Log every Gravity Forms submission to Google Sheets and Slack

By General Input

Mirror every new Gravity Forms entry into a master Google Sheet and ping a Slack channel within five minutes, no add-ons required.

Integrations

  • Gravity Forms
  • Google Sheets
  • Slack Bot

Type

Deterministic Code

Categories

  • Operations
  • Marketing

Build a deterministic code workflow that mirrors every new Gravity Forms entry into a Google Sheet and posts a Slack notification, so we have a queryable backup of every form submission plus a real-time team feed without paying for the official Gravity Forms add-ons.

Trigger: cron, every 5 minutes.

Inputs that should be configurable on the workflow (not hard-coded):

- spreadsheetId: the Google Sheet to write to. - sheetName: the tab inside that spreadsheet (default "Submissions"). - slackChannelId: the Slack channel ID to post notifications in. - formIds (optional): list of Gravity Forms form IDs to include. If empty, include all forms.

Step 1. Call Gravity Forms List Entries to fetch entries created after the last successful run. Use a high-water-mark stored in workflow state (the max date_created seen so far). On the very first run, use "now" as the starting point so we do not back-fill historical entries. Apply the formIds filter if it is set. Page through results until you have every new entry, ordered oldest-first so the Sheet stays in chronological order.

Step 2. For each new entry, call Google Sheets Append Values on {spreadsheetId} / {sheetName} to append one row with these columns, in order:

- entry_id - form_id - form_title - date_created (ISO 8601, UTC) - submitter_email (best effort: pull from the entry's email field, or leave blank) - source_url (the page the form was submitted from, if Gravity Forms recorded it) - payload_json (a JSON string of the remaining field values, keyed by Gravity Forms field ID, so nothing is lost)

Use USER_ENTERED value input option so dates and numbers render naturally. If the configured tab is empty (no header row), write the header row on first use.

Step 3. For each new entry, call Slack (slackbot, the bot integration) Send a Message to {slackChannelId} with a compact one-line summary, for example: "New {form_title} submission from {submitter_email} — <{wp_admin_entry_url}|View entry>". The wp_admin_entry_url should be {siteUrl}/wp-admin/admin.php?page=gf_entries&view=entry&id={entry_id}&lid={entry_id}, built from the Gravity Forms credential's siteUrl. If submitter_email is missing, fall back to "New {form_title} submission".

Order matters: append the Google Sheet row first, then send the Slack message. That way if Slack fails, we still have the durable record in Sheets and the workflow can be retried without producing duplicate sheet rows (advance the high-water-mark only after both steps for an entry succeed; if Slack fails for one entry, log it and keep going for the rest, but do not re-process already-appended entries on the next run).

Use these integrations: Gravity Forms for List Entries, Google Sheets for Append Values, and the Slack Bot integration (slackbot) for Send a Message. The notification is a workflow message, not a personal one, so it should come from the bot rather than the user OAuth Slack integration.

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