Every Google Form submission, delivered as a push notification.
Google Forms is the most popular form tool in the world and it is still, somehow, shockingly bad at notifying you. You can get a daily digest email. You can stare at the responses spreadsheet. That’s it. If your form is actually important — event RSVPs, job applications, customer-service intake, volunteer signups — “daily digest” is not good enough.
PingBell bridges Google Forms to real-time notifications. A small Google Apps Script (we give you the code; you paste it in) listens for new submissions and sends them to PingBell. Every response triggers a push notification with a custom sound, updates a live counter, and plots on a real-time graph. Setup is under five minutes.
Who this is for
- Event organizers collecting RSVPs who want to see the attendance count climb in real time.
- Hiring teams accepting job applications through Google Forms who want a ping on every candidate.
- Nonprofits collecting volunteer signups who want to feel campaign momentum.
- Customer-service teams using Google Forms as an intake channel who need faster-than-email response.
- Educators and course creators collecting enrollments or feedback through Forms.
How PingBell solves it
Free Google Apps Script integration. No paid Zapier account needed. We provide a short script; you paste it into the form’s Apps Script editor and deploy it. The script fires on every form submit and POSTs the response to PingBell.
Three actions per submission. One push notification with a custom sound on every team phone. One counter increment on the office TV. One point added to the day’s graph. All in real time.
Include form fields in the notification. Write a template like New application from {name} — interested in {role} and every push tells you who just submitted and what they said.
Filter submissions. You can filter on form-field values to only count or notify on submissions that match specific criteria (e.g. applications from a target region, RSVPs for a specific event).
No spreadsheet dependency. Some Google Forms tools require you to connect to the responses spreadsheet. PingBell connects directly to the form via Apps Script, so it works even if you haven’t enabled response-to-sheet linking.
Setup in 5 minutes
- Create a PingBell counter. Pick the trigger (“Event”), set the value (“Count” for just counting submissions, or a specific form-field value for summing things like dollar pledges).
- Copy the PingBell webhook URL. From the counter’s settings, copy the unique URL.
- Open your Google Form’s Apps Script. In the Forms editor, click the three-dot menu → Script editor. (If you’ve never done this, it pops up as a new tab.)
- Paste our script and set the webhook URL. We publish a 20-line script in our docs. Paste it, replace the URL constant, save.
- Authorize and deploy. Click Run → authorize the script access to your form. Done. Test by submitting the form once.
Pricing for this use case
If you’re running a single form for a specific event or campaign, the Core plan at $10/mo works great: 1 counter, 1 user, all apps. Teams running multiple forms across programs should look at the Plus plan at $25/mo for 5 counters and 10 users.
See full pricing.
FAQ
Is there a Google Forms add-on I can install instead of editing Apps Script?
Not yet — we’re building one. In the meantime the Apps Script is 20 lines and takes two minutes. Full instructions in the docs.
Can I use Zapier instead of Apps Script?
Yes. Zapier has a “New Google Form response” trigger that can POST to PingBell’s webhook endpoint. The Apps Script path is faster and free; the Zapier path lets you do transformations first.
Will this work if my form writes to a Google Sheet?
Yes. The script fires on form submit, not on sheet change, so it works whether or not you have the responses linked to a Sheet.
Can I include file upload fields in the notification?
We don’t render file uploads in the notification body (it’d be a mess on a tiny phone screen), but we include a link to the Drive URL that the script captures.
Does it work on Google Forms created from inside Google Classroom / Workspace for Education?
Yes, provided your admin hasn’t restricted Apps Script deployments. Some Workspace for Education domains lock down Apps Script; check with your admin.
Can I route different forms to different notification sounds?
Yes. Each form becomes its own PingBell counter, and each counter has its own sound. Your “Job applications” form can ring a chime while your “Event RSVP” form rings a bell.
What about multi-page / multi-section forms?
The script fires on final submit, so multi-section forms work the same as single-section ones — one notification per submission, with every answer available as a template variable.
Get started
Start a free 7-day trial. Paste our Apps Script into your form. The next submission will hit your phone before the response email does.