Contact Form 7 Delayed Notifications enhances your communication strategy by allowing you to schedule notifications after form submissions. Perfect for follow-ups, it ensures messages are sent at the optimal time, improving engagement and customer satisfaction. Easy to set up and compatible with Contact Form 7, it’s an essential tool for any website owner.
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Scheduled Notification After Form Submission ensures users receive timely updates following their form submission. This feature automates the process of sending customized notifications at predetermined intervals, enhancing user engagement and providing essential information or confirmations directly related to their submitted data, without any manual intervention needed from administrators.
Choose a date and time in the future for your notification to be sent. Great for event reminders.
Simply check the box Delay Notifications at the bottom of your Contact Form 7 notification config, then select the period of time you’d like from the drop-down and enter the time period you want to delay the message.
Got a lot of emails scheduled to go out? Wondering whether a particular customer received their notification already? Our Contact Form 7 delayed notifications screen will show you all email notifications that are scheduled to go out. Need to cancel an outgoing Contact Form 7 delayed notification before it reaches your customer? No problem, the plugin will allow you to do that as well.
We utilize WordPress’ built-in WP-Cron to ensure that your delayed emails are sent out reliably.
Perfect for Appointment Scheduling!
Let your customers choose a date and time on your form, and Contact Form 7 delayed notifications can send their appointment reminder email any time before the date they chose. For example, if they booked you for next Wednesday, our plugin can send them a notification 2 days prior, utilizing the delay feature based upon the date field that you include in your form. Super easy. Super effective!
Schedule a notification to be sent out at the next chosen day and time of the week from the moment of submission. For example, if you only want notifications to go out on Wednesdays and Fridays at 8am and someone submits their form on Thursday evening, this feature will send out the notification the next morning (Friday at 8am).
Delay a notification based upon form field values taken from your Contact Form 7 form. This feature allows you to create a date field and a time field in your form, then to set the schedule date/time for a period of time either before or after that time and date.
For example, if your user chooses the 12th of October at 3pm, you can either send the notification at that exact date and time, or choose to send the email 1 day after or before Oct. 12th at 3pm. This is a great feature for sending reminders about appointment bookings taken with Contact Form 7!
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Need a particular notification to go out daily, weekly, or even monthly, without end? Our Recurring Notifications feature lets you repeat notification at specific intervals. Include a start date, end date, and a specific time you’d like the notifications to repeat for an even more fine tuned delivery sequence.
To set up delayed notifications in Contact Form 7, you’ll need to use additional plugins or custom code as the core plugin doesn’t support this feature natively. One approach is using the “Contact Form 7 – Before After Mail” plugin to add delay functionality. After installing and activating the plugin:
1. Navigate to your form’s settings in Contact Form 7.
2. In the “Mail” tab, configure your email as usual.
3. Then, go to the new “Before After Mail” section added by the plugin.
4. Here, you can set a delay for when the email should be sent after form submission.
Remember that server or WordPress scheduling tasks limitations might affect how accurately these delays work, so testing with different intervals is advised to ensure it meets your needs.
If you prefer coding or have specific requirements, consider adding custom hooks into functions.php of your theme for controlling email dispatch timing based on WP-Cron jobs. However, this requires familiarity with PHP and WordPress’s internal mechanisms.
Always back up your website before making changes or adding new plugins to avoid unintended consequences.
