Using The Caldera Forms Auto Responder Processor

Caldera Forms Auto Responder processor

The Caldera Forms auto-responder processor is included in Caldera Forms core. It can be used to send one or more emails when a form is submitted. It can be used in combination with the main Email Notification.

The email notification, setup under the Email Tab is designed to be used to notify the site owner of the form submission and the auto-responder processor, which is added under the Processors Tab is designed to send emails to the person filling out the tab. You may choose, based on your needs, to use these two features of Caldera Forms in the reverse way, or in some other way.

While forms only have one email notification, they can have as many auto-responder processors as possible. This means that if you require multiple emails to be sent to different recipients with different messages, the auto-responder processor is a great tool. In addition, if you would like to conditionally change who the recipents of the email is the auto-responder is a great tool, since it has conditional logic and you can add as many as you need, choosing which one will run using conditional logic based on form input.

Setting Up The Processor

Adding a Caldera Forms processorTo add a auto-repsonder processor to your form, go to the Processors Tab in the form editor. Then click the Add Processor button. This will open a modal that lists all installed processors. Select the Auto Responder processor.

Caldera Forms Auto Responder processorIn the auto-responder’s settings you can make the following choices to configure the processor:

  • From Name The name of the person or company that the email will appear to have been sent from.
  • From Email The email address of the name or company the email will appear to have been set from.
    • If this field is left empty, the site’s admin email address will be used.
  • Reply To Email The email for replies to this email.This will allow the email to be replied directly to the sender.
  • Email Subject The Subject line for the emails
  • Recipient Name: Gives a name to the addressee. Can use magic tags to pull form input like “First Name,” “Last Name”
  • Recipient Email The address that this message will be sent to. Can use magic tags to pull form submitter information like “Email”
  • Message The text body of the email message

Keep in mind that each of these fields can be set with a hardcoded value or the value of a submitted form field using Caldera Forms magic tags.

Setting The Autoresponse To Be Sent As HTML or Plain Text

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