The contact form in Magento is a place where customers can easily reach store owners with questions and suggestions. Unfortunately, it’s also the place where spammers go to send you automated messages. This can really get out of hand as often these spammers send you messages multiple times a day. When your store gets bigger and bigger you don’t have the time anymore to delete all those messages from spammers as frankly, its just a waste of time.

Captcha for Magento

Integrating Captcha on contact forms or any other form for that matter is very easy when you install the custom form extension for Magento. It’s so easy that literally any store owner can easily integrate advanced spam protection into any form on their Magento store. You have the choice of using the advanced built in Captcha, or using a third party service like reCAPTCHA. Additionally you also get the option to completely customize forms with different types of input, and view the data from the admin panel.

With the Custom forms for Magento extension you can create custom forms that include a captcha security. It’s the easiest way for anyone to quickly add captchas to all forms in Magento, as the extension is drag-and-drop. You simply upload the extension files to your FTP client and you can customize forms like the one below.

The extension also gives you the option to completely customize any form in Magento straight from the admin panel. You can add & re-arrange as many fields as you’d like. The following input types are available:

• Text field
• Text area
• Static Text
• Date
• Yes/No
• Dropdown
• Multiple Select

Creating new forms is as easy as setting up a product from the Admin panel. Take a look at the picture below.

Conclusion

Adding captcha spam protection in Magento is essentially something every store owner needs to do as their business grows. It will free your schedule from deleting spam messages and you’ll have less to worry about in your daily tasks. It also prevents the Magento database from getting clogged up with spam messages which could slow down the performance of your website. All in all we highly recommend you download and install the extension.

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