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VideoAsk reusing same name for every response—even with unique email in URL


AlisaVids

Hi everyone,
I’m using VideoAsk in my recruitment flow. Even though I’m passing a unique contact_email={{email}} via URL for each candidate, VideoAsk still shows the same name—the first one entered—for all respondents using that email. This is breaking my Zap → ClickUp integration.

🔍 What I’ve tried:

  • Clearing browser data

  • Disabling name field on contact form

  • Confirmed name= isn’t in URL

  • Tested in incognito

❗What I discovered:
VideoAsk ties the name to the email in its system. The first name submitted for any given email gets reused in future submissions—even if a different person uses the same email. 

Has anyone else encountered this?Is there a native toggle to fully reset name per submission or something like that. 

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Grace
Community Team
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  • Community Advocate
  • 2821 replies
  • June 23, 2025

Hi ​@AlisaVids welcome to the community 😊

You’re totally right, VideoAsk will tie a respondents name and email adress together in the contacts list. You can edit the contact details of someone after they’ve submitted a response - check out this Help Center article for info on managing your VideoAsk contacts, but I don’t think there’s a way to prevent it from happening consistently if people are using the same email, but a different name. 

Could you maybe share a bit more info about why all your candidates have the same email in this flow? Maybe there’s a workaround we can think of!


James
Community Team
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  • Community Team
  • 735 replies
  • July 4, 2025

Hey ​@AlisaVids just wanted to check in to see if you need any more help or if you’ve solved the issue now or if you have any more questions. Thanks!


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