Paperform

Paperform is a webhook platform: rather than reading your data directly, you paste Instasent's webhook URL into a Paperform form so its submissions flow into Instasent's ingest stream. Use it to add the contacts your forms capture to your audience.

How to connect

Paperform is a webhook platform: you don't create a credential — Instasent gives you a webhook URL, and you paste it into your form. This is a manual webhook: Paperform posts to that URL on every submission. You can create the Instasent source before setting anything up in Paperform; the source waits for data in real time.

1. 1

   Add the data source

   In Data sources, select Add data source and choose Paperform from the Integrations section.

2. 2

   Configure the source

   Fill in the Configure step — Connection name, Default country, Regional settings / Locale and Timezone — and Instasent creates the source.

3. 3

   Copy the webhook URL

   Instasent shows the source's Webhook URL under Setup instructions. Copy it.

4. 4

   Paste it into your Paperform form

   In your form's configuration, add a webhook and paste the Instasent webhook URL. From now on Paperform posts each submission to Instasent.

5. 5

   Watch the stream log

   Back in Instasent, the source shows a stream log of the data arriving, so you can confirm the connection is working.

For the endpoint shapes and the full setup, see API & webhooks.

What it syncs

Paperform sends the contacts its forms capture — one per submission — in real time as each one comes in. The payload identifies the contact (contact_id) and carries the fields the form collected.

Field mapping

The fields Paperform sends are mapped to Instasent attributes the same way as any source — you confirm which incoming values go into which Instasent attributes. See field mapping.

Consent mapping

Paperform passes through the fields the form collects; it has no consent mapping of its own. Consent is controlled by the fields you map — if a form collects an explicit marketing opt-in and you map it to a consent attribute, that value applies. The same rules apply as for any import: only set _accepts_marketing_* to false on an active opt-out; "no data" stays null. See Consent.