Control the order and timing of Gravity Forms Add-On Feeds

A lot of the official Gravity Forms Add-Ons use ‘feeds’ to send entry values to other systems on form submission. For example, the MailChimp Add-On can add a subscriber to a list, the Slack Add-On can send a message to a channel and the Zapier Add-On can do just about anything.

If you need to ensure that feeds are triggered in a particular order you can add them as steps. For example, a customer sign up process involving a couple of approval steps (optional) might look something like this.

step-list

Reordering Steps

Drag and drop the steps in the right order.

step-reordering

Adding a feed step

Adding a feed is very easy. Once you’ve configured your feed you create a step and select the feed. For example, a MailChimp step might look like this:

mailchimp

Adding a step delay

You may need to ensure that not only are the feeds triggered in a specific order but there must be a delay between the steps. For example, the final step is configured to send out a follow up SMS message two days after signing up.

twilio-delay

This will ensure that entries are queued for two days before triggering the final step.

That’s all it takes to set up a process with Gravity Forms feed add-ons and control their order and timing.

Supported Gravity Forms Add-Ons

The following Gravity Forms Add-Ons are currently supported.

  1. User Registration Add-On – add WordPress users
  2. Zapier Add-On
  3. MailChimp Add-On
  4. Emma Add-On
  5. Twilio Add-On – SMS Messages
  6. Signature Add-On

The updated list of supported add-ons can be found here: https://docs.gravityflow.io/article/30-integration-with-gravity-forms-add-ons