Getting Started with Power Automate for WPForms
After purchasing the Power Automate for WPForms plugin, you will be able to download the plugin from the Downloads area on this website.
You will need your license key to activate the plugin after installation. You can get this by visiting the Subscriptions page and clicking View on your active subscription.
Note that you can manage all of your subscription details from this page.
Installing and Activating the Power Automate for WPForms plugin
To install the plugin on your WordPress site, go to the WordPress admin area, then go to Plugins > Add New in the navigation.
Next, you’ll click “Upload Plugin” in the top part of the page you see.
After you click the button, you’ll need to browse your filesystem until you find the plugin .zip file you downloaded in the previous step.
You have to say “*boop*” when you click this button.
On the next screen, you’ll see some feedback as WordPress installs the plugin, you’ll also need to Activate the plugin, but this is not the same as activating the license, which you’ll need to do in the next step. All that this Activation does at this step is turn on the code you uploaded to your WordPress site.
Activating your plugin license
Once you have the plugin installed, navigate in your WordPress Admin area to WPForms > Settings > Integrations, then click on Power Automate.
You will need your license key from the previous steps in order to complete the next step. You can get your license key from the Subscriptions page.
IMPORTANT: Once you have entered your license key, you will need to reload the Integration Settings page to see the items below!
You may need to reload the page to see these.
Setting up your connection in Power Automate
In order to setup your connection to Power Automate, go to make.powerautomate.com and create a new flow. Then add a WPForms trigger or action to your flow. You will see the following item.
You will need to specify a Connection name which we recommend to be the domain name of the website you are setting up. For each of the items License Key, Secret Key, URL For Power Automate Connection you may use the copy feature in the little icon next to each item in your WPForms integration settings page.
Using WPForms in Power Automate
The WPForms connector supports a single trigger When a new WPForms entry is submitted that starts your flow when that form is submitted. We are planning to add additional triggers in the future.
The WPForms connector contains several actions, you can see a list of all of them by searching for wpforms in the new step dialog in Power Automate.
Each of these actions provides you with the ability to fetch data from your WPForms instance.
You are able to use data from any action or trigger as dynamic content in any following step with over 1000 other services.
Each of the fields you can use are described with metadata telling you what type of field they are. The fields will provide a human-readable value for each item but all of the raw details are provided through the connector, so advanced users can access the raw values using expressions.
Frequently Asked Questions
To check if your connection to Power Automate is working you can use the WPForms logging feature to observe all interactions with Power Automate. To do this go to WordPress Admin > WPForms > Tools > Logs and Enable Logs
