# Contact Form 7 Plugin
The Cost Calculator plugin is integrated with the Contact 7 plugin, and it is possible to use the custom contact form instead of the default one.
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The **Contact Form 7** plugin should be installed before enabling the Contact Form option in Send Form settings. To download the Contact Form 7 plugin go here: [Download Contact Form](https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/)
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### Creating a custom Contact form
To create a form, open **Contact > Contact Forms** on your WordPress dashboard. You can manage multiple forms from this location.
A contact form is already available for immediate use. Right next to the name Contact form 1, you can see the shortcode **\[contact-form-7 id="16" title="Contact form 1"].** By editing the contact form you can customize the contact form field.
While editing the contact form, the tabs on top of the text area offer some useful tags for composing/customizing the email. The text area already has a basic collection of tags. However, you can insert any element by inserting the proper tag.
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**Important!**
Please make sure that your form contains the **\[textarea]** field since the calculated data will be included in that field. The **\[textarea]** field is used to display the total summary generated by the Cost Calculator plugin. Without this field, the administrator and customers may receive empty emails.
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After creating Contact form fields it is required to set up the Mail template. To do this switch to the Mial tab and fill out the fileds:
At this point, most of the customization for the form is complete. You can use this form in the Calculator settings.
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More details regarding contact form settings can be found in the [Contact 7 documentation](https://contactform7.com/docs/).
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### Choosing the Contact 7 form in the Calculator settings
After enabling the integration of the Contact form 7 Plugin, the other options in this section will be different from your choice of form. The first option includes all your forms with the built-in Contact form 7 plugin with the Default form of the Cost Calculator plugin. You can use either the default form or your own Contact forms Contact Form 7 Plugin
When you choose one of your Contact forms created in the Contact Form 7 plugin, you will see the generated text as ready email content. This text will be sent to the email that you set up in your chosen Contact Form 7 plugin.
### Contact Form Content
[Contact Form Content](#user-content-fn-1)[^1] displays the custom text and totals summary while submitting the form.
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Contact Form Content will be displayed in the **\[textarea]** field, and if you have custom text in Contact Form 7, it will be overwritten.
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Individual Settings -> Order Form -> Contact Form Content
Formula (Total) Fields and elements that have been used to build the calculator are displayed using the following shortcodes:
**\[ccb-subtotal]** - Displays the value of the fields that are used in the Cost calculator. Fields with a '0' value will not be added to the Contact Form.
**\[ccb-total-0]** - Displays all formula fields with their value that have been selected in the **Total Field Element** setting in the **Order Form** section of the I**ndividual Settings** of the calculator.
Total Field Element settings in the Individual Calculator Settings
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So, it's totally up to the **Total Field Element** setting which formula field(s) will be added to the Contact Form.
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### Example
Here is the example of Contact Form 1 which is created in the Contact Form 7 plugin.
Now, let's see how it will appear in the calculator form after clicking the Submit button
The result of the message of the Contact Form 7 Plugin sent to the admin of the website:
[^1]: Individual Settings -> Order Form -> Contact Form Content
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