How to send confirmation emails on your WordPress site

Do you want to setup confirmation mails on your WordPress site?

When you maintain an eCommerce or other website confirmation mails are the important ones to contact our customers or viewers.

In this tutorial, I’ll explain how to send confirmation emails on your WordPress site.

What is Confirmation Mail?

A confirmation mail is a normal autoresponder mail that confirms what users have done on your website. Like the Contact form on your website, order confirmation on your eCommerce site, etc. They will receive a confirmation mail for your end. There are few types of confirmation mail listed here.

• Order Confirmation Mail (From your eCommerce site)
• Contact form Confirmation (When user submit a contact form on your website)
• Booking Confirmation (When the user or visitor book a product form your website)
• Newsletter Confirmation (When the user  subscribe your newsletter in newsletter form)
• Registration confirmation (When the user submit registration form)

Benefits of Confirmation Emails

Sending confirmation emails is an important one when you maintain an eCommerce website. And it’s part of the email marketing strategy.

We can use additional links on the confirmation emails about featured articles or other content on your website. You can understand the users what they really want.

Now let’s see how to send confirmation emails on WordPress. In this case, ill recommends Formidable Forms it’s easy to create by using drag and drop form builder.

How to Send Confirmation Emails on your WordPress Website

Sending a confirmation mail on your site we must create a WordPress form. I’ll show you how to create a WordPress form in a simple way.

WordPress Form

Creating a WordPress form is an easy way in Formidable forms. You have to decide which type of form you want to create. Like eCommerce order forms, registration forms, newsletter subscription forms, etc.

In Formidable forms, you just need to select the template which type of you want. And confirmation emails have been already including in your form.

Set up the Confirmation mail

After creating a WordPress form then go to the form setting page, click on the actions, and a notification tab. Below the form action, select the “Send Email” and configure your confirmation mail. Like the subject, email message, reply mail, etc.

After that click “save all your changes”. You can insert the form in you any of your pages by adding a Formidable forms block and choose the WordPress form.

That’s all when your users perform an action on your form, they will automatically receive a confirmation email.

Improve email deliverability

All done you have configured confirmation mail on your WordPress site. Some users may face email deliverability issues on their site.

If you facing these issues there is no purpose for configuring confirmation emails.

Now let’s see about email deliverability and how can improve that.

Email deliverability is an important thing when you sending a confirmation email. It’s helpful to deliver confirmation emails to your users.

Using a dedicated SMTP server is a way to improve your email deliverability. There are a lot of good SMTP servers out there. Like Amazon SES, SendGrid, MailGun, etc.

I’ll recommend WP Mail SMTP to improve your email deliverability you can check this article – How to Set up WP Mail SMTP into WordPress Site

That’s all, Now let’s start with Formidable Forms and start to send your confirmation emails.

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