SMSTunnel for Fluent Forms
Form texts, built into the SMSTunnel plugin
A text when someone fills in your form
When someone submits a Fluent Forms form, your site can text you, and send the person a confirmation, from your own Android phone and number. People can simply reply. It's built into the SMSTunnel plugin: if Fluent Forms is active, the texts are there, with nothing else to install.
Two texts you can add to any form
A text to you or your team when someone submits the form. Several numbers allowed; each number gets its own text.
A confirmation text to the person who filled in the form, at the number they entered.
Setup
- 1. In WordPress, go to Plugins → Add Plugin, search for SMSTunnel, then Install Now and Activate (version 1.0.13 or newer).
- 2. Link your phone: open SMSTunnel → Quick Setup, scan the QR code with the SMSTunnel app (Connections → Link with QR code) and approve the connection on your phone.
- 3. Open your form and go to Settings & Integrations → Configure Integrations → Add New Integration. Pick SMSTunnel SMS or SMSTunnel SMS (2) Autoresponder.
- 4. Give the text a name, enter the phone numbers (or pick
the form's phone field, like
{inputs.phone}), write the message and click Save Feed.
If the site isn't linked to your phone yet, Fluent Forms says Link your phone first and takes you to Quick Setup.
What the texts say
-
Use the smartcodes menu next to the message to add answers from the form, like
{inputs.name}. -
{all_data}adds every answer as "Label: value", one per line. - Longer texts are cut at 1600 characters.
To you (the default):
New form submission: {all_data}
To the person who filled it in:
Thanks {inputs.name}, we got your message and will get back to you soon.
Phone numbers
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Numbers must be in international format, with
+and the country code. Numbers without it are skipped, so ask for it in your form. - Premium-rate numbers and short codes are always skipped.
- Several numbers in SMSTunnel SMS: separate them with commas. Each one gets its own text.
Screenshot
Switching texts off
Each text has its own Enable this text switch. To switch off SMSTunnel texts for every form, turn off SMSTunnel SMS in Fluent Forms → Integrations.
Build it with an AI assistant
Copy this prompt into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Copilot and replace the part in [brackets]. Don't paste your API key into the chat: the prompt doesn't need it.
Help me set up SMSTunnel texts for my Fluent Forms forms in WordPress.
About SMSTunnel (https://smstunnel.io): my own apps and tools hand text messages (SMS) to my SMSTunnel account, and my own Android phone sends them from my own number, on my own SIM and plan. The phone runs the SMSTunnel app from Google Play (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.smstunnel.app), signed in to my account.
What I want: [describe what should send a text, to whom, and when]
How it works:
- It is built into the SMSTunnel WordPress plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/smstunnel/, version 1.0.13 or newer): no extra plugin, and it works with the free version of Fluent Forms.
- First the site is linked to my phone: SMSTunnel → Quick Setup, then I scan the QR code with the SMSTunnel app (Connections → Link with QR code) and approve on the phone.
- In the form: Settings & Integrations → Configure Integrations → Add New Integration, then "SMSTunnel SMS" (a text to me or my team: Name, "Phone number(s)" separated by commas, each number gets its own text, Message) or "SMSTunnel SMS (2) Autoresponder" (a confirmation text to the person who filled in the form, at the number they entered: "Phone number of the person who filled in the form", for example {inputs.phone}). Then "Save Feed".
- Messages use Fluent Forms smartcodes such as {inputs.name}; {all_data} adds every answer as "Label: value", one per line. Longer texts are cut at 1600 characters.
- Numbers must include the country code (+...); numbers without it, premium-rate numbers and short codes are skipped, so the form should collect numbers in international format.
- Each text has an "Enable this text" switch; SMSTunnel texts can be switched off for all forms in Fluent Forms → Integrations. If my phone is offline, the texts wait and go out when it is back.
Rules for your answer:
- Do not ask for my SMSTunnel password or API key and do not put a real key in your answer; I will not paste it in this chat.
- Phone numbers must be in international format (+ and the country code).
- Help me test it with my own number first.
- Only send texts people expect from me. No unsolicited texts. Responsible use
Text people who expect it: a confirmation to someone who just filled in your form, an alert to you. Sending unsolicited messages from a consumer SIM generally breaches mobile carrier terms of service.
SMSTunnel is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by WPManageNinja (Fluent Forms). Fluent Forms is a trademark of its owner.
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