Integrate Gravity Forms with Bitly

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Gravity Forms Integrations

About Gravity Forms

Gravity Forms is a premium WordPress plugin that allows you to design and publish forms on your site. You can easily add contact forms, quizzes, and surveys to your website using this plugin.

About Bitly

Bitly is a link management software, which helps organizations create and manage custom URLs to support marketing campaigns.

Gravity Forms + Bitly Quick Connects

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Connect Gravity Forms + Bitly in easier way

It's easy to connect Gravity Forms + Bitly without coding knowledge. Start creating your own business flow.

Triggers
Form Submission

Triggers when a new specified form is submitted.
New Bitlink

Trigger when you create a New Bitlink.

Actions
New Entry

Creates a new form entry.
Submit Form

Creates an entry and fires all events associated with a form submission such as notifications and add-on feeds.
Create Bitlink

Saves a Bitlink to your user history in Bitly. Returns a shortened URL.

How Gravity Forms & Bitly Integrations Work

Step 1: Choose Gravity Forms as a trigger app and authenticate it on Appy Pie Connect.

(30 seconds)
Step 2: Select "Trigger" from the Triggers List.

(10 seconds)
Step 3: Pick Bitly as an action app and authenticate.

(30 seconds)
Step 4: Select a resulting action from the Action List.

(10 seconds)
Step 5: Select the data you want to send from Gravity Forms to Bitly.

(2 minutes)
Your Connect is ready! It's time to start enjoying the benefits of workflow automation.

Integration of Gravity Forms and Bitly

Gravity Forms

Gravity Forms is a WordPress plugin that extends the capabilities of WordPress’s contact forms. It has a number of options and provides a variety of tops to customize and extend its functionality. Gravity Forms can be customized to accommodate any form or data-cplection format by using the built-in HTML editor, by writing custom CSS, or by using an external editor such as Coda or Dreamweaver.

Bitly

Bitly is a link shortening service. It allows users to shorten links to other websites so they are easier to share in social media networks, forums, blogs, etc. The Bitly API is available for developers to create new services using Bitly’s short URL service.

Integration of Gravity Forms and Bitly

The ability to integrate Gravity Forms with Bitly is accomplished through code that interacts with the Gravity Forms plugin to store the generated links in Bitly. When an end user submits a form that uses Gravity Forms, the form data is stored in the database. A custom function downloads the data from the database, creates a unique URL based on the data in the form, and then sends it to Bitly. If enabled in the settings panel, when the submitted data is validated, the unique link is shortened using Bitly before being sent back to the end user. This provides an additional level of verification for submitted form data.

Benefits of Integration of Gravity Forms with Bitly

The integration of Gravity Forms with Bitly provides many benefits. Among these are integration between two popular plugins, ease of use for end users with little technical knowledge, increased security for users submitting forms online, and shortened URLs with tracking metrics built in. All of these are important factors when considering features for a website.

The process to integrate Gravity Forms and Bitly may seem complicated and intimidating. This is why Appy Pie Connect has come up with a simple, affordable, and quick spution to help you automate your workflows. Click on the button below to begin.