WPForms連携ガイド：無料の方法、有料のアドオン、およびより優れた代替手段

WPForms連携 let you send form submissions to CRMs, email marketing tools, Google Sheets, automation platforms, and other apps. But for many WPForms Lite users, the challenge is finding the right way to connect their forms without paying for expensive upgrades or extra automation costs.

A form submission is only useful when the data reaches the right place. Without integrations, you may have to manually export entries, copy customer details, or miss important follow-ups.

WPForms offers native integrations, but many are locked behind paid plans. Depending on your workflow, a WordPress automation plugin, connector plugin, Zapier, Make, or webhook solution may be a better fit.

In this WPForms Integrations Guide, we will compare every available method, explain the costs and limitations, and help you choose the best way to automate WPForms entries.

WPForms Integrations Guide: Five ways to connect WPForms to external platforms

Every route falls into one of five categories. They differ in where the workflow runs, what you are billed for, and how they behave when something breaks.

方法	Where it runs	Free route	Billed by	limitation
1. Native WPForms addons	Your site, inside WPForms	なし	Annual license tier	Every third-party integration needs a paid plan
2. WordPress automation plugins	Your server	Yes, scope-limited	Annual and LTD license, not usage	Need webhooks when trigger is outside of WordPress
3. Single-purpose connector plugins	Your server	Yes, feature-limited	Per plugin, per year	One destination per plugin
4. Cloud automation platforms	The vendor’s servers	Yes, volume-limited	Per task or per credit	Cost scales with steps multiplied by submissions
5. Webhooks and custom code	Wherever you send it	Custom code only	License tier or developer time	No managed error handling

Method 1: Native WPForms add-ons

The connection is built by WPForms and lives inside the WPForms interface. You install the addon, connect your account for that service, then map form fields to fields on the other side.

• What you get: one vendor, one support channel, conditional logic inside the form builder, and tight coupling with entry management.
• What it costs: depends on the plan tier the addon sits on.
• Free option: none. Every native third-party integration requires a paid license.

Method 2: WordPress automation plugins

These run inside WordPress. The workflow executes on your own server, so no external service meters your usage and no third-party cloud sits in the data path.

The established options are Bit Integrations, AutomatorWP, Ottokit, and Bit Flows. The catalogs differ enough that the right answer depends on your specific destination list rather than on headline integration counts, so check your destinations against each catalog before choosing.

• What you get: no per-task billing, unlimited workflow runs on most free tiers, and form data that never leaves your server.
• What it costs: varies. Several have free versions; paid tiers typically unlock premium destinations or advanced logic.
• Free option: yes, and the scope differs by plugin. Bit Integrations includes WPForms among its free triggers, and its free version connects those triggers to all supported action platforms with no task limit and no cap on active integrations.

Method 3: Single-purpose connector plugins

The WordPress repository is full of plugins that each connect forms to one destination. Many are built for a single form builder, so you will find a Google Sheets connector made specifically for WPForms and separate ones for Contact Form 7 and Gravity Forms.

GSheetConnector for WPForms is a typical example. It sends WPForms entries to Google Sheets and nothing else.

• What you get: a focused tool that usually handles its one destination well, often with deeper settings for that platform than a general-purpose plugin offers.
• What it costs: GSheetConnector for WPForms is listed at $39 per year for one site on annual billing. Other connector plugins sit in a similar range.
• Free option: yes, though the scope varies sharply and is worth testing before you commit. See the testing section below for what we found.
• The tradeoff: cost and maintenance scale with destinations. Four destinations mean four plugins, four licenses, and four things to check after every WordPress update. Coverage is uneven, since popular platforms have several connectors while less common ones have none.

Method 4: Cloud automation platforms

Zapier and Make sit between your site and the destination. Your form sends data to their servers, and their servers pass it along.

How the billing works. Both charge by unit of work, not by workflow. Zapier counts a task each time an action step completes successfully; triggers are free, as are built-in tools including Filters, Paths, Formatter, Tables, and Forms.

Make counts one credit per module call, and rename this unit from “operations” to “credits” on 27 August 2025, converting existing balances at a one-to-one ratio.

Zapier pricing. The free plan is $0 with 100 tasks per month, and workflows are capped at two steps, meaning one trigger plus one action. Paid plans unlock multi-step workflows, webhooks, and premium apps, starting around $19.99 per month billed annually, for 750 tasks and rising with the task allowance.

