/Getting Started/Quickstart (60 Seconds)

Send your first submission in 60 seconds

No npm installs, no backend servers, no database provisioning. Just pure HTML or a simple fetch().

Create your Endpoint Access Key

Navigate to your Dashboard, click "Create New Form", and enter your notification email. You will receive an Access Key formatted like:

bf_live_214e52074650d357ebeab2e4

Point your Form action to Backforms

Insert the URL endpoint into your HTML <form action="...">:

index.html

HTML

<style="color:#f7768e;font-weight:600;">form action=style="color:#9ece6a;">"https:style="color:#565f89;font-style:italic;style="color:#9ece6a;">">//backforms.com/f/YOUR_ACCESS_KEY" method=style="color:#9ece6a;">"POST">
  style=style="color:#9ece6a;">"color:#565f89;font-style:italic;"><!-- Invisible Honeypot to trap spam bots silently -->
  <style="color:#f7768e;font-weight:600;">input type=style="color:#9ece6a;">"text" name=style="color:#9ece6a;">"botcheck" style=style="color:#9ece6a;">"display: none;" />

  <style="color:#f7768e;font-weight:600;">input type=style="color:#9ece6a;">"text" name=style="color:#9ece6a;">"name" placeholder=style="color:#9ece6a;">"Your Name" required />
  <style="color:#f7768e;font-weight:600;">input type=style="color:#9ece6a;">"email" name=style="color:#9ece6a;">"email" placeholder=style="color:#9ece6a;">"Your Email" required />
  <style="color:#f7768e;font-weight:600;">textarea name=style="color:#9ece6a;">"message" placeholder=style="color:#9ece6a;">"Your Message" required></style="color:#f7768e;font-weight:600;">textarea>

  <style="color:#f7768e;font-weight:600;">button type=style="color:#9ece6a;">"submit">Send Message</style="color:#f7768e;font-weight:600;">button>
</style="color:#f7768e;font-weight:600;">form>

Test and inspect live

Submit your form. Backforms instantly delivers the submission to your email and logs the record in your user dashboard inbox with 200 OK delivery confirmation.

Spam-Free Submissions

Notice the botcheck honeypot input in Step 2. When automated scrapers populate this hidden field, Backforms silently discards the submission without triggering alerts or consuming your plan quota.