Clearout Integration
Clearout is a flexible email verification platform. Clearout can help if you need to verify or find emails, enrich prospect data, reverse lookups, or prevent people from submitting fake emails and names on forms. With Clearout and forms.app integration; you will be able to use Clearout’s Form Guard capabilities on forms.app.
How to set up the Clearout integration
The Clearout integration is available through Google Tag Manager. You can easy set it up for your forms by following these steps.
To connect your forms with Clearout, you need a premium forms.app account with a custom domain set up.
1. Open Clearout and switch to the “Form Guard” tab:
The Form Guard page on Clearout
2. Click on the “Create a guard” button and start configuring the guard. Here you can:
- Accept only valid email addresses
- Accept only valid phone numbers
- Accept only valid names
Create a Form Guard on Clearout
3. While in the “Advanced Settings” section, make sure to manually enter the following information.
- On Submit button selector - Set to custom and enter: .submitbutton
- On Ready Hook – please add the following script:
window.clearout.options.form_elements = [{selector: '.big-question-wrapper'}]
window.clearout.options.submit_button_overlay = true
Configure your Form Guard on Clearout
4. Complete the Form Guard setup and copy the code snippet at the end.
Copy the Form Guard code snippet
5. Open Google Tag Manager, create a custom HTML tag, and paste the snippet you copied there.
Create a HTML tag using the code snippet you copied earlier
6. While in the Google Tag Manager, create a trigger to start your custom HTML tag. Make sure to add a page path to prevent the tag from triggering on unnecessary pages. We recommend using the string at the end of your form URLs.
Create a trigger to launch your tag on a specific path
7. Copy the GTM ID on the GTM dashboard:
Copy the GTM ID on the upper right of your dashboard
8. Open your form on forms.app and go to “Connect”:
Find GTM among forms.app’s integrations
9. Select Google Tag Manager and paste your GTM ID:
Setup GTM integration on forms.app
10. Lastly, open & submit your form to test the integration. Upon submission, you’ll see form guard validation errors when entered invalid emails or gibberish names.
Test your integration by filling out your form
That’s it! You can now use Clearout’s Form Guard to have an extra layer of security for your forms. If you have any questions, please feel free to get in touch with our support team through live support or through our contact page.
