Optcatch turns the forms you already have into an email list, then lets you send newsletters and campaigns from your own email accounts. No per-subscriber fees, no third-party CRM, no list buying.<\/p>\n\n
Why people use it<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Who it's for<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Small businesses, bloggers, shops and agencies who want a mailing list on their own site without paying monthly subscriber fees.<\/p>\n\n The free version is complete on its own and has no usage limits: form auto-capture, CSV import, unlimited contacts, saved segments and custom templates, the starter templates, immediate sends, and any number of sending accounts with daily limits, sending speed and rotation.<\/p>\n\n Optcatch Pro adds features, not bigger numbers:<\/p>\n\n Optcatch Pro is a separate plugin, available from optcatch.com<\/a> and not hosted on WordPress.org. It is installed on its own and keeps your contacts, campaigns and settings. This free plugin contains no Pro code and no license checks: nothing in it is locked or waits for a key, and no license key can unlock anything inside it. The Pro features exist only in Optcatch Pro.<\/p>\n\n This plugin connects to the following third-party services. None of these connections\nhappen unless you actively opt in or configure the feature described.<\/p>\n\n Per WordPress.org Plugin Guideline 7, here is exactly what is stored and when.<\/p>\n\n From your visitors (only when they tick the consent box on one of your forms):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n If the visitor does not<\/strong> tick the box, nothing is sent or stored<\/strong> \u2014 the form submits\nnormally and the plugin ignores it. This is the default.<\/p>\n\n Optional \"Automatic Consent on Submission\" policy:<\/strong> if you switch to it under Settings, every\nform submission is stored as above without a checkbox, and the consent evidence records that the\ncontact was captured under this policy (no checkbox wording is attached). You are responsible for\nhaving a legal basis to email these contacts.<\/p>\n\n From you, the site owner (only when you import):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Sending \/ operational data:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n The plugin does NOT<\/strong> collect passwords, payment\/card data, or other sensitive fields from\nyour forms \u2014 those field types are explicitly excluded from capture. By default, email is\ndelivered through your own site's You are responsible for your own privacy policy. You may adapt the following:<\/p>\n\n Marketing contact data.<\/strong> When you submit a form on this site and tick the marketing\n consent box, we store the contact details you entered (such as your email address and name),\n the page you submitted from, and a record of the consent wording you agreed to together with\n the date and time. We use this to send you marketing emails you have consented to. You can\n withdraw consent at any time using the unsubscribe link in any email, after which we will not\n email you again. We do not sell this data or share it with third parties for their own\n marketing. To request access to, or deletion of, your data, contact us at [your address].<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n Any form on your site that has an email field: form plugins, theme and page-builder forms (Divi, Bricks, Elementor\u2026), popups and custom HTML. Universal auto-detect is on by default, so there is nothing to set up; in strict mode the plugin adds its consent checkbox to the forms it detects. If a form already has its own marketing opt-in checkbox, add the class Leave universal auto-capture switched on. Any form with an email field is captured once the visitor ticks the consent box, which the plugin adds for you. You don't need to edit your form.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes, with Optcatch Pro (separate plugin from optcatch.com). Pro adds a webhook \/ REST API endpoint with a secret key. Any application or third-party service that collects leads and can send an HTTP request can push them here: Zapier, Make, Typeform, Calendly, landing-page builders, a CRM, a chatbot, a lead-generation vendor, a mobile app or your own code. Each lead is created with its consent basis recorded, deduplicated and tagged, exactly like a form submission. Settings \u2192 Advanced Integrations shows the endpoint ( Yes \u2013 like every other form on your site. Contact Form 7 is also integrated server-side: its native [acceptance] field is recognised as the opt-in, and the contact is created with its consent basis recorded. No webhooks, Zapier or external CRM needed. Switch to \"Automatic Consent on Submission\" if you want every submission captured.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes. These are captured like any other form, and also get built-in server-side integration: WPForms, Elementor Pro Forms, Gravity Forms, Fluent Forms, Ninja Forms and WooCommerce checkout\/registration.<\/p><\/dd>\n Sending hundreds of emails from a fresh account gets it flagged as spam. Warm-up starts each account at a safe daily volume and raises the limit day by day (you set start, growth and ceiling) until it reaches full capacity. It works for Gmail, Microsoft 365, SendGrid and plain SMTP accounts.<\/p><\/dd>\n Connect several sending accounts. Campaigns are distributed across them within each account's daily limit, so no single mailbox hits its provider limit.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes, if you want to run your mailing list on your own site. Optcatch stores your contacts in WordPress and sends from your own email accounts. There are no per-subscriber fees and no limits on contacts in the free version.<\/p><\/dd>\n Those plugins route your site's transactional mail through one SMTP connection. Optcatch is an email-marketing tool: it builds the list from your forms, segments it, and sends campaigns through one or several sending accounts with rotation (automated warm-up is an Optcatch Pro feature). You can keep your SMTP plugin for transactional mail.<\/p><\/dd>\n\n
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lcc-consent<\/code> to it and it is reused instead. An optional \"Automatic Consent on Submission\" policy captures every submission and records that policy as the consent basis.<\/li>\n[optcatch_form]<\/code> drops a clean, mobile-friendly signup form anywhere.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\nEmail campaigns<\/h4>\n\n
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source_page<\/code>).<\/li>\nconsent_status = opted_in<\/code>, the exact consent wording shown, a wording\nversion id, and a UTC timestamp.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n
consent_status = customer_declared<\/code>, the permission statement you affirmed,\nand a UTC timestamp. The plugin also records that you checked the \"I confirm I have permission\nto email these contacts\" box, with a timestamp and your user id.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n
unsubscribed<\/code> with a UTC timestamp).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\nwp_mail()<\/code> and no lead\/contact data leaves your site. If\nyou choose to configure SendGrid, Gmail, Microsoft 365 or an SMTP server as your sending\nprovider, the recipient address and email content are sent to that provider to deliver the\nmessage \u2014 see \"External services\" above for details.<\/p>\n\nSample privacy-policy clause<\/h3>\n\n
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optcatch-lead-capture-campaigns<\/code> folder to \/wp-content\/plugins\/<\/code>.<\/li>\nlcc-consent<\/code> to it (or to its field wrapper) and\nthat checkbox becomes the consent gate. Import a list or start a campaign.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
Which forms does it work with?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
lcc-consent<\/code> to that checkbox (or its field wrapper) and the plugin reuses it instead of adding a second one. If you'd rather choose forms yourself, turn auto-detect off: then only forms you have marked with that consent class, plus the form-plugin integrations you switch on, are captured.<\/p><\/dd>\nHow do I build an email list from my existing contact form?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Can I send leads from Zapier, Make, Typeform or any other application into the list? (Pro)<\/h3><\/dt>\n
\/wp-json\/optcatch\/v1\/lead<\/code>), the key (sent in the X-Optcatch-Key<\/code> header or as Authorization: Bearer<\/code>), a payload reference and ready-to-use Zapier and cURL examples. Forms on your own site never need this.<\/p><\/dd>\nCan it capture Contact Form 7 leads into an email list?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Does it work with WPForms, Elementor Pro, Gravity Forms and WooCommerce?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
What is SMTP warm-up (email warm-up), and does it warm up a new Gmail or SMTP account? (Pro)<\/h3><\/dt>\n
How does multi-SMTP sender rotation work?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Is this a Mailchimp alternative for WordPress?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
How is this different from WP Mail SMTP or FluentSMTP?<\/h3><\/dt>\n