New Form Submission Email - Shoutout

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Hello,

I had a quick question for everyone. So, I just created an entire user input form and I already have my thank-you page designed for after they click submit. My question is, how do I (only me) get an email once someone fills out that form. I know they just added the feature of sending an email upon form submission, however, there are elements to that I need to change. In that example, it has the user who filled out the form receiving an email and it is using a third party email provider.

In my case, I want to be the only one who receives the email and I use Wix Shoutout, but really I do not even need an email service, because the only email going out would be to me. For example, on Wix when a new subscriber fills out the “Wix Get Subscribers” form, the website owner can opt-in for New Subscriber Notifications. I want to have that same ability, however, with my custom user input form I created.

If anyone needs more clarification, let me know. Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you,

Michael

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Hi Michael,
to clarify:

  • are you OK with receiving a plain old email or does it have to be a shoutout email?
  • do you have any problem with using a 3rd party email service?

thanks!

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I need this same service. I don’t have a problem with a plain old email notification. Does not have to be a Shoutout. And I could use a 3rd party email service if I have too, but I would love it if Wix could just notify me of a form submission like it does when I get a new subscriber.

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Ziv,

  1. I am fine with a plain old email, it does not have to be a shoutout. It would be nice if I got an email containing the information that was submitted in the form however.

  2. I do not have a problem using a 3rd party email service.

Thank you,

Michael

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OK guys,
see this thread in the forum: https://www.wix.com/code/home/forum/feature-requests/user-input-submit-button-that-links-to-email-submission

it should guide you all the way to implementing this.

[BTW, the forum has a search feature that works really nice, try it out to look for threads that may already contain the information you need].

good luck!

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Ziv,

Thank you!

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Ziv,

Another quick question. So I followed the instructions in the link your provided me and I decided to use SendGrid to make this easier. Although, the issue I am running into is the event handler on the Page Code on the page my form is located. Please check the attached image and let me know if I did something wrong. The only code I changed in all three provided was the first one. I changed my API key, sender email and recipient email.

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you have to make sure the selector names used by $w match the names of components on your page.

so for example the call to $w(“#sportDataset”) must match a dataset that has the name “sportDataset” on the page.

I guess on your page the elements are called differently so you need to replace the names from the sample with the actual names of your elements.

good luck.

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Ziv,

Thank you!