The Carrd Pro Form Upgrade

Carrd's form widget, by design, does very little

Carrd is built for speed and simplicity, and its form widget reflects that: a handful of field types, a destination email address, and that's about it. There's no way to send a branded confirmation to the person who filled it out, no spam scoring beyond what your inbox provider does on its own, and no way to route different forms to different teams.

For a lot of one-page sites that's fine. But the moment you're collecting anything you care about — job applications, waitlist signups, client intake — the gaps start to matter.

Point Carrd at a FormBridge endpoint

Carrd's built-in widget posts to Carrd's own backend and forwards by email, so to get real control you replace it with a custom embed containing a plain HTML form pointed at FormBridge:

<form action="https://app.formbridge.ai/api/forms/fb_8h2k9p" method="POST">
  <input name="name" placeholder="Name" />
  <input name="email" type="email" placeholder="Email" />
  <textarea name="message" placeholder="Message"></textarea>
  <button type="submit">Send</button>
</form>

Carrd's embed element accepts raw HTML, so this drops in cleanly alongside your existing page.

What the upgrade buys you

• Custom email templates — design the notification you get with your own logo and colors, instead of a plain forwarded email.
• Autoresponder — send an automatic reply to the submitter, with their name and details merged in from the form fields.
• Spam protection — every submission is scored automatically, and you can layer on a honeypot field, CAPTCHA (reCAPTCHA or hCaptcha), or an authorized domains allow-list.
• Custom SMTP — send notifications from your own domain rather than a shared sender, once you're on a paid plan.
• A real inbox — every submission, its status, and its full processing log (received, spam-checked, notified) in one place, instead of hunting through your regular email.

Getting started

Create a form endpoint in FormBridge, copy the endpoint URL, and paste the HTML form above into a Carrd embed in place of the native widget. From there, configure your recipient list, autoresponder, and spam protection from the form's settings — the free plan handles up to 1,000 submissions a month, which covers most single-page sites comfortably.