How to Save Elementor Form Submissions in Database?

Elementor provides a powerful Form widget in Elementor Pro that allows you to create contact forms, lead generation forms, surveys, and many other types of forms directly within the page builder.

With Elementor forms, you can:

• Collect visitor information
• Send email notifications when a form is submitted
• Redirect users after submission
• Integrate forms with marketing tools

For many websites, this setup works well. However, when your website starts receiving more form submissions, managing those entries effectively becomes just as important as collecting them.

Website owners often need a way to store submissions safely, review entries later, export collected data, or analyze form performance.

This is where saving form submissions in the database becomes important.

In this guide, we will look at how Elementor handles submissions and how you can manage them more efficiently using Form Vibes.

What is Form Vibes?

Form Vibes is a simple plug-and-play plugin that captures and stores form submissions directly in the WordPress database. Once installed, the plugin automatically starts collecting submissions from supported form plugins such as: Elementor Forms, Contact Form 7, WS Form, Gravity Forms, Everest Forms, and other popular form builders.

Form Vibes acts as a central submission manager, allowing you to view, organize, and analyze form entries directly from the WordPress dashboard.

In addition to storing submissions, it also provides useful way such as: Submission filtering, Exporting entries, Analytics reports, Submission status management, and more.

Managing Elementor Form Submissions with Form Vibes

To start managing the form submissions, follow the steps below:

Step 1: Install & Activate Form Vibes

First, install the Form Vibes plugin on your WordPress website. After installation, click the Activate button.

Once activated, Form Vibes automatically starts capturing submissions from supported form plugins, including Elementor Forms. Any new form entry submitted through an Elementor form will be saved in the WordPress database.

Step 2: Create a Elementor Form

After installing the plugin, create a form using the Elementor Form widget and submit a test entry.

If you’re not familiar with creating Elementor forms, you can read this guide: How To Configure Elementor Form To Capture Leads.

Step 3: Navigate to Form Vibes Submissions

Form Vibes provides a dedicated interface where you can view and manage all captured submissions.

To access submissions, navigate to Form Vibes -> Submissions.

Here you will see all collected form entries displayed in a table format, making it easy to review and organize submission data.

You can also select a specific Elementor form from the dropdown menu to display submissions related only to that form.

Once submissions start appearing in Form Vibes, you can perform actions such as exporting entries, deleting records, or organizing fields.

Step 4: Filter Submissions

Form Vibes also allows you to filter entries using date range presets, such as:

• Daily
• Weekly
• Monthly
• Custom date range

For a detailed explanation of filtering options, you can refer to the Form Vibes documentation on Filtering submissions.

Form Vibes is the ultimate tool to capture leads. Get it for Now!

Step 5: Exporting & Deleting Form Submissions

You can export all your data submissions in a separate downloadable file. To export form submissions into a CSV file, select the submissions you want to export, then click on the Quick Export option on the action bar.

To delete specific form submissions, click on the Delete option from the Select Action drop-down menu. In addition, you can delete individual or multiple records.

Checkout: Creating Export Profiles for saved form submissions.

Step 6: Field Visibility

Sometimes, some fields in the form are not important for analysis, such as the IP address, etc. So, with Form Vibes, you can easily manage the visibility of such fields on the submission table.

Clicking on the Eye icon on the action bar to set the visibility of the form field. You can also adjust the arrangement of the fields accordingly. Click on the field name to change the custom field names and slugs.

Step 7: View Analytics

Form Vibes allows you to track the performance of your Elementor contact form using Form Analytics. Analytics reports are generated in a graphical chart depicting the entire details of the lead generated by the Elementor form for a particular selected interval. You can change the chart type from the bar to a line chart.

Step 8: Add Dashboard Widget

You can add a dashboard widget to your WordPress Admin dashboard screen to have a quick view of the stats of the leads captured through the Elementor form.

Form Vibes Advanced Features

The Form Vibes Pro provides you with some advanced functionalities and features to manage your form submissions. Some of the key features covered are:

1. User Role Manager
2. Front End Display of Submissions
3. Editing Captured Submissions
4. Advanced Export Process
5. Custom Notes

Conclusion

Elementor Forms provide a flexible way to create forms in WordPress and collect user submissions. While Elementor includes a basic submissions feature, many websites require more advanced tools to organize, export, and analyze form data effectively.

Form Vibes provides a centralized solution for managing form submissions by offering features such as filtering, exporting, analytics, and submission management tools directly inside the WordPress dashboard.

FAQs on Saving Elementor Form Submissions