Wix Forms: Customizing the Success Message and Thank You Page of Site Forms

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Your form's success message is displayed after a visitor submits. Edit the text of the message and choose how long it displays for. You can also have the success message link to a thank you page on your site that gives more information on what to do next.
Note:
This article refers to customizing the success message of site forms. For standalone forms, you can edit the form's thank you text that appears on a new page. Learn how

In this article, learn how to:


Customizing the success message

Edit the text and timing of the message that appears for visitors after they've submitted a form successfully on your site. 

To customize the success message:

  1. Go to your Editor and click the relevant form.
  2. Click Form Settings.
  3. Click the Submit Message tab.
  4. Select Show success message under the submit a form options. 
  5. Type the message that appears after visitors click the submit button (e.g. Thanks for submitting!)
  1. Choose the timing of the message under How long should the message show after submission?
    • Set time: The message shows for a set amount of time.
      • Drag the slider to set the number of seconds that the message should display for.
    • Always: The message appears after submission and does not get removed.
See your success message in action:
Preview your site and submit your form to see how the message appears.

Creating a custom thank you page

If you want your form submit button to link to another page on your site, e.g. a 'Thank You' page with more information, you need create a new page and then hide it from the site menu and from search results. This ensures that the thank you page is only accessible by direct link from the success message.

To create a custom thank you page:

  1. Add a new page to your site and add the content you want to include on your thank you page.
  2. Hide the new page from your site menu
  3. Hide the new page from search results. 
  4. Click the form.
  5. Click Form Settings.
  6. Click Submit Message.
  7. Select Go to site page or lightbox under When visitors submit a form:
  8. Click Choose a Link.
  1. Click the Which page? drop-down and select your new thank you page.
  1. Click Done.

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