# Captcha

**reCAPTCHA** option allows adding a popular service providing anti-abuse security to protect your application. For integrating Google reCAPTCHA in an application, the app or web domain has to be registered to get the **API keys.**

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**IMPORTANT**

If you are using additional security plugins, such as Wordfence, which may add reCAPTCHA verification **across the entire site**, the reCAPTCHA tab of Global Settings **should be left blank.**
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## How to Obtain reCAPTCHA Credentials?

It is a quite straightforward action.

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After visiting the [link](https://www.google.com/u/0/recaptcha/admin/create) provided, you can fill in the form fields like this:

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After clicking the submit button, on the opened page you can get your **Public Key** and **Secret Key:**

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Copy and paste those keys to their designated areas in the settings. Do not forget to **save** the changes.

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Now you can enable Google reCAPTCHA in the [**Order Form settings** ](https://docs.stylemixthemes.com/cost-calculator-builder/calculator-settings/order-form#captcha-by-google-to-prevent-bots)of the **Calculator Settings**:

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The badge displayed during order submission confirms that reCAPTCHA is active for this calculator.

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You can review here how to set up **ReCaptcha v2** with the [**Contact Form 7**](https://contactform7.com/recaptcha-v2/) Plugin.&#x20;
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