Website Contact Form to Slack with Optional Email Confirmation

This n8n workflow sends a real-time Slack notification when a user submits a contact form on your website. It also optionally sends a confirmation email via either Outlook or Gmail.

You can embed the form directly into your website and route all submissions to your preferred Slack channel for quick follow-up.

✅ Key Features

• 🌐 Website Form Trigger: A no-code form that can be embedded directly on your website.
• ⚡ Slack Integration: Instantly posts lead details to a designated Slack channel.
• 📧 Email Follow-Up (Optional): Sends a thank-you email to the user via either Gmail or Microsoft Outlook.
• 🔗 Easy to Connect: Requires minimal setup with OAuth for Slack and email APIs.

🧰 What You'll Need

• Slack Bot Token & Permissions
• Gmail or Outlook account (optional)
• n8n instance (cloud or self-hosted)

🛠️ Step-by-Step Setup

1️⃣ Embed Contact Form on Website

• Node: Form Submission on Website
• What it does: Captures user inputs — Name, Email, and Phone.
• How to use:
  • Grab the public webhook URL from this node.
  • Embed it as a form action on your website (HTML form or no-code builder).
• API: None required. Webhook-based.

2️⃣ Send to Slack

• Node: Slack
• What it does: Posts a message to your Slack #leads channel with submission details.
• Message format:

  You have a form submission with these details.
  Name: {{ Name }}
  Email: {{ Email }}
  Phone: {{ Phone }}
  

• API: Slack Bot Token (OAuth2)

3️⃣ Optional: Send Confirmation Email

• Node: Send Email - Gmail
  • Sends email using Gmail API.
• Node: Send Email - Outlook
  • Sends email using Microsoft Outlook API.
• Message:

  Hi {{ Name }},
  
  Thank you for reaching out on our website. We'll be in touch soon!
  

• API: Gmail or Microsoft Outlook OAuth2

👤 Created By

Robert Breen
Automation Consultant | AI Workflow Designer | n8n Expert
📧 [email protected]
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🏷️ Tags

slack lead alerts website form n8n email automation real-time notification lead generation form trigger webhook