Static site contact form
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A static site contact form is a plain HTML form on a site with no server — GitHub Pages, Netlify, Hugo, Astro — that needs somewhere to send submissions. splitforms does it for any static site on any host: point the form at one hosted endpoint and every submission lands in your inbox and dashboard, with no serverless function, PHP, or SMTP.
No serverless function, Worker, PHP, or SMTP — the endpoint is the backend.
Honeypot, time-trap, and rate limits screen bots before your inbox.
Accepted submissions are saved to your dashboard before owner notification email is attempted; delivery time and inbox placement depend on provider and recipient settings.
Copy-paste ready
Drop this into any static template, point the action at the endpoint, and add your access key. That's the whole integration — no build step, serverless function, or SMTP.
<form action="https://splitforms.com/api/submit" method="POST">
<input type="hidden" name="access_key" value="YOUR_ACCESS_KEY" />
<input type="hidden" name="redirect" value="https://yoursite.com/thanks" />
<input name="name" placeholder="Name" required />
<input name="email" type="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 message</button>
</form>How to add it
Five steps, no server code of your own — the same path works whether your site is pure HTML or a generator like Hugo or Astro.
Sign up and create a form in the dashboard. Free covers 500 submissions total on unlimited forms, with email notifications and spam filtering included and no credit card required. Copy the form's access_key.
Add a plain <form action="https://splitforms.com/api/submit" method="POST"> to your GitHub Pages, Astro, Hugo, Eleventy, or Jekyll template — no build step, API route, or serverless function required.
Set access_key as a hidden field so splitforms knows which form is submitting, add a redirect field with your thank-you page URL, and include a hidden botcheck input that must stay empty to catch bots.
Push to GitHub Pages, Netlify, Cloudflare Pages, S3, or your host of choice. The form posts directly to splitforms, so there is nothing server-side to configure on the host itself.
Submit the live form once. Confirm the lead lands in your inbox and the splitforms dashboard, then turn on allowed-domains or strict origin mode in the form's settings to block spoofed submissions from other sites.
How it works
Static hosts can't process POST requests themselves — they only serve files. splitforms sends the browser's POST straight to a hosted form endpoint built for that job, so nothing runs on your host: every submission is filtered, stored, and delivered to your inbox.
Spam protection
splitforms layers three defenses that all work on a purely static page — no CAPTCHA required. If your site can run one line of JavaScript, add a form_loaded_at hidden field as a time-trap, and optional reCAPTCHA v2 is available as an extra layer. Per-form allowed-domains or strict origin mode blocks other sites from reusing your access_key.
Optional fetch
Yes. An Astro island, an Eleventy page with a small script, or a plain <script> tag can POST the same form with fetch() and an Accept: application/json header to show an inline success message instead of redirecting. The HTML action and the fetch call hit the same endpoint, so you can start with the plain form above and upgrade later without renaming a field — see the API reference for the response shape.
How SplitForms works
splitforms receives the submission, filters spam, saves it to your dashboard and emails you — then, on paid plans, sends it on to your webhooks and integrations. No backend infrastructure to build.
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
On paid plans, submissions can also go to Slack, Discord, Google Sheets, Notion, Airtable, Zapier or any signed webhook — and splitforms works on the platforms you build on, from WordPress and Shopify to Next.js. With Stripe connected, your forms can take payments too.
NewTake payments on your formsDeposits, bookings, order forms — submitters check out through Stripe and the money goes straight to your Stripe account. Included on every paid plan.See plans →Questions
Add a normal HTML form that POSTs to https://splitforms.com/api/submit, with a hidden access_key field identifying which splitforms form receives it. No serverless function, PHP, or SMTP setup is needed — accepted submissions are saved to your dashboard before owner notification email is attempted; delivery time and inbox placement depend on provider and recipient settings.
Yes. GitHub Pages only serves static files and can't run a form handler, but it can still POST to an external endpoint. Point the form's action at splitforms and it works the same way on Jekyll, Hugo, Eleventy, or any other static host.
No. A native HTML form submit works with zero JavaScript, and the botcheck honeypot field filters spam without any script running. Add a line of JavaScript only if you want the optional form_loaded_at time-trap field or a fetch-based inline success message — neither is required.
splitforms layers static-friendly defenses: a hidden botcheck honeypot field that must stay empty, server-side content heuristics on every submission, and rate limiting of 6 submissions a minute and 20 per 15 minutes per IP. Add the form_loaded_at time-trap field or optional reCAPTCHA v2 for extra coverage — none of it requires a JavaScript framework.
Yes. POST a FormData body to https://splitforms.com/api/submit with an Accept: application/json header from a fetch() call, and splitforms returns a JSON response you can use to show an inline success message instead of redirecting the page.
Yes. Free covers 500 submissions total across unlimited forms, with email notifications, spam filtering, and dashboard storage included — no credit card required. Pro ($5/mo) adds CSV/XML/PDF exports, webhooks, integrations, and auto-responder with a 5,000 submissions/month allowance. Check the pricing page for current limits.
Yes. Add hidden subject, redirect, and replyto fields to the form. subject sets the notification email's subject line, redirect sends visitors to your thank-you page after submit, and replyto sets the reply-to address so you can respond directly from your inbox.
Simple pricing
Free gives you 500 submissions for $0 — no card, no time limit. Pro is $5/month for 5,000 submissions a month, and Annual is $49/year for 15,000 a month with every Pro feature.
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Every paid feature, for agencies and growing products.
Every Pro feature with triple the volume — $0.27 per 1,000 at full use.
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