SMSTunnel for Forminator
Form texts, built into the SMSTunnel plugin
A text when someone fills in your form
When someone submits a Forminator 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: activate it once in Forminator and add it to any form.
Two texts you can add to any form
A text to you or your team. 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. Activate SMSTunnel once: Forminator → Integrations, find SMSTunnel under Available Apps, click + and Activate.
- 4. Open your form, go to its Integrations tab and click + next to SMSTunnel.
- 5. Give the text a name and choose Who gets this text?, then Next. Enter the numbers (or pick the form's phone field), write the message and click Save.
What the texts say
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Use the menu next to the message to add answers from the form, with the form's field tags like
{name-1}or{textarea-1}. -
{all_fields}adds every answer as "Label: value";{all_non_empty_fields}skips the empty ones. Also:{form_name}and{submission_id}. - Longer texts are cut at 1600 characters.
To you (the default):
New form submission: {all_fields}
To the person who filled it in:
Thanks {name-1}, we got: {textarea-1}
Phone numbers
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Numbers must be in international format, with
+and the country code. In a Phone field, set Validation to International. - Numbers without the country code, premium-rate numbers and short codes are skipped.
- Several numbers in SMSTunnel SMS: separate them with commas. Each one gets its own text.
- A form can have several texts; each one shows under Active Apps in the form's Integrations tab.
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 Forminator 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 Forminator.
- 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.
- Activate SMSTunnel once in Forminator → Integrations (Available Apps → SMSTunnel → Activate).
- In the form: Integrations tab → + next to SMSTunnel. Step "Set up the text": a Name, then "Who gets this text?": "SMSTunnel SMS" (a text to me or my team; "Phone number(s)" separated by commas, each number gets its own text) or "SMSTunnel SMS (2) Autoresponder" (a confirmation text to the person who filled in the form, from the form's "Phone field"). Then the Message, and Save. A form can have several texts.
- Messages use the form's field tags, like {name-1} or {textarea-1}; {all_fields} adds every answer as "Label: value"; also {all_non_empty_fields}, {form_name} and {submission_id}. Longer texts are cut at 1600 characters.
- Numbers must include the country code (+...); numbers without it, premium-rate numbers and short codes are skipped. In a Phone field, set Validation to International.
- 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 WPMU DEV / Incsub (Forminator). Forminator is a trademark of its owner.
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