The contact form is where customers leave you their phone number, email and message, which makes it the gateway for orders and leads across the whole website. MONA Smart Form is a contact form plugin MONA wrote from scratch to replace Contact Form 7 and third-party form plugins, so your website runs only on MONA's own licensed software.

What you care about right away is cost and legality: MONA Smart Form comes with a lifetime licence per domain, no yearly purchase, no recurring license fee. You use it for that website forever without worrying that the plugin will one day stop working because it expired.

Why replace Contact Form 7 with MONA's own licensed plugin

Contact Form 7 is a popular free plugin that suits small websites needing a simple form. But as your business grows, you usually have to install a string of add-ons: one plugin to store submissions, one to block spam, one to configure outgoing email. The more scattered plugins you have, the heavier the website gets, the harder it is to control, and every update brings another worry about conflicts.

MONA brings all of those pieces into a single plugin, written with MONA's own source code. We don't copy code, functions or data structures from any other plugin, so you aren't bound by any third party's licensing terms.

Send notifications to several emails at once, so no customer is missed

When a customer leaves their details and the notice goes to only one inbox, it is easy to miss. With MONA Smart Form, you can set several notification email addresses at once, for example the salesperson in charge, the manager and the company's shared inbox. That way every new customer has someone handling them and doesn't fall through the gaps between departments.

The notification email content also follows your own template. We let you insert fields such as the customer's name, email, phone number and message in the right places in the email, so the recipient sees the information at a glance and can call back right away.

Warnings and guidance for configuring outgoing email

A very common problem is a website whose emails never arrive: customers fill in the form and the company receives nothing, losing customers without anyone noticing. The cause is usually that the email sending route (usually called SMTP) hasn't been configured properly.

MONA Smart Form actively prevents this for you. If the website hasn't set up an email sending route, the plugin shows a red warning right in the admin area, with step-by-step guidance on entering it correctly. You can also send a test email to make sure everything works before going live.

Blocking spam without making customers solve puzzles

Many websites block spam by making customers tick a confirmation box or pick images, which is both annoying and drives away some real customers. MONA Smart Form blocks spam quietly: it uses hidden traps that only spam bots fall into, plus detection of submissions that are abnormally fast. Your real customers fill in and submit as usual, without any extra steps.

Replace Contact Form 7 without reworking your website

What you worry about most when switching plugins is breaking the layout. We have planned for that: when Contact Form 7 is turned off, MONA Smart Form automatically takes over the exact spot where the old form sat, so every page with a form still displays normally, fitting right into the theme's design block.

This has been tested directly on a demo copied from a real client website. After Contact Form 7 was turned off, the contact page still showed the MONA form sitting neatly in the theme's two-column “Contact information” block, with no trace of the old plugin, no stray code, and the whole page still loading well.

FAQ

Does MONA Smart Form keep the information customers submit?

Yes. Every form submission is stored in the admin area so you can review and export it when needed, with no worry about losing customer data.

Will switching from Contact Form 7 lose old data?

No. The plugin takes over the old form's position, so the website displays normally and you don't have to rebuild pages or edit the theme.

Will I have to pay any more fees later?

No. The license is lifetime per domain, granted once and used forever, with no renewal and no annual fee.

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MONA's other lifetime-licensed plugins

MONA is developing a complete plugin suite to replace third-party software on your website, all with a lifetime licence per domain:

MONA Fields  ·  MONA Multilingual  ·  MONA SEO  ·  MONA Shield  ·  MONA Duplicator

See the overview on the page MONA lifetime-licensed plugins.

Developer information

• Developer: The MONA Group (MONA Media), founded in 2016, more than 200 staff, 14,000+ projects completed, a client retention rate of about 85%.
• Product: MONA Smart Form, a WordPress plugin developed 100% in-house by MONA.
• Licence type: Lifetime use per domain, no renewal fees, no annual licence fees.
• Support: Hotline 1900 636 648. Website: mona.media.