Make pricing. The free plan is $0 with 1,000 credits per month, two active scenarios, and a 15-minute minimum scheduling interval. Core is the entry-level paid tier at roughly $9 to $16 per month, billed annually for 10,000 credits and unlimited scenarios, depending on which figure is current when you check.

• Free option: yes, both have real free tiers. The limits are volume and concurrency rather than features, and they run out quickly on multi-step workflows.
• What they do that nothing else does: connect services that have nothing to do with WordPress. If you need Airtable talking to Slack independently of your site, this is the only category that handles it.
• The tradeoff: forecasting cost is harder than it looks, because the unit is the step and not the workflow.

Method 5: Webhooks and custom code

WPForms can send raw submission data to an endpoint you control, and you decide what happens next. Three sub-routes exist, and they are not equally accessible.

• The WPForms Webhooks addon requires the Elite plan.
• The WPForms n8n add-on requires Pro or higher and WPForms 1.9.8.1 or newer. n8n itself is open source and free to self-host, so the cost here is a WPForms license plus a server you maintain.
• A custom PHP snippet hooked to the form-submission action is free on any plan, including Lite, but requires a developer and ongoing maintenance.

• What you get: complete control over payload shape, retry behavior, and error handling.
• Free option: only the custom-code route, and free there means no license fee rather than no cost.
• The tradeoff: nothing is managed. When the endpoint returns an error, you are the one who has to notice.

Which WPForms plan includes which integration

WPForms ships 30 native integration entries across its four paid plans. Twenty-eight are connections to third-party services; the remaining two are Authorize.Net, a payment gateway, and Webhooks, a developer tool.

The plan you need is set by the single most expensive item on your list, not by how many items are on it.

Every native integration and its minimum plan

統合	カテゴリ	Minimum plan
コンスタントコンタクト	Email marketing	Basic (see note)
メールチンプ	Email marketing	Plus
MailPoet	Email marketing	Plus
AWeber	Email marketing	Plus
ゲットレスポンス	Email marketing	Plus
ブレボ	Email marketing	Plus
キャンペーンモニター	Email marketing	Plus
ConvertKit (Kit)	Email marketing	Plus
滴	Email marketing	Plus
クラビヨ	Email marketing	Plus
メーラーライト	Email marketing	Plus
SendGrid	Email marketing	Plus
Slack	Team communication	Plus
Twilio	SMS and WhatsApp	Plus
ノーション	Project management	Plus
Google スプレッドシート	スプレッドシート	プロ
Googleドライブ	Cloud storage	プロ
Googleカレンダー	Scheduling	プロ
ドロップボックス	Cloud storage	プロ
Zapier	Automation platform	プロ
作る	Automation platform	プロ
n8n	Automation platform	プロ
セールスフォース	CRM	エリート
ハブスポット	CRM	エリート
Zoho CRM	CRM	エリート
パイプドライブ	CRM	エリート
アクティブキャンペーン	CRM	エリート
Airtable	Database	エリート
Authorize.Net	Payments	エリート
Webhook	開発者	エリート

What each plan costs

計画	First year	更新	サイト	What it unlocks that lower tiers do not
基本	$49.50	$99	1	コンスタントコンタクト
Plus	$99.50	$199	3	11 further email marketing tools, Slack, Twilio, Notion
プロ	$199.50	$399	5	Google Sheets, Drive, Calendar, Dropbox, Zapier, Make, n8n. Removes the 3% payment fee
エリート	$299.50	$599	無制限	Salesforce, HubSpot, Zoho CRM, Pipedrive, ActiveCampaign, Airtable, Authorize.Net, Webhooks

The first-year figures are promotional. WPForms renews at full price, roughly double, so the renewal column is the number to budget against. Every cost comparison in this guide shows both.

What WPForms Lite includes

WPForms Lite is the free version on WordPress.org. It gives you the form builder, entry notifications by email, spam protection, and payment collection through Stripe, Square, and PayPal Commerce.

It includes no native third-party integrations. Form entries stay in your WordPress dashboard unless you connect something else.

Integrations versus form features

Two things sit side by side on the WPForms pricing page and get confused constantly.

• 統合 connect WPForms to an outside service. Google Sheets, Slack, and Mailchimp are integrations.
• Form features change how the form itself behaves. Geolocation, digital signatures, calculations, and conversational forms are features. They are part of the form builder rather than a data destination.

This distinction decides whether an automation plugin can help you at all. No external connector replaces a form feature, because there is nothing to connect to.

