Build Chatwoot forms with Paperform

Chatwoot is an open-source customer engagement platform that provides live chat, email, and social media messaging in a unified inbox.

Paperform connects to Chatwoot directly through Stepper workflows.

Each submission can become a ticket or conversation in Chatwoot, with the details already filled in.

How Chatwoot connects to Paperform

Direct methods run inside your Paperform account. Zapier and Make are there too if your team already uses them.

Stepper workflows

Direct

Run a Stepper workflow when someone submits your form: 11 Chatwoot actions and 4 triggers, included in your Paperform account.

  1. Open Stepper from your Paperform account and create a workflow.
  2. Start it with the Paperform “New Submission” trigger and choose your form.
  3. Add a Chatwoot step, connect your account and map the submission’s answers to its fields.

Chatwoot actions in Stepper

  • Send Message
  • Send Private Note
  • Create Contact
  • Update Contact
  • Create Conversation
  • Toggle Conversation Status
  • Assign Conversation
  • Add Labels to Conversation
  • Find Contact
  • Find Conversation
  • +1 more

Chatwoot events that can start a workflow

  • New Conversation
  • New Message
  • Conversation Status Changed
  • New or Updated Contact

What your form sends to Chatwoot

For example, with a Stepper workflow the “Send Message” action takes these fields. Map each one to a question on your form, and every submission fills them in.

Chatwoot fieldQuestion on your formRequired
ConversationDropdown or choiceYes
Message ContentLong answerYes
Private NoteYes/NoNo

Start from a template

Pick a template, then connect it to Chatwoot. There are 30,000+ in the templates directory.

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Questions

Bring us the workflow that keeps breaking

Start with the one form whose data never quite lands where it should. Connect the rest when you're ready.

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