SubmitRelay – Form & Chat

SubmitRelay is a WordPress contact form plugin for collecting customer enquiries, saving submissions in WordPress, sending email notifications, and optionally continuing conversations through WhatsApp. Create forms as a floating popup or use the [submitrelay_form] shortcode to display a standalone form. SubmitRelay is useful for hotels, houseboats, travel businesses, tours, booking enquiries, local services, agencies, freelancers, support requests, quotation forms, and small businesses. Contact Form + WhatsApp Chat Connect your WordPress contact form with WhatsApp chat using a customizable pre-filled message template. After a successful form submission, SubmitRelay can open WhatsApp with a pre-filled message containing information submitted by the visitor. Use built-in placeholders such as:

• {name} — Customer name
• {email} — Customer email
• {phone} — Customer phone number
• {message} — Customer message
• {page_url} — Page where the form was submitted
• {site_title} — Website title
• {site_url} — Website URL

Custom form fields can also be used as WhatsApp placeholders. For example, if a custom field has the ID travel_date, you can use {travel_date} in the WhatsApp message template. This lets site owners create messages tailored to their business, such as booking dates, guest details, travel requirements, service requests, or other custom enquiry information. Save Customer Enquiries SubmitRelay can save form submissions directly inside WordPress. Administrators can view, search, export, and delete saved submissions. Stored information can include:

• Name
• Email
• Phone number
• Message
• Custom form fields
• Submission date and time
• IP address when IP storage is explicitly enabled

Email Notifications and SMTP SubmitRelay sends email notifications using WordPress wp_mail() by default. For websites that require SMTP delivery, SubmitRelay also provides optional SMTP configuration using WordPress's bundled PHPMailer. Floating Popup or Shortcode Form Display your form as:

• A floating popup
• A standalone form using [submitrelay_form]

The shortcode can be used on pages, posts, widgets, and supported theme template locations. Key Features

• Floating popup contact form with configurable position, animation, visibility, and schedule.
• Standalone [submitrelay_form] shortcode.
• Configurable Name, Email, Phone/WhatsApp, Message, and custom fields.
• Customizable pre-filled WhatsApp message templates.
• Built-in placeholders for submitted form information.
• Custom form field placeholders for WhatsApp messages.
• Email notifications through WordPress wp_mail().
• Optional SMTP configuration.
• Optional WhatsApp chat after successful submission with a pre-filled message.
• Submission storage inside WordPress.
• Administrator screen for viewing, searching, exporting, and deleting submissions.
• WordPress personal-data exporter and eraser integration.
• Optional GDPR consent checkbox and configurable privacy-policy URL.
• IP address storage disabled by default.
• Settings export/import with SMTP passwords excluded from exports.
• Basic anti-spam honeypot and short-term request rate limiting.
• Unified Floating Button appearance controls.
• No advertising, analytics, telemetry, or remote tracking.

Why SubmitRelay? SubmitRelay combines several common customer-contact requirements in one WordPress plugin: Contact Form → Save Enquiry → Email Notification → WhatsApp Chat Instead of relying on separate tools for every part of the enquiry process, site owners can collect customer information, keep a record of submissions, receive email notifications, and optionally start a WhatsApp chat using a prepared, pre-filled message.

1.1.9

• Update the plugin name to "SubmitRelay – Form & Chat" for clearer positioning.
• Improve the WordPress.org short description, tags, and opening description for clearer discoverability.
• No functional changes.

1.1.8

• Add independent WhatsApp Redirect visibility toggles for the Popup and Form.
• Keep the existing Enable WhatsApp Redirect setting as the master switch.
• Preserve existing WhatsApp behavior when both new visibility settings are enabled.

1.1.7

• Replace the single field Enabled setting with independent Required, Popup and Form controls.
• Fix saving of Required, Popup and Form toggle states so OFF values persist.
• Preserve existing field visibility during upgrade from older versions.

1.1.6

• Changed Floating Button vertical control to a simple non-negative Bottom Offset (0–200 px).
• Positive values move bottom-positioned floating buttons higher; negative values are no longer supported.

1.1.5

• Hardened settings sanitization and runtime validation for all user-configurable values.
• Removed HTML handling from the floating button icon setting; icons are stored as text/emoji.
• Added strict bounds and allowlists for numeric, color, position, date/time, URL, and other settings used in generated output.
• Ensured settings are normalized before generating CSS, JavaScript, and HTML.
• No arbitrary custom CSS, JavaScript, or PHP insertion is supported.

1.1.4

• Added a controlled Vertical Offset setting for the floating button.
• Allows site owners to move the floating button up or down within a safe 200-pixel range.
• The adjustment is implemented as a sanitized numeric setting and generated by the plugin; no arbitrary CSS is accepted.

1.1.3

• Added strict phone-number validation on both the browser and server.
• Phone fields accept 7-15 digits with common formatting characters (spaces, +, -, parentheses and periods) and reject letters or arbitrary text.
• Added inputmode=tel, a length limit, and a validation pattern to phone inputs.

1.1.2

• Unified the floating button appearance settings into one Floating Button section.
• Renamed Button Color to Floating Button Color.
• Floating Button Color now controls both the floating button and submit button backgrounds.
• Text/Icon Color now controls floating button text/icon, submit button text, and the popup close icon.
• The popup close button is always available when the popup is open.
• Added strict phone-number validation to reject arbitrary text and accept common phone formatting characters.

1.1.0

• Removed unrestricted custom CSS input and unrestricted CSS design-value fields.
• Fixed popup and button sizing, padding, border radius, and close-button size to controlled plugin defaults.
• Removed legacy storage of unrestricted CSS design values from active settings.

1.0.9

• Removed the arbitrary Additional CSS setting to comply with WordPress.org plugin review requirements.
• Preserved controlled design options such as popup, button, field, placeholder, overlay, and mobile button colors/positions.
• Updated the settings export version to 1.0.9.

1.0.8

• Improved WordPress.org compatibility by using WordPress enqueue APIs for JavaScript and CSS output.
• Prefixed plugin runtime hooks, storage identifiers, and names to reduce collisions.
• Preserved existing settings, submissions, popup, standalone form, email, SMTP, GDPR, scheduling, and WhatsApp behavior.