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Set Up a Contact Form With Email Notifications
Stores the submission first, then emails a notification and a confirmation — so a failed email never loses the lead.
When to use it
Lead capture
Lovable Prompt
Add a contact form to this project. Fields: name (required), email (required, validated), subject, message (required). Behaviour: - Validate on the client and again on the server. - Save every submission to the database first. - Only after saving, send a notification email to the site owner and a confirmation email to the person who submitted. - If email sending fails, still keep the saved submission and log the failure — do not show the user a false error. - Show explicit loading, success and error states. - Add basic abuse protection: a honeypot field and a simple rate limit per address. Do not display any email address publicly anywhere in the interface.
Why it works
Saving before sending makes the flow resilient, and stating the failure behaviour prevents a misleading success message.
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You might also need
- GuideHow to Add Transactional Email with ResendSend notification and confirmation emails from your project — including domain verification and the deliverability basics.
- AnswerWhere do Lovable form submissions go?Nowhere, by default — a form only exists on the front end until you connect a destination: a database table (Lovable Cloud/Supabase) and/or an outgoing email via an integration like Resend.
- AnswerHow do I email form submissions to myself?Connect an email integration (Resend is the standard option), then ask Lovable to trigger a server-side function that emails you the form data whenever it's submitted.
- AnswerHow do I save form submissions to a database?Connect Lovable Cloud (or your own Supabase project), then ask Lovable to create a table for submissions and wire the form's submit handler to insert a row into it, with row-level security limiting who can read the data.
