Is it possible to have email verication on a contact form?

Need to assure solid leads on RFQ submissions and could use email verification for legitimacy. Is this possible on a contact form? 

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Hi @AlphaHD.  As it stands right now, this is not possible with Square contact forms.  Nor, as you have probably found out, is it possible to at least require the customer to enter their email address twice to be sure there were no typos.  Square contact forms don’t do any real verification of email addresses.  So….

 

First, I’ll recommend that you submit a formal feature request to the Square Online team.  Be sure to make your case, what you need, why it is necessary and helpful not only to you but to the broader Square community.  They’ll evaluate it and get back to you.  If you do submit a request, please post the URL here.  I’ll definitely give it my upvote/like and support.

 

Since this will not be a quick short-term solution for you, you’ll need to use something other than Square contact forms.  When I’ve needed to do this in the past, I subscribed to Zoho Forms, but there are other form building apps/sites out there that would work equally well.  I just love the Zoho ecosystem and have used a number of their tools over the years.  Anyway, Zoho Forms allows you to do an email opt-in/verification to ensure you are getting valid email addresses.  And you can export CSVs to automate what you want to do with the contacts you receive.  it’s a nominal monthly charge ($15, as I recall, less for annual subscriptions) for the peace of mind of a vetted list.

 

Let me know if you have any other questions.

Chip A.
Square Expert & Innovator and member of the Square Champions group. (But NOT a Square employee, just a seller like you)

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Thanks much for your reply, Tim

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