Microsoft Teams

Post Cognito Forms submission alerts and updates to Teams channels automatically.

Microsoft Teams is a collaboration platform for chat, meetings, and file sharing that helps teams communicate and stay organized. Connecting to Cognito Forms delivers real‑time entry notifications to channels or chats so users can act, follow up, and keep everyone informed.

Keep teams in the loop the moment a form arrives—faster responses, clearer ownership, and fewer missed updates across your projects.

  • Respond to entries faster
  • Know who owns next steps
  • Cut manual status checks

Use this integration to:

  • Post entry alerts to channels
  • Include key fields and links
  • Notify owners and followers

Use this integration when you

Use Microsoft Teams to alert support on new requests, notify sales about leads, escalate incident reports, share event signups, and hand off onboarding tasks from each form.

Commonly used on:

How It Works

  1. Log in to Zapier
    1. Access your Zapier dashboard
  2. Create a new Zap
    1. Click “Make a Zap”
  3. Set Cognito Forms as the trigger
    1. Choose “Cognito Forms” → “New Entry”
  4. Add Microsoft Teams as the action
    1. Select “Send Channel Message” or “Send Direct Message” in the Teams app
    2. Connect Teams and pick channel or user
  5. Map entry fields to message
    1. Link form fields to Teams message parameters
  6. Test the Zap
    1. Submit a test entry and verify Teams message
  7. Activate the Zap
    1. Turn on the Zap for ongoing notifications

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