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.

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?

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 aren't form emails being delivered?

Last checked 31 Aug 2026

Short answer

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.

Start with the provider's own logs

If you're using Resend, its dashboard shows every send attempt with a delivery status — bounced, delivered, or blocked. This is the fastest way to tell whether Lovable's server function is even calling the API successfully, or whether the email left but never arrived.

Ask Lovable: "Log the response from the Resend API call so I can see if the send succeeded or failed."

Common causes

Unverified sending domain: providers restrict unverified accounts to a test address or the account owner's own email. Sending "from" your own domain (e.g. hello@yourdomain.com) needs SPF, DKIM and DMARC records verified — see how do I use my own email domain.
Landing in spam: correctly configured SPF/DKIM/DMARC significantly reduces this, but a brand-new domain with no sending history is still more likely to be flagged initially.
Server function error swallowed silently: if the function throws before calling the email API, the form may show a success message while nothing was sent. Ask Lovable to surface errors rather than assume success.
Wrong recipient address: a typo in the "to" address hardcoded in the function is easy to miss.

Fix prompt

Emails from the contact form aren't arriving. Check the Resend dashboard logs for failed sends, and make sure the function returns an error to the form if sending fails instead of showing success.

What usually goes wrong

Testing only from Preview: confirm the same flow on the published site — environment/secret differences can exist.
Assuming the email integration is still connected: integrations can be disconnected or keys revoked; ask Lovable to verify the Resend connection is active.
Checking the wrong inbox: verify you're checking spam/junk and any email filtering rules before concluding delivery failed entirely.

Deliverability is genuinely fiddly to get fully right (domain warm-up, list hygiene, DMARC policy). If it matters for a real business, it's a sensible place to bring in PromptSites.com rather than losing enquiries to silent failures.

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