Contact form without a backend

Contact Form Without a Backend

Receive form submissions without building APIs or servers. No Node.js, Express, PHP, Laravel, or Rails. Just HTML forms posting to Formgrid.

Skip the custom backend. Free to start.

Free plan to start. No credit card required.

Formgrid leads dashboard showing contact form submissions with New, Contacted, and Converted stages

Why developers avoid building form backends from scratch

A contact form looks simple until you add validation, spam protection, storage, email delivery, and ops.

How Formgrid lets you skip the custom backend

Formgrid is the hosted form backend. Your site stays frontend-only while submissions still become organized leads.

No Node.js or Express

Skip API routes and server apps when all you need is lead capture.

No PHP, Laravel, or Rails

Keep marketing sites static and still collect real enquiries.

Just HTML forms

Post to your Formgrid endpoint with standard action and method attributes.

Lead ops included

Email notifications, pipeline, reminders, Sheets sync, and UTM tracking.

Collect submissions without building a backend

Create a Formgrid form, point your HTML form at it, publish, and manage leads.

  1. Create a form

    Create a Formgrid form in under a minute.

  2. Point the action

    Set your HTML form action to the Formgrid endpoint.

  3. Receive submissions

    Formgrid stores the data and notifies your team.

  4. Manage leads

    Follow up with pipeline statuses and reminders.

Features for static site forms

Formgrid goes beyond inbox forwarding so marketing sites and developer portfolios can manage real enquiries.

Email notifications
Google Sheets sync
Lead pipeline
Follow-up reminders
Spam protection
File uploads
UTM tracking

Example integration

Point a standard HTML form at your Formgrid endpoint. Field names map directly to the submission dashboard.

index.html
<form action="https://formgrid.dev/api/f/your-form-id" method="POST">
  <label>
    Name
    <input type="text" name="name" required />
  </label>
  <label>
    Email
    <input type="email" name="email" required />
  </label>
  <label>
    Message
    <textarea name="message" required></textarea>
  </label>
  <button type="submit">Send</button>
</form>

Replace your-form-id with your form ID from the Formgrid dashboard.

What Is Included

Everything included in your form backend

Point your HTML form at Formgrid and get the full stack behind every submission. Each row below shows what lands in your dashboard, inbox, and shared tools.

Lead pipeline

Every submission becomes a tracked lead

New, Contacted, and Converted stages in one dashboard. See active enquiries and conversion rate without counting manually or adding a separate CRM.

Formgrid leads dashboard showing contact form submissions with New Contacted and Converted stages
Formgrid lead pipeline showing New Contacted Converted stages

Google Sheets sync

Every lead lands in a shared sheet, live

Each form submission appears as a new row in Google Sheets within seconds. Your whole team sees new leads in real time. No Zapier needed.

Form submissions syncing to Google Sheets automatically

Email notifications

Never miss a submission

Every form submission triggers a clean, formatted email with the full enquiry details. No raw data dumps in the inbox.

Instant email notification for a new form submission

Follow up reminders

Warm leads never go cold

Set a follow up date on any lead and get an email reminder with the lead details and your notes on that date.

Formgrid follow up reminder email with lead details

UTM Source Tracking

Know exactly which channel sent each submission. Google, Instagram, referrals, and paid ads are captured automatically on every form post.

Spam Protection

Honeypot fields and rate limiting are built in automatically. Your form stays protected from bots without extra configuration.

Frequently asked questions

No. With Formgrid, your site can stay static HTML while Formgrid receives the POST requests.
No. Those frameworks are unnecessary when Formgrid is your form backend.
Yes. Use a normal form element with method="POST" and a Formgrid action URL.
Yes. Formgrid stores submissions, sends email notifications, and includes a lead pipeline.
Yes. Enable file uploads on the Formgrid form and include a file input in your HTML.

Skip the custom form API

Create a free Formgrid endpoint and collect submissions without standing up a server.

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Create your free form backend

Point your HTML form at Formgrid and stop building contact-form backends from scratch.

Create your free form backend

Your form builder, lead pipeline, and form backend in one place.

Whether you are sharing a form link on WhatsApp, pointing your HTML form to a Formgrid endpoint, or tracking leads through a built-in pipeline, get it done in 2 minutes.

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