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
  • Send email using the 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
📧 robert@ynteractive.com
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🏷️ Tags

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