The 3% payment fee and a documentation conflict worth knowing about

Payments work on every plan, including Lite, but the cost differs.

WPForms’ own comparison pages state that a 3% WPForms platform fee applies to each transaction on Lite, Basic, and Plus, on top of whatever the payment processor charges, and that the Stripe Pro, Square Pro and PayPal Commerce Pro addons remove it. All three require a Pro license or higher.

Stripe’s own rate starts at 2.9% plus $0.30 per successful card charge in the United States and differs by country. On Lite, Basic, or Plus, the combined cost on a US card payment therefore lands near 5.9% plus $0.30.

What we tested

Free versions of connector plugins advertise the destination, not the ceiling. The only way to find where the ceiling sits is to install one and push real data through it. Here is what we ran and what came back.

GSheetConnector for WPForms, free version

Field	Detail
Tested on	August 2026
Environment	WordPress 7.0.2, PHP 8.5
Plugins	WPForms Lite, GSheetConnector for WPForms free version, WPFroms pro with Zapier free version
Form fields	First name, last name, email address, message
Submissions sent	Only Email

Result. Only the email address reached the sheet. The first name, last name, and message columns stayed empty across every submission. The Select Fields to Sync panel, which controls which fields are transmitted, is a Pro feature, and Smart Tags are Pro as well.

What the paid version adds. Field selection and mapping, conditional logic, import and export, and multiple sheets per form. GSheetConnector for WPForms is listed at $39 per year for one site on an annual plan, with a promotional discount often applied at checkout.

What does this mean in practice? The free version is a workable email-capture route and nothing more. If you need the rest of the form data in the spreadsheet, the free version is not a free route; it is a trial. That distinction is invisible from the plugin listing and only appears once data starts arriving.

Zapier free tier, with WPForms Pro

Result: All four fields arrived intact: first name, last name, email, and message. Every run completed successfully. Unlike GSheetConnector’s free version, nothing was silently dropped.

What it costs in tasks: Zapier counts a task per successful action step. The trigger is free, so this two-step Zap spends exactly one task per submission, and the free plan’s 100 tasks translate to 100 form submissions per month.

That one-to-one ratio only holds for a single action. Add a second destination and the same 100 tasks cover 50 submissions. Four destinations, and it is 25. The free tier’s real ceiling is 100 divided by the number of actions, not 100 submissions.

Free routes by category

This table shows what each category costs natively and what a free WordPress automation plugin reaches instead. Categories are ordered from most expensive natively to least, because that is the order in which the free route saves you the most.

カテゴリ	Native minimum plan	Reachable free via Bit Integrations
CRM	エリート	Salesforce, HubSpot, Zoho CRM, Pipedrive, ActiveCampaign, Zendesk Sell, Keap, Insightly, Freshsales, Copper CRM, Salesmate, Capsule CRM, Nutshell CRM, Agiled CRM, Monday CRM, and other CRMs
Databases	Elite (Airtable)	Airtable, Zoho Sheet, Ninja Tables, wpDataTables
スプレッドシート	Pro (Google Sheets)	Google スプレッドシート
Cloud storage	Pro (Drive, Dropbox)	Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, pCloud
Email marketing	Plus	Mailchimp, Brevo, MailerLite, Kit, Klaviyo, GetResponse, Campaign Monitor, Drip, SendGrid, MailPoet, plus Moosend, Sendy, SendPulse, SendFox, Mailjet, MailUp, Acumbamail, Elastic Email, Omnisend, Mautic, and other email tools
Team communication	Plus (Slack, Twilio)	Slack, Discord, Telegram, WhatsApp, Line
Project management	Plus (Notion only)	Notion, Trello, Asana, ClickUp, SmartSuite, Flowlu, Zoho Recruit
Customer support	No native addon	Zendesk Support, Zoho Desk, Freshdesk, Fluent Support
Webinars and events	No native addon	Zoom Meeting, Zoom Webinar, Demio, Livestorm
Learning management	No native addon	LearnDash, LifterLMS, Tutor LMS, Sensei, LearnPress, Masteriyo, MasterStudy, Academy LMS, WP Courseware, and more LMSs.
WordPress and other	Not applicable	WooCommerce customers, membership levels, affiliate registration, WordPress posts, custom webhook or API calls

Three categories deserve more than a table row.

CRM is where the gap is widest

Salesforce, HubSpot, Zoho CRM, Pipedrive, and ActiveCampaign all require Elite, which means a single CRM requirement sets your WPForms bill at $299.50 in year one and $599 on renewal, regardless of what else you need.

