Sign-up forms
Every command for sign-up forms and the people who fill them in, with worked examples.
How it fits together
A sign-up form adds the people who fill it in to your audiences. It keeps a draft and a live copy: update changes the draft and the settings, and publish puts the draft live. Reading needs forms:read and changing needs forms:write. resend-confirmation, and any change that makes the form send mail, also needs emails:send.
nextmail forms create --name "Newsletter sign-up" --starter newsletter --publishnextmail forms list-submissions frm_3b9d2e7a1c4f80d56e2a9b14 --status pendingnextmail forms analytics frm_3b9d2e7a1c4f80d56e2a9b14 --days 30Forms
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
| nextmail forms list | One page of the forms, newest first, with their status and numbers |
| nextmail forms create --name <value> | Make a draft from --starter, a --document file or one email field. --publish puts it live at once |
| nextmail forms get <id> | One form with its draft, its live copy and its settings |
| nextmail forms update <id> | Change the name, the --document draft or any settings, such as --settings-double-opt-in, in one call |
| nextmail forms publish <id> | Put the draft live |
| nextmail forms pause <id> | Stop a published form taking sign-ups |
| nextmail forms resume <id> | Open a paused form again |
| nextmail forms duplicate <id> | Copy a form into a new draft, without its sign-ups |
| nextmail forms design --brief <value> | Design a new draft form from a written brief, as Create with AI does in the app. It spends one AI action |
| nextmail forms redesign <id> --instructions <value> | Change the draft of a form from written instructions, as Ask AI does in the form builder. It spends one AI action |
| nextmail forms delete <id> | Delete a form and its sign-ups after you confirm. A browser sign-in also asks for a verification code |
| nextmail forms list-starters | The starting points a new form can begin from |
| nextmail forms get-starter <slug> | One starting point with its document |
| nextmail forms analytics <id> | Views, sign-ups and people added over a window, 30 days unless --days or --minutes says otherwise |
Submissions
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
| nextmail forms list-submissions <id> | One page of sign-ups, newest first. --q searches email addresses and --status picks pending or added |
| nextmail forms get-submission <id> <submission-id> | One sign-up with every answer |
| nextmail forms delete-submission <id> <submission-id> | Delete one sign-up after you confirm. The person stays in your contacts |
| nextmail forms delete-submissions <id> <submission-ids...> | Delete up to 200 sign-ups after you confirm |
| nextmail forms approve-submission <id> <submission-id> | Add a waiting sign-up without its confirmation. Needs contacts:write too |
| nextmail forms resend-confirmation <id> <submission-id> | Email a waiting sign-up a fresh confirmation link, unless one went out in the last ten minutes. Needs emails:send too |
Signing someone up
subscribe posts to a published form as its page does. It needs no key and no sign-in, so it works signed out. Pass the other answers as JSON with --data, and the page the form was on with --oe-source.
nextmail forms subscribe frm_3b9d2e7a1c4f80d56e2a9b14 --email ann@example.com --data '{"first_name":"Ann","consent":true}'A missing or wrong answer exits with code 7 and lists each field and its reason. A paused form exits with 6, and too many sign-ups from one network with 8.
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