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Gravity Forms recipes

Text people who fill in a Gravity Forms form on your WordPress site.

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Two recipes for Gravity Forms. Each names its trigger and the BlueBot step, lists the fields to map and says how to test it with your own number before anyone else gets a text.

How Gravity Forms connects

  • Zapier: BlueBot’s Zapier app has a Send Text action and instant triggers for incoming texts and every change of state.
  • Text Hook: A Text Hook is a BlueBot address the app posts its own webhook to. You map its fields to a recipient and a template, and each post becomes a text.

Text people who fill in a form

PartWhat it is
TriggerWhen a Gravity Forms form is submitted
ActionBlueBot’s Send Text action
Connects throughZapier

Steps

  1. Connect the form to Zapier with Gravity Forms’ Zapier add-on.
  2. Start a Zap with Gravity Forms’ trigger for a new submission.
  3. Add BlueBot’s Send Text action and map the phone field to To.
  4. Write the text with the person’s first name mapped in.

Map the fields

BlueBot fieldMap it to
ToThe person’s mobile number from Gravity Forms. US numbers can leave off the +1.
TextHi {{first_name}}, thanks for your quote request. I’ll text you a price by tomorrow afternoon.
{{first_name}} in the textGravity Forms’s first name field.
Metadatasource set to gravity-forms, and record_id set to the record’s id, so the status and reply webhooks for this text can find the record again.
ServiceAuto, the default: iMessage when the person uses it, otherwise SMS through your iPhone.

Test it

Put your own number in To and press Test step. A text arrives on your phone from your own number, and Zapier shows the message BlueBot returned with state: "queued". Then map Gravity Forms’s field back into To and turn the Zap on.

Text yourself each entry

PartWhat it is
TriggerWhen a Gravity Forms form is submitted
ActionA BlueBot Text Hook turns each post into a text
Connects throughText Hook

Steps

  1. Make a Text Hook in BlueBot with your own number as the recipient.
  2. Send the form’s entries to the hook’s address with Gravity Forms’ Webhooks add-on.
  3. Submit a test entry, then map the fields you want from the payload BlueBot kept.

Map the fields

Text Hook settingSet it to
RecipientThe field in Gravity Forms’s post that holds the person’s phone number, written as a path such as {{body.phone}}.
TextNew quote request from {{body.name}}, {{body.phone}}: {{body.job}}
Metadatasource set to gravity-forms. BlueBot adds the hook’s id by itself.

Test it

Post a sample to the hook’s address with your own number in the phone field, as below. A text arrives on your phone, and the hook’s page lists the post.

A test post shaped like Gravity Forms’s
curl -X POST "https://usebluebot.com/h/YOUR_HOOK_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"phone":"sample phone","name":"sample name","job":"sample job"}'

Before you turn it on

  • Text only people who asked to hear from you. Anyone who replies STOP goes on your stop list, and BlueBot cancels texts to them. Stop words
  • A text that can’t go yet waits with a hold rather than failing: quiet hours, your Mac away, a daily limit. Holds
  • Gravity Forms with BlueBot on the integrations page says what else the two do together.