This is also the category where Zapier’s free tier does not help, because HubSpot and Salesforce are premium apps that require a paid Zapier plan.

Google Sheets is the most requested and the most contested

Google Sheets requires Pro natively. Three free routes reach it: GSheetConnector’s free version (email field only, per our testing above), Make’s or Zapier’s free tier, and a free WordPress automation plugin like Bit Integrations. If Google Sheets is genuinely the only thing you need, all three work.

What WPForms integrations actually cost

Scenario one: you need Google Sheets only

方法	Year one	更新	ノート
WPForms Pro upgrade	$199.50	$399	Also unlocks Drive, Dropbox, Calendar, Zapier, Make, n8n and fee-free payments
GSheetConnector free	$0	$0	Email field only, per our testing
GSheetConnector Pro	$39 list	$39	One site. Adds field mapping, conditional logic
Zapier Free	$0	$0	100 tasks per month, one trigger plus one action
Make Free	$0	$0	1,000 credits per month, two active scenarios, 15-minute minimum interval
Bit Integrations free	$0	$0	No task limit, no cap on active integrations, Custom Field mapping, with advanced Conditional logic

For one destination at low volume, several free options work. There is no strong argument for spending money here unless you want the other Pro features.

Scenario two: you need Google Sheets, Mailchimp, Slack and HubSpot

Assume 200 submissions per month and one destination per submission across all four services, which is four action steps.

方法	Year one	更新	ノート
WPForms Elite upgrade	$299.50	$599	HubSpot forces Elite, the highest tier, regardless of the other three
Connector plugins	Varies	Varies	Four separate plugins and licenses. Some destinations have no connector at all
Zapier	See note	See note	HubSpot is a premium app, so the free tier does not apply. Four actions at 200 submissions is roughly 800 tasks per month, above the 750-task entry tier, so budget for the next tier up or per-task overage
Make Core	~$108 to $192	~$108 to $192	Roughly 800 credits per month fits inside 10,000, but the free tier’s two-scenario cap makes Core the realistic floor
Bit Integrations free	$0	$0	All four destinations are in the catalog

The pattern holds across most real setups. One destination at low volume has plenty of free answers. Four destinations is where the methods diverge sharply, mostly because native pricing is set by the single most expensive integration on your list rather than by how many you use.

How to estimate metered costs

If you are considering Zapier or Make, run this calculation before committing. Multiply your monthly form submissions by the number of action steps in the workflow, then find the pricing tier that covers that number rather than reading the headline price.

Worked example: 200 submissions per month into a workflow with four actions is 800 tasks or credits per month, not 200. The common error is counting workflows instead of steps, which understates the true figure by exactly the number of actions in the workflow.

The payment-fee break-even, in one line. Upgrading from Plus to Pro purely to remove the 3% platform fee pays for itself at $3,333 in annual payment volume during year one, when the price gap is $100, and at $6,667 from renewal onward, when the gap widens to $200.

Below those thresholds, paying the fee costs less than the upgrade. Above them, you are paying more in fees than the upgrade would have cost.

WPForms workflows you can build for free

Each of these runs on WPForms Lite with a free connection layer.

• Log every lead to a spreadsheet. A contact form submission adds a row to Google Sheets with the name, email, message, and timestamp.
• Add subscribers conditionally. A form with a newsletter checkbox adds the person to your email list only when the box is ticked. Conditional logic in the connection layer handles the “only when” part.
• Send one entry to several places at once. A quote request creates a CRM contact, posts to your team channel, and adds a spreadsheet row. One submission, three destinations.
• Create a support ticket automatically. A support form generates a ticket in Zendesk or Freshdesk with the form contents attached, so nothing waits in an inbox.
• Route entries by field value. A department dropdown sends sales inquiries to one destination and support requests to another, based on what the person selects.

What the comparison tables do not show

Price and catalog size are the easy things to compare, which is why every guide compares them. Four things matter as much and appear on no pricing page.

What happens when an integration fails

An API returns a 500. The destination is down. A field the other side expects is missing. What happens to the entry?

Cloud platforms are strongest here. Zapier and Make both record the failed run, surface it in an error dashboard, and let you replay it once the destination recovers.

Self-hosted plugins vary considerably: some queue and retry, some log the failure quietly, and some fail silently. Native WPForms addons keep the entry in your dashboard regardless, so the data survives even when the delivery does not.

