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Notes from the delivery path.

Form monitoring, email deliverability, and the agency business of keeping client leads flowing. No growth-hack listicles.


Product update · Jul 10, 2026

Connect an AI agent to Formitor over MCP

Generate a read-only token and let Claude or any MCP-capable agent list your sites, ask what's broken right now, pull a site's full status, and read recent alerts.

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Product update · Jul 7, 2026

Hijack forms: live-test any client form straight to your own inbox

Flip on Hijack forms from the admin bar, enter your email, and every notification you trigger while testing goes to you instead of the client. Auto-disables after the window you pick.

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Product update · Jul 1, 2026

A deep security pass across the whole platform

Stricter database access rules with uniform MFA enforcement, hardened request validation on every site-facing check, per-account rate limits, checksum-verified plugin updates, and integrity-pinned dashboard scripts.

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Deliverability · Jun 27, 2026

SPF, DKIM and DMARC for WordPress agencies, in plain language

The three DNS records that decide whether your clients' lead notifications reach the inbox, what breaks them, and how to audit them across a whole portfolio.

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Agency ROI · Jun 24, 2026

The agency math of a dead lead form

Your client doesn't blame the SMTP provider. They blame you. How silent form failures turn into churned retainers, and how monitoring turns into a line item you can sell.

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Monitoring · Jun 16, 2026

Why WordPress forms fail silently (and nobody notices for weeks)

A form can show 'thanks' and still lose every lead. The five failure modes that never touch the page, and why uptime monitoring misses all of them.

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Product update · Jun 12, 2026

Mail Log: search every form test result across every site

A searchable, cross-site view of every check result. Filter by site, form, delivery status or date range, or free-text search by email, subject, error message, or source page. Matching filters in wp-admin too.

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Product update · Jun 5, 2026

Deep browser checks: a real browser fills your form, and you get the screenshot when it fails

Tier-3 deep checks are live for Pro subscribers. A headless browser fills out the form and clicks Submit like a visitor would, catching what server-side checks can't see, with a screenshot of the exact moment it got stuck.

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Product update · Jun 2, 2026

Update the Formitor plugin on your whole fleet from one button

One click pushes the latest plugin to every connected site with a per-site result, sites keep themselves current automatically afterward, and outdated sites are flagged on the dashboard.

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Product update · May 28, 2026

Pause controls at every level, and a 7-day history on every form

Pause a form for 1h, 4h, 24h or until you resume; pause a whole site while it's being worked on. Timed pauses resume themselves. Plus a History view of every form's last 7 days of checks.

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Product update · May 22, 2026

Gravity Forms support: the sixth adapter

Formitor now discovers and monitors Gravity Forms end to end, entry stored, notification delivery verified, reCAPTCHA handled, with async notification sends fully guarded against reaching real recipients.

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Product update · May 19, 2026

In-app notifications: a bell that knows which site and which form

Failures, recoveries, outages, SSL expiries, deliverability problems, lead-volume anomalies and checkout issues surface in the dashboard, tagged by site and form, color-coded by severity.

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Product update · May 15, 2026

Monitoring behind every major CAPTCHA: Turnstile, reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha, and even CleanTalk

Formitor tests forms without turning their protection off. Only a cryptographically signed Formitor test passes; real visitors and bots see the CAPTCHA unchanged.

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Product update · May 8, 2026

Checkout monitoring: Formitor now buys from your store so customers never hit a broken checkout first

Synthetic $0 test orders through WooCommerce and SureCart verify the checkout page, order creation, and the confirmation email. No payment charged, no inventory touched, test orders cleaned up.

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Product update · May 5, 2026

Uptime that isn't fooled by a 200 OK, plus SSL expiry warnings

Every site checked about every 10 minutes. A page that loads but shows a white screen, WordPress critical error, or maintenance screen counts as down. SSL certificates tracked with warnings at 30, 14, 7 and 1 day.

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Product update · Apr 27, 2026

The deliverability suite: inbox placement, SPF/DKIM/DMARC, and verdicts you can act on

See whether form emails land in Inbox, Promotions or Spam. Audit SPF, DKIM and DMARC per domain with one-click rechecks and tailored fixes. Verdicts read from real delivered messages, not guesses.

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Product update · Apr 23, 2026

Client status pages: proof the forms are watched, on a link you control

Every client gets a clean, read-only status page. No login, your choice of default view, revocable anytime, and paused items honestly shown as paused instead of pretending to be green.

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Product update · Apr 17, 2026

Integration heartbeat: because the lead isn't safe until it's in the CRM

For forms wired to a CRM or automation, Formitor watches that real leads keep flowing into the integration and warns you when they stop.

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Product update · Apr 14, 2026

Lead-volume anomaly alerts: the safety net under the safety net

Formitor learns each form's normal lead volume and warns you when enquiries suddenly dry up, catching silent failures even when every check still passes, without ever storing your lead data.

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Reading about silent failures beats living one.

Put two sites on the free plan and see what the monitoring catches.