Hafenstudios Leadlotse – Form & Lead Manager
Purpose gallery: pick a form by what it should achieve.
Leadlotse starts from the goal, not from an empty canvas. You pick a purpose – contact, consultation, inquiry, newsletter, download, callback, quote, event or event sign-up – and get a form that already has sensible fields, a consent text and a confirmation email. Your first form is live in minutes.
Every submission lands in a tidy inbox inside WordPress. No shared mailbox where inquiries drown. Each entry carries a status (new, in progress, done), and the plugin points it out when entries have been waiting too long for an answer.
What you get
- Purpose templates in English and German instead of an empty form builder
- Form builder with live preview: fields, preview and settings on one screen
- Inbox with status, search and filters
- Conditional fields: show a field only when another one has a certain value
- Double opt-in for newsletter sign-ups, with a signed confirmation link
- Spam protection without a captcha: honeypot, time trap and rate limiting per IP and form
- Field types for text, email, phone, number, date, select, radio, checkbox, consent and hidden attribution values
- GDPR tools: consent records with the exact text and version, data minimisation, retention period, and hooks into the WordPress data export and erasure requests
- Works without JavaScript: the form falls back to a classic POST and no submission is lost
- Accessible markup: every field has a label, errors sit at the field and are wired up with aria-describedby and aria-invalid
- Event sign-up: registration with capacity limit, confirmation by email, a ticket with a QR code and check-in from your phone
- Participant list per event, printable and exportable
- Gutenberg block and shortcode
- Your data stays on your server
No external services
Leadlotse processes submissions on your own server and sends email through the delivery path your WordPress installation already uses. It does not call any third-party API, loads no remote fonts, scripts or images, and collects no telemetry.
Who it is for
Small and medium businesses, local service providers, coaches and consultants who want to collect inquiries and lose none of them, without a large CRM or paid add-on services.
Event sign-up
One purpose template turns a form into a sign-up: guests register, everyone receives a ticket with a QR code by email, and at the door you scan it from your phone. A capacity limit closes the form once the event is full, cancellations free up their spot again, and the participant list shows who is expected. The QR code is generated on your server, the ticket page belongs to your site, and no data leaves it.
Leadlotse is part of the Hafenstudios fleet; it works on its own and cooperates with the other fleet plugins once they are active. An extended edition with messenger replies, quick fill via Google and Apple and multi-step forms is available at hafenstudios.com.