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SMSTunnel for CF7 adds SMS notifications to Contact Form 7. When a visitor submits a form, you can automatically text yourself, your team, or the person who submitted it.

The texts are sent from your own Android phone and number. You link the phone to your site by QR code in the main SMSTunnel plugin, and you can remove that connection anytime from the SMSTunnel app.

End-to-end encryption. Turn it on in the SMSTunnel plugin and these texts are encrypted for your phone before they leave WordPress, so only your phone can read the words. After your phone sends it, a text travels over the mobile network like any other SMS.

Requires SMSTunnel Plugin

This addon requires the main SMSTunnel plugin to be installed and configured first.

Key Features

SMS Tab in CF7 Editor – Configure SMS notifications just like you configure email notifications
Use Form Tags – Include any form field in your SMS using CF7 mail-tags like [your-name], [your-email], [your-phone]
More Than One Recipient – Notify several numbers, for example you and a colleague
Conditional Sending – Choose when to send SMS (on success, on mail failure, always)
Admin Notifications – Get instant SMS alerts when forms are submitted
Customer Notifications – Send confirmation SMS to form submitters

How It Works

Install and activate SMSTunnel main plugin
Install and activate SMSTunnel CF7
Edit any Contact Form 7 form
Go to the new “SMS” tab
Configure recipient phone number and message template
Use mail-tags like [your-name] to personalize messages

Example SMS Template

New contact from [your-name]
Phone: [your-phone]
Message: [your-message]

Supported Mail-Tags

All Contact Form 7 mail-tags are supported:

[your-name] – Submitter’s name
[your-email] – Submitter’s email
[your-phone] – Submitter’s phone
[your-message] – Message content
[_date] – Submission date
[_time] – Submission time
[_remote_ip] – Submitter’s IP address
Any custom field tags you define

External Services

This plugin relies on the SMSTunnel plugin to send SMS notifications. When a Contact Form 7 form is submitted, the following data may be transmitted to the SMSTunnel service and your paired Android device:

Form field values included in the SMS template (name, email, phone, message, etc.)
Submission metadata if used in the template (IP address via [_remote_ip], date, time)

Data is sent only when SMS notifications are enabled for a specific form. The SMS is relayed through the SMSTunnel server to your own Android phone, which sends it as a standard SMS message.

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