Email notifications

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How to turn on email notifications

Open your form. Then, click settings in the upper right section. Next, toggle the Self-email notifications switch and enter your email. Publish and share your form. You’ll now receive an email each time someone submits your form. Submissions made in Preview don’t send a self-email notification. To test it, open your form’s live link and submit it there.

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Notify colleagues or clients

You can also send your email notifications to more than one person. Add their emails. Self-email notifications can go to up to 6 addresses on a paid Fillout plan, including Team and Enterprise, or 2 addresses otherwise. A Zite plan doesn’t raise the limit. When you reach 2 addresses on the Fillout Free plan, Fillout shows Upgrade to notify more than 2 email addresses.

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Enable integration error notifications

Sometimes, using third-party integrations can lead to unexpected errors. For example, their service might be down or take too long to respond. Fillout will still save all form responses, and it can also email you with details about the error. The email names the form’s owner and the integration that failed, and includes a View submission button. From your dashboard, click your organization name in the upper left corner followed by Settings. Scroll down and toggle Integration alert for forms to enter your email.

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Send custom emails to respondents

You can also notify respondents when they submit your form. Check out this guide.

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Date format in emails

Date answers in notification emails follow the Date format set on the question. To change it, click the date field’s settings icon and pick a format under Format. This applies to self-email notifications, the respondent’s copy, abandoned form emails, and submission summaries in emails. If a question has no format set, dates are sent like 2026-09-29 and date-times like Sep 29, 2026 2:30 PM.

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