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Send incomplete form email notifications when start form is started but not submitted

  • July 29, 2025
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I have a Start Form and the first few fields are “First Name”, “Last Name”, “Email” and “Phone Number”. Once these are entered, I basically want a timer to start and if the user hasn’t submitted the form within 2 hours, I want to send an email reminder to them to complete it. After that, I’d also want to trigger another one after 30 days. Is there a way to accomplish this without the user ever actually submitting the start form?

Best answer by SimonMuntz

Hi ​@Melanie Gildharry,

Welcome to the community.

Unfortunately, what you are trying to achieve is not possible.
The reason is that if nothing is submitted, there is nothing to run a workflow on to send the reminders. The entered information remains on the client side and is lost as soon as they close the browser tab or the cookie times out.

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SimonMuntz
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  • July 30, 2025

Hi ​@Melanie Gildharry,

Welcome to the community.

Unfortunately, what you are trying to achieve is not possible.
The reason is that if nothing is submitted, there is nothing to run a workflow on to send the reminders. The entered information remains on the client side and is lost as soon as they close the browser tab or the cookie times out.


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Thanks for the response ​@SimonMuntz!