Title: Problem in notification settings
Last modified: November 5, 2025

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# Problem in notification settings

 *  Resolved [fabx77](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fabx77/)
 * (@fabx77)
 * [7 months, 1 week ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-in-notification-settings/)
 * Hello,
 * I have a contact form that allows a user to contact a functional manager (treasurer,
   webmaster, secretary, president, etc.) with the following fields:
 * Enter your: Last name, First name
 * Enter your email address:
 * Enter the manager’s email address: (Dropdown list with email addresses for each
   manager to choose from)
 * Message area and “Send” button
 * I’m having trouble configuring the notification settings.
 * I would obviously like the notification to also go to the manager’s email address,
   but I don’t see it in the settings (list of available fields). The only options
   offered are the admin and the user’s email address.
 * Do you have any ideas?
 * Thank you!

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 *  Plugin Support [Amjad Ali](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amjadali688/)
 * (@amjadali688)
 * [7 months, 1 week ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-in-notification-settings/#post-18709850)
 * Hi [@fabx77](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fabx77/) ,
 * Thanks for reaching out!
 * You can have your form notifications sent directly to the manager selected in
   your dropdown field by using a smart tag with the field ID of the field.
 * In your form’s notification settings, enter the smart tag for your dropdown field
   in the **“Send To Email Address”** box like this: {field_id=”3″} (make sure to
   replace 3 with the actual field ID).
 * This will send the notification to the email address selected from the dropdown.
   For more details, you can read this article: [https://wpforms.com/docs/setup-form-notification-wpforms](https://wpforms.com/docs/setup-form-notification-wpforms)
 * Hope that helps!
 *  Plugin Support [Amjad Ali](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amjadali688/)
 * (@amjadali688)
 * [7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-in-notification-settings/#post-18714418)
 * Hi [@fabx77](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fabx77/) ,
 * We haven’t heard back from you in a few days, so I’m going to go ahead and close
   this thread for now. But if you’d like us to assist further, please feel welcome
   to continue the conversation.
 * Thanks!
 *  Thread Starter [fabx77](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fabx77/)
 * (@fabx77)
 * [7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-in-notification-settings/#post-18714768)
 * Thank you again for your reply.
   I did add the field manually, but since I didn’t
   see it in the list displayed next to each field, I didn’t know it could be added
   that way.
 *  Plugin Support [Ralden Souza](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rsouzaam/)
 * (@rsouzaam)
 * [6 months, 3 weeks ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-in-notification-settings/#post-18722186)
 * Hi [@fabx77](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fabx77/), 
 * Thank you for your feedback. I shared it with the team to see if we could make
   any improvements.
 * If you’d like more help with using WPForms Lite, please feel free to reach out.

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