How to Use Merge Tags

Gravity Forms uses merge tags to allow you to dynamically populate submitted field values and other information in notification emails, post content templates, and more.

Let’s look at how to create a dynamic notification email using merge tags.

First, navigate to your form’s settings. For this video, I’ll use a simple contact form.

Select ‘Add New’ to create a new notification and then give it an appropriate name.

You can dynamically populate fields within your notification settings using the ‘Insert Merge Tags’ button.

For instance, if I add the First and Last Name merge tags to the “From Name” field, the email notification will display the sender’s name as the values they entered in the “Name” field when the contact form was submitted.

I can combine merge tags with plain text to create custom notification emails that are unique to each form that is submitted.

For the body of my notification email, I am going to include the user’s contact information, as well as the message they submitted on the form.

The merge tag UI includes search functionality to allow you to quickly and easily locate your desired merge tags.

Once I am finished, I’ll update my notification and submit an example form to see everything in action.

Awesome, it worked.

I’ve received a notification email that was dynamically populated with the information submitted on my contact form.

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