What is Form Notify - Email Notifications

Form Notify - Email Notifications is a powerful Google Workspace add-on designed to streamline and enhance your experience with Google Forms. This innovative tool enables you to take control of your form submissions by providing robust email notification capabilities. Whether you're managing a survey, collecting feedback, or conducting any form-based activity, Form Notify ensures that you stay informed and connected with your respondents.

Key Features

1. Google Form to Email

Form Notify simplifies the process of receiving timely notifications by seamlessly integrating Google Forms with your email. Instantly receive updates directly in your inbox whenever someone submits a response to your form.

2. Google Form Email Notification

Never miss a beat with our Google Form Email Notification feature. Receive comprehensive email alerts that include relevant details about the submitted form, ensuring you're always in the loop and can take prompt action.

3. Send Email on Form Submit

With Form Notify, automate your communication by sending customized emails to both form responders and owners immediately upon form submission. Customize the content to suit your needs and maintain a professional and personalized touch in every interaction.

4. Condition-Based Email Sending

Take your email notifications to the next level by setting up conditions on form responses. Form Notify allows you to evaluate conditions and send emails based on specific criteria, ensuring that your communication is tailored to the unique circumstances of each submission.

5. Content Customization

Personalize your email messages effortlessly. Form Notify lets you customize the content of your emails, allowing you to convey information in a way that resonates with your audience.

6. Replay Past Messages

Review and resend past email messages with ease. Form Notify keeps a record of your communication history, giving you the ability to revisit and resend messages as needed.

7. Pause Processing Temporarily

In situations where you need to temporarily halt email notifications, Form Notify has you covered. Pause processing to prevent emails from being sent during specific periods, ensuring that you have full control over the timing of your communications.

Why do I need this

When some one responds to your google form you want to know who responded and what response was submitted. For this you have to open the form and click on Responses tab as shown below to see the responses.If you want to be automatically notified of the responses by Email then you can enable this by clicking on  Get email notifications for new responses  under responses tab as shown below.

After you enable email notifications you receive an email as shown below whenever a new response comes in.

As you can see this has several limitations .The email doesn't display the response content and you have to click on the link to read the response.If you want others in your team to be notified you can not do that today .

This is where the add-on helps .Using this add-on  you can configure whom to send emails and what to include  in the email.