 Did you know that you can send auto-responding emails right through elementary forms? I'm talking about the default built-in elementary form widget. And what I mean by an auto-responding email is, for an example, somebody fills out a contact form. Well, there's an automatic response email that goes out to that user saying, hey, thank you for filling out our form. Somebody will get back to you shortly. Or another really good use case would be, say, a campaign where you ask somebody to sign up for a free download. Well, you can set it up so that way somebody signs up on the subscription to get an automatic email sent to them with the download link inside that email. Not only does this help with automation, but it also helps you to verify the user's email, especially in campaigns like this. And there's a whole other lot of good cases. We can use auto-responding emails. In fact, I love hearing your creativity and it also gives us all a bunch of ideas. So make sure to drop in the comments ideas and ways you see that auto-responding emails could help out. So let me show you how this is done. It's actually kind of easy. Once you see the process, I'm going to walk you through it. So let's jump into Elementor. We're going to set up auto-responding on this form right here. So I'm going to go to the form settings. And then from here, we're going to navigate down to actions after submit. Now by default, we have the collect submissions and email. This first email right here, well, this is the setup for sending whatever gets filled out inside the form to the owner of the website. This is the message that we get. But we want to set up an email that gets sent to the person who fills out the form. To do that, go over here to actions after submit and select on email two. And we are going to set this up. The first thing we want to do is change who the email is sent to. We want it being sent to the user filling out the form. So go back over here to your form fields, go over to email, and then go to advance. And you're going to see this short code right here. The field ID equals email. So we want to copy and paste this. You could also change it and put something like your email, you can make this unique to your own, or you could just keep it simple, leave it at email, which is what we're going to do here. So I want to copy that. And then we're going to go back down here to email two. And we're going to paste it here. Now what this is going to do right here is whatever gets filled out inside this form is being sent to whatever email is put right here inside the form. So if you are doing something like, hey, sign up for a free download, well, people can't trick the system by doing that over here for your subject, we're going to treat this as somebody reaching out to us. So we're going to say, I was going to call this auto respond email, just so with that way, we could identify, I want to show you how it turns out inside our emails. Now here inside the messages, this is where we're going to add our message. Now when we put all fields, that is showing the information from all of our fields right here, just like this, this is a field. So we're going to remove that, because we do not want our user to see that. And we're going to say, hey, and we could actually put in and say, hey, to their first name, whatever they put here. So I'm going to go back up here to my form fields. And I'm going to go to first name, then over to advance, because I want to personalize it. Now here it says fill ID name, I'm going to actually change this up right here, put first underscore and name, that way it's going to be different from the last name. I am now going to copy this, go back over here to email to, and I'm going to say, hey, and it's going to echo whatever they put in here. So they put in their name is, is Jackie is going to say, Hey, Jackie, I'm even going to get a little bit creative. And I'm going to put a little waving emoji. Alright, now inside here, this is where you put your message. And I got one I already wrote out. So that way we could do things kind of quick. Alright, thank you for reaching out, we'll get back to you really quickly, something like that. Now one thing that is important to know, just because you create spacing doesn't mean you're going to get spacing. We actually got to put some HTML tags here. I'm going to put a break tag and the break tag looks just like this. When you put a tag like this, it's going to break a line. I'm going to put two to even give it a little bit more space. As you're doing this, test it, see how it looks on your side. Now I'm going to finish up my message. I'm going to put a signature on it. So I already have it copy and pasted. And again, I want to put some spacing here. In fact, let me add a little bit spacing so it's easier to see. I'm going to put more of these break tags. We could actually put more in here, but it does take a little bit of HTML knowledge, but we could do things like even putting our logo here. So I have my logo that is just a link taken out. Let me see from right back over here. I have my PNG logo, you know, I copy this put it inside a tag and then added it right over here. So here is my message. Feel free to put whatever you like inside yours. Now from here, from the front, it's really important you want it from your email. So I got my main Jeffrey at Lightbox Academy email right here from the name. I'm going to put Lightbox Academy and then reply to you also want them to be able to reply to your main email. So that way you could have back and forth email conversations with them if they have more questions. So let's go ahead and update this. Let's give it a try and see what happens. So I'm going to put my full name here. Okay, I'm going to put my other business email here. And then we're going to say this is a test. All right, let's see what happens now. Email went through. Let me check my emails. And here we go. I got the email auto respond email right here. Let's take a look at it. And here's our auto responded email. So look at even got the logo here. And I got a link that goes straight to the website. I put in the logo again, a little bit of HTML knowledge really could help out if you want to get more creative. But really, just a very simple, Hey, I got your message. Thank you for reaching out. We're going to get right back to you. You know, this is going to stand out a lot more is going to make things a bit more automated. This is also very helpful for a sign up campaign for like a free download. If you want to do something like that, you set it up just like this. And I'm going to change my message right here. All right, I have a different message right here. And what I put in here is, you know, thank you for signing up as promised. Here's your download link to the PDF guy. And all I did was put a link to the actual PDF that I uploaded into my media library. So back over a year, I uploaded this PDF. And I took this right here and I put it inside of an ATAC. Again, you got to do a little bit of HTML. But if you got questions, drop them inside the comments. And let's sign up for a free PDF. All right, hook me up. And here we go. I got the new email right here. And I got the download link to download the PDF. Go ahead and click it download it. And here is the PDF that I uploaded to the site. No additional plugins, nothing needed at all. This is all baked right into elements or it's not complicated to set up. We don't need any additional plugins or anything like that. It's already baked into elements work. But you might want to get an SMTP. An SMTP is going to allow your website to send out emails reliably. Now I did create a video about setting up SMTPs with cloudways. I put a link up over here and one inside the descriptions. And if you want to see another video about SMTPs to get a better understanding of it, because it is a bit more complicated, but it is also super important to make sure emails are being sent out, especially if you have like a WooCommerce website. Well, let me know and I could show a bit more about it. Also, if you got questions, drop them inside the comments. Again, if you got ideas and ways of using auto responding emails, drop them inside the comments. I like to get everybody's ideas put them together. We all could learn collectively from them and also sparks up the creative juices. And also, if you do that questions, you know, you're stuck on SMTPs or something like that, drop them inside the comments as well. So myself or other people could help you out. Well, I hope this video helped out. 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