WordPress Automatic Email Add-On

Want to use WordPress to send automatic emails? Formidable’s WordPress Automatic Email add-on lets you easily create, customize, and automate emails. 

Want to let a user know that you got their contact form request with a quick auto-reply email? Or do you need to set up email marketing automation for a drip campaign? Formidable makes both of these easy!

Here’s what to know about sending automatic emails from your WordPress site with Formidable Forms:

✉️  Impactful ways to use email automation

There are so many ways to use email automation to engage your audience, delight your customers, and save you time.

Here are just a few types of transactional emails you can send on WordPress with Formidable Forms:

• Welcome emails
• Appointment reminders
• Anniversary or birthday emails
• Online store order confirmation emails
• Failed payment or WooCommerce abandoned cart emails
• Post notifications for contributors
• Downloadable PDF certificates, invoices, or signed agreements

Since Formidable combines custom form fields with advanced form actions, the sky’s the limit!

For email automation ideas, check out these steps to marketing automation with WordPress contact forms.

🤔 Why use Formidable to automate emails with WordPress?

What sets Formidable apart from other WordPress plugins like Contact Form 7, WPForms, WP Mail, or MailPoet? Formidable Forms isn't just the best WordPress autoresponder plugin; it does so much more.

It's truly an all-in-one WordPress form solution with some seriously powerful features, including:

• An intuitive drag and drop form builder
• 225+ form templates
• Front-end editing for user submissions
• Forms to custom PDF generator 
• Charts and graphs for visualizing form data
• Integrations with the top CRMs and payment platforms

Formidable integrates with all the most popular email platforms, such as Mailchimp and AWeber, so you won’t have to worry about migrating your email list either.

And that’s only the tip of the iceberg. Discover all Formidable Forms features.

Ready to create automated email campaigns? Get started with Formidable today. By the way, we offer a 14-day money-back guarantee ✅ so you can give it a try risk-free!

⚙️ How to send automatic emails in WordPress

Getting WordPress to automate emails can be tricky, especially if you’re not an SMTP email expert. But if you’ve installed our Formidable Forms plugin, setting it up only takes a few clicks! 

Here’s a look at how it works:

You’ll first want to download and install Formidable Forms on your WordPress website to get started.

Then, from the WordPress dashboard, go to Formidable → Add-ons to install the Form Action Automation add-on.

Got it? Great! 👍

The next step is to create your form in our drag-and-drop form builder. Short on time? ⏱️ Use one of our WordPress form templates to get going even faster. 

Then, click the blue Update button to save your changes.

Easy, right? Now, you just need to set up your WordPress email autoresponder. 

We can click the Send Email button from the Actions & Notifications tab under Settings to create and customize our email template.

We can then fill in the To, From, CC, BCC, Subject, and Message fields. You can use any of your form fields to personalize your email. You can also add an attachment to your email 📎 if you’d like. 

👉 Learn more: How to automatically send a custom PDF from form entries

All that’s left is to insert your form wherever you want on your site!

📬 Set up automatic email notifications from WordPress

Send automatic updates to co-workers, classmates, partners, and subscribers whenever a form is submitted on your WordPress website.

Add their email addresses to your email notification's CC or BCC fields. Now, they'll be in the loop without you having to spend time manually sending emails! 

👉 Learn more: How to set up email notifications for WordPress forms