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 send automatic confirmation emails?

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.

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 use my own email domain?

Last checked 31 Aug 2026

Short answer

Verify your domain with your email provider (Resend or similar) by adding the SPF, DKIM and DMARC DNS records it gives you, then ask Lovable to send from an address on that domain instead of a shared or test address.

Why this matters

Emails sent from a shared or unverified address are more likely to land in spam and look unprofessional (onboarding@resend.dev versus hello@yourbusiness.com). Verifying your own domain fixes both, and is required by most providers before they'll let you send to arbitrary recipients at scale.

Steps

In your email provider (e.g. Resend): add your domain and it will generate DNS records — typically SPF, DKIM, and often a DMARC recommendation.
Add those records at your domain registrar or DNS host. If your domain's DNS is managed through Lovable's custom domain setup, ask Lovable to help add the records there; otherwise add them wherever your domain's DNS is hosted.
Wait for verification — DNS propagation can take anywhere from minutes to a few hours.
Update the sending address in your app:

Send all outgoing emails from hello@yourdomain.com instead of the test address, now that the domain is verified.

If you're using Lovable's own auth emails

Lovable Cloud also supports sending authentication emails (sign-up confirmation, password reset) from your own domain rather than a generic Lovable address, with automatic DNS/SPF/DKIM/DMARC setup for that specific case — ask Lovable to enable custom domain sending for auth emails if that's what you need, distinct from transactional emails sent via Resend for forms.

What usually goes wrong

DNS records added in the wrong place: if your domain uses one registrar for DNS and a different host for the site, records must go where the domain's DNS is actually managed.
DMARC set too strictly, too early: an aggressive DMARC policy (p=reject) before you're confident everything is passing SPF/DKIM can cause legitimate emails to bounce — start with p=none and monitor.
Forgetting subdomains: some providers want a dedicated sending subdomain (e.g. mail.yourdomain.com) rather than the root domain — follow the provider's exact instructions.

If email deliverability is business-critical, this is one area where getting a second pair of eyes from PromptSites.com is worth it — misconfigured DMARC can silently block real customer email.

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