Getting started

Create your first form

1. Get a form URL

Submits.dev is invite only right now. Ask for an invitation on the contact page. Accepting it verifies your address and logs you in, so you can skip step 2. Then press New form on your dashboard and carry on from step 3.

On the home page, enter your email and press Get form URL. Use an address you'll keep: we refuse disposable email services and domains that can't take mail. If your address already has forms, log in first and press New form. A form created without logging in waits for you to approve it from an email, so nobody else can add live forms to your account. You can also add a second email that gets a copy of each submission, and a Google Sheet URL. Both are optional and you can add them later.

Your form URL appears straight away. It looks like this:

https://submits.dev/f/abcd1234

2. Verify your email

We send a verification link to your address. Open it and press the button on the page. The link works for 7 days.

Your form takes submissions before you verify. We hold up to 25 of them, unchecked and unsent. When you click the link, we check them for spam and email you the clean ones.

Verify within 7 days. After that we delete the form and anything it held, so you'd need to create it again and update your site.

3. Paste the form into your site

Set your form's action to your form URL and its method to POST:

<form action="https://submits.dev/f/abcd1234" method="POST">
  <input type="email" name="email" required>
  <textarea name="message" required></textarea>
  <input type="text" name="_gotcha" style="display:none" tabindex="-1" autocomplete="off">
  <button type="submit">Send</button>
</form>

Every field with a name is sent. The hidden _gotcha field catches bots, so keep it. Form fields covers the other special fields.

Don't add a file input. Submits.dev never accepts file uploads, and a post that carries a file is rejected.

4. Send a test

Submit your form once, or open it from your dashboard and press Send Test Submission. The email should arrive within a few seconds.