Run a lean CRM inside your forms.

Keep contacts, bookings and follow-ups in connected forms, with each entry linked to the right customer.

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Contact #4192 Nadia Okafor

Everything filed against one record.

Summer gala 12 June · 180 guests

Booked

Deposit call Owed by Friday

Due

Venue notes 2 files attached

Saved

One reference the team can quote

Illustrative experience

Contacts as entries
Bookings linked to the contact
A reference number people can quote

The finished experience

Everything about a customer in one place your team will use.

Because the team already lives in the forms, the records stay current instead of going stale in another platform.

A good fit for
Small teams whose CRM is mostly empty.

1

Make the contact the record

Create a contact form with a unique reference for each entry. Your team can search for it and quote it back to a customer.

GP Unique ID
2

Link the rest to it

Use separate forms for bookings and follow-ups. Look up the contact and save its reference with each new entry to keep the records linked.

GP Populate Anything
3

Start the next follow-up with context

Select the contact in a follow-up form and populate the details already on file. Your team records the next action without retyping the contact.

GP Populate Anything

Inspired by a real build

Spotlight: Turning Gravity Forms into a Lean CRM October 2025 See how Tony Schwartz ditched his CRM software for an enchantingly easy to manage Gravity Forms solution featuring database forms and more. Read the spotlight

What you’ll need.

Start with Gravity Forms. Add the capabilities this solution needs, then make the experience your own.

GP Populate Anything

Looks the contact up on the way in, so a returning customer is recognised rather than re-entered.

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GP Unique ID

Stamps every record with an id your team can quote back.

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Taking it further

Add these optional plugins when your project calls for more.

Optional

GP Entry Blocks

Adds a staff table of follow-up entries filtered by next-action date. Configure staff-only list/detail access and editing permissions separately.

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Optional

GC Notion

Optionally sends CRM entries one way into an existing, authorized Notion database. The Gravity Forms records and workflow remain the source of this recipe.

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Get this built.

A plan covers how many of our plugins you run at once, and on how many sites. Here is what this one needs.

Required

GP Populate AnythingPerks
GP Unique IDPerks

Optional

GP Entry BlocksPerks
GC NotionConnect

Gravity Perks Advanced $169 /year

2 perks need Advanced or above — on up to 3 sites.

Gravity Connect Basic $59 /year

Only if you add GC Notion.

See plans for this solution

Every plan renews at the same price, and you can upgrade any time for the difference.

Make it fit
your project.

Is this really a CRM?

For a small team, close enough: it holds the contact, the history and the next step, and it is where they already work.

Can we give staff a follow-up dashboard?

Optionally add Entry Blocks to list follow-up entries by next-action date. Restrict the list and detail views to authorized staff and configure edit permissions. This is a separate view to build, not a Populate Anything feature.

Can the records also go to Notion?

If your team already works in Notion, GC Notion can send selected fields to an authorized database. Configure this as one-way delivery and decide which records to send; it does not replace the existing follow-up workflow.