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How do I trigger a flow from a third-party form submission?

How to run a Spoks flow when someone submits a form from a third-party app like Shopify Forms, by tagging contacts on submission.

Written by Peter

Spoks's Form submission trigger only fires for Spoks's own forms. If you're using a third-party form tool like Shopify Forms, you can still trigger a Spoks flow when someone submits a form β€” by tagging contacts on submission and triggering a flow on the tag.

Step 1: Tag contacts who submit the form

Configure your form tool to apply a tag to anyone who submits the form. In Shopify Forms, this is done using the Add tag field in the form's settings. Use a unique tag name that's specific to this form β€” for example, newsletter-signup or popup-spring-promo. This makes it easy to filter on later.

Step 2: Create the flow in Spoks

In Spoks, create a new flow from scratch and configure the trigger:

  1. Set the trigger to Tags updated.

  2. Add a filter on the trigger: Tag includes [your tag].

The flow will run for every contact who gets tagged with that value.

Step 3: Configure what the flow does

From here, the flow works like any other Spoks flow. Add whatever actions you want to run for people who submit the form.

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