CF7 to Google Sheets Missing Random Submissions - The Quota Problem Nobody Explains
A site owner posted on the WordPress forums that their CF7 to Google Sheets integration was dropping about a third of submissions. Email notifications were being sent. The submission was saved in the form plugin's database. But one in three never made it to the spreadsheet. Another user confirmed the same pattern. A third user said it had worked perfectly for months and then started failing. The…
A WordPress site owner discovered that their Formidable Contact Form 7 (CF7) integration to Google Sheets was occasionally failing to send data to the sheet. Despite email notifications being sent, one out of every three submissions never reached the spreadsheet. This issue affected multiple users, who confirmed the same pattern.
The Google Sheets Connector (GSheetConnector) support team explained that the problem was due to Google Sheets API limiting requests to 300 per minute per project. Multiple installations of the CF7 to Google Sheets plugin were sharing the same API quota, causing submissions to be missed during busy periods. The solution is to create a separate Google Cloud project and connect the plugin to its API credentials.
By doing so, each user gets their own 300 requests/minute quota, eliminating the competition for shared resources.
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