How to Connect Fluent Forms to Make.com for Free (No Pro Subscription Needed)

Install and activate Fluent Forms

From the WordPress dashboard, go to Plugins → Add New and search for Fluent.

Install Fluent Forms – Customizable Contact Forms:

Once it is installed you need to activate it. After activating, Fluent Forms appears in your side menu bar:

Install WP Webhooks, the bridge to your automation tool

Now install another plugin. This one is the bridge between Fluent Forms and your automation tool (Make, n8n... for this example we use Make.com). Search webhook in the plugin search bar, scroll down until you find WP Webhooks, then install and activate it.

You now have both plugins installed. WP Webhooks shows up in the Settings dropdown in the sidebar.

Pick a form (and see why we need WP Webhooks)

By default, Fluent Forms already comes with forms made for you. Go to Fluent Forms → Forms. We can use one of these as an example.

Press Settings under the form:

In Configure Integrations inside the form you can see that connecting to outside tools requires a Pro subscription. This is where WP Webhooks comes in.

Set up the Send Data trigger in WP Webhooks

Hover on the Settings tab in the sidebar and press WP Webhooks.

It will bring you to this screen:

Press Send Data. That is what we are going to use, sending data from Fluent Forms to Make.com. It will show you this:

At the very bottom you can see Fluent Forms → Form submitted. Press that.

Press Add Webhook URL. This is where your Make.com webhook URL goes. Let's go get it.

Create your webhook in Make.com

Log in to Make.com (or create a free account here), create a new scenario, press the big plus bubble, and choose Webhooks.

Choose Custom webhook:

Press Add to add a new webhook, name your webhook, and press Save:

Make will now generate a webhook URL for you to use. Copy it and save.

Paste the Make URL into WP Webhooks

Copy the webhook Make.com provided and paste it into the Fluent Forms trigger in the WP Webhooks interface:

It is now set:

If you have multiple forms in Fluent Forms, you can choose a specific form for this webhook to fetch data from by clicking the three-dot button, then Settings:

Here I selected the Subscription form:

Scroll down to the bottom and press Save. If you only have one form you can leave the settings as is, but it is always recommended to read the instructions, notes, and documentation of every tool you use.

Test it end to end

Go back to Make.com and press Run once so the scenario waits for data sent to the webhook.

Then go to Fluent Forms and press Preview under the Subscription form:

Type a test email in the field and press Subscribe:

Go back to Make.com and open the small bubble on the webhook module. It contains the data it received. You can see the test-email@gmail.com we typed in the subscription form arrived in Make.com.

From here, send the data anywhere

And that is how you send the data submitted in Fluent Forms to your automation tool. From here you can add a Google Sheets module, a Notion module, or wherever you want the data recorded, as long as you map the fields correctly.

See my full example integrating this guide, where I did this for a discovery-call intake form for a client of mine: from Fluent Forms to a Notion database, with internal and client emails.