How do I create a contact form in Lovable?

Describe the form fields you want in chat (name, email, message) and ask Lovable to build a contact form; it will generate the React form with validation and wire it to a submit handler.

Where 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.

How 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.

How 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.

Why isn't my Lovable contact form working?

Check, in order: whether a submit handler is actually wired up, whether a backend (Lovable Cloud/Supabase) is connected if you're saving data, whether client-side validation is blocking submission, and the browser console for errors.

Why aren't form emails being delivered?

Most delivery failures trace back to an unverified sending domain, spam-folder filtering, or a server function that's failing silently — check your email provider's logs (e.g. Resend's dashboard) first.

How do I stop spam form submissions?

Add a honeypot field, rate-limit submissions server-side, and validate inputs strictly; for public-facing high-traffic forms, add a CAPTCHA on top.

How do I add CAPTCHA to Lovable?

Ask Lovable to integrate a CAPTCHA provider such as Google reCAPTCHA or Cloudflare Turnstile, including the site key on the front end and server-side verification of the token before accepting the submission.

How do I validate form fields?

Describe the exact rules per field (required, format, length, matching) to Lovable and ask for both client-side validation for instant feedback and server-side validation before the data is saved.

How do I create a multi-step form?

Describe the steps and what data each collects, and ask Lovable to build a wizard-style form that keeps state across steps and only submits everything on the final step.

How do I upload files through a form?

Use Lovable Cloud's (or Supabase's) storage buckets: ask Lovable to add a file input, restrict file type and size, and upload to a storage bucket with access rules controlling who can read the file later.

How do I create an enquiry management dashboard?

Ask Lovable to build an admin-only page that lists submissions from your database table, with search, status filters and the ability to mark enquiries as handled — protected by authentication and row-level security.

How do I connect Resend to Lovable?

Open the Resend integration in Lovable (or ask in chat to connect Resend), authorise your Resend account, then prompt Lovable to use it for whatever emails you need sent.

How do I send automatic confirmation emails?

Last checked 31 Aug 2026

Short answer

Ask Lovable to trigger a server-side function after a successful form submission (or sign-up) that sends a confirmation email via an integration like Resend, using a template you describe.

Trigger it on success, not before

A confirmation email should fire only after the underlying action succeeds — the form save, the order, the sign-up — not before, or a failed submission looks confirmed.

After a contact form submission is successfully saved to the database, send the submitter a confirmation email via Resend: subject "We've received your enquiry", with a short thank-you message and their submitted message quoted back to them.

Two different "confirmation" scenarios

Form/enquiry confirmation: reassures a customer their message was received — described above.
Account/email confirmation: verifying a user's email during sign-up. If you're using Lovable Cloud's built-in auth, this is largely handled by email authentication already, and you'd customise the auth email template instead of building this from scratch.

Be clear with Lovable which one you mean, since the implementation differs.

Keep the sender trustworthy

Confirmation emails sent from an unverified or generic address are likely to land in spam and look unprofessional. Set up your own sending domain if you haven't — see how do I use my own email domain.

What usually goes wrong

Sending before the save is confirmed: if the database insert can fail, make sure the email only fires after it actually succeeds.
No unsubscribe or reply-to for marketing-style confirmations: transactional confirmations (order received, enquiry received) don't need unsubscribe links, but make sure the reply-to address actually reaches you if customers respond.
Duplicate sends: if a user resubmits after a network hiccup, check you're not sending two confirmation emails for one real submission.

Test the full path — submit, check the database row, check the email arrives — rather than assuming each piece works because the others do.

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