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Introduction
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Welcome to the documentation for **Gravity Forms Send to API** — an add-on that forwards your Gravity Forms entries to virtually any external REST API.

What it does
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Gravity Forms ships with add-ons for popular services, but plenty of tools don't have one. Almost all of them, however, expose an API. Send to API lets you connect a form to any of those APIs without writing code: when an entry is submitted, the add-on builds a request from your form data and sends it to the endpoint you configure.

A few common uses:

- Create a contact or lead in a CRM
- Subscribe a user to an email or marketing platform
- Register a signup in an internal or third-party system
- Trigger a webhook or automation

How it works
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Everything is configured through **feeds**. A feed is a rule you attach to a form that says *"when an entry comes in, send this request to that API."* You can add as many feeds to a form as you like, so a single submission can reach multiple endpoints.

Each feed lets you control:

- **Endpoint & method** — the URL to send to, using `POST`, `PUT`, `PATCH`, `DELETE` or `GET`.
- **Authentication** — Bearer token, Basic auth, OAuth 2 (password or client credentials), a custom header, or none at all.
- **Field mapping** — map form fields and custom values to the keys your API expects, with dot notation for nested objects and arrays (e.g. `address.city` or `addresses.0.street`).
- **Response handling** — store parts of the API response as merge tags to reuse in notifications and confirmations.
- **Advanced options** — request timeout, whether to wait for the response, and SSL verification.

Requirements
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- PHP 8.0 or higher
- Gravity Forms 1.9.16 or higher

Get started
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1. **[Install the plugin](/products/gf-send-to-api/docs/installation)** and activate your license so you keep receiving updates.
2. **[Create your first feed](/products/gf-send-to-api/docs/feed)** to map a form to an API endpoint.
3. Submit a test entry — and if you need to see exactly what was sent, open the **[debugging](/products/gf-send-to-api/docs/debugging)** page.

Need something specific? Use the navigation to jump to feeds, [merge tag manipulations](/products/gf-send-to-api/docs/merge-tag-manipulations), [value casting](/products/gf-send-to-api/docs/value-casting), or [resending entries](/products/gf-send-to-api/docs/resend-entries).

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