# Create and configure forms

> Create a form in SiteBackend, copy its endpoint, and configure it - pausing, redirects, auto-replies, spam protection, file uploads and allowed origins.

Source: https://sitebackend.com/docs/forms/create-a-form · Updated: 2026-10-09

A form is one endpoint that your website's `<form>` posts to. Forms live inside a [site](https://sitebackend.com/docs/getting-started/sites).

## How do I create a form?

Open the site and click **New form** on its **Forms** tab. Each form shows its endpoint URL with a **Copy** button, and has three tabs: **Submissions** (its inbox, see [submissions](https://sitebackend.com/docs/forms/submissions)), **Notifications** (where new submissions are sent, see [notifications](https://sitebackend.com/docs/forms/notifications)) and **Settings**.

## Form settings

| Setting                           | What it does                                                                                                     |
| --------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Accepting submissions             | Turn off to pause the form. Paused forms reject submissions with `403`.                                          |
| Site                              | Move the form to another site in the same workspace. The endpoint doesn't change.                                |
| Redirect URL / Success message    | Where visitors go after submitting. See [redirects](https://sitebackend.com/docs/forms/redirects-and-thank-you). |
| Auto-reply (Pro)                  | Email the submitter a confirmation, with your own subject and message. See below.                                |
| Honeypot, content filter, captcha | See [spam protection](https://sitebackend.com/docs/forms/spam-protection).                                       |
| File uploads                      | Accept attachments. See [file uploads](https://sitebackend.com/docs/forms/file-uploads).                         |
| Allowed origins                   | Which websites may submit. See [allowed origins](https://sitebackend.com/docs/forms/allowed-origins).            |
| Email field, Create contacts      | Which field holds the sender's email, and whether to add senders to contacts.                                    |

Changes are saved with **Save changes** in the bar at the bottom of the page. **Discard** puts back the saved values.

## Auto-reply (Pro)

Turn on **Send an auto-reply** to email everyone who submits the form, for example to confirm you got their message.

- **Subject** and **Message** can include what they sent: write a field name in double braces, like `{{name}}`. Unknown fields are left empty. A blank line starts a new paragraph.
- **Reply-to** is where replies to the auto-reply go. Leave it empty to send it without a reply address.
- It goes to the address in the form's **Email field** (under Contacts), and comes from your site's name.
- It's only sent for submissions that pass the spam checks, and at most once a day to the same address from the same form, so the form can't be used to flood someone's inbox.

Deleting a form stops its endpoint immediately and deletes its submissions.