Contact form on Netlify

Netlify comes with its own form service, Netlify Forms. FormPost is the alternative if your submissions should stay with a provider in Germany, or if your form should work regardless of where you host.

Before you start: create a form in FormPost

Sign up for FormPost, create a form and enter the domain your site runs on. We then show you your form's address. It replaces https://www.formpost.eu/f/abc123 in the code below – nothing else needs to change.

Add the form to your site

The code below is a complete contact page. Whether you use plain HTML, a static site generator or a framework, copy the form block to the right place. Hugo, Jekyll, Astro and Eleventy have their own guides.

contact.html

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Contact</title>
</head>
<body>
  <form action="https://www.formpost.eu/f/abc123" method="POST">
    <label for="email">Email</label>
    <input type="email" id="email" name="email" required>

    <label for="message">Message</label>
    <textarea id="message" name="message" required></textarea>

    <input type="text" name="_gotcha" style="display:none;" tabindex="-1" autocomplete="off">

    <button type="submit">Send</button>
  </form>
</body>
</html>

Good to know

If Netlify Forms is enough for you, you don't need FormPost. Netlify is a US provider. With FormPost your submissions stay in Germany, and you can move your site to another host later without rebuilding the form.
Leave out the netlify and data-netlify="true" attributes. Otherwise Netlify registers the form for Netlify Forms during the build.
In FormPost, enter the domain your site runs on – your-site.netlify.app or your own domain.
Deploy previews and branch deploys run under their own addresses, such as deploy-preview-12--your-site.netlify.app. We reject submissions from there; that's the domain lock, not a bug. Test on your production address or with the test form in your dashboard.

What FormPost cannot do today

Forms are submitted the classic way, meaning the page changes. Sending in the background via JavaScript is not supported at present.
We do not accept file attachments.
FormPost does not collect consent from your visitors. The notice in your own privacy policy remains your job – the wording for it is waiting, ready to copy, next to your form.

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