A Contact Form 7 alternative that saves your entries

Why CF7 loses messages

CF7 is reliable at what it does: it renders a form and passes the submission to wp_mail(). It keeps no copy. The Flamingo add-on stores submissions, but it doesn't record whether the email went out, so you still find out about failures from customers who never heard back.

What to look for

• Entries saved before sending, not after — so a mail failure can't cost you the message.
• A mail status on each entry, with the error when it failed and a way to resend.
• An importer for CF7 forms that tells you what it couldn't bring over instead of dropping it quietly.
• Spam protection that doesn't lose real messages when a CAPTCHA service is down.
• Nothing loaded on pages without a form — CF7 loads its script and stylesheet on every page by default.

See what your CF7 form would become

Paste the contents of your form's Form tab below. The checker reads CF7's form-tags and shows, tag by tag, what Mailbag's importer makes of each one — and what it can't bring over.

Mailbag Contact Form as the alternative

Mailbag saves each entry before it sends anything and marks it Sent to your mail server, Failed with the error, or Not sent. Its importer reads your CF7 forms — fields, recipients, subject, message, Mail (2) as the automatic reply, and your custom messages — without CF7 even being active. It shows a report first, lists each page where a CF7 shortcode or block is placed, and changes nothing on those pages itself: you swap each one when you're ready.

What it doesn't bring: CF7's quiz, file upload, hidden fields and Stripe payments, and old submissions stored by Flamingo, which stay where they are. The report names every tag it leaves behind. See the switching guide for the steps.