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Understanding the Contact Form

You can't cover every question your customers might have in your HelpDocs. That's where the Contact Form comes in. ๐Ÿ“ฎ

Taylor
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You can't cover every question your customers might have in your HelpDocs. If your customers still need to get a hold of you after looking through your help documentation, there's a handy Contact Form they can use to get in touch.

The contact form will automatically detect what your customer is typing and try to deflect the ticket by suggesting relevant articles below.

When someone fills in your form we'll send the message over to you by email.

The contact form is off until you add a contact email. On newer accounts the field stays locked until you sign or opt out of the DPA in Settings > Privacy & cookies.
Looking for something more customizable? It's not possible to customize the built-in contact form but you can totally disable the built-in form and add a nav link to a contact form using a different provider like Typeform or SurveyMonkey instead.

Setting Who Gets Emailed the Question

Questions go to the address in Contact email. You can set or change it in Settings.

Emails are sent to you from notifications@helpdocs.io, not directly from each customer. This account is not monitored. Be sure to add our email to your list of trusted senders so you get the message in your inbox ๐Ÿ“ฎ
  1. Head to Settings > General (or click here)
  2. Enter the email in Contact email
  3. Hit Save changes

Using additional domains? Each domain can send its messages to its own address. Set its Contact email in Settings > Domains.

If the Contact Form Turns Off

If emails to your contact address bounce, or you reach your contact form limit, we turn the form off and hide the Contact button. Head to Settings > General and choose Reactivate email address or Update email address. If you reached your monthly limit, reactivating works again once the next month starts.

Removing the Contact Form Completely

If you hook up one of our Contact Form Integrations we'll hide the Contact form by default, and the Contact button opens your chat instead.

If not, you can remove the form completely by leaving the Contact email box blank (step 2 above). This also removes the form from your Lighthouse widget. Be sure your customers have some other way to contact you, though!

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