Fillout
Fillout email integration
Fillout responses can come to you rather than you going to look. Ask ForwardThis what a form has collected and the answers arrive by email as question and answer pairs, newest first, narrowed to a date range or a phrase.
Setup in 30 seconds.
How it works
Connect Fillout
Create a free account and connect Fillout. It takes about 30 seconds, and you only do it once.
Forward an email
Forward any email to your ForwardThis address along with your instructions. One email can ask for several things at once.
Done.
ForwardThis replies with the answer in your inbox, pulled straight from Fillout. Nothing there gets edited.
Just forward it
to do@forwardthis.io
Fwd: Applications for the Saturday workshop
Send me the latest responses to the Workshop Application form.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
We need to pick the twelve by Friday. Can you get the applications out of the form so we can go through them on the call?
Read Workshop Application
The latest 10 of 37 responses, question by question
The answer comes straight back in your inbox, and nothing gets edited.
Some other examples
- “Which forms do we have in Fillout?”
- “What has come in on the Contact form since Monday?”
- “Send me the recent responses to the Client Onboarding form.”
Everything ForwardThis can do in Fillout
Find pages
List forms
Read a spreadsheet
Read a form's responses
Read a record
Read a form's questions, or one response in full
Try it with a real email.
Forward any email to the address below to see what ForwardThis can do. No signup required.
Occasional product emails may follow.
Why you need ForwardThis
Email is messy, every message asking for something different. It means constantly leaving your inbox and juggling tabs. ForwardThis skips all of that: forward an email along with some simple instructions, and it’s handled. Compatible with every email provider, and it works across the apps you’re already using.
Questions
- How do I send an email to Fillout?
- ForwardThis reads Fillout and never writes to it: it finds the form by name and replies with its responses as question and answer pairs, and it will not add a response, delete one or change a form. Forward the email to your ForwardThis address with a simple instruction saying what you want, like "send me the latest responses to the Workshop Application form". The answer comes back as a reply. The first time, you'll need a free account with Fillout connected, which takes about 30 seconds, and that's the entire Fillout email integration.
- Can it add or delete a response?
- No. Fillout would allow both, and both are left out anyway. Making up a response puts words in a respondent's mouth inside the only record you have of what people actually said, and deleting one destroys that record with nothing to restore it from. An emailed instruction should not be able to do either.
- Can it build or change a form?
- No. Building a form is a visual job, and doing it any other way means handing over the raw structure of the whole thing, question by question. Writing that out of a sentence in an email would be guesswork applied to a form people are filling in right now, so it isn't offered.
- How is this different from Fillout's own notifications, or Zapier?
- Fillout can email you each response as it arrives, which is better when you want every one of them, live. Zapier can route them somewhere else, but you build the rule first and it runs from then on. This is for asking afterwards, when someone forwards you a thread and the answer is sitting in a form you'd otherwise have to go and open.