The practical test before you commit to any route: submit a form with the destination deliberately disconnected, then check whether you can tell that it failed and whether you can resend it. Do this in staging, not in production.

Where your form data goes

Self-hosted routes keep submission data on your own server. Cloud platforms add a data processor to your processing records, which matters for GDPR documentation, for data-residency requirements, and for anyone whose forms collect health, financial, or identity information.

This cuts both ways. Self-hosting means API credentials for every connected service live in your WordPress database, and a compromised site exposes all of them at once.

Cloud platforms hold those credentials on their infrastructure instead, which is a different risk with a different mitigation. Neither is universally safer; they fail differently.

Setup difficulty and ongoing maintenance

Native add-ons are the shortest path because field mapping happens inside the form builder you already know. Connector plugins are usually next, since they only have one destination to configure.

General-purpose automation plugins and cloud platforms both require you to learn a mapping interface, and cloud platforms add authentication steps for every service.

Maintenance scales differently. One automation plugin is one thing to update. Four connector plugins are four things to update, four changelogs to read, and four potential conflicts after every WordPress core release.

Performance impact

This is where self-hosted routes carry a real cost that pricing pages never mention. A WordPress automation plugin runs its actions during the form submission request, so a slow third-party API can hold the submission open and delay the confirmation the visitor sees. Cloud platforms move that work off your server entirely, at the cost of a short delay before the data arrives at its destination.

The question to ask any self-hosted plugin, including ours, is whether it dispatches actions in the background or inline with the request. On a form receiving a handful of submissions a day, the difference is invisible. On a high-traffic form with four destinations, it is not.

When upgrading WPForms is the better choice

Free routes cover data connections well. Four situations make paying the more sensible decision.

You take payments through your forms

The 3% platform fee applies to Lite, Basic, and Plus. Removing it requires Pro. The break-even sits at $3,333 in annual payment volume in year one and $6,667 from renewal onward, as calculated above. No automation plugin changes this, because the fee attaches to the payment processing itself rather than to the data connection.

You need advanced form features rather than data connections

Calculations, Surveys and Polls, Conversational Forms, Save and Resume, Form Abandonment, Digital Signatures, Geolocation and User Journey Reports all live inside the form builder. No external connector substitutes for any of them. If your requirement is a multi-step quote calculator rather than a data connection, the upgrade is the answer, and this entire guide is beside the point.

You want one vendor and one support channel

When a workflow breaks and two vendors are involved, diagnosing it takes longer, and each side can reasonably point at the other. Agencies managing client sites often prefer to keep everything under one license and one support desk. That is a reasonable reason to pay even when a free route exists.

You are already on Pro or Elite

If you already hold a Pro or Elite license, the native integrations are paid for. Adding another tool only makes sense for destinations the native add-ons do not cover, which mostly means project management, customer support, learning management, and messaging platforms.

Which option fits your situation

Your situation	Reasonable starting point	Why	Watch out for
One destination, low volume	Any free tier	Free options genuinely cover this	Volume caps on cloud tiers
One destination, high volume	Bit Integrations	No per-task metering	Feature depth varies; check the destination is fully supported
Several destinations	Bit Integrations	Cost does not scale per destination	Triggers only fire on WordPress events
Taking payments	WPForms Pro	Removes the 3% platform fee	Only worth it above $3,333 in year one, $6,667 on renewal
Need advanced form features	WPForms Pro or Elite	No alternative exists	Check which tier holds your specific feature
Connecting non-WordPress apps	Zapier or Make	The only category that does this	Estimate task usage as steps multiplied by submissions
Failure visibility matters most	Zapier or Make	Strongest error dashboards and replay	Cost scales with steps
Data must stay on your server	A self-hosted route	No third-party processor in the path	Credentials concentrate in your database
Already on Pro or Elite	Native addons	Already paid for	Fill gaps with another tool if needed

結論

Your WPForms plan is set by the single most expensive integration on your list, not by how many you use. Email marketing starts at Plus, Google Sheets at Pro, and CRM platforms at Elite.

Free routes reach nearly every category, but each one caps you somewhere different. Cloud platforms cap volume. Connector plugins cap features, sometimes harder than the listing suggests.

WordPress automation plugins cap scope, since they only fire on WordPress events. Within that limit, Bit Integrations covers WPForms with no task cap.

Paying WPForms still wins if you process real payment volume, need form features rather than data connections, or want one vendor accountable for the stack.

List your destinations and your monthly submission volume. Those two numbers answer the question faster than any comparison table.

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