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Contact Form 7 Make integrationAutomate Contact Form 7 with Make.

What if every message from your WordPress form landed exactly where your team works? The Contact Form 7 Make integration gives you 1 instant trigger that fires on each new submission. This guide shows you how to connect it and build your first scenario.

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What you can automate

What can the Contact Form 7 Make integration do for you?

The Contact Form 7 Make integration hands each form entry to Make, the tool where you build a scenario (a chain of automated steps). It has one module (a brick of the scenario), Watch New Form Submission, which starts that scenario whenever a visitor sends your form, so the data can move on to other apps without copy and paste.

Leads that reach sales on their own. A quote request arrives, Watch New Form Submission picks it up, and the next module in the scenario creates the contact in your CRM. Nobody has to open the WordPress dashboard to find it.

A support inbox that sorts itself. Send each message to a shared channel or a ticket tool, so the right person answers first. Any app Make supports can sit after the trigger, and Make lists 3,000+ standard apps on every plan.

A clean record of every request. Add a row to a spreadsheet for each bundle (one submission passing from module to module), which gives marketing a list to review.

Know the limit before you start: this app only watches submissions. It cannot edit a form, reply to a visitor, or read old entries, and it has no Make an API Call module. If you also use n8n, the n8n vs Make comparison helps you pick, and the Make training covers the basics of scenarios.

Connect

How do you connect Contact Form 7 to Make?

  1. 01

    Add the trigger

    In a new scenario, click the + and search for Contact Form 7. Pick Watch New Form Submission, then click Create a connection. A connection is your site linked to Make once, and every later scenario can reuse it.

  2. 02

    Name and authorize

    Give the connection a name you will recognize, such as the site it belongs to. Then follow what Make asks for: either approve access on the page that opens, or paste the key your site gives you.

  3. 03

    Save the connection

    Click Save. Make can now receive submissions from that site, and the trigger is ready for the next settings in the module.

First scenario

Your first scenario with Contact Form 7

GoalWhen a visitor sends your Contact Form 7 form, Make passes the entry to the next app in your scenario.

  1. 01

    Create the scenario

    Open the Scenarios page, create a new scenario, and click the + to add your first module. Search for Contact Form 7 and choose Watch New Form Submission.

  2. 02

    Link your site

    Click Create a connection and finish the authorization. Once the connection exists, Make can offer the options it reads from your site in the module fields.

  3. 03

    Add the destination

    Click the + on the right of the trigger to add the next module, for example a CRM or a spreadsheet. Map the submitted fields from the trigger into it.

  4. 04

    Test with a real entry

    Click Run once, then send a test message through your form. Read the bundle each module received to check that names and emails landed in the right place.

  5. 05

    Switch it on

    Turn the scenario on. Because this trigger is instant, the site calls Make when a submission comes in, so you do not wait for the 15 minute default schedule.

Triggers

What starts a Contact Form 7 scenario

1 module starts a scenario when something happens in Contact Form 7. A scheduled trigger is checked by Make on the scenario's schedule; an instant one is called by Contact Form 7 as soon as it happens.

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Watch New Form Submission

Instant trigger

In Make“Watch new form submissions from your form”

You get each new form entry inside Make the moment a visitor submits it, ready to send wherever your team needs it. This is the only module of the app, so every scenario built on Contact Form 7 starts here.

How it fires
instant, the app calls Make through a webhook as soon as it happens.
When to use it
a quote or contact request that should reach a salesperson while the visitor is still interested.
Watch out
the module watches new submissions only; it has no way to fetch entries that already sit in your site, so plan another route for older data.
Need help

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FAQ

Contact Form 7 and Make: common questions

01Is the Contact Form 7 Make integration free?
Yes. Contact Form 7 is a standard app in Make, so it works on the Free plan. That plan has limits: 2 active scenarios, a scheduled run at most every 15 minutes, 5 minutes of execution per run, files up to 5 MB and 512 MB of data transfer. Paid plans (Core, Pro, Teams and Enterprise) lower the interval to 1 minute, remove the cap on active scenarios and count usage in operations, where one operation is one module handling one bundle.
02What do you need to connect Contact Form 7 to Make?
You need access to the WordPress site that runs the form and a Make account. The documentation lists no special prerequisite. In the module, click Create a connection, name it if you like, then either approve access on the page that opens or paste the key your site provides, and click Save. The same connection then works in every scenario that uses this app. Once saved, the connection appears in the list of the module, so a second scenario on the same site takes a single click to set up.
03Does the Contact Form 7 trigger work in real time?
Yes. Watch New Form Submission is an instant trigger: the app calls Make through a webhook as soon as someone submits the form. That means the scenario reacts to the submission itself instead of checking on a schedule, which for a new scenario is every 15 minutes by default. The only condition is that the scenario is switched on. In practice, a visitor who asks for a quote can have a CRM record or a team alert waiting almost as soon as they press Send, which is the whole point of this trigger for lead handling.
04What if the Contact Form 7 module you need is missing?
It depends on what you need. The app has a single trigger and no Make an API Call module, so it cannot update forms or fetch past entries. For everything after the submission, add modules from other apps: Make offers 3,000+ standard apps. If your case needs more than that, the Hack'celeration team can look at it with you through the help form on this page. Start small, with one destination app, and add more modules once the first run works.
05Should you use Make or n8n for Contact Form 7?
It depends on the tool your team already runs. The same app often has a node in n8n too, so both can react to new submissions. With Make, you build the flow visually, pick Watch New Form Submission and add the next apps in the same editor. Compare the other apps in your process and the way each tool counts usage, then choose the one where the rest of your automations already live.
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