How to integrate Contact Form 7 to Autopilot Efficiently

Overview

Advanced Form Integration plugin allows you to integrate Contact Form 7 to Autopilot. When a user fills a form on your website, the plugin will send the data to your Autopilot account and create a new contact with custom fields & tags. You can also add the account to a list.

Supported Features

• Free: Create a new contact with all basic (First Name, Last Name, Email etc) fields.
• Paid: Additionally supports custom fields and tags. It also allows adding the prospect to a preferred list.

Requirements

• Make sure that the Advanced Form Integration plugin is installed and activated.
• The feature is supported under the free license so no payment is needed. Enjoy!
• Read plugin documentation for Contact Form 7 and Autopilot. It is not required but helpful for better understanding.

Obtaining Autopilot API Key

Before start, you are required to save the API Key in plugin settings.

1. Go to autopilothq.com and login with your account.
2. Go Settings>Autopilot API
3. Click “Generate” and Copy API Key
4. Go to the WordPress admin area, click AFI > Settings.
5. Select the Autopilot tab.
6. Paste the API key in the Access Token input box and click Save Changes.

Create New Integration

Once API Key is saved you can start creating new integration. Click on Add New under AFI menu, New Integration page will appear.

Title

A default title will be auto-generated with an auto incremental number. You can rename it to something related to the task. It will help you to quickly recognize the correct one when there is multiple integrations setup.

Trigger

Select Contact Form 7 in Form Provider dropdown. Contact Form 7 plugin must be installed and activated otherwise you won’t see it listed. After selecting Contact Form 7, all forms built under Contact Form 7 will be fetched and auto-populated in the Form/Task Name dropdown. Select the form that you want to integrate.

Action

Select Autopilot [PRO] in Platform dropdown.

Map Fields

Available campaign lists will be auto-populated. Select the desired one. Map Email, First Name, Last Name, Phone, Spouse details, etc., and other fields that you want. Skip the fields that not needed. You can also add tags and custom fields Finally, click the Save Integration button.

Conditional Logic

Please check the documentation on Conditional Logic .

Frequently asked questions

Troubleshooting

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