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How can I send form submissions data to an external system or webhook like Zapier?

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Below are instructions on how you can setup your forms so that submissions get posted to another system or API endpoint automatically on form submit.

  • Go to your "My Forms" screen and click on the edit icon of the form you wish to get form submissions data from. The icon looks like this:
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  • Now that you are in the form editor, go to the “Destination” settings module placed at the right menu. It looks like this:
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  • When you click on this module it will show a popup with this option:
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  • To send form submissions data to a 3rd Party web service, tick "3rd Party URL", then enter the URL of the web-service which should be sent the form submissions data on each submission of the form. (Note: you can still keep the other options ticked so that form submissions still go to the GlobalPatron database, or an E-mail address at the same time)

  • Click on “Save Changes"

  • From then onwards, any form submissions will also post the collected JSON data to the URL you have specified above.

Technical Details

  • The form submission data will be sent as a HTTPS POST in JSON format, with the following structure:
    {
        "form_id": "xxxxxxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx",
        "form_fields":
            [
                {
                    "unique_system_name": "gp_form_field_xxxxxxxxxxxxx",
                    "submitted_value": "[FIELD VALUE HERE]"
                },
                {
                    "unique_system_name": "gp_form_field_xxxxxxxxxxxxx",
                    "submitted_value": "[FIELD VALUE HERE]"
                },
                {
                    "unique_system_name": "gp_form_field_xxxxxxxxxxxxx",
                    "submitted_value": "[FIELD VALUE HERE]"
                }
           ]
    }

  • To avoid the scenario of someone finding out your webhook URL and spamming it, it is recommended to pass a unique key in the header value with the post (or as a querystring parameter) for your system to be able to authorise the post as having come via GlobalPatron

 

Zapier Users

If you are a Zapier user please view this article which includes detailed Zapier Integration Instructions

Once the data is posted to a Zapier "Raw Catch WebHook" you can basically send on the data to almost ANYTHING, for example you can send the form submission data to:

 

 

 

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