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📣 New Feature Alert! Goodbye notifications, hello Follow-ups

📣 New Feature Alert! Goodbye notifications, hello Follow-ups
Liz
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Happy Spring, Typeform community! The Research & Development team is coming in bloom this season with a new feature that many of you are going to love - conditional follow ups!
 

If you’ve used our notifications feature before, you might be familiar with sending emails after a respondent submits the form. With our new follow-ups feature, you can send different emails based on answers, both on the respondent side and the creator side.
 

Watch the video below for more information on what this looks like.

 

To start using this feature, 

 

  1. Click on the gear settings in the form builder. Then, click on “Follow ups”

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  1. Next, click on the + button to begin creating your follow-up sequence. 

 

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  1. Choose the condition you’d like the email to send under and create-away! Our building will allow you to edit the email plain text, but you can add your own HTML or CSS to enhance the design. 

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  1. You can rename your follow-ups by clicking on the three dots like this: 


 

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Interesting use cases

 

There are plenty of great use cases for this new feature, but here are some of my favorites: 

 

  1. Send a self-notification to different sales managers in your company based on the responses to a specific question or multiple questions. 

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  1. Send an email to your respondent based on their answers. If you’ve got a lead form, you could send an email with more information about a particular service, information about your company, or different calendars to schedule meetings accordingly. 

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  1. Send a notification to a contractor on your team based on answers - a great option if you’ve outsourced some of your work!

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  1. Send a notification to your email account and create a workflow accordingly using integrations such as Mailchimp, Zapier, or Hubspot.



 

We hope you love this feature! For those of you already using it, let us know what you’re using it for, and as always, drop any feedback in the comments. 

 

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john.desborough
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@Liz - i’ve found the ‘new’ method to set the triggers for the followups is a really nice little enhancement. Now to go back to the forms and leverage the capability on about 120 forms over the next 3 weeks.. 

 

cheers

des


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  • April 17, 2023

Hi @Liz, I still have the “notification system” active on my business plan. Does the new function “follow ups” activate automatically?

Cheers,

Carlo


Liz
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  • April 18, 2023

Hi @john.desborough Sounds like you’ll need some coffee! 😀

@Crlao our product team is rolling it out to customers, so you should have it in your account soon!


john.desborough
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  • April 18, 2023

@Liz - i have about 20 pounds in reserve lol.. 

 

des


Liz
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  • April 18, 2023

@john.desborough 😳😵 Good thing you’re prepared ha!


john.desborough
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@Liz - former Boy Scout… 


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  • April 21, 2023

Hi All, this new feature is awesome for new forms, but Live Support just confirmed that we will have to manually re-configure all “old” notifications. This will have to be done for existing forms which are edited and published after the implementation of follow ups.

If it happens that the Follow-ups feature is enabled for forms that used to have Notifications set up, then you'll have to re-configure them, I'm afraid. 
But this time, through the Follow-ups button (by following these instructions: Send follow-up messages to your respondents or yourself).
 
I know this is not the best, but it is quite a big improvement the Follow-ups. 
With them, you can not only send simple self or respondent notifications, but also conditional and different ones to your respondents based on answers, for example.

 

However, follow up looks amazing!

Cheers,

Carlo


Liz
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  • April 21, 2023

Hi @Crlao thank you for sharing that! I know it’s not the most fun having to re-configure everything, but hopefully you’ll be able to add more custom notifications now as you go about updating your forms. 😁


  • Navigating the Land
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  • September 25, 2023

Hey Liz,

 

I found the solution to my problem, thanks!


Liz
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  • September 26, 2023

Hi @Brandon Wraith Ah glad to hear it! What was the solution? 👀


  • Explorer
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  • October 5, 2023

Hello. Can you please tell us how to enable follow-ups for forms that were designed and published before this feature was released? I’m still only seeing the “Notifications” option in settings and can’t find any guidance on how to access the Follow-ups feature in its place. Thank you.


Thankyou for the “Follow Ups” feature. I like it but I think it needs an option between Trigger and Action to be able to delay or “wait” so many hours/days before the actual action occurs.


I cannot update the email address of who the notification is going to. It looks like a form field you can click in when you press edit but it doesn’t let you type anything. I want the notification to go to multiple email addresses. is this because of the plan I am on? I find it very confusing. 


Liz
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Hi @natalie12312313123123 If you happen to be on a free plan, this is most likely why. It’s not possible to change the email address on the free plan to another email that isn’t the one listed on the account. 


  • Explorer
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  • July 17, 2024

I need to add an address to our follow-ups on a form, but the option is grayed out and says that this form is using the old notifications. I can’t seem to find a way to edit anywhere. Can you please direct me to the next step? Thank you! (The form is published - I did see that could be an issue.)


Liz
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  • July 22, 2024

Hi @Sunshine376 Do you mind trying to duplicate the form to see if that does allow you to make the change (on the new form)? 


For some reason, it is not letting me edit the follow-up email auto response? @Liz @john.desborough  Can someone help me understand what I need to do to reactivate this?


Liz
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HI @MiguelSalazarDesign sorry for the confusion there! If you haven’t already reached out to our support team, you can contact them here to help with this. 😀


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  • January 24, 2025

Hi,

How is it possible that we do not receive every email from the follow up ?
In other terms, for example, I should have have received 10 emails because of 10 answers on my form, but I only receive 5. 
Do you know why ?
What can we do ?

Thanks :)


Augustin


Liz
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  • January 27, 2025

Hi ​@Augustin Oh gosh! You should be receiving emails if you have the follow-ups turned on. However, it’s important to note that you’ll need to turn on this feature for every form individually. 

If you do have it turned on and the emails aren’t arriving to the spam inbox, our support team can look into this further for you here. 😀


  • Navigating the Land
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  • January 29, 2025

Hi! Awesome feature!

I have two questions:

#1: If I use the follow-up feature and send an email to the person taking the quiz, will it look like the email is sent from me? Or will it say that it is from Typeform? Would love to be able to personalize it to match my brand.

#2: I would prefer to be able to send follow up emails from my email provider by adding the person taking the quiz to my email list and give them a tag based in their result. Is that possible with Zapier? I haven’t figured it out yet.

 


Liz
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Hi ​@Magiportalen Happy Wednesday! Thanks for stopping by the community. 

To answer your questions, 

  1. The follow-ups are sent from the email “notifications@typeform.com.” While we don’t have an option to change this, I can share your request for it to the product team. 
  2. You could certainly do that with Zapier! We have an example of a customer who did this below. You most likely won’t need as complicated as a setup, but hopefully this gives some inspiration!

 


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