How to Implement Email Verification on Your Forms

Adding email verification to your form when collecting data is a simple yet powerful way to ensure accurate data, reduce spam, and improve communication with your users. With Jotform’s built-in Email Verification feature, you can require users to confirm their email address before submitting the form, making sure they’re real and valid, helping you build a more reliable and trustworthy contact list with ease. There are two ways to do this, verify the email, either before or after the submission.

Verifying Email Addresses using the E-mail Validator Widget

Using the E-mail Validator widget, anyone filling out your form will be required to verify their email addresses before they can submit it. Here’s how to set it up:

1. In Form Builder, click on the Add Element menu on the left side of the page.

2. Under the Widgets tab, enter E-mail Validator in the search bar, and then click on it to add it to your form.

3. In the Widget Settings menu on the right side of the page, enter the Email Subject, Email Content, and Message on the Form to be shown after submission. Then click on Update to save the changes.

Verifying Submissions using the Submission Verifier App

The Submission Verifier App allows your respondents to submit the form, regardless of whether their email address is valid, and after submission they’ll get a unique link that’ll be used for the verification process. You can even add the link to the form’s Autoresponder Email. Here’s how to set it up:

1. In Form Builder, click on Add Element on the left side of the page.

2. Then, click on the Short Text element to add it to your form.
3. Now, right-click on the Short Text field and in the Dropdown menu, select Hide.

4. Then, go to the Submission Verifier, and click on Launch App.

5. In the Confirmation window that opens, click on Allow.

6. Next, configure these settings, and then click on Generate Link.

• Select a Form — Choose the form you want to use.
• Select a Field — Choose a status field.
• Enter a Value — Set a value for the status field (e.g., Confirmed, Verified).
• Notification Recipient — Optionally add a notification recipient for verified entries. For example, you can enter your email address to get notifications when an email address has been verified.
• Confirmation Message — Customize the message your respondents get after verifying their email address.

7. Copy the link generated from the HTML Link (clickable)field or the link from the Plain Text Link field, and then return to your form.

8. Now, in Form Builder, in the orange navigation bar at the top of the page, click on Settings. 
9. Click on Emails on the left side of the screen.
10. Hover your mouse over the Autoresponder Email and click on the Pencil icon to edit it.

11. Finally, in the Email Content section, paste in the link and then click on Save at the bottom.

That’s it. Now you can make a test submission to your form to see the result.