SmartCloud Flow is a block-based forms and workflow plugin for WordPress.
It combines a modern Gutenberg editor experience with a React/Mantine runtime and an optional AWS backend, so site owners can design forms in WordPress while choosing where submissions should be posted and, in Pro, running submissions, templates, workflows, and integrations in their own AWS account.
Flow is part of the WPSuite family of plugins by Smart Cloud Solutions, Inc.
Free mode
Flow does not require a hosted SaaS backend or a WPSuite connection to render forms.
In Free mode, each form can post directly from the browser to a URL you define per form. That endpoint may be:
- your own custom endpoint,
- a WordPress-side endpoint you implement yourself, or
- the Flow backend submission endpoint, if you later deploy it.
Pro mode
Pro becomes available after connecting your WordPress site to a
WPSuite.io workspace. It is designed to work especially well with the separately deployed
WP Suite Flow Backend in your own AWS account.
A typical Pro setup is:
- deploy the Flow backend to AWS,
- add the published backend API base URL to Gatey as a separate API,
- choose the desired protection mode for that API (
IAM or COGNITO, matching the backend deployment),
- then select that API in SmartCloud → Flow Settings → API Settings.
This lets Flow use Gatey-aware authenticated API access, while keeping the backend in your own AWS account.
Key features
- Gutenberg form builder — Build forms with a dedicated Form block, layout/container blocks, and rich field blocks.
- Single React runtime per form — Front-end forms run as one mounted React tree.
- Rich display & content blocks — Use styled content primitives such as blockquotes, marks, badges, code blocks, spoilers, lists, tables, timelines, and overflow lists alongside inputs.
- Conditional logic & validation — Show/hide, enable/disable, require/optional, and other rule-based field behavior.
- Theme overrides & design tokens — Theme both interactive controls and display/content blocks inside the Shadow DOM with Mantine variables and stable
--flow-* CSS tokens.
- Shortcodes & Elementor support — Reuse forms via shortcode and Elementor integrations.
- Flexible submission target model — Submit directly from the browser to a per-form endpoint URL.
- Pro: backend-aware operation — Connect Flow to the AWS-hosted Flow backend for durable submissions, admin tooling, templates, workflows, and webhook-driven automation.
- Pro: backend form sync — Optionally sync Gutenberg-defined forms into canonical backend form definitions stored in AWS.
- Pro: admin application — Manage submissions, templates, workflows, and backend/API settings from WordPress admin.
- Pro: workflow automation — Event-driven automation for emails, webhooks, status changes, and related operational flows.
- Pro: security & ownership — Deploy into your own AWS account and choose auth modes such as
IAM or COGNITO.
You can find continuously expanding documentation at:
https://wpsuite.io/docs/
This plugin is not affiliated with or endorsed by Amazon Web Services or the WordPress Foundation. All trademarks are property of their respective owners.