The Best WordPress Automatic Email Plugin for Forms

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

Automatically send emails from WordPress with the Formidable Forms plugin.

Send Automatic 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
🤔 Why use Formidable to automate emails with WordPress?
⚙️ How to send automatic emails in WordPress
📬 Set up automatic email notifications from WordPress

✉️ 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!

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⚙️ 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.

Formidable Forms add-on to send automatic emails in WordPress

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.

WordPress form builder demonstration — Formidable Forms WordPress form editor

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.

Send an automated emails from WordPress to multiple recipients

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

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Here's What Our Community is Saying:

This plugin is awesome! Adding conditional fields helped the professional look of the form and broadened the customization options for the user.

Jo Graham

Sends a beautiful, clear HTML email at the end of the process to site owners. Requests have tripled since replacing the old (Contact Form 7 ) with the user-friendly Formidable one.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Does Formidable Forms have templates for automated emails?

Formidable Forms has an easy-to-use email editor that helps you create your own automated email templates, fast. Make and save custom confirmation emails, autoresponder messages, and more, right in WordPress.

Just fill in the To, From, CC, BCC, Subject Line, and Message fields, set up the trigger to send the email, and you’re done!

Can I use conditional logic to send automated emails in WordPress?

You can with Formidable Forms! ✅ If there are a few typical responses you’d like to send, you can use conditional logic to send the right email to the right person at the right time.

For example, if a user responds to a survey with positive feedback, you may want to email them a thank you message. On the other hand, if they complain, you probably want the email content to offer a solution or apology instead.

You can also choose to hold or send emails based on specific form submissions. Conditional logic can be used for email routing too.

👉 Learn more: How to use conditional logic & dynamic fields in automated emails

How can I schedule an automatic email in WordPress?

The Form Action Automation add-on in Formidable Forms makes it quick and easy to schedule an automatic email in WordPress. And you won’t have to write a single line of code!

In the drag and drop form builder go to Settings → Actions & Notifications tab. Select the Send Email form action, then make your email template. Under SETUP AUTOMATION you can choose the email trigger action and then set the delay to wait before sending the automated email.

👉 Learn more: How to schedule email autoresponders in WordPress

Can I use Formidable to create an automated email newsletter?

You can use the Formidable Forms plugin to automatically send a digest email newsletter with all the latest entries from the last day, week, or month. 📆 You’ll just need to make sure you’ve installed and activated Formidable’s Visual Views and Form Action Automation add-ons.

👉 Learn more: How to automatically send a digest email from WordPress

Do I need to use SMTP to get WordPress to automatically send emails?

You don’t have to have an SMTP plugin to send automated emails on WordPress, but using one can help avoid your emails ending up in spam or not sending at all. If your default WordPress emails aren’t sending 🤨 or if you’d like to boost your sender and domain reputation, you might want to consider using SMTP.

👉 Learn more: The best SMTP plugin for WordPress

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