real contact form without me standing up a single server.”
Common questions
Typically under 30 seconds from submit, often under 10. Emails are sent from notify@mail.splitforms.com via a warmed dedicated IP pool with SPF, DKIM, and DMARC alignment, so they almost always land in the primary inbox rather than spam. The From-name defaults to your form name; reply-to is set to whatever email the submitter entered, so hitting Reply in Gmail/Outlook responds directly to the lead. On the Pro and $59 3-year plans you can move the sender to your own domain (notifications@yourdomain.com) by adding one CNAME and a DKIM TXT record we generate.
Owner notification emails are included on every plan. Forms are unlimited on every plan, including Free. Pro includes 5,000 submissions/month; Pro ($5/month) raises submissions to 5,000/month and adds higher-volume email features; the $59 3-year plan raises submissions further and includes everything Pro has for three years prepaid. One submission can fan out to email, Slack, webhooks, and Sheets without counting more than once against the submission quota.
Email is on by default — you don't have to enable anything; submissions go to the email tied to your account. To customise the subject, add a hidden input to your form: <input type='hidden' name='subject' value='New lead from {{ name }}' />. Anything in {{ }} is replaced with the value of that submitted field. To brand the sender, add <input type='hidden' name='from_name' value='Acme contact form' />. Configure a thank-you redirect in Form → Settings → Redirect, and add CC/BCC in Form → Settings → Notifications.
Yes. Anything that can render an HTML <form> tag or call fetch() works — there is no library to install. For a native HTML form, point action at https://splitforms.com/api/submit and you're done. For React/Next.js, either render the same HTML form or call the JSON endpoint with fetch and a Content-Type: application/json body. Webflow, Framer, Carrd, Notion-as-website, MDX blogs, Astro, SvelteKit, Hugo, Jekyll — they all work because the integration is just an HTML form action URL.
Almost never happens because we send from a warmed, SPF/DKIM-aligned domain, but the fix takes 30 seconds when it does: in Gmail, click the email → three-dot menu → 'Filter messages like this' → 'Never send to spam'. In Outlook, right-click → Junk → 'Never block sender's domain'. To prevent it for everyone on your team, add notify@mail.splitforms.com to your workspace's allowlist (Google Workspace: Admin → Apps → Gmail → Spam → add the address). Or upgrade to Pro and move the sender to your own domain — emails coming from notifications@yourdomain.com are essentially guaranteed to inbox because they share your domain reputation.
Simple pricing
Choose a plan that fits your workflow — from a free form endpoint to full automations, exports, and higher submission limits.
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