# Sending New Emails via SendGrid For New Gravity Forms Submissions

If you want to send a new SendGrid email every time you receive a Gravity Form submission, you can do that using [Zapier](https://zapier.com).

You will need:

* a [Gravity Forms](https://www.gravityforms.com) account
* a [SendGrid](https://sendgrid.com) account
* a [Zapier](https://zapier.com) account

## Steps

1. [Getting your accounts ready](#ready)
2. [Connecting your accounts](#connect)

### Getting your accounts ready \[#ready]

To connect your Gravity Forms account to Zapier, you will need the Gravity Forms plugin with the Zapier add-on installed. You will also need a form created in Gravity forms. To get started with Gravity forms, and for information on creating forms and installing the add-ons that you will need, check [here](https://www.gravityhelp.com/documentation/article/getting-started/). Information for getting started with Gravity Forms on Zapier can be found [here](https://zapier.com/help/gravity-forms/#how-get-started-gravity-forms).

To link your Gravity Forms to SendGrid, you must have an active SendGrid account. To learn more about getting started with SendGrid basics, start [here](/docs/sendgrid/api-reference/). For more information about getting started with SendGrid on Zapier, go [here](https://zapier.com/help/sendgrid/#how-get-started-sendgrid).

### Connecting your accounts \[#connect]

Click here to [Send new emails via SendGrid for new Gravity Forms submissions](https://zapier.com/zapbook/zaps/4782/send-new-emails-via-sendgrid-for-new-gravity-forms-submissions/).

1. Follow the directions on the first step of the Zap to connect your Gravity Forms account to Zapier.
2. Choose your SendGrid account from the list of accounts, or connect a new account.
3. To connect your SendGrid account to Zapier for the first time, you will enter the credentials of an API/mail account. If you have not created this account, you can do so [here](https://sendgrid.com/credentials).

![Fields for entering SendGrid API username and password, with link to credentials page.](https://docs-resources.prod.twilio.com/ffe029391df0aa33b59c880498dddb012b06f81705ab85a14259471c720930ac.png)

4. Using fields from Gravity Forms, create, and customize the **To**, **From**, and **Subject** email message that the Zap will send.

![SendGrid email form with fields for To, From, and Subject.](https://docs-resources.prod.twilio.com/8779b100cfef62dcd872e9b1989d99bcd8f5c56b24f979f6e2f71421f0d248b8.png)

5. Click **Save + Finish**.

Now test the Zap to make sure it works. Once you're satisfied with the results, new Gravity Forms submissions will automatically send a SendGrid email.

> \[!NOTE]
>
> If you ever want to change this Gravity Forms and SendGrid integration, just go to [your Zapier dashboard](https://zapier.com/app/dashboard) and tweak anything you'd like.

You can also check out all that's possible with [Gravity Forms on Zapier](https://zapier.com/zapbook/gravity-forms/), and other ways to connect [Gravity Forms and SendGrid](https://zapier.com/zapbook/gravity-forms/sendgrid).