Tally
Tally email integration
Tally submissions come to you by email with ForwardThis, as question and answer pairs, narrowed to a date range or to the completed ones. It can rename a form or take it back to draft.
Setup in 30 seconds.
How it works
Connect Tally
Create a free account and connect Tally. 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 when it's done, with a short summary and links to what it made, and an undo button if something doesn't look right.
Just forward it
to do@forwardthis.io
Fwd: Do we run a second open day?
Send me the recent submissions to the Open Day Sign-up form.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Before we book another date, can someone pull what people actually put in the sign-up form? The last couple of weeks is plenty.
Read Open Day Sign-up
The latest 10 of 148 submissions, question by question
The answer comes straight back in your inbox, and nothing gets edited.
Some other examples
- “Which of our Tally forms have feedback in the name?”
- “What has come in on the Contact form this week?”
- “Send me the completed submissions to the Waiting List form.”
Everything ForwardThis can do in Tally
Find pages
List forms
Read a spreadsheet
Read a form's submissions
Read a record
Read a form's questions
Edit document
Rename a form, or publish or unpublish it
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 Tally?
- Nothing here writes to Tally: ForwardThis finds the form by its title and replies with the submissions as question and answer pairs, with the date each one came in, and it never creates, edits or deletes a form or a submission. Forward the email to your ForwardThis address with a simple instruction, like "send me the recent submissions to the Open Day Sign-up form". The answer comes back as a reply. The first time, you'll need a free account with Tally connected, which takes about 30 seconds, and that's the entire Tally email integration.
- Can it create or edit a Tally form?
- No. A Tally form is its blocks: the titles, the inputs, the conditional logic, the payment fields. An instruction written in an email cannot describe that safely, and getting it wrong means a live form on the internet asking people the wrong questions. So the building side is left out entirely.
- Can it delete a submission or a form?
- No. A submission is somebody's own words inside the only record you have of what they said, and there is nothing to restore it from once it's gone. Deleting a form takes it off the internet while people are still filling it in. Neither belongs behind an emailed instruction, so neither is offered.
- How is this different from Tally's own email notifications, or Zapier?
- Tally can email you every submission as it arrives, which is the better choice if you want them all, in real time. Zapier can send them somewhere else, but you build the rule first and it runs from then on. This is for asking afterwards, when a thread lands in your inbox and the answer is sitting in a form you'd otherwise have to open and scroll.