How to send data from GravityForms to Google Sheets

Want to send your Gravity Forms submissions data to Google Sheets?

This article will show you a unique method for doing so that doesn’t rely on Zapier or other external services. 🙂

This is useful if you want to track orders, edit applications, or simply manage and share you form submissions data to a Google Sheet.

What you will need

1 – The GravityForms Plugin.

2 – Forms: 3rd Party Integration 

Install and activate this plugin.

(You can use this free plugin to send your data to almost all third-party APIs in Gravity Forms.)

3 – Script for Google Sheet (explained below).

Create Your Google Sheet

Add a header row.

Note: Don’t change the header row at any point afterwards.

Create New Script

Go to Tools->Script editor…

Add Script

Delete any data that is in the Script and copy and paste the script below instead:

function doPost(e) {   if (!e) return;   var sheetID = "GOOGLE_SPREADSHEET_ID";  // Replace this with the Google Spreadsheet ID  var sheetName = "Sheet1";       // Replace this with the sheet name inside the Spreadsheet   var status = {};   // Code based on Martin Hawksey (@mhawksey)'s snippet   var lock = LockService.getScriptLock();  lock.waitLock(30000);   try {     var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.openById(sheetID).getSheetByName(sheetName);    var headers = sheet.getRange(1, 1, 1, sheet.getLastColumn()).getValues()[0];     // Add the data and time when the Gravity Form was submitted    var column, row = [],      input = {        "timestamp": new Date()      };     for (var keys in e.parameter) {      input[normalize_(keys)] = e.parameter[keys];    }     for (i in headers) {      column = normalize_(headers[i])      row.push(input[column] || "");    }     if (row.length) {       sheet.appendRow(row);      status = {        result: "success",        message: "Row added at position " + sheet.getLastRow()      };     } else {      status = {        result: "error",        message: "No data was entered"      };    }   } catch (e) {     status = {      result: "error",      message: e.toString()    };   } finally {     lock.releaseLock();   }   return ContentService    .createTextOutput(JSON.stringify(status))    .setMimeType(ContentService.MimeType.JSON); } function normalize_(str) {  return str.replace(/[^\w]/g, "").toLowerCase();}

Be sure to replace the sheet ID and the sheet name.

The spreadsheet ID is the long sequence of characters between the slashes in the URL of the desired spreadsheet:

Save Script

Save your script by clicking File > Save , and give your script a name.

Run Script

Run the script by pressing the Play button icon in the menu.

A permission box should pop up, click continue and then allow.

Deploy the script

Deploy the script as a Web App by clicking on Publish > Deploy as web app

1 – Project Version: Leave default or enter 1.0.0

2 – Execute the app as: Myself

3 – Who has access to the app: Anyone, even anonymous

4 – Click Deploy

5 – And then Copy the current web app URL from the confirmation screen.

This is now your API URL to use in the Post to 3rd Party API for Gravity forms.

Create and set new Gravity Form

Create a new “Send to Third Party” feed for your GravityForms form by going to Forms > Your Form > Settings > Send to Third Party > Add New

Use the following settings.

Name: Any Name you choose

Method: POST

API URL: Paste the URL that you copied from the Google Script Web App

Authorization: None

Headers: Leave Blank

Format: Default

Map API Parameters to Form Fields:

In the first column, enter the column titles from your google sheet, they must match exactly. Select which form field you want mapped to that column in your google sheet via the dropdown.

Conditional Logic: Optional – you can add conditional login to this connection in order to limit which form entries get sent to your google sheet.

Now save the feed and submit a test form to see it work.

Submit the form.

After submitting data will appear in your spreadsheet.

As you can see, you can send data from GravityForms to Google Sheets in 10-15 minutes without having to spend any of your zaps or map fields in Zapier!

Video: Sending GravityForms Submissions to a Google Spreadsheet

Here’s the video version of this tutorial!