Download Link send to email

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Hi All,

We have a subscription form created with a free pdf document and we want the user receive the pdf link to his email once they subscribe.

So this is the process
Subscription Form > Click Download PDF > User will receive an email of the pdf link

Is it possible that the download link will be sent directly to the user’s email after they subscribe? If yes how?

And if there’s other options?

Thanks everyone!

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Hey,

You can’t send an email to the user within Webflow - well you can’t email it to them. However, upon successful completion of the form - you could redirect them to a page with the download link. Just put in the redirect URL in the form settings.

Alternatively, if you want to email them the link - you could use Mailchimp to do it.

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Hey @leeagosila,

Ever heard of zapier.com ?
This could be the a great option for you.
It’s free when you have only 2 zaps which is you case.

The idea :

You create a new zap, add a new trigger which is your webflow form submission.
You and a new step which is sending an emailing though whatever free service (gmail ?) with your text template in and your link.
You auto pick your data email thanks to the webflow form and voila.
Hope this helps,

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Thanks Diarmuid_Sexton and zbrah

We will try those, will get back as soon we setup it properly

Cheers!

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Hi quick follow-up!

is it possible for zapier to pull the email-address of the user? e.g. if that user is already logged in.

what I want to achieve is that the user does not have to type in in his/her email for every single download.

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No.

However since you already have the user logged in, you don’t need to worry about document security. You can just offer download directly from your site.

If you really wanted to do a form submit with an email address, you could potentially store the email in a cookie and re-populate the form… however there are privacy risks there. You’d need to be very careful how you implement that so that the user’s email is not exposed on a public machine. sessionStorage is probably safest.

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Depends. What service/feature are you using to log the user in?

If you’re using something like Memberstack then the answer is yes. If you are using Webflow’s native Membership feature the answer is yes & no.

If it’s the former, just ping their API. If it’s the latter, you have a couple of options.

Option 1:

You could use a glue service to automate adding that link to the Webflow Memberships user account as another field. Once they are logged in, they go to their account page, and find the url.

Option 2:

Another approach is to create a Webflow CMS dashboard with a unique, and unguessable slug.

Something like: https://mysite.webflow.io/user-dashboard/45thr873-3445jdh-UU893uijd

Layer Webflow Memberships on top of this CMS Collection.

Website visitors can never access that dashboard, and only legit logged in users could ever attempt guessing it, but that’s unlikely.

Use automation to add your download link to this CMS Collection for this user.

Hope that helps!