Notifications

Stay informed when your Google Forms reach their limits with email notifications.

Enabling Notifications

1. Open your Google Form
2. Click the Add-ons (puzzle piece) icon → Form Limiter → Start
3. Set your response or date limit
4. Turn on the alerts you want:
   • Notify when limit reached — the form closed, by response limit or scheduled date
   • Notify when a question is full — one question stopped accepting answers
   • Notify 24h before closing — a reminder before a scheduled close
5. Enter the Email address to notify
6. Click Save

Every switch is off until you turn it on, and each one works on its own.

What You'll Receive

When your form closes, you'll receive an email containing:

• The form name
• Why it closed (response limit or date limit)
• Final response count
• Link to view responses

Notification Timing

Emails are sent immediately when:

• Your form reaches its response limit
• Your scheduled close date/time arrives
• You manually close the form through Form Limiter

When a Question Fills Up

If you set limits on the individual choices of a question, that question stops accepting answers once every one of its options has reached its limit. Respondents see your "no spots left" message where the choices used to be, while the rest of the form carries on collecting.

That is easy to miss, because the form itself is still open. Notify when a question is full emails you as soon as it happens, naming the form and the question that filled.

One email per question, never per choice, so a busy sign-up cannot flood your inbox. If you make room again — by raising a limit or deleting responses — the question reopens, and a later refill notifies you again.

Learn more about Choice Elimination

Managing Notifications

Emails go to the address you enter in the Email address field. By default that is the form owner's email.

Use a Gmail address where possible. Notifications are sent through Google on behalf of that address, so a domain with strict DMARC/SPF rules — common with custom domains, iCloud Mail, ProtonMail, or corporate email — may reject them.

Tips

• Check your spam folder if you don't receive expected notifications
• Notifications confirm your limits are working correctly
• Use notifications to know when to follow up